Influxdb migration idea

Like a lot of Influxdb users I am pi**ed of about their new policies. I am still on V1 and was looking forward to upgrading to V3. Time for a change…

I did look at TDengine and they have a perfect way of migrating as they have an InfluxDB connector. In the end QuestDB won out on features and openness.

That still leaves me with a live InfluxDB database to migrate.

I have seen the clever way of using Grafana to export CSV’s but the batch limits make it a bit clunky for my setup. I could write some Python to do the job but I am looking for a shortcut to get it done. Then I remembered that InfluxDB can export Line Protocol files directly.

As QuestDB implements the InfluxDB Line Protocol to ingest data can I import an LP file into QuestDB directly?

Hi David. A while ago I pointed a user to how to migrate data from influx into QuestDB, and apparently that worked for him Datamigration from InfluxDB to QuestDB with Telegraf - #3 by Armin_Diehl

Thanks for the pointer.

I’m not familiar with Telegraf so a learning curve awaits me…

David