influxdb-client-python
This repository contains the Python client library for use with InfluxDB 2.x and Flux. InfluxDB 3.x users should instead use the lightweight v3 client library. InfluxDB 1.x users should use the v1 client library.
For ease of migration and a consistent query and write experience, v2 users should consider using InfluxQL and the v1 client library.
The API of the influxdb-client-python is not the backwards-compatible with the old one - influxdb-python.
Documentation
This section contains links to the client library documentation.
InfluxDB 2.0 client features
- Querying data
- using the Flux language
- into csv, raw data, flux_table structure, Pandas DataFrame
- How to queries
- Writing data using
- Line Protocol
- Data Point
- RxPY Observable
- Pandas DataFrame
- How to writes
- InfluxDB 2.0 API client for management
- the client is generated from the swagger by using the openapi-generator
- organizations & users management
- buckets management
- tasks management
- authorizations
- health check
- ...
- InfluxDB 1.8 API compatibility
Installation
InfluxDB python library uses RxPY - The Reactive Extensions for Python (RxPY).
Python 3.7 or later is required.
Note
It is recommended to use ciso8601
with client for parsing dates. ciso8601
is much faster than built-in Python datetime. Since it's written as a C
module the best way is build it from sources:
Windows:
You have to install Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 to build ciso8601
by pip
.
conda:
Install from sources: conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf202003 ciso8601
.
pip install
The python package is hosted on PyPI, you can install latest version directly:
pip install 'influxdb-client[ciso]'
Then import the package:
import influxdb_client
If your application uses async/await in Python you can install with the async
extra:
$ pip install influxdb-client[async]
For more info se How to use Asyncio.
Setuptools
Install via Setuptools.
python setup.py install --user
(or sudo python setup.py install
to install the package for all users)
Getting Started
Please follow the Installation and then run the following:
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient, Point
from influxdb_client.client.write_api import SYNCHRONOUS
bucket = "my-bucket"
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org")
write_api = client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS)
query_api = client.query_api()
p = Point("my_measurement").tag("location", "Prague").field("temperature", 25.3)
write_api.write(bucket=bucket, record=p)
## using Table structure
tables = query_api.query('from(bucket:"my-bucket") |> range(start: -10m)')
for table in tables:
print(table)
for row in table.records:
print (row.values)
## using csv library
csv_result = query_api.query_csv('from(bucket:"my-bucket") |> range(start: -10m)')
val_count = 0
for row in csv_result:
for cell in row:
val_count += 1
Client configuration
Via File
A client can be configured via *.ini
file in segment influx2
.
The following options are supported:
url
- the url to connect to InfluxDBorg
- default destination organization for writes and queriestoken
- the token to use for the authorizationtimeout
- socket timeout in ms (default value is 10000)verify_ssl
- set this to false to skip verifying SSL certificate when calling API from https serverssl_ca_cert
- set this to customize the certificate file to verify the peercert_file
- path to the certificate that will be used for mTLS authenticationcert_key_file
- path to the file contains private key for mTLS certificatecert_key_password
- string or function which returns password for decrypting the mTLS private keyconnection_pool_maxsize
- set the number of connections to save that can be reused by urllib3auth_basic
- enable http basic authentication when talking to a InfluxDB 1.8.x without authentication but is accessed via reverse proxy with basic authentication (defaults to false)profilers
- set the list of enabled Flux profilers
self.client = InfluxDBClient.from_config_file("config.ini")
[influx2] url=http://localhost:8086 org=my-org token=my-token timeout=6000 verify_ssl=False
Via Environment Properties
A client can be configured via environment properties.
Supported properties are:
INFLUXDB_V2_URL
- the url to connect to InfluxDBINFLUXDB_V2_ORG
- default destination organization for writes and queriesINFLUXDB_V2_TOKEN
- the token to use for the authorizationINFLUXDB_V2_TIMEOUT
- socket timeout in ms (default value is 10000)INFLUXDB_V2_VERIFY_SSL
- set this to false to skip verifying SSL certificate when calling API from https serverINFLUXDB_V2_SSL_CA_CERT
- set this to customize the certificate file to verify the peerINFLUXDB_V2_CERT_FILE
- path to the certificate that will be used for mTLS authenticationINFLUXDB_V2_CERT_KEY_FILE
- path to the file contains private key for mTLS certificateINFLUXDB_V2_CERT_KEY_PASSWORD
- string or function which returns password for decrypting the mTLS private keyINFLUXDB_V2_CONNECTION_POOL_MAXSIZE
- set the number of connections to save that can be reused by urllib3INFLUXDB_V2_AUTH_BASIC
- enable http basic authentication when talking to a InfluxDB 1.8.x without authentication but is accessed via reverse proxy with basic authentication (defaults to false)INFLUXDB_V2_PROFILERS
- set the list of enabled Flux profilers
self.client = InfluxDBClient.from_env_properties()
Profile query
The Flux Profiler package provides performance profiling tools for Flux queries and operations.
