Hello, my first post here.
I recently started working with InfluxDB and the thing I inherited might not be optimal. In my opinion the Influx is not used as it should but since I am new to Influx I need help in understanding some things and the way it would be correct to set it up.
We are doing some IoT data, sensors measuring different things. Currently each sensor creates new measurement with ID of sensor and location of sensor (ex. sensor1:store1). There are no tags, everything is a field.
As I understood it, the measurement should be some name that makes sense to me, such as a building name for example, and then all the data should be in format tag-sets and fields. The tag-set should be for example room and its id, sensor and its id, sensor type and type and then temperature should be a field, or any other thing that sensor is measuring should be a field? Also, what if sensor measures multiple things, like temperature and humidity, should it be “tag-sets temperature=value humidity=value” or split into “tag-sets temperature=value” and “tag-sets humidity=value”? There will be multiple sensors so not all of them will have same fields and not all of them will be measuring same things.
I am not sure how to split and organize the data because there could potentially be millions of data points at some point.
If I have number of sensors, lets say 10000, is that still ok to be a tag?
If I am wrong about anything please correct me. Also, if there is some great explanation somewhere on larger data set example let me know because I am struggling to find something more than just the basic setup with always having same fields and low amount of data points.
