Command line tools

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

InfluxDB provides command line tools designed to aid in managing and working with InfluxDB from the command line. The following command line interfaces (CLIs) are available:

influx - InfluxDB command line interface

The influx CLI includes commands to manage many aspects of InfluxDB, including buckets, organizations, users, tasks, etc.

influxd - InfluxDB service

The influxd service starts and runs all the processes necessary for InfluxDB to function.

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