Configuring InfluxDB

To see the current InfluxDB configuration, just run the InfluxDB config command:

$influxd config

This command will return all of the configuration sections. The options part in each configuration is optional. The default value will be used if the option is not specified. Here is the list of configuration sections:

reporting, meta, data, cluster, retention, shard-precreation, admin, monitor, subscriber, graphite, collectd, opentsdb, udp, continuous_queries, hinted-handoff.

  • [meta]: This maintains InfluxDB cluster parameters
  • [data]: This tells write ahead log (WAL) how to store and flush data
  • [cluster]: This controls how the data is shared between shards in a non-raft cluster
  • [retention]: This handles the InfluxDB retention ...

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