Not having any problems with Samba Backups of InfluxDB! In fact this works great as I had to restore it recently.
Any consistency checks or other stuff to check?
InfluxDB seems to be dead, at least the HA addon is not maintained any longerā¦ so I guess that issue will never be fixed. Day after day with no reliable backupā¦ great.
Lucky you. Maybe itās a matter of storage sizeā¦ my full backup is about 10x as large as yours according to the screenshot. The largest part is InfluxDB.
Hi, in HA log I get an error where Influx is referenced with double port references (:8086:8086)
ERROR (SyncWorker_12) [homeassistant.components.influxdb.sensor] Cannot connect to InfluxDB due to 'Failed to parse: http://my_local_ip_address:8086:8086/query'. Please check that the provided connection details (host, port, etc.) are correct and that your InfluxDB server is running and accessible.
I have jumped back and forward among the configs now, and do not understund where this double reference to the port, comes from!
Anyone having an idea, that can help me find the source to the error?
is there any chance to make InfluxDB work with the recent HA? What else should i use for Grafana?
If you use Home Assitant OS, there is the influxdb add-on (that this thread is about). You can use this add-on to setup and run Influxdb under the Home Assistant OS.
Otherwise, you can setup influxdb on whatever server (or the machine running Home Assistant) and then use the influxdb integration to connect.
But, as far as I know, the add-on is not maintained anymore, and it is using an outdated version of influxdb. It should still work though.
I use HAOS and would like to set up a more current version of influxdb. I see two options
- Just set influxdb up on another machine
- Create my own add-on with the newest version of influxdb and run it in Home Assistant OS
Iām starting to lean towards option 2, but it might be out of my league 
both are not too good options for me, hmm, probably i will go for option one but that will mean another animal in the zoo.
The InfluxDB addon for HA is dead, isnāt it? Seems to be unmaintained with issues sitting and waitingā¦ 
If you need a replacement for InfluxDB you can check out the VictoriaMetrics Addon for Homeassistant.
[GitHub - fuslwusl/homeassistant-addon-victoriametrics](https://Victoria Metrics Add-On for Home Assistant)
It is 100% compatible with InfluxDB and Prometheus and has many advantages like 20x better compression, lower RAM usage and higher performance. It is also directly usable in Grafana with Prometheus or InfluxDB Data source - so it is a drop-in replacement for Prometheus and InfluxDB.
In Home Assistant OS / Supervisor you can backup the victoria-metrics-data folder located in the shared folder.
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Thank you for making this add-on. I think it would deserve itās own thread here. Havenāt tried it yet but super interested.
Edit: because the add-on is so new and seemingly not used by many yet I tried to verify the contents. However when I diffed the victoriametrics inside the addon against the release I got a mismatch. Could you please specify which release was used in this add-on? I probably just chose the wrong release packageā¦
I used WinMerge to check the victoria-metrics-prod file in this add-on versus the release victoria-metrics-linux-arm64-v1.81.2.tar.gz but they are different. Also checked some other versions but none matched.
Did you compile victoriametrics yourself or can you point to the binary version being used?
I am using the victoriametrics version from the original dockerhub image āvictoriametrics/victoria-metrics:v1.81.2ā. I copied the binary from this docker image after running the container successfully on an ARM MacBook Pro M1. This binary is running on my Raspberry 4 without problems.
Do you think I should use another binary?
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I updated the image a minute ago. Now the Add-on uses InfluxDB integration to get data from home assistant. The integration has an option to use the entity_id as metric name - this is great when using Grafana - just one click and you get the data you want.
With the influxdb integration homeassistant pushes every change directly to the database. This is an advantage because you get every change and not only the states every 20 seconds when scraping was used.
GitHub: HASSIO VictoriaMetrics Add-On
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It seems the victoriametrics-prod file in the official docker image is different from the official arm64 image then. Need to investigate how to hash that now.
Use what image you want, no problem. It is just me trying to verify what I install 
An own thread for this add-on would be great!
