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According to the post HA uses sqlite for sensor data. Why not use a temporal database like InfluxDB, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics etc?

+1 I also cteated homeassistant-addon-victorialogs[1] as well as homeassistant-addon-victoriametrics[2].

Author here. You can use influx. That’s what I’m doing. It’s just that HA doesn’t use thet by default (which is sensible for most use cases tbh).