Install InfluxDB 3 Core

• System Requirements
• Install
  • Quick install for Linux and macOS
  • Download and install the latest build artifacts
  • Pull the Docker image
  • Linux DEB or RPM
    • TOML configuration (Linux)
    • Run as a system service (Linux)
  • Verify the installation

System Requirements

Operating system

InfluxDB 3 Core runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Object storage

A key feature of InfluxDB 3 is its use of object storage to store time series data in Apache Parquet format. You can choose to store these files on your local file system. Performance on your local filesystem will likely be better, but object storage has the advantage of not running out of space and being accessible by other systems over the network. InfluxDB 3 Core natively supports Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. You can also use many local object storage implementations that provide an S3-compatible API, such as Minio.

Install

InfluxDB 3 Core runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Choose one of the following methods to install InfluxDB 3 Core:

• Quick install for Linux and macOS
• Download and install the latest build artifacts
• Pull the Docker image
• Linux DEB or RPM

Quick install for Linux and macOS

To install InfluxDB 3 Core on Linux or macOS, download and run the quick installer script for InfluxDB 3 Core–for example, using curl to download the script:

curl -O https://www.influxdata.com/d/install_influxdb3.sh \
&& sh install_influxdb3.sh 

Download and install the latest build artifacts

You can also download and install InfluxDB 3 Core build artifacts directly:

Pull the Docker image

Run the following command to pull the influxdb:3-core image, available for x86_64 (AMD64) and ARM64 architectures:

docker pull influxdb:3-core

Docker automatically pulls the appropriate image for your system architecture.

# For x86_64/AMD64
docker pull \
--platform linux/amd64 \
influxdb:3-core

# For ARM64
docker pull \
--platform linux/arm64 \
influxdb:3-core

Linux DEB or RPM

When installed via DEB or RPM on a systemd-enabled system, InfluxDB 3 Core runs in a sandboxed environment. The included systemd unit file configures the environment to provide security isolation for typical deployments. For more information, see Manage security.

curl --silent --location -O https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive.key
gpg --show-keys --with-fingerprint --with-colons ./influxdata-archive.key 2>&1 \
| grep -q '^fpr:\+24C975CBA61A024EE1B631787C3D57159FC2F927:$' \
&& cat influxdata-archive.key \
| gpg --dearmor \
| sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/influxdata-archive.gpg > /dev/null \
&& echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/influxdata-archive.gpg] https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stable main' \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdata.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install influxdb3-core

curl --silent --location -O https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive.key
test -d /usr/share/influxdata-archive-keyring/keyrings || sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/influxdata-archive-keyring/keyrings
gpg --show-keys --with-fingerprint --with-colons ./influxdata-archive.key 2>&1 \
| grep -q '^fpr:\+24C975CBA61A024EE1B631787C3D57159FC2F927:$' \
&& sudo cp ./influxdata-archive.key /usr/share/influxdata-archive-keyring/keyrings/influxdata-archive.asc \
&& cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/influxdata.repo
[influxdata]
name = InfluxData Repository - Stable
baseurl = https://repos.influxdata.com/stable/\$basearch/main
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = file:///usr/share/influxdata-archive-keyring/keyrings/influxdata-archive.asc
EOF
sudo yum install influxdb3-core

TOML configuration (Linux)

After you install the DEB or RPM package, the InfluxDB 3 Core TOML configuration file is located at /etc/influxdb3/influxdb3-core.conf and contains the following settings:

• object-store: file
• data-dir: /var/lib/influxdb3/data
• plugin-dir: /var/lib/influxdb3/plugins
• node-id: primary-node

Run as a system service (Linux)

InfluxDB 3 Core DEB and RPM installs include service files for running as a managed system service on Linux:

• systemd: For modern Linux distributions
• SysV init: For legacy system compatibility

Run using systemd

On systemd systems, the influxdb3-core unit file is enabled on install, but the unit is not started in order to allow configuration.

To start the database, enter the following commands:

# Start the service
systemctl start influxdb3-core

# View status
systemctl status influxdb3-core

# View logs
journalctl --unit influxdb3-core

Run using SysV

On SysV init systems, influxdb3-core is disabled on install and can be enabled by adjusting /etc/default/influxdb3-core to contain ENABLED=yes.

To start the database, enter the following commands:

# Start the database
/etc/init.d/influxdb3-core start

# View status
/etc/init.d/influxdb3-core status

# View logs
tail -f /var/lib/influxdb3/influxdb3-core.log

Verify the installation

After installing InfluxDB 3 Core, enter the following command to verify that it installed successfully:

influxdb3 --version

If your system can’t locate influxdb3 following a quick install, source the configuration file (for example, .bashrc, .zshrc) for your shell–for example:

source ~/.zshrc