Attempting to get InfluxDB working with Librenms

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This is not a Grafana question per se but I’m hoping someone can point me in the correct direction here:

I have a working librenms install that I am working to integrate with Grafana. A lot of the guides I’ve found are very broad and basic in terms of instructions, i.e. install Grafana, configure librenms, etc. While I understand the settings that need to be done on the side of librenms, I am not sure how to create the database on InfluxDB to make sure things look good on that end. Any thoughts or advice or links to a guide that covers this please?

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Hello @huntson
I think you should ask you question on the Influx community.

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That would make sense, wouldn’t it? Can I delete this one?

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To be honest, you don’t have so much to worry about if you correctly configured the librenms.
I took a look and it’s nothing to worry about on the influxdb part.
If you are using influxdb V1:

CREATE DATABASE librenms
CREATE USER librenms WITH PASSWORD 'password'
GRANT ALL ON librenms TO librenms

And this should do the trick!

I’ve never work with librenms but I can’t see anything that would make an error + I saw an internal solution to use InfluxDB with librenms so everything should be okay!
I assume librenms should handle a good generation for the base with something like:

$config['influxdb']['enable'] = true;
$config['influxdb']['transport'] = 'http';
$config['influxdb']['host'] = 'your server';
$config['influxdb']['port'] = '8086';
$config['influxdb']['db'] = 'librenms';
$config['influxdb']['username'] = 'librenms';
$config['influxdb']['password'] = 'librenms_password';
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I installed 2.7.8. I believe. When running ‘influx v1 shell’ and then the commands you mentioned I get the attached.

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Hey @huntson

I’m not very used of V2.
" In InfluxDB 2.0, databases no longer exist, they are replaced by buckets."

For this you need your organization ID:

influx org find

if you get an error unauthorized it’s because you need to provide a token. If you don’t have a token reach the graphical interface (probably on port 9999) → settings → tokens and copy it or create it. Make sure it have good permissions.

Then for your organization ID once again:

influx org find -t token

the result should look like:

ID                     Name
044dc0bcf1860000       devconnected

Then you can use that to create a bucket, which is basically the same as a database but for V2:

influx bucket create -n bucketname --org-id 044dc0bcf1860000

An easier way is to use the graphical interface → Settings → buckets.

Following the official doc.

Let me know how it goes!

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Hi @huntson

If you wish to use InfluxQL with InfluxDB v2.7.8, have you created these settings in Grafana?

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where the value for the Authorization header must be written by including the word Token then a space and then your token value, i.e. Token <token value>

and Database is the Organization Name (both Token and Database Name can be found by logging into your Influx machine at http://:8086)
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I’m happy to install an older version. Can you suggest a command I can use on Ubuntu to do that?

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All of this has to do with steps to do after the InfluxDB has been created so this is not really helpful.

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Using this documentation:

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1/introduction/install/ I was able to install an older version and use the commands provided.