# Get Perl Data to InfluxDB **URL:** \ **Category:** InfluxDB 2\ **Created:** [May 10, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/get-perl-data-to-influxdb/24979 "2022-05-10T14:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58f4c7/32.png) [@ekd](https://community.influxdata.com/u/ekd)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/get-perl-data-to-influxdb/24979/1 "2022-05-10T14:00:35Z")
Hi, I am new to InfluxDB but I managed to create measurements in InfluxDB using iperf3 and telegraf. This works fine and I can display my data in grafana. The data\_format is JSON. I want to do the same with the command “twping”. The return is only available in perl, not Json. How does InfluxDB accept Perl data? Example output: Approximately 13.0 seconds until results available SUMMARY 3.00 SID 00000001e624e8d24f64f11b6a78084d FROM\_HOST localhost FROM\_ADDR ::1 FROM\_PORT 8935 TO\_HOST localhost TO\_ADDR ::1 TO\_PORT 19645 START\_TIME 16583635722175729458 END\_TIME 16583635770647215368 DSCP 0x00 LOSS\_TIMEOUT 8593155818 PACKET\_PADDING 27 SESSION\_PACKET\_COUNT 100 SAMPLE\_PACKET\_COUNT 100 BUCKET\_WIDTH 0.0001 SESSION\_FINISHED 1 SENT 100 SYNC 1 MAXERR 9.31323e-10 MAXERR\_FWD 4.65661e-10 MAXERR\_BCK 4.65661e-10 DUPS\_FWD 0 DUPS\_BCK 0 LOST 0 MIN 0.00012064 MIN\_FWD 4.57764e-05 MIN\_BCK 4.673e-05 MIN\_PROC 3.8147e-06 MEDIAN 0.0003 MEDIAN\_FWD 0.0002 MEDIAN\_BCK 0.0001 MAX 0.00129318 MAX\_FWD 0.000573158 MAX\_BCK 0.000720024 MAX\_PROC 8.2016e-05 PDV 0.0003 PDV\_FWD 0.0002 PDV\_BCK 0.0003 1 0 17 73 2 45 63 8 3 31 11 12 4 3 8 2 5 7 0 4 6 9 1 0 7 2 0 0 8 1 0 1 9 1 0 0 13 1 0 0 MINTTL\_FWD 255 MAXTTL\_FWD 255 MINTTL\_BCK 255 MAXTTL\_BCK 255 255 100 100 ---
**Author:** ![Anaisdg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/anaisdg/32/6401_2.png) [@Anaisdg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Anaisdg)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/get-perl-data-to-influxdb/24979/2 "2022-05-10T17:47:06Z")
Hello @ekd, Welcome! The ingest format for InfluxDB is line protocol. > **[InfluxDB line protocol tutorial | InfluxDB OSS 1.8 Documentation](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/write_protocols/line_protocol_tutorial/)** > > Tutorial for using InfluxDB line protocol. You’ll have to convert the data into line protocol in order to write it to InfluxDB.