Often it is handy to watch log files as new contents are appended:
tail -f <logfile>
I’d like to be able to to something similar in InfluxDB. Is there any way in InfluxDB to watch the database updates as they arrive?
@andyl You can watch the http requests as they come in in the InfluxDB log:
journalctl -u influxdb -f
OR
tail -f /var/log/influxdb/influxdb.log
If you are looking to stream the values then you would want to stream a copy of the incoming data to another program. You can do this with the SUBSCRIPTION feature in the database.
The logs are noisy - SUBSCRIPTION is closer to what I had in mind - thanks for the tip.
