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InfluxDB: High‑Performance Time‑Series Store for Faster Insights

InfluxDB lets founders capture, store, and query metrics and events in real‑time, powering dashboards and alerts. Ideal for monitoring and analytics, with 31k+ GitHub stars.

From the repo · “Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics”

31,775 stars+10★ this week3,725 forksRustGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Oct 11Updated 10/21/2026100% free · open source
What it does

InfluxDB is a scalable datastore that allows founders to quickly track metrics and events, facilitating real-time analytics for their applications

When to use it
  • •You need to monitor and analyze large amounts of time-series data from IoT devices or sensors
  • •Your application requires real-time analytics and event tracking to inform business decisions
  • •You are building a data-intensive application that needs a scalable and performant datastore
Ready-to-paste prompt
influx write --bucket my-bucket --org my-org 'mem,host=host1 used=1024' --precision s
Heads up: InfluxDB 2.0 requires authentication by default, so you need to create an authentication token using the `influx auth create` command before you can write data to a bucket
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How InfluxDB: High‑Performance Time‑Series Store for Faster Insights works
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InfluxDB: High‑Performance Time‑Series Store for Faster Insights is a very large Rust project (~336k lines across 1016 code files, plus 44 test files). Setup is light: installs like a normal app. Reading the code is optional. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size
Very large codebase
~336k lines · 1016 code files · days to read — use, don't read
Setup
One-command install
Installs like a normal app. Reading the code is optional.
Runs on
Rust · Docker
No API keys detected
Rust 96%Answer Set Programming 2%Python 1%Linear Programming 1%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    Cargo.toml
    Dependencies and the commands it exposes
  3. 3
    core/README.md
    Inside core/ — the main logic begins here
What's in each folder
core/Core code — the actual logic1137 files
influxdb3_catalog/Folder220 files
influxdb3/Folder93 files
influxdb3_write/Folder38 files
influxdb3_processing_engine/Folder21 files
influxdb3_load_generator/Folder20 files
influxdb3_cache/Folder19 files
influxdb3_commands/Folder19 files
READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyApache-2.0 licenseUpdated this month
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Creator
influxdata
Language
Rust
Category
analytics
Published
9/26/2013

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