The correct silly-walk to set up InfluxDB as of August 2025

So Lovelace can’t use any of the long-term information in InfluxDB? I was going to point Grafana at it in any case, but it seems a bit pointless to have all this long-term data there that the main UI doesn’t know about.

This also means it’s a bit hard to see what the point of using InfluxDB is. The arguments for it seem to be “InfluxDB is a time-series database, you’re storing time-series data, therefore you must use InfluxDB”, but then there are posts like this one where the user has two years worth of history in MariaDB and “[It] works fine. It’s fast and reliable”.

Not trying to be difficult, but just to figure out whether I actually need InfluxDB now that it’s there and if so how to best use it.