Ask HN: What has been your experience with InfluxDB in production?

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by rd22 • 6 years ago

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I am looking for a timeseries DB for IoT data and InfluxDB seems to have a lot of chatter. However, when I did deeper I see that the OSS version is not distributed. So, I am looking for experiences from people how are you scaling Influx clusters and your experience in production.

iDemonix• 6 years ago

Not the answer you're looking for, but I found it too busy, unintuitive, and the lack of non-distribution for the OSS version finished off my test run. I use Graphite, have done for years, and am quite happy with it.

On a further note, I attended Grafanacon and saw a few keynotes given by the CEO of InfluxDB and have never been more turned off of using a product by a single person.

dylz• 6 years ago

You pay for it. I've not enjoyed using the Influx "API" either, or some of their bizarre API practices such as returning HTTP 200 OK with a failure message.

Federated prometheus or timescaledb maybe?

krageon• 6 years ago

The OSS version is limited in what you can use it for even if you can find it. The paid version is very expensive. Thus, I would never use it for anything where my ethical concerns come into play.

However, once you have it running it does appear to work. I've seen production setups that ingest a fair amount of data per day and they don't need a lot of maintenance, which is always nice.

Kaladin• 6 years ago

There was lot of memory leak when used as the storage for prometheus for our kubernetes cluster. we ditched it after trying various versions.

Ask HN: What has been your experience with InfluxDB in production?

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