influx setup

The influx setup command walks through the initial InfluxDB setup process, creating a default user, organization, and bucket.

Usage

  1. influx setup [flags]

Flags

FlagDescriptionData typeMaps to ?
-c—active-configCLI configuration to use for commandstring
-b—bucketPrimary bucket namestring
—configs-pathPath to influx CLI configurations (default ~/.influxdbv2/configs)stringINFLUX_CONFIGS_PATH
-f—forceSkip confirmation prompt
-h—helpHelp for the setup command
—hostHTTP address of InfluxDB (default http://localhost:8086)stringINFLUX_HOST
-o—orgPrimary organization namestring
-p—passwordPassword for primary userstring
-r—retentionDuration bucket will retain data (0 is infinite, default is 0)duration
—skip-verifySkip TLS certificate verification
-t—tokenToken for admin user (auto-generated by default)stringINFLUX_TOKEN
-u—usernamePrimary usernamestring

Valid --retention units are nanoseconds (ns), microseconds (us or µs), milliseconds (ms), seconds (s), minutes (m), hours (h), days (d), and weeks (w).

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