You can enable printing profiler information of the Flux query in client library by:
- set QueryOptions.profilers in QueryApi,
- set
INFLUXDB_V2_PROFILERS
environment variable, - set
profilers
option in configuration file.
When the profiler is enabled, the result of flux query contains additional tables "profiler/*".
In order to have consistent behaviour with enabled/disabled profiler, FluxCSVParser
excludes "profiler/*" measurements
from result.
Example how to enable profilers using API:
q = '''
from(bucket: stringParam)
|> range(start: -5m, stop: now())
|> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "mem")
|> filter(fn: (r) => r._field == "available" or r._field == "free" or r._field == "used")
|> aggregateWindow(every: 1m, fn: mean)
|> pivot(rowKey:["_time"], columnKey: ["_field"], valueColumn: "_value")
'''
p = {
"stringParam": "my-bucket",
}
query_api = client.query_api(query_options=QueryOptions(profilers=["query", "operator"]))
csv_result = query_api.query(query=q, params=p)
Example of a profiler output:
=============== Profiler: query =============== from(bucket: stringParam) |> range(start: -5m, stop: now()) |> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "mem") |> filter(fn: (r) => r._field == "available" or r._field == "free" or r._field == "used") |> aggregateWindow(every: 1m, fn: mean) |> pivot(rowKey:["_time"], columnKey: ["_field"], valueColumn: "_value") ======================== Profiler: profiler/query ======================== result : _profiler table : 0 _measurement : profiler/query TotalDuration : 8924700 CompileDuration : 350900 QueueDuration : 33800 PlanDuration : 0 RequeueDuration : 0 ExecuteDuration : 8486500 Concurrency : 0 MaxAllocated : 2072 TotalAllocated : 0 flux/query-plan : digraph { ReadWindowAggregateByTime11 // every = 1m, aggregates = [mean], createEmpty = true, timeColumn = "_stop" pivot8 generated_yield ReadWindowAggregateByTime11 -> pivot8 pivot8 -> generated_yield } influxdb/scanned-bytes: 0 influxdb/scanned-values: 0 =========================== Profiler: profiler/operator =========================== result : _profiler table : 1 _measurement : profiler/operator Type : *universe.pivotTransformation Label : pivot8 Count : 3 MinDuration : 32600 MaxDuration : 126200 DurationSum : 193400 MeanDuration : 64466.666666666664 =========================== Profiler: profiler/operator =========================== result : _profiler table : 1 _measurement : profiler/operator Type : *influxdb.readWindowAggregateSource Label : ReadWindowAggregateByTime11 Count : 1 MinDuration : 940500 MaxDuration : 940500 DurationSum : 940500 MeanDuration : 940500.0
You can also use callback function to get profilers output. Return value of this callback is type of FluxRecord.
Example how to use profilers with callback:
class ProfilersCallback(object):
def __init__(self):
self.records = []
def __call__(self, flux_record):
self.records.append(flux_record.values)
callback = ProfilersCallback()
query_api = client.query_api(query_options=QueryOptions(profilers=["query", "operator"], profiler_callback=callback))
tables = query_api.query('from(bucket:"my-bucket") |> range(start: -10m)')
for profiler in callback.records:
print(f'Custom processing of profiler result: {profiler}')
Example output of this callback:
Custom processing of profiler result: {'result': '_profiler', 'table': 0, '_measurement': 'profiler/query', 'TotalDuration': 18843792, 'CompileDuration': 1078666, 'QueueDuration': 93375, 'PlanDuration': 0, 'RequeueDuration': 0, 'ExecuteDuration': 17371000, 'Concurrency': 0, 'MaxAllocated': 448, 'TotalAllocated': 0, 'RuntimeErrors': None, 'flux/query-plan': 'digraph {\r\n ReadRange2\r\n generated_yield\r\n\r\n ReadRange2 -> generated_yield\r\n}\r\n\r\n', 'influxdb/scanned-bytes': 0, 'influxdb/scanned-values': 0} Custom processing of profiler result: {'result': '_profiler', 'table': 1, '_measurement': 'profiler/operator', 'Type': '*influxdb.readFilterSource', 'Label': 'ReadRange2', 'Count': 1, 'MinDuration': 3274084, 'MaxDuration': 3274084, 'DurationSum': 3274084, 'MeanDuration': 3274084.0}
How to use
Writes
The WriteApi supports synchronous, asynchronous and batching writes into InfluxDB 2.0. The data should be passed as a InfluxDB Line Protocol, Data Point or Observable stream.
Warning
The WriteApi
in batching mode (default mode) is suppose to run as a singleton.
To flush all your data you should wrap the execution using with client.write_api(...) as write_api:
statement
or call write_api.close()
at the end of your script.
The default instance of WriteApi use batching.
