influx stacks init

  • influx CLI 2.0.1+
  • InfluxDB 2.0.1+

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

The influx stacks init command initializes an InfluxDB stack.

Usage

  1. influx stacks init [flags]

Flags

FlagDescriptionInput typeMaps to ?
-c—active-configCLI configuration to use for commandstring
—configs-pathPath to influx CLI configurations (default ~/.influxdbv2/configs)stringINFLUX_CONFIGS_PATH
-h—helpHelp for the init command
—hide-headersHide table headers (default false)INFLUX_HIDE_HEADERS
—hostHTTP address of InfluxDB (default http://localhost:8086)stringINFLUX_HOST
—http-debugInspect communication with InfluxDB servers.string
—jsonOutput data as JSON (default false)INFLUX_OUTPUT_JSON
-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
-d—stack-descriptionStack descriptionstring
-n—stack-nameStack namestring
-u—template-urlTemplate URLs to associate with a stacklist of strings
-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:

  • --host: InfluxDB host
  • -o, --org or --org-id: InfluxDB organization name or ID
  • -t, --token: InfluxDB API token
Initialize a stack with a name and description
  1. influx stacks init -n "Example Stack" -d "InfluxDB stack for monitoring some awesome stuff"
Initialize a stack with a name and URLs to associate with the stack
  1. influx stacks init -n "Example Stack" -u https://example.com/template-1.yml

templates