I just started trying the influxdb cloud/serverless (free) to write and visualize data. The writing data part using a Python client library is familiar since the line protocol that I am familiar with still seems to work. But I am unable to find how to visualize data on the cloud. I come from influxdb OSS V2 (I think that’s what’s called). I’ve installed on a windows machine and have been using it for a few years. I can easily explore data in graphs and create dashboards with graphs via the web interface on the server. I wonder where to do that on influxdb cloud. Could it be a separate service that I need to get? All I found was a data explorer that is buggy, with an SQL script window (keeps duplicating the script I saved over and over) on top and a graph on the bottom.
Hello @zliudr,
Influxdb v3 doesn’t have dashboarding like v2.
We recommend that you use one of these options:
Grafana, Superset, Tableau, Chronograf. See the docs above. Grafana is the recommended approach because theres also a free tier
And you can use the Influxdb source plugins.
Youtube videos for grafana and v3
Hope that helps!
We eliminated the dashboarding in v3 to prioritize interoperability and push users towards using visualization specific tooling that offers more features for advanced dashboarding and alerting.
That’s quite a bit unfortunate, because this could be a hurdle for people who want to log data in the IoT sense. Not everyone using InfluxDB is a network administrator. Even a most basic graphing feature would be great to have, to draw more users in.
Hi @zliudr Just chiming in here…While I love InfluxDB v2.x and all the graphing goodness it provided, pairing your data with Grafana OSS is very straightforward and (in my opinion) the user interface is often easier for others to use and hit the ground running.