The data could be written as
string
orbytes
that is formatted as a InfluxDB's line protocol- Data Point structure
- Dictionary style mapping with keys:
measurement
,tags
,fields
andtime
or custom structure - NamedTuple
- Data Classes
- Pandas DataFrame
- List of above items
- A
batching
type of write also supports anObservable
that produce one of an above item
You can find write examples at GitHub: influxdb-client-python/examples.
Batching
The batching is configurable by write_options
:
Property | Description | Default Value |
---|---|---|
batch_size | the number of data point to collect in a batch | 1000 |
flush_interval | the number of milliseconds before the batch is written | 1000 |
jitter_interval | the number of milliseconds to increase the batch flush interval by a random amount | 0 |
retry_interval | the number of milliseconds to retry first unsuccessful write. The next retry delay is computed using exponential random backoff. The retry interval is used when the InfluxDB server does not specify "Retry-After" header. | 5000 |
max_retry_time | maximum total retry timeout in milliseconds. | 180_000 |
max_retries | the number of max retries when write fails | 5 |
max_retry_delay | the maximum delay between each retry attempt in milliseconds | 125_000 |
max_close_wait | the maximum amount of time to wait for batches to flush when .close() is called | 300_000 |
exponential_base | the base for the exponential retry delay, the next delay is computed using random exponential backoff as a random value within the interval retry_interval * exponential_base^(attempts-1) and retry_interval * exponential_base^(attempts) . Example for retry_interval=5_000, exponential_base=2, max_retry_delay=125_000, total=5 Retry delays are random distributed values within the ranges of [5_000-10_000, 10_000-20_000, 20_000-40_000, 40_000-80_000, 80_000-125_000] |
2 |
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import pandas as pd
import reactivex as rx
from reactivex import operators as ops
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient, Point, WriteOptions
with InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org") as _client:
with _client.write_api(write_options=WriteOptions(batch_size=500,
flush_interval=10_000,
jitter_interval=2_000,
retry_interval=5_000,
max_retries=5,
max_retry_delay=30_000,
max_close_wait=300_000,
exponential_base=2)) as _write_client:
"""
Write Line Protocol formatted as string
"""
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org", "h2o_feet,location=coyote_creek water_level=1.0 1")
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org", ["h2o_feet,location=coyote_creek water_level=2.0 2",
"h2o_feet,location=coyote_creek water_level=3.0 3"])
"""
Write Line Protocol formatted as byte array
"""
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org", "h2o_feet,location=coyote_creek water_level=1.0 1".encode())
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org", ["h2o_feet,location=coyote_creek water_level=2.0 2".encode(),
"h2o_feet,location=coyote_creek water_level=3.0 3".encode()])
"""
Write Dictionary-style object
"""
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org", {"measurement": "h2o_feet", "tags": {"location": "coyote_creek"},
"fields": {"water_level": 1.0}, "time": 1})
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org", [{"measurement": "h2o_feet", "tags": {"location": "coyote_creek"},
"fields": {"water_level": 2.0}, "time": 2},
{"measurement": "h2o_feet", "tags": {"location": "coyote_creek"},
"fields": {"water_level": 3.0}, "time": 3}])
"""
Write Data Point
"""
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org",
Point("h2o_feet").tag("location", "coyote_creek").field("water_level", 4.0).time(4))
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org",
[Point("h2o_feet").tag("location", "coyote_creek").field("water_level", 5.0).time(5),
Point("h2o_feet").tag("location", "coyote_creek").field("water_level", 6.0).time(6)])
"""
Write Observable stream
"""
_data = rx \
.range(7, 11) \
.pipe(ops.map(lambda i: "h2o_feet,location=coyote_creek water_level={0}.0 {0}".format(i)))
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org", _data)
"""
Write Pandas DataFrame
"""
_now = datetime.utcnow()
_data_frame = pd.DataFrame(data=[["coyote_creek", 1.0], ["coyote_creek", 2.0]],
index=[_now, _now + timedelta(hours=1)],
columns=["location", "water_level"])
_write_client.write("my-bucket", "my-org", record=_data_frame, data_frame_measurement_name='h2o_feet',
data_frame_tag_columns=['location'])
Default Tags
Sometimes is useful to store same information in every measurement e.g. hostname
, location
, customer
.
The client is able to use static value or env property as a tag value.
The expressions:
California Miner
- static value${env.hostname}
- environment property
Via API
point_settings = PointSettings()
point_settings.add_default_tag("id", "132-987-655")
point_settings.add_default_tag("customer", "California Miner")
point_settings.add_default_tag("data_center", "${env.data_center}")
self.write_client = self.client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS, point_settings=point_settings)
self.write_client = self.client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS,
point_settings=PointSettings(**{"id": "132-987-655",
"customer": "California Miner"}))
Via Configuration file
In a init configuration file you are able to specify default tags by tags
segment.
self.client = InfluxDBClient.from_config_file("config.ini")
[influx2] url=http://localhost:8086 org=my-org token=my-token timeout=6000 [tags] id = 132-987-655 customer = California Miner data_center = ${env.data_center}
You can also use a TOML or a JSON format for the configuration file.
