Hello,
I can delete a measurement using “influx delete --org…”
Currently, I have three measurements with the same name in InfluxDB. I can’t delete them all with Influx delete. What other methods are there?
You can study this
Use commandline like below
influx.exe delete -o MyOrganization -t myToken -b myBucket --start 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z --stop 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z -p _measurement="gasheater"
Everything is running on a Raspberry Pi 5 with Bookworm.
Currently, only the faulty measurement is visible in Data Explorer. I was able to delete the one with the correct data using influx delete (it still exists as a CSV file).
influx.exe delete returns a command not found.
influx delete is the primary way that InfluxDB 2 handles deletes, so if you’re not able to remove the exact measurements/datapoints you want with it, then the only other way would be to manually clean things up on disk.
I do think the .exe was just a typo on CZvacko’s part, but the link to the docs got you there 
I also tried using curl…, but that didn’t work either. The measurement in question contains no data. The AI suggested an index error and proposed another solution, but it seems too risky. I guess I’ll have to live with this faulty entry for now.
Yeah, it seems like removing an entire measurement is somewhat tricky with v2. There’s another thread from a couple years ago where it seems like there’s not a super clean way of doing it - emptying out all the data is more or less the best you can do.
I think if it really bothers you, you could do something like move your data into a new bucket and delete the entire old bucket, but that may be overkill.
I did manage to get a data output for the measurement in question and exported the data. The name is actually “TmaxproTag”. However, an extra character is displayed at the end. It’s not a space, because the measurement “TmaxproTag” cannot be deleted using InfluxDelete.
Influx.exe is InfluxDB CLI that can be used on Windows OS. The user didn’t mention the OS before my reply.
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