cc-metric-collector/sinks/influxSink.md

influxdb sink

The influxdb sink uses the official InfluxDB golang client to write the metrics to an InfluxDB database. It provides only support for V2 write endpoints (InfluxDB 1.8.0 or later).

Configuration structure

{
  "<name>": {
    "type": "influxdb",
    "meta_as_tags" : true,
    "database" : "mymetrics",
    "host": "dbhost.example.com",
    "port": "4222",
    "user": "exampleuser",
    "password" : "examplepw",
    "organization": "myorg",
    "ssl": true,
  }
}

• type: makes the sink an influxdb sink
• meta_as_tags: print all meta information as tags in the output (optional)
• database: All metrics are written to this bucket
• host: Hostname of the InfluxDB database server
• port: Portnumber (as string) of the InfluxDB database server
• user: Username for basic authentification
• password: Password for basic authentification
• organization: Organization in the InfluxDB
• ssl: Use SSL connection