Via Environment Properties
You are able to specify default tags by environment properties with prefix INFLUXDB_V2_TAG_
.
Examples:
INFLUXDB_V2_TAG_ID
INFLUXDB_V2_TAG_HOSTNAME
self.client = InfluxDBClient.from_env_properties()
Synchronous client
Data are writes in a synchronous HTTP request.
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient, Point
from influxdb_client .client.write_api import SYNCHRONOUS
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org")
write_api = client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS)
_point1 = Point("my_measurement").tag("location", "Prague").field("temperature", 25.3)
_point2 = Point("my_measurement").tag("location", "New York").field("temperature", 24.3)
write_api.write(bucket="my-bucket", record=[_point1, _point2])
client.close()
Queries
The result retrieved by QueryApi could be formatted as a:
- Flux data structure: FluxTable, FluxColumn and FluxRecord
- :class:`~influxdb_client.client.flux_table.CSVIterator` which will iterate over CSV lines
- Raw unprocessed results as a
str
iterator - Pandas DataFrame
The API also support streaming FluxRecord
via query_stream, see example below:
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient, Point, Dialect
from influxdb_client.client.write_api import SYNCHRONOUS
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org")
write_api = client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS)
query_api = client.query_api()
"""
Prepare data
"""
_point1 = Point("my_measurement").tag("location", "Prague").field("temperature", 25.3)
_point2 = Point("my_measurement").tag("location", "New York").field("temperature", 24.3)
write_api.write(bucket="my-bucket", record=[_point1, _point2])
"""
Query: using Table structure
"""
tables = query_api.query('from(bucket:"my-bucket") |> range(start: -10m)')
for table in tables:
print(table)
for record in table.records:
print(record.values)
print()
print()
"""
Query: using Bind parameters
"""
p = {"_start": datetime.timedelta(hours=-1),
"_location": "Prague",
"_desc": True,
"_floatParam": 25.1,
"_every": datetime.timedelta(minutes=5)
}
tables = query_api.query('''
from(bucket:"my-bucket") |> range(start: _start)
|> filter(fn: (r) => r["_measurement"] == "my_measurement")
|> filter(fn: (r) => r["_field"] == "temperature")
|> filter(fn: (r) => r["location"] == _location and r["_value"] > _floatParam)
|> aggregateWindow(every: _every, fn: mean, createEmpty: true)
|> sort(columns: ["_time"], desc: _desc)
''', params=p)
for table in tables:
print(table)
for record in table.records:
print(str(record["_time"]) + " - " + record["location"] + ": " + str(record["_value"]))
print()
print()
"""
Query: using Stream
"""
records = query_api.query_stream('from(bucket:"my-bucket") |> range(start: -10m)')
for record in records:
print(f'Temperature in {record["location"]} is {record["_value"]}')
"""
Interrupt a stream after retrieve a required data
"""
large_stream = query_api.query_stream('from(bucket:"my-bucket") |> range(start: -100d)')
for record in large_stream:
if record["location"] == "New York":
print(f'New York temperature: {record["_value"]}')
break
large_stream.close()
print()
print()
"""
Query: using csv library
"""
csv_result = query_api.query_csv('from(bucket:"my-bucket") |> range(start: -10m)',
dialect=Dialect(header=False, delimiter=",", comment_prefix="#", annotations=[],
date_time_format="RFC3339"))
for csv_line in csv_result:
if not len(csv_line) == 0:
print(f'Temperature in {csv_line[9]} is {csv_line[6]}')
"""
Close client
"""
client.close()
Pandas DataFrame
Note
For DataFrame querying you should install Pandas dependency via pip install 'influxdb-client[extra]'
.
Note
Note that if a query returns more then one table then the client generates a DataFrame
for each of them.
The client
is able to retrieve data in Pandas DataFrame format thought query_data_frame
:
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient, Point, Dialect
from influxdb_client.client.write_api import SYNCHRONOUS
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org")
write_api = client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS)
query_api = client.query_api()
"""
Prepare data
"""
_point1 = Point("my_measurement").tag("location", "Prague").field("temperature", 25.3)
_point2 = Point("my_measurement").tag("location", "New York").field("temperature", 24.3)
write_api.write(bucket="my-bucket", record=[_point1, _point2])
"""
Query: using Pandas DataFrame
"""
data_frame = query_api.query_data_frame('from(bucket:"my-bucket") '
'|> range(start: -10m) '
'|> pivot(rowKey:["_time"], columnKey: ["_field"], valueColumn: "_value") '
'|> keep(columns: ["location", "temperature"])')
print(data_frame.to_string())
"""
Close client
"""
client.close()
Output:
result table location temperature 0 _result 0 New York 24.3 1 _result 1 Prague 25.3
Examples
How to efficiently import large dataset
The following example shows how to import dataset with dozen megabytes. If you would like to import gigabytes of data then use our multiprocessing example: import_data_set_multiprocessing.py for use a full capability of your hardware.
- sources - import_data_set.py
"""
Import VIX - CBOE Volatility Index - from "vix-daily.csv" file into InfluxDB 2.0
https://datahub.io/core/finance-vix#data
"""
from collections import OrderedDict
from csv import DictReader
import reactivex as rx
from reactivex import operators as ops
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient, Point, WriteOptions
def parse_row(row: OrderedDict):
"""Parse row of CSV file into Point with structure:
financial-analysis,type=ily close=18.47,high=19.82,low=18.28,open=19.82 1198195200000000000
CSV format:
Date,VIX Open,VIX High,VIX Low,VIX Close\n
2004-01-02,17.96,18.68,17.54,18.22\n
2004-01-05,18.45,18.49,17.44,17.49\n
2004-01-06,17.66,17.67,16.19,16.73\n
2004-01-07,16.72,16.75,15.5,15.5\n
2004-01-08,15.42,15.68,15.32,15.61\n
2004-01-09,16.15,16.88,15.57,16.75\n
...
:param row: the row of CSV file
:return: Parsed csv row to [Point]
"""
"""
For better performance is sometimes useful directly create a LineProtocol to avoid unnecessary escaping overhead:
"""
# from datetime import timezone
# import ciso8601
# from influxdb_client.client.write.point import EPOCH
#
# time = (ciso8601.parse_datetime(row["Date"]).replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc) - EPOCH).total_seconds() * 1e9
# return f"financial-analysis,type=vix-daily" \
# f" close={float(row['VIX Close'])},high={float(row['VIX High'])},low={float(row['VIX Low'])},open={float(row['VIX Open'])} " \
# f" {int(time)}"
return Point("financial-analysis") \
.tag("type", "vix-daily") \
.field("open", float(row['VIX Open'])) \
.field("high", float(row['VIX High'])) \
.field("low", float(row['VIX Low'])) \
.field("close", float(row['VIX Close'])) \
.time(row['Date'])
"""
Converts vix-daily.csv into sequence of datad point
"""
data = rx \
.from_iterable(DictReader(open('vix-daily.csv', 'r'))) \
.pipe(ops.map(lambda row: parse_row(row)))
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org", debug=True)
"""
Create client that writes data in batches with 50_000 items.
"""
write_api = client.write_api(write_options=WriteOptions(batch_size=50_000, flush_interval=10_000))
"""
Write data into InfluxDB
"""
write_api.write(bucket="my-bucket", record=data)
write_api.close()
"""
Querying max value of CBOE Volatility Index
"""
query = 'from(bucket:"my-bucket")' \
' |> range(start: 0, stop: now())' \
' |> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "financial-analysis")' \
' |> max()'
result = client.query_api().query(query=query)
"""
Processing results
"""
print()
print("=== results ===")
print()
for table in result:
for record in table.records:
print('max {0:5} = {1}'.format(record.get_field(), record.get_value()))
"""
Close client
"""
client.close()
Efficiency write data from IOT sensor
- sources - iot_sensor.py
"""
Efficiency write data from IOT sensor - write changed temperature every minute
"""
import atexit
import platform
from datetime import timedelta
import psutil as psutil
import reactivex as rx
from reactivex import operators as ops
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient, WriteApi, WriteOptions
def on_exit(db_client: InfluxDBClient, write_api: WriteApi):
"""Close clients after terminate a script.
:param db_client: InfluxDB client
:param write_api: WriteApi
:return: nothing
"""
write_api.close()
db_client.close()
def sensor_temperature():
"""Read a CPU temperature. The [psutil] doesn't support MacOS so we use [sysctl].
:return: actual CPU temperature
"""
os_name = platform.system()
if os_name == 'Darwin':
from subprocess import check_output
output = check_output(["sysctl", "machdep.xcpm.cpu_thermal_level"])
import re
return re.findall(r'\d+', str(output))[0]
else:
return psutil.sensors_temperatures()["coretemp"][0]
def line_protocol(temperature):
"""Create a InfluxDB line protocol with structure:
iot_sensor,hostname=mine_sensor_12,type=temperature value=68
:param temperature: the sensor temperature
:return: Line protocol to write into InfluxDB
"""
import socket
return 'iot_sensor,hostname={},type=temperature value={}'.format(socket.gethostname(), temperature)
"""
Read temperature every minute; distinct_until_changed - produce only if temperature change
"""
data = rx\
.interval(period=timedelta(seconds=60))\
.pipe(ops.map(lambda t: sensor_temperature()),
ops.distinct_until_changed(),
ops.map(lambda temperature: line_protocol(temperature)))
_db_client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org", debug=True)
"""
Create client that writes data into InfluxDB
"""
_write_api = _db_client.write_api(write_options=WriteOptions(batch_size=1))
_write_api.write(bucket="my-bucket", record=data)
"""
Call after terminate a script
"""
atexit.register(on_exit, _db_client, _write_api)
input()
Connect to InfluxDB Cloud
The following example demonstrate a simplest way how to write and query date with the InfluxDB Cloud.
