InfluxDB

Overview

Homepage: https://influxdb.com/
Changelog: https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://influxdb.com/docs/
OMD default: disabled

InfluxDB is a time series, metrics, and analytics database to store Nagios/Icinga performance data.

Directory Layout

Config Directory: <site>/etc/influxdb/
Data Directory: <site>/var/influxdb/
Logfiles: <site>/var/log/influxdb.log

OMD Options & Vars

Option Value Description
INFLUXDB on
off
enable influxdb database (default off)
INFLUXDB_RETENTION variable default is 12
The number of weeks InfluxDB will keep data. Data older than this will be deleted automatically

Grafana Graphing

Read more on Nagflux/Histou/Grafana performance graphing on the graphing page.

Selfmonitoring

OMD ships a influxdb nagios plugin in lib/nagios/plugins/check_influxdb.pl which can be used to setup a selfmonitoring and graphing for the influxdb itself.