Through trial and error I figured out that the docker image does not persist data to disk by default.
I’m using this docker-compose file that persists changes to disk. Check the CLI reference for details.
version: "3.1"
services:
influxdb:
container_name: influxdb
ports:
- '9999:9999'
image: 'quay.io/influxdb/influxdb:2.0.0-alpha'
volumes:
- influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb2
command: influxd run --bolt-path /var/lib/influxdb2/influxd.bolt --engine-path /var/lib/influxdb2/engine --store bolt
volumes:
influxdb: