InfluxDB 2.1, Grafana and Telegraf install

This is my second video on setting up my new home automation server, and I am still installing components, this time InfluxDB 2.1, Grafana and Telegraf. I wanted to talk about it, because there are a few curve balls when it comes to using InfluxDB 2.x.

Everything I talk about in this video is documented here:

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:01 Why not Docker?
3:13 Installing InfluxDB 2.x
5:27 Influx 1.x vs 2.x in high level
9:50 Installing Telegraf
15:40 Installing Grafana
18:00 Flux connection in Grafana
20:33 InfluxQL connection in Grafana
26:30 Adding Telegraf dashboard in Grafana
28:16 Closing comments

[MAXimator]

This is BY FAR THE BEST tutorial i found for Grafana, Telegraf and InfluxDB for beginners - and i was searching nearly the whole day. Thank you soooo much for this! Moreover i saw that you have so much more superinteresting Videos! Instantly subscribed!

[ausghostdog]

Thanks for this, I am doing eveyrthing in Docker and the bit I was missing was how to get the QL query working for a dashboard and your video section on that worked perfectly

[BGazzah]

Excellent vid - will save me a lot of searching for answers when I start the whole migration process to a new install.

[fzovko]

Thank you brother. I agree with MAX. I've been trying for hours until I found your video. Thank

[johnwong]

I was stuck at adding the influxdb datasource in grafana, with your video, it got all sorted out! Truly Awesome 👌

[wisdom]

Thanks for showing up the detailed information.

[bimatube]

Hello, I have configured telegraf snmp plugin and is connecting to influxdb2 ok, but when I go to influxdb2 to query, snmp doesn’t show snmp. Do you know why snmp doesn’t show up on the bucket ?

[Alain-]

thank you, you helped me so much for flux language

[tudosimples]

Hello,

Can you help me on below issue? Im using influxdb 2.6.1

not found: no buckets found in organization 45776b21b3f0822e error reading buckets

[YkevanLeeuwen]

euhmmm.. this is the first manual that actually helped me out :) Thank you so much!

[ZA]

How do I create a token for using influxDB in python? The LoadData window is missing.

[houseforsale]

What is the best dashboard for jmeter in grafana for latest version influx flux query language

[inumarthivaraprasad]

when i'm running influxd.exe file, it's suddenly closed. can u plz give me the solutions for that

[BBQTrader]

Thanks for your work! But I had a problem. I did all the steps (new install of Influxdb v2), so I didn't have any existing. When I installed telegraf, I verified that it was running. I created the 'telegraf Bucket, then went to the 'API Tokens". I had my user token, but no bucket token. I restarted telegraf, didn't work. I deleted the 'telegraf' Bucket, created a new 'telegraf' Bucket, and only the single user token under 'API Tokens' - still no 'telegraf' token.

Any suggestions?

[MatSmithLondon]

I agree, I don't use Docker for stuff like this. Why introduce a dependency / complication.

[TechnoAutomation]

Great video.
Thanks for making this video.
I am working on influxdb 2.1 & grafana (on Windows 10) since last couple of days and having some problems which are resolved after this video. Thanks again.

I also watched your nodered videos and I have one question about nodered. I am running nodered on Windows 10.
I want to export CSV on daily basis.
I am not able to do this. I think file path format for Windows is not similar to Linux which creates problem.
Can you guide mo on this???

[lmarkrol]

what is your raspberry pi OS? Buster or Bullseye?

[demorez]

my impression is, that influxdb became a mess with the 2.x update. it's basically a very different application compared to 1.x, which was also not the easiest to use. i made the upgrade a few months ago hoping it would make things easier with future updates but it just caused me to loose all my motivation and abandon making dashboards altogether.

[Designsecrets]

This has been a video fixed a problem I was having with influxdb which is the db, entities and devices I set up the grafana db, after entering all the settings I get "InfluxDB Error: Bad Request".

[zyghom]

2 years later: still "I don't want to learn docker"? ;-)