Ask HN: What has been your experience with InfluxDB in production?

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I am looking for a timeseries DB for IoT data and InfluxDB seems to have a lot of chatter. However, when I did deeper I see that the OSS version is not distributed. So, I am looking for experiences from people how are you scaling Influx clusters and your experience in production.

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The OSS version is limited in what you can use it for even if you can find it. The paid version is very expensive. Thus, I would never use it for anything where my ethical concerns come into play.

However, once you have it running it does appear to work. I've seen production setups that ingest a fair amount of data per day and they don't need a lot of maintenance, which is always nice.

Not the answer you're looking for, but I found it too busy, unintuitive, and the lack of non-distribution for the OSS version finished off my test run. I use Graphite, have done for years, and am quite happy with it.

On a further note, I attended Grafanacon and saw a few keynotes given by the CEO of InfluxDB and have never been more turned off of using a product by a single person.

You pay for it. I've not enjoyed using the Influx "API" either, or some of their bizarre API practices such as returning HTTP 200 OK with a failure message.

Federated prometheus or timescaledb maybe?

There was lot of memory leak when used as the storage for prometheus for our kubernetes cluster. we ditched it after trying various versions.

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