# Influxdb migration idea

**URL:** <https://community.questdb.com/t/influxdb-migration-idea/823>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [April 30, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://community.questdb.com/t/influxdb-migration-idea/823 "2025-04-30T02:56:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Goadby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.questdb.com/david_goadby/32/391_2.png) [@David\_Goadby](https://community.questdb.com/u/David_Goadby)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://community.questdb.com/t/influxdb-migration-idea/823/1 "2025-04-30T02:56:07Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![javier](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.questdb.com/javier/32/29_2.png) [@javier](https://community.questdb.com/u/javier)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.questdb.com/t/influxdb-migration-idea/823/2 "2025-04-30T15:33:42Z")

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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](https://community.questdb.com/t/datamigration-from-influxdb-to-questdb-with-telegraf/182/3)

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**Author:** ![David\_Goadby](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.questdb.com/david_goadby/32/391_2.png) [@David\_Goadby](https://community.questdb.com/u/David_Goadby)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://community.questdb.com/t/influxdb-migration-idea/823/3 "2025-05-02T01:05:36Z")

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Thanks for the pointer.

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

David