This is archived documentation for InfluxData product versions that are no longer maintained. For newer documentation, see the latest InfluxData documentation.
Endpoints
All current API Endpoints are listed below.
/ping
The ping endpoint accepts both GET and HEAD HTTP requests.
The response body is empty.
The version of the InfluxDB server you issued the request to can be extracted through the X-Influxdb-Version field of the header.
For example this is the response from a server running 0.12.0 of InfluxDB:
$ curl -sl -I localhost:8086/ping
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Request-Id: 7d641f0b-e23b-11e5-8005-000000000000
X-Influxdb-Version: 0.12.0
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 19:01:23 GMT/query
For more information on the /query endpoint see the Querying Data section of our docs.
/write
For more information on the /write endpoint see the Writing Data section of our docs.
Ports
HTTP API PORT
By default the InfluxDB HTTP API listens on port 8086.
The /ping, /write, and /query endpoints are all part of the HTTP API.
Admin interface port
The admin interface for InfluxDB runs on port 8083 and exposes web UI for the server.
Secondary Ports
InfluxDB also supports communication through UDP, Graphite, Collectd, and OpenTSDB.
Default ports:
- Graphite:
2003 - OpenTSDB:
4242
No default ports are assigned for UDP and Collectd.