influx bucket-schema update

  • influx CLI 2.1.0+
  • InfluxDB Cloud only

This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB. InfluxDB v2.7 is the latest stable version. View this page in the v2.7 documentation.

Works with InfluxDB Cloud bucket schemas

influx bucket-schema and its subcommands work with InfluxDB Cloud bucket schemas. This feature is not available in InfluxDB OSS v2.3.

The influx bucket-schema update command updates the schema of an InfluxDB bucket that has the explicit schema-type.

bucket-schema update requires a bucket with at least one defined schema.

Usage

  1. influx bucket-schema update [flags]
Supported operations
  • Adding new columns to a schema
Unsupported operations
  • Modify existing columns in a schema
  • Delete columns from a schema

Flags

FlagDescriptionInput typeMaps to ?
-c—active-configCLI configuration to use for commandstring
-n—bucket(Required) Bucket name (mutually exclusive with —bucket-id)string
-i—bucket-id(Required) Bucket ID (mutually exclusive with —bucket)string
—columns-file(Required) Path to column definitions file. For more information, see Create a columns file.string
—columns-formatColumns file format (csv, ndjson, json, default: auto). For more information, see Update a schema with columns formatstring
—configs-pathPath to influx CLI configurations (default ~/.influxdbv2/configs)stringINFLUX_CONFIGS_PATH
-x—extended-outputPrint column information for each measurement schema (default: false)
-h—helpHelp for the create command
—hide-headersHide table headers (default false)INFLUX_HIDE_HEADERS
—hostHTTP address of InfluxDB (default http://localhost:8086)stringINFLUX_HOST
—jsonOutput data as JSON (default false)INFLUX_OUTPUT_JSON
-n—name(Required) Measurement namestring
-o—orgOrganization name (mutually exclusive with —org-id)stringINFLUX_ORG
—org-idOrganization ID (mutually exclusive with —org)stringINFLUX_ORG_ID
—skip-verifySkip TLS certificate verificationINFLUX_SKIP_VERIFY
-t—tokenAPI tokenstringINFLUX_TOKEN

Examples

Authentication credentials

The examples below assume your InfluxDB host, organization, and token are provided by either the active influx CLI configuration or by environment variables (INFLUX_HOST, INFLUX_ORG, and INFLUX_TOKEN). If you do not have a CLI configuration set up or the environment variables set, include these required credentials for each command with the following flags:

Update a schema using the influx CLI

  1. influx bucket-schema update \
  2. --bucket example-bucket \
  3. --name temperature \
  4. --columns-file columns.csv

Update a schema and print column information

  1. influx bucket-schema update \
  2. --bucket example-bucket \
  3. --name cpu \
  4. --columns-file columns.csv \
  5. -extended-output

Update a schema with columns format

By default, InfluxDB attempts to detect the columns file format. If your file’s extension doesn’t match the format, set the format with the columns-format flag.

  1. influx bucket-schema update \
  2. --bucket example-bucket \
  3. --name cpu \
  4. --columns-file columns.json \
  5. --columns-format ndjson
  1. influx bucket-schema update \
  2. --bucket example-bucket \
  3. --name cpu \
  4. --columns-file columns.txt \
  5. --columns-format csv