At first point you should create an authentication token as is described here.
After that you should configure properties: influx_cloud_url
, influx_cloud_token
, bucket
and org
in a influx_cloud.py
example.
The last step is run a python script via: python3 influx_cloud.py
.
- sources - influx_cloud.py
"""
Connect to InfluxDB 2.0 - write data and query them
"""
from datetime import datetime
from influxdb_client import Point, InfluxDBClient
from influxdb_client.client.write_api import SYNCHRONOUS
"""
Configure credentials
"""
influx_cloud_url = 'https://us-west-2-1.aws.cloud2.influxdata.com'
influx_cloud_token = '...'
bucket = '...'
org = '...'
client = InfluxDBClient(url=influx_cloud_url, token=influx_cloud_token)
try:
kind = 'temperature'
host = 'host1'
device = 'opt-123'
"""
Write data by Point structure
"""
point = Point(kind).tag('host', host).tag('device', device).field('value', 25.3).time(time=datetime.utcnow())
print(f'Writing to InfluxDB cloud: {point.to_line_protocol()} ...')
write_api = client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS)
write_api.write(bucket=bucket, org=org, record=point)
print()
print('success')
print()
print()
"""
Query written data
"""
query = f'from(bucket: "{bucket}") |> range(start: -1d) |> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "{kind}")'
print(f'Querying from InfluxDB cloud: "{query}" ...')
print()
query_api = client.query_api()
tables = query_api.query(query=query, org=org)
for table in tables:
for row in table.records:
print(f'{row.values["_time"]}: host={row.values["host"]},device={row.values["device"]} '
f'{row.values["_value"]} °C')
print()
print('success')
except Exception as e:
print(e)
finally:
client.close()
How to use Jupyter + Pandas + InfluxDB 2
The first example shows how to use client capabilities to predict stock price via Keras, TensorFlow, sklearn:
The example is taken from Kaggle.
- sources - stock-predictions.ipynb
Result:
The second example shows how to use client capabilities to realtime visualization via hvPlot, Streamz, RxPY:
- sources - realtime-stream.ipynb
Other examples
You can find all examples at GitHub: influxdb-client-python/examples.
Advanced Usage
Gzip support
InfluxDBClient
does not enable gzip compression for http requests by default. If you want to enable gzip to reduce transfer data's size, you can call:
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
_db_client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org", enable_gzip=True)
Authenticate to the InfluxDB
InfluxDBClient
supports three options how to authorize a connection:
- Token
- Username & Password
- HTTP Basic
Token
Use the token
to authenticate to the InfluxDB API. In your API requests, an Authorization header will be send.
The header value, provide the word Token followed by a space and an InfluxDB API token. The word token` is case-sensitive.
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
with InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token") as client
Note
Note that this is a preferred way how to authenticate to InfluxDB API.
Username & Password
Authenticates via username and password credentials. If successful, creates a new session for the user.
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
with InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", username="my-user", password="my-password") as client
Warning
The username/password
auth is based on the HTTP "Basic" authentication.
The authorization expires when the time-to-live (TTL)
(default 60 minutes) is reached and client produces unauthorized exception
.
HTTP Basic
Use this to enable basic authentication when talking to a InfluxDB 1.8.x that does not use auth-enabled but is protected by a reverse proxy with basic authentication.
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
with InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", auth_basic=True, token="my-proxy-secret") as client
Warning
Don't use this when directly talking to InfluxDB 2.
Proxy configuration
You can configure the client to tunnel requests through an HTTP proxy. The following proxy options are supported:
proxy
- Set this to configure the http proxy to be used, ex.http://localhost:3128
proxy_headers
- A dictionary containing headers that will be sent to the proxy. Could be used for proxy authentication.
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
with InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086",
token="my-token",
org="my-org",
proxy="http://localhost:3128") as client:
Note
If your proxy notify the client with permanent redirect (HTTP 301
) to different host.
The client removes Authorization
header, because otherwise the contents of Authorization
is sent to third parties
which is a security vulnerability.
You can change this behaviour by:
from urllib3 import Retry
Retry.DEFAULT_REMOVE_HEADERS_ON_REDIRECT = frozenset()
Retry.DEFAULT.remove_headers_on_redirect = Retry.DEFAULT_REMOVE_HEADERS_ON_REDIRECT
Delete data
The delete_api.py supports deletes points from an InfluxDB bucket.
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token")
delete_api = client.delete_api()
"""
Delete Data
"""
start = "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"
stop = "2021-02-01T00:00:00Z"
delete_api.delete(start, stop, '_measurement="my_measurement"', bucket='my-bucket', org='my-org')
"""
Close client
"""
client.close()
InfluxDB 1.8 API compatibility
InfluxDB 1.8.0 introduced forward compatibility APIs for InfluxDB 2.0. This allow you to easily move from InfluxDB 1.x to InfluxDB 2.0 Cloud or open source.
