influxdb_write – Write data points into InfluxDB.

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Examples
Status

Synopsis

Write data points into InfluxDB.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

python >= 2.6
influxdb >= 0.9

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
data_points - / required		Data points as dict to write into the database.
database_name - / required		Name of the database.
hostname -	Default: "localhost"	The hostname or IP address on which InfluxDB server is listening. Since version 2.5, defaulted to localhost.
password -	Default: "root"	Password that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server. Alias `login_password` added in version 2.5. aliases: login_password
port -	Default: 8086	The port on which InfluxDB server is listening
proxies - added in 2.5		HTTP(S) proxy to use for Requests to connect to InfluxDB server.
retries - added in 2.5	Default: 3	Number of retries client will try before aborting. `0` indicates try until success.
ssl - added in 2.5		Use https instead of http to connect to InfluxDB server.
timeout - added in 2.5		Number of seconds Requests will wait for client to establish a connection.
udp_port - added in 2.5	Default: 4444	UDP port to connect to InfluxDB server.
use_udp - added in 2.5		Use UDP to connect to InfluxDB server.
username -	Default: "root"	Username that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server. Alias `login_username` added in version 2.5. aliases: login_username
validate_certs - added in 2.5	Default: "yes"	If set to `no`, the SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only set to `no` used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Write points into database
  influxdb_write:
      hostname: "{{influxdb_ip_address}}"
      database_name: "{{influxdb_database_name}}"
      data_points:
        - measurement: connections
          tags:
            host: server01
            region: us-west
          time: "{{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}"
          fields:
            value: 2000
        - measurement: connections
          tags:
            host: server02
            region: us-east
          time: "{{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}"
          fields:
            value: 3000

Status

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

René Moser (@resmo)

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