InfluxDB information (database size) as sensor in Home Assistant

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@e-raser

still looking for an acurate data source easy to get.

Unreliable InfluxDB size sensor

That’s an excellent idea Eric! Works perfectly. Hopefully it will solve this issue too: The only addition I’ve made is to add the retained flag so that the sensor restores after a Home Assistant restart and to change the topic to match the structure I use: init_commands: - >- while [ 1 = 1 ]; do docker exec addon_a0d7b954_influxdb du -s /data/influxdb/data/homeassistant | mosquitto_pub -t home-assistant/sensor/dbsize -r -u <user> -P <password> -l && sleep 300; done & Mqtt …