The following forward compatible APIs are available:
API | Endpoint | Description |
---|---|---|
query_api.py | /api/v2/query | Query data in InfluxDB 1.8.0+ using the InfluxDB 2.0 API and Flux (endpoint should be enabled by flux-enabled option) |
write_api.py | /api/v2/write | Write data to InfluxDB 1.8.0+ using the InfluxDB 2.0 API |
ping() | /ping | Check the status of your InfluxDB instance |
For detail info see InfluxDB 1.8 example.
Handling Errors
Errors happen and it's important that your code is prepared for them. All client related exceptions are delivered from
InfluxDBError
. If the exception cannot be recovered in the client it is returned to the application.
These exceptions are left for the developer to handle.
Almost all APIs directly return unrecoverable exceptions to be handled this way:
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
from influxdb_client.client.exceptions import InfluxDBError
from influxdb_client.client.write_api import SYNCHRONOUS
with InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org") as client:
try:
client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS).write("my-bucket", record="mem,tag=a value=86")
except InfluxDBError as e:
if e.response.status == 401:
raise Exception(f"Insufficient write permissions to 'my-bucket'.") from e
raise
The only exception is batching WriteAPI
(for more info see Batching). where you need to register custom callbacks to handle batch events.
This is because this API runs in the background
in a separate
thread and isn't possible to directly
return underlying exceptions.
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
from influxdb_client.client.exceptions import InfluxDBError
class BatchingCallback(object):
def success(self, conf: (str, str, str), data: str):
print(f"Written batch: {conf}, data: {data}")
def error(self, conf: (str, str, str), data: str, exception: InfluxDBError):
print(f"Cannot write batch: {conf}, data: {data} due: {exception}")
def retry(self, conf: (str, str, str), data: str, exception: InfluxDBError):
print(f"Retryable error occurs for batch: {conf}, data: {data} retry: {exception}")
with InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org") as client:
callback = BatchingCallback()
with client.write_api(success_callback=callback.success,
error_callback=callback.error,
retry_callback=callback.retry) as write_api:
pass
HTTP Retry Strategy
By default the client uses a retry strategy only for batching writes (for more info see Batching).
For other HTTP requests there is no one retry strategy, but it could be configured by retries
parameter of InfluxDBClient
.
For more info about how configure HTTP retry see details in urllib3 documentation.
from urllib3 import Retry
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
retries = Retry(connect=5, read=2, redirect=5)
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org", retries=retries)
Nanosecond precision
The Python's datetime doesn't support precision with nanoseconds so the library during writes and queries ignores everything after microseconds.
If you would like to use datetime
with nanosecond precision you should use
pandas.Timestamp
that is replacement for python datetime.datetime
object and also you should set a proper DateTimeHelper
to the client.
- sources - nanosecond_precision.py
from influxdb_client import Point, InfluxDBClient
from influxdb_client.client.util.date_utils_pandas import PandasDateTimeHelper
from influxdb_client.client.write_api import SYNCHRONOUS
"""
Set PandasDate helper which supports nanoseconds.
"""
import influxdb_client.client.util.date_utils as date_utils
date_utils.date_helper = PandasDateTimeHelper()
"""
Prepare client.
"""
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org")
write_api = client.write_api(write_options=SYNCHRONOUS)
query_api = client.query_api()
"""
Prepare data
"""
point = Point("h2o_feet") \
.field("water_level", 10) \
.tag("location", "pacific") \
.time('1996-02-25T21:20:00.001001231Z')
print(f'Time serialized with nanosecond precision: {point.to_line_protocol()}')
print()
write_api.write(bucket="my-bucket", record=point)
"""
Query: using Stream
"""
query = '''
from(bucket:"my-bucket")
|> range(start: 0, stop: now())
|> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "h2o_feet")
'''
records = query_api.query_stream(query)
for record in records:
print(f'Temperature in {record["location"]} is {record["_value"]} at time: {record["_time"]}')
"""
Close client
"""
client.close()
How to use Asyncio
Starting from version 1.27.0 for Python 3.7+ the influxdb-client
package supports async/await
based on
asyncio, aiohttp and aiocsv.
You can install aiohttp
and aiocsv
directly:
$ python -m pip install influxdb-client aiohttp aiocsv
or use the [async]
extra:
$ python -m pip install influxdb-client[async]
Warning
The InfluxDBClientAsync
should be initialised inside async coroutine
otherwise there can be unexpected behaviour.
For more info see: Why is creating a ClientSession outside of an event loop dangerous?.
Async APIs
All async APIs are available via :class:`~influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client_async.InfluxDBClientAsync`.
