Hi,
This is a crosspost of my issue topic on the Home Assistant forums which can be found here.
I have an issue with writing event data from HA to an InfluxDB bucket.
in short, it boils down to this; The HA debug logging for the InfluxDB integration reports it is writing data but I am unable to find any data in InfluxDB.
2022-08-27 13:06:13.822 DEBUG (influxdb) [homeassistant.components.influxdb] Wrote 26 events.
I run HAOS 8.5 (Core 2022.8.6) in a KVM instance on my TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02.2.1 NAS.
I run InfluxDB 2.4 in an influxdb2022.0.0 Docker container from Docker’s official images hub on the same NAS.
HAOS is able to access the influx container across a bridge interface.
the influx config in HA is as follows (from this guide);
# saving data to influxdb
influxdb:
api_version: 2
ssl: false
host: [influxdbdockerIP]
port: 8086
token: [tokenthathaswriteaccess]
organization: bb87ec5d0a46acb1
bucket: home-assistant
tags:
source: HA
tags_attributes:
- friendly_name
- device_class
default_measurement: units
If I change this config to something I know will not work, I get errors in my HA log - example, if I change the host ip;
2022-08-27 13:17:48.103 ERROR (SyncWorker_7) [homeassistant.components.influxdb] Cannot connect to InfluxDB due to ‘<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f8c966efbe0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 113] Host is unreachable’. Please check that the provided connection details (host, port, etc.) are correct and that your InfluxDB server is running and accessible. Retrying in 60 seconds.
Likewise, if I update the config so it is correct but turn off the docker container, I get a similar message - so I know that HA can see and validate that InfluxDB is there and is sending data, I just don’t see that data arrive in InfluxDB.
The token in use has write access to the bucket mentioned, not that it matters, if I change the token to a new one with RW or the local admin one created during initial setup, then I get the same result; HA reports it’s writing data but nothing appears in InfluxDB.
I can check that InfluxDB is active and listening with the following curl;
curl -sL -I <influxiphere>:8086/ping
And that gives me a 204 HTTP response which is a success;
So everything I have avbailable to me says I’m writing data to InfluxDB but the Data Explorer is giving me a whole lot of nothing.
I’ve gone through a multitude of HA topics in their forums, their discord and checked github issues but nothing jumps out at me as being related.
