Is Influxdb right for my use case?

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Hi, I’m new here, and checking influxdb.

I think I get the whole picture, and start to wonder if influxdb is really suited to my use case.

I want to send events from a website to a database to make stats. Like:

  • user clicked button A on page of type D using mobile device
  • user displayed form B on page of type D using desktop device
  • user submitted form C on page of type H using mobile device

Then I want to do analytics / stats based on those kinds of events (on weekly / monthly basis).

The thing I’m not really clear, is that influxdb requires me to send actual values (38° for temperature, or 46% for CPU usage). But the actions / events I want to log, don’t have value. They just are or are not. And they don’t happen on a regular basis.

Well they happen, hopefully as often as possible, but not at a specific interval like every 10s or every 5 min, etc.

What do you think? Should I use influx, if so how? Or should I move on something else? Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Cheers,
Jérémy

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@jchatard,
Welcome and thanks for your question!
InfluxDB is perfect for metrics and events. Application Monitoring is one of our main use cases.
You can send metrics to InfluxDB using:
-telegraf
-API
-Client Libraries

You could store the value as 1 for every time the event happens.