The async
version of the client supports following asynchronous APIs:
- :class:`~influxdb_client.client.write_api_async.WriteApiAsync`
- :class:`~influxdb_client.client.query_api_async.QueryApiAsync`
- :class:`~influxdb_client.client.delete_api_async.DeleteApiAsync`
- Management services into
influxdb_client.service
supports async operation
and also check to readiness of the InfluxDB via /ping
endpoint:
import asyncio from influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client_async import InfluxDBClientAsync async def main(): async with InfluxDBClientAsync(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org") as client: ready = await client.ping() print(f"InfluxDB: {ready}") if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main())
Async Write API
The :class:`~influxdb_client.client.write_api_async.WriteApiAsync` supports ingesting data as:
string
orbytes
that is formatted as a InfluxDB's line protocol- Data Point structure
- Dictionary style mapping with keys:
measurement
,tags
,fields
andtime
or custom structure - NamedTuple
- Data Classes
- Pandas DataFrame
- List of above items
import asyncio from influxdb_client import Point from influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client_async import InfluxDBClientAsync async def main(): async with InfluxDBClientAsync(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org") as client: write_api = client.write_api() _point1 = Point("async_m").tag("location", "Prague").field("temperature", 25.3) _point2 = Point("async_m").tag("location", "New York").field("temperature", 24.3) successfully = await write_api.write(bucket="my-bucket", record=[_point1, _point2]) print(f" > successfully: {successfully}") if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main())
Async Query API
The :class:`~influxdb_client.client.query_api_async.QueryApiAsync` supports retrieve data as:
- List of :class:`~influxdb_client.client.flux_table.FluxTable`
- Stream of :class:`~influxdb_client.client.flux_table.FluxRecord` via :class:`~typing.AsyncGenerator`
- Pandas DataFrame
- Stream of Pandas DataFrame via :class:`~typing.AsyncGenerator`
- Raw :class:`~str` output
import asyncio from influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client_async import InfluxDBClientAsync async def main(): async with InfluxDBClientAsync(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org") as client: # Stream of FluxRecords query_api = client.query_api() records = await query_api.query_stream('from(bucket:"my-bucket") ' '|> range(start: -10m) ' '|> filter(fn: (r) => r["_measurement"] == "async_m")') async for record in records: print(record) if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main())
Async Delete API
import asyncio from datetime import datetime from influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client_async import InfluxDBClientAsync async def main(): async with InfluxDBClientAsync(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org") as client: start = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(0) stop = datetime.now() # Delete data with location = 'Prague' successfully = await client.delete_api().delete(start=start, stop=stop, bucket="my-bucket", predicate="location = \"Prague\"") print(f" > successfully: {successfully}") if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main())
Management API
import asyncio from influxdb_client import OrganizationsService from influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client_async import InfluxDBClientAsync async def main(): async with InfluxDBClientAsync(url='http://localhost:8086', token='my-token', org='my-org') as client: # Initialize async OrganizationsService organizations_service = OrganizationsService(api_client=client.api_client) # Find organization with name 'my-org' organizations = await organizations_service.get_orgs(org='my-org') for organization in organizations.orgs: print(f'name: {organization.name}, id: {organization.id}') if __name__ == "__main__": asyncio.run(main())
Proxy and redirects
You can configure the client to tunnel requests through an HTTP proxy. The following proxy options are supported:
proxy
- Set this to configure the http proxy to be used, ex.http://localhost:3128
proxy_headers
- A dictionary containing headers that will be sent to the proxy. Could be used for proxy authentication.
from influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client_async import InfluxDBClientAsync
async with InfluxDBClientAsync(url="http://localhost:8086",
token="my-token",
org="my-org",
proxy="http://localhost:3128") as client:
Note
If your proxy notify the client with permanent redirect (HTTP 301
) to different host.
The client removes Authorization
header, because otherwise the contents of Authorization
is sent to third parties
which is a security vulnerability.
Client automatically follows HTTP redirects. The default redirect policy is to follow up to 10
consecutive requests. The redirects can be configured via:
allow_redirects
- If set toFalse
, do not follow HTTP redirects.True
by default.max_redirects
- Maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.10
by default.
Logging
The client uses Python's logging facility for logging the library activity. The following logger categories are exposed:
influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client
influxdb_client.client.influxdb_client_async
influxdb_client.client.write_api
influxdb_client.client.write_api_async
influxdb_client.client.write.retry
influxdb_client.client.write.dataframe_serializer
influxdb_client.client.util.multiprocessing_helper
influxdb_client.client.http
influxdb_client.client.exceptions
The default logging level is warning without configured logger output. You can use the standard logger interface to change the log level and handler:
import logging
import sys
from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient
with InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", org="my-org") as client:
for _, logger in client.conf.loggers.items():
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout))
Debugging
For debug purpose you can enable verbose logging of HTTP requests and set the debug
level to all client's logger categories by:
client = InfluxDBClient(url="http://localhost:8086", token="my-token", debug=True)
Note
Both HTTP request headers and body will be logged to standard output.
Local tests
# start/restart InfluxDB2 on local machine using docker
./scripts/influxdb-restart.sh
# install requirements
pip install -e . --user
pip install -e .\[extra\] --user
pip install -e .\[test\] --user
# run unit & integration tests
pytest tests
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-python.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.