# Is Influxdb right for my use case?

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/is-influxdb-right-for-my-use-case/11944>\
**Category:** Welcome & Getting Started\
**Created:** [November 15, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/is-influxdb-right-for-my-use-case/11944 "2019-11-15T16:04:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jchatard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jchatard/32/3896_2.png) [@jchatard](https://community.influxdata.com/u/jchatard)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/is-influxdb-right-for-my-use-case/11944/1 "2019-11-15T16:04:15Z")

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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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**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:** [November 15, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/is-influxdb-right-for-my-use-case/11944/2 "2019-11-15T16:46:12Z")

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@jchatard,  
Welcome and thanks for your question!  
InfluxDB is perfect for metrics and events. [Application Monitoring](https://www.influxdata.com/customers/infrastructure-and-application-monitoring/) is one of our main use cases.  
You can send metrics to InfluxDB using:  
-[telegraf](https://v2.docs.influxdata.com/v2.0/reference/telegraf-plugins/)  
-[API](https://v2.docs.influxdata.com/v2.0/reference/api/)  
-[Client Libraries](https://v2.docs.influxdata.com/v2.0/reference/client-libraries/)

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