InfluxDB

Installing the influx DB

Install the influxDB time series database by following commands, for Ubuntu & Debian

# influxdata-archive_compat.key GPG fingerprint:
#     9D53 9D90 D332 8DC7 D6C8 D3B9 D8FF 8E1F 7DF8 B07E
wget -q https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key
echo '393e8779c89ac8d958f81f942f9ad7fb82a25e133faddaf92e15b16e6ac9ce4c influxdata-archive_compat.key' | sha256sum -c && cat influxdata-archive_compat.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdata-archive_compat.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdata-archive_compat.gpg] https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdata.list

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb2

Setup Influx DB

Run the below command to setup the influxDB.

influx setup

Provie the inputs for the question prompted for the default configuration. It willprompt like below

> Welcome to InfluxDB 2.0!
? Please type your primary username admin
? Please type your password ***************
? Please type your password again ***************
? Please type your primary organization name Yavar
? Please type your primary bucket name CPEsyslog
? Please type your retentmybucketion period in hours, or 0 for infinite 336
? Setup with these parameters?
  Username:          admin
  Organization:      Yavar
  Bucket:            CPEsyslog
  Retention Period:  336h0m0s
 Yes
User	Organization	Bucket
admin	Yavar		CPEsyslog

Now we have created a default User with name and password, Organization and Bucket with the retention period.

Creating the authorization token

create the authorization token with write access to write the logs into influx DB by the following command

Replace the bucket-id and description

To view the bucket id run the below command in the terminal

To view token run the below command,

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