# influxdata/influxdb

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

Repository: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/influxdb
Homepage: https://influxdata.com
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: influxdb, monitoring, database, time-series, metrics, go, react, rust
Last push: 2026-08-25T20:37:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 89, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4724, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 77, "gap_med": 20.0, "n_releases_24m": 15}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 31720, forks 3716 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:57.033238+00:00)

## What it is
InfluxDB is an open-source time series database built in Rust on Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet, designed for high-velocity ingest and fast queries over metrics, events, and real-time analytics. It supports SQL, InfluxQL, and Flight SQL query interfaces, stores data as Parquet on object storage or local disk, and is compatible with InfluxDB 1.x/2.x write APIs.

## Use cases
- store and query server and application performance metrics
- monitor IoT sensor data in real time
- build dashboards over high-resolution time series data
- analyze financial market and trading data
- collect network monitoring telemetry
- run behavioral analytics on event streams

## When to choose
- you need a purpose-built time series database with millisecond query latency for dashboards
- you ingest millions of data points per second from telemetry, edge devices, or monitoring agents
- you want Parquet-based storage with object storage (S3, Azure, GCP) backing and no heavy dependencies
- you need compatibility with existing InfluxDB 1.x/2.x write pipelines or Telegraf

## When to avoid
- your workload is relational with complex joins and transactions rather than time series
- you need full SQL feature coverage or strong ACID transactional guarantees
- you require long-term retention of all data in the free Core edition, which evicts older data
- you want a fully managed database without self-hosting or cloud vendor lock-in considerations

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: database, monitoring, analytics, streaming, http-server
- domain: databases, time-series, monitoring, analytics, iot
- platform: windows, self-hosted, cloud, rust, go
- tags: time-series-database, influxdb, parquet, apache-arrow, datafusion, sql, influxql, flightsql, observability, metrics-store, line-protocol, telegraf, real-time, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- influxdata/influxdb (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:57.033238+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:52:15.099140+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:57.033238+00:00, sha 6d8f877dcd37)
  - homepage: https://influxdata.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:27.130927+00:00, sha cbb36c7c10e5)
  - site_page: https://docs.influxdata.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:27.145745+00:00, sha 7aaddebdcffd)
  - site_page: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb3/cloud-serverless/reference/client-libraries/v3 (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:27.153068+00:00, sha 9907834ae0f2)
  - site_page: https://docs.influxdata.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:27.158053+00:00, sha 7aaddebdcffd)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:27.161401+00:00, sha 741dad894f59)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/products/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:27.140395+00:00, sha 734a7cf1e1fd)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/influxdb-pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:27.149184+00:00, sha c0415ed9995a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.