InfluxDB Cannot see databases from localhost:8083 + Cannot access Command Line Interface

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Please feel free to redirect me to any other place if this isn't the right one for this question.

Problem: When I log to the administration panel : "localhost:8083" with "root" "root" I cannot see the existing databases nor the data in it. Also, I have no way to access InfluxDB from the command line.

Also the line sudo /etc/init.d/influxdb start does not work for my setup. I have to go into /etc/init.d/ and run sudo ./influxdb start -config=config.toml in order to get the server running.

I've installed influxDB v0.8 from https://influxdb.com/docs/v0.8/introduction/installation.html for Ubuntu 14.04.

I've been developing a Clojure program using the Capacitor API just to get started and interact with InfluxDB. It runs well, I can create delete, insert and query a database without problems.

netstat -anp | grep LISTEN confirms me that ports 8083 8086 8090 and 8099 are listening.

I've been Googling all around but cannot manage to get a solution.

Thanks for the support and enjoy building things !

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Try upgrading to influx 0.9.1 which is most recent version and hopefully more stable. By default when you connect there's no database present, you have to create one first. - Tombart

2 Answers

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Problem solved: the database weren't visible in firefox but everything is visible in Chromium!

Why couldn't I access the CLI ? I was expecting the v0.8 to behave exactly like the v0.9.

You help was appreciated anyway !

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For InfluxDB 0.9 the CLI could be started with:

/opt/influxdb/influx

then you can display available databases:

Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 0.9.1
InfluxDB shell 0.9.1
> show databases
name: databases
---------------
name
collectd
graphite

> use collectd
Using database collectd

> show series limit 5

You can try creating new database from CLI:

> CREATE DATABASE mydb

or with curl command:

curl -G 'http://localhost:8086/query' --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE mydb"

Web UI should be available on http://localhost:8083