# Grafana with InfluxDB 2.x/Flux - seems to be less autocompletey/magical than back in InfluxDB 1.x days?

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-with-influxdb-2-x-flux-seems-to-be-less-autocompletey-magical-than-back-in-influxdb-1-x-days/63724>\
**Category:** InfluxDB\
**Created:** [April 8, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-with-influxdb-2-x-flux-seems-to-be-less-autocompletey-magical-than-back-in-influxdb-1-x-days/63724 "2022-04-08T17:38:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![victorhooi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/victorhooi/32/4441_2.png) [@victorhooi](https://community.grafana.com/u/victorhooi)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-with-influxdb-2-x-flux-seems-to-be-less-autocompletey-magical-than-back-in-influxdb-1-x-days/63724/1 "2022-04-08T17:38:34Z")

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Hi,

I last used Grafana a few years ago with InfluxDB 1.x and it was **amazing**. It was so wonderful, being able to just dive into my InfluxDB database, and create these awesome charts.

However, I’ve just come back to Grafana, and I hooked it up to a now InfluxDB 2.x source, using Flux, their new query language.

And like I said, it’s been a while - but it seems it doesn’t have all the autocompleting features, or doesn’t seem to allow me to just dive into the data like I did before. I’m not sure if it’s rose-tinted glasses (ahaha) about before, or whether I’ve misconfigured something - but is the experience with InfluxDB 2.x markedly different these days?

Or is there something special you need to setup in Grafana to get the old experience back?

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**Author:** ![anon70503803](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@anon70503803](https://community.grafana.com/u/anon70503803)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-with-influxdb-2-x-flux-seems-to-be-less-autocompletey-magical-than-back-in-influxdb-1-x-days/63724/2 "2022-04-13T03:09:05Z")

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I think the flux query editor is still in beta, but if you have specific places where the autocompletion and whatnot could be better, please do let us know!

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**Author:** ![mdtancsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mdtancsa](https://community.grafana.com/u/mdtancsa)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-with-influxdb-2-x-flux-seems-to-be-less-autocompletey-magical-than-back-in-influxdb-1-x-days/63724/3 "2022-04-17T17:32:53Z")

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for me seeing a list of possible variables in field overrides for display names. Starting to type ${\_\_field would be great if it showed what I can place there. e.g.  
${\_\_field.labels.ifName}