Why influxDB discourages/depreciate the use of Web Admin Interface (GUI) starting from 1.2?

Question

As quote from the documentation:

The built-in web administration GUI is deprecated in InfluxDB 1.2 and is disabled by default. We recommend using the HTTP API or the Command Line Interface to interact with InfluxDB.

Why does it encourage using HTTP API (HTTP method) and CLI, instead of the intuitive Web GUI? What is the benefit of applying this?

Answer 1

The old admin interface is removed in 1.3 since it was largely undeveloped internally. Instead, we've moved all that functionality and much more to Chronograf. Going forward that's where all UI for the various parts of the stack will live. It's also open source.