I thought the official docker image would be a good choice. But i could change the binary to the one you recommended. I just wanted to avoid compile sessions and missed the binary downloads.
You meant these binary versions i think: Releases Ā· VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics Ā· GitHub
Here is the thread for the VictoriaMetrics Add-on:
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After some research i am still at a loss and partly confused. Hopefully one of you can help.
I am running Home Assistant OS on a Raspberry pi 4, collecting data for almost a year with the current InfluxDB add-on V4.5.0. I finally wanted to set up a visualization with grafana, but got the same view and stumbled upon the same problems as Dingle:
So, as Dingle, Iām really keen to move to InfluxDB 2.x but havenāt figured out how to set this up with my Home Assistant OS environment and without losing the data I already collected in my InfluxDB V1.x database.
It seems there are (at least) two options to proceed for me:
Option 1: Continue using the community InfluxDB add-on and switch from api_version 1 to api_version 2
- As far as I understood, the InfluxDB add-on has the ability to run as InfluxDB 2.x installation. Key is the switch api_version which has to be set from 1 to 2 (and some other parameters). But I found no guidance to perform an upgrade/migration in case a InfluxDB 1.x installation is already been used.
- There is a guide for an automatic upgrade procedure available on the official influxdata documentation at https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/install/upgrade/v1-to-v2/automatic-upgrade/. But is it at all sufficient or necessary for my environment?
- How do I keep my data when switching from InfluxDB 1.x to a InfluxDB 2.x installation?
Option 2: Go with InfluxDB2 add-on instead of community InfluxDB add-on
- There is another add-on made by jantoney with Are there plans for an influxdb v2 addon in the near future? Ā· hassio-addons/addon-influxdb Ā· Discussion #113 Ā· GitHub and GitHub - Jays-Home-Assistant-Add-ons/j-addon-influxdb2: Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.
- Jan himself stated that the reason for this new add-on was that, with regard to the community InfluxDB add-on, āThe upgrade path from V1.x to V2.x requires access to the command line and isnāt a very user friendly processā. It almost looks as if janās addon would pick up my situation preciselyā¦
- What I donāt get: Is the InfluxDB2 add-on a standalone add-on, means I can later remove the InfluxDB community add-on? Or does the InfluxDB2 add-on still require a running InfluxDB add-on and database?
- Iām pretty sure that I too would get this addon to work at some point. But of course I also ask myself how do I migrate the data of my current database to use with this addon?
Maybe someone has already gone through the same topic and can give me a few hints.
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Iāve not looked at it myself yet, but I am going to investigate VictoriaMetrics as the Db to use for this sort of thing. VictoriaMetrics Add-on for long-term storage and data source for Grafana
Anyone figure out how to solve the InfluxDB add-on running out of memory?
runtime: out of memory: cannot allocate 8192-byte block (564428800 in use)
fatal error: out of memory
goroutine 1357 [running]:
runtime.throw(0xfebdde, 0xd)
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:774 +0x5c fp=0x47f9324 sp=0x47f9310 pc=0x41644
The memory in use, assuming 564363264 is in bytes not blocks, is only 0.525GB.
Iāve increased swap to 6GB, so I have over 5GB of swap available but it still fails allocating at that point.
Is the add-on limiting the amount of memory available to the container?
I tried changing the index from the default inmem to tsi1 by adding the following envvar to the add-on config. But I canāt tell whether it actually changed anything as Influx still dies on the same out of memory error.
- name: INFLUXDB_DATA_INDEX_VERSION
value: tsi1
Great Addon - makes it much easier for rookies like myself 
Some questions though:
On the Admin board I just see the _internal DB. Is this the influx internal or the homeassistant internal (SQlite)?
Means: Do I need to create a DB manually and if so, where is this to be found (path)?
EDIT:
One more question:
Is the configuration in configuration.yaml still needed or is this hidden somewhere in the background by the Community AddOn?
EDIT II:
Sorry for my RTFM question.
I will check out the docs and might come back with reasonable questions.