Logging events with the InfluxDB REST API
InfluxDB can be used to log events and other statistics. An event can be anything from a user clicking on a button on your website to performing deployments. The latter is especially useful, as it means that you can have a single place to log any event that might occur on the platform.
This recipe will show you how to enter data using the REST API provided with InfluxDB. It allows you to create your own applications to enter extremely useful data. By leveraging the REST API, you will be able to use a wide spectrum of existing tools to enter data from Jenkins jobs to Ansible and beyond.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you need an InfluxDB instance.
How to do it…
The following steps will show you how to create ...
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