InfluxDB support?

[damm]

I noticed you support Graphite. I realize you may not want to support every single time series engine but it would be neat.

Doubt timelion will change my world but it would be nice to stick to a single set of tools; we deploy the elk stack so anyway we could unify our metrics + kibana is a win.

[rashidkpc]

I'm all about supporting InfluxDB, i just haven't used it. If someone wants to setup a public influx instance and populate it with some data I'm happy to write an input

[damm]

I know of https://github.com/torkelo/influxdb-data-gen/blob/master/app.js for generating said data; public instance I have no knowledge of any. How long do you need it available for?

[rashidkpc]

Couple days maybe, its super easy to write inputs. If you want to have a first stab at it you can base your work on: https://github.com/elastic/timelion/blob/master/series_functions/graphite.js

[damm]

They do make it available at https://influxdata.com/get-started/download-and-install-influxdb/ so you can install it locally. There is a hosted option that's fairly cheap but they got rid of the old play.influxdb.org and now points to their hosted option.

I don't keep my influxdb exposed lately so I can't really help with an instance.

[rmoff]

This would be awesome to have.
I'm not a JS coder at all, but it'd be fun to have a crack at this. Hacking away at the graphite example you posted above sounds good - any pointers to how I'd go about actually running/integrating a new JS that I created from this?

It looks like there used to be an InfluxDB client JS library but is now dormant: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-js

Querying is via a SQL-like language over HTTP

This SO answer has an example: http://stackoverflow.com/a/33011011/350613

[Duncx]

+1
This would be an excellent addition

[rashidkpc]

I'd take a pull for this, I just don't have an Influx environment.

[rmoff]

@rashidkpc I'm happy to have a crack at this -- but I've not worked on plugins etc before. Can you point me in the right direction to quite how I'd run something that I write based on that graphite.js? Do I just edit files in place in the kibana install and it picks them up?

[rashidkpc]

Your best bet is to setup a kibana dev environment (see Kibana's CONTRIBUTING.md) then checkout the timelion repo to the same directory (eg timelion and kibana should be on the same level in the directory structure), then run gulp dev in the timelion directory. That should get you going. gulp dev will keep kibana up to date with the changes you make in the timelion directory

[rmoff]

Thanks. I'll give it a go...

On 27 April 2016 at 15:46, Rashid Khan [email protected] wrote:

Your best bet is to setup a kibana dev environment (see Kibana's
CONTRIBUTING.md) then checkout the timelion repo to the same directory (eg
timelion and kibana should be on the same level in the directory
structure), then run gulp dev in the timelion directory. That should get
you going. gulp dev will keep kibana up to date with the changes you make
in the timelion directory

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Timelion now supports external plugins. I created a sample one here as well as instructions in the README.md on developing and packaging plugins: https://github.com/rashidkpc/timelion-random