topic Re: Anyone have luck ingesting InfluxDB into Splunk DB Connect? in All Apps and Add-ons

Anyone have luck ingesting InfluxDB into Splunk DB Connect?

je0408 — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:27:00 GMT

We recently setup an InfluxDB but now we'd like to get that data onto our Splunk Instance. One idea was using DB Connect, but I dont think DB Connect supports Influxdata.

If anyone out there has any other ideas/recommendations, please advise.

Re: Anyone have luck ingesting InfluxDB into Splunk DB Connect?

rjthibod — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:39:56 GMT

Pretty sure that won't work unless there is an ODBC driver for InfluxDB, which I am pretty sure there is not.

Also, InfluxDB is a time-series database, not a relational database, so the bigger question is what is your use case?

If you care about the raw or aggregated metrics from Influx getting streamed into Splunk, then you could probably write a TICK script in Kapacitor to do that as job. Likely have to format the raw data into a custom format and use one of Kapacitor's output mechanisms (e.g., HTTP post, write to a log file, etc.) to get that data in Splunk
If you care about running queries in SPL that map to InfluxDB queries, likely going to have to write a custom command that handles that for you unless someone can provide an ODBC-like connection for DBConnect to work with InfluxDB (<- I consider this highly unlikely given the nature of InfluxDB and that it competes directly with Splunks Metrics Index feature in 7.0).

Re: Anyone have luck ingesting InfluxDB into Splunk DB Connect?

Nadhiyaa — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 08:13:11 GMT

I am having the same issue . Is there a way to have odbc driver in splunk so that can connected from Splunk DB Connect app

Re: Anyone have luck ingesting InfluxDB into Splunk DB Connect?

indeed_2000 — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:47:20 GMT

@je0408

did you connect splunkdb with influxdb?

i try it but got error:

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/driver-influxdb-to-splunk-db/m-p/605850#M210681

would please how do you do this?

Thanks