InfluxDB 1.x compatibility API

The InfluxDB v2 API includes InfluxDB 1.x compatibility endpoints that work with InfluxDB 1.x client libraries and third-party integrations like Grafana and others.

View full v1 compatibility API documentation

Authentication

InfluxDB 2.0 requires all query and write requests to be authenticated. Use basic authentication or token authentication to authenticate requests to InfluxDB 1.x compatibility endpoints.

Basic Authentication

Basic authentications requires the following credentials:

There are multiple ways to provide basic authentication credentials. The example below uses the Authorization header with the Basic scheme to provide the required credentials:

Basic authentication with authorization header
  1. # Header syntax
  2. Authorization: Basic <username>:<password>
  4. # Header example
  5. Authorization: Basic admin:mYSuP3rs3cREtT0k3N

Token Authentication

Token authentication requires the following credential:

Use the Authorization header with the Token scheme to provide your authentication token to InfluxDB.

Token authentication with authorization header
  1. # Header syntax
  2. Authorization: Token <token>
  4. # Header example
  5. Authorization: Token mYSuP3rs3cREtT0k3N
InfluxQL support

The compatibility API supports InfluxQL, with the following caveats:

  • The INTO clause (e.g. SELECT ... INTO ...) is not supported.
  • With the exception of DELETE and DROP MEASUREMENT queries, which are still allowed, InfluxQL database management commands are not supported.

Compatibility endpoints

/query

The /query 1.x compatibility endpoint queries InfluxDB Cloud and InfluxDB OSS 2.0 using InfluxQL.

  1. GET https://cloud2.influxdata.com/query

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/write

The /write 1.x compatibility endpoint writes data to InfluxDB Cloud and InfluxDB OSS 2.0 using patterns from the InfluxDB 1.x /write API endpoint.

  1. POST https://cloud2.influxdata.com/write

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Database and retention policy mapping

The database and retention policy (DBRP) mapping service maps InfluxDB 1.x database and retention policy combinations to InfluxDB Cloud and InfluxDB OSS 2.0 buckets.

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