Newbie doing training. First exercise doesn't work?

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I’m trying to do the InfluxDB 3.x Cloud Essentials training course and stumbling at the first exercise.

I’ve created an account in InfluxDB Cloud and logged into it. The instructions say to “click on the + Create Bucket button” in the Explorer page. But my explorer page looks quite different to the example screenshot and does not have a + Create Bucket button that I can see. Here’s my page:

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I did try to do this course last year and I recall having issues back then as well so maybe something I did then has already borked my account for this course?

Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?

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Oh, seems there are some parts of this course that needs an update, thanks for brining this up. In the meantime please follow this handy tutorial and if you have any questions, just ask here: Set up InfluxDB | Get started with InfluxDB | InfluxDB Cloud Serverless Documentation

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Thanks. Yes, the next bit of the InfluxDB Academy course, covering entering data, also looks like it doesn’t match the UI. Has the InfluxDB V3.0 UI been updated then since that module was written?

Following the tutorial you posted, I have created a bucket and tried to add the data provided in the tutorial, but that also fails:

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Here’s the line protocol I pasted into the [Enter Manually] box:

home,room=Living\ Room temp=21.1,hum=35.9,co=0i 1719924000
home,room=Kitchen temp=21.0,hum=35.9,co=0i 1719924000
home,room=Living\ Room temp=21.4,hum=35.9,co=0i 1719927600
home,room=Kitchen temp=23.0,hum=36.2,co=0i 1719927600
home,room=Living\ Room temp=21.8,hum=36.0,co=0i 1719931200
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.7,hum=36.1,co=0i 1719931200
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.2,hum=36.0,co=0i 1719934800
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.4,hum=36.0,co=0i 1719934800
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.2,hum=35.9,co=0i 1719938400
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.5,hum=36.0,co=0i 1719938400
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.4,hum=36.0,co=0i 1719942000
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.8,hum=36.5,co=1i 1719942000
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.3,hum=36.1,co=0i 1719945600
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.8,hum=36.3,co=1i 1719945600
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.3,hum=36.1,co=1i 1719949200
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.7,hum=36.2,co=3i 1719949200
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.4,hum=36.0,co=4i 1719952800
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.4,hum=36.0,co=7i 1719952800
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.6,hum=35.9,co=5i 1719956400
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.7,hum=36.0,co=9i 1719956400
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.8,hum=36.2,co=9i 1719960000
home,room=Kitchen temp=23.3,hum=36.9,co=18i 1719960000
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.5,hum=36.3,co=14i 1719963600
home,room=Kitchen temp=23.1,hum=36.6,co=22i 1719963600
home,room=Living\ Room temp=22.2,hum=36.4,co=17i 1719967200
home,room=Kitchen temp=22.7,hum=36.5,co=26i 1719967200

How can it be invalid? It’s a literal cut and paste from the tutorial?

Regards,

Alistair

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And again, having run through the Telegraf instructions for the same data, I get this:

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So again it doesn’t seem to like the syntax. Could it be that it’s expecting Unix \n and it’s getting windows \r\n? If so, how do I fix that?

Or is it something else?