Cloud2 Serverless Data Explorer Flux Support

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Welcome @smartcasa

I had many of the same questions as you when I installed InfluxDB Cloud with IOX back in Feb 2023 and was told then “We still have flux accessible via the query endpoint so Grafana flux dashboards are still compatible through this means."

So you should still be able to use your Flux queries in Grafana and have them work against the new InfluxDB Cloud with IOX. For me, I too needed the Flux query editor and Data Explorer in InfluxDB (not Grafana) to help me write Flux queries, so I am going to stay with InfluxDB OSS for now.

There is also activity in the OSS community to try to continue keeping Flux an option going forward. Last month, Paul posted this:

Is Flux being deprecated with InfluxDB 3.0?

We’re not yet sure how to support Flux in 3.0. We built a compatibility layer in our Cloud product that has a Flux process (written in Go) that communicates via gRPC to a 3.0 query engine. We’ve found through testing that it doesn’t perform very well (users see things that used to work that now time out) and there are a number of hidden bugs as the protocol is very different from how the underlying 3.0 query engine works. We were able to bring InfluxQL support in natively because of its similar…