# InfluxDB

5 Hacker News commenters recommended InfluxDB and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Used as a time series store for monitoring and home server data, often paired with Grafana. Critics cite breaking updates and frequent product reinvention.

## Why people recommend it

- Works with push-based monitoring agents (1 comments): "favoring push-based agents (for InfluxDB, KairosDB etc)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296907))
- Data source for endlessh-go (1 comments): "Requires: endlessh-go + InfluxDB 2.x (as data source)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025763))
- Runs alongside other databases (1 comments): "runs InfluxDB 3.0 OSS alongside Aegis-DB" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198750))

## What people warn about

- Breaking changes and constant product reinvention (4 comments): "I have broken my home server multiple times with bad InfluxDB and Grafana updates" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48494390)) "We have seen that how many times now? Terraform, docker, elasticsearch, influxdb." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452872)) "making insanely terrible product and tech decisions, chasing shiny new things" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445957))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [VictoriaMetrics](https://hackerapproved.com/p/victoriametrics.md): 26 recommend
- [TimescaleDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/timescaledb.md): 21 recommend
- [Grafana Mimir](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mimir.md): 12 recommend
- [kdb+ by KX](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kdb-plus.md): 9 recommend
- [RRDtool](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rrdtool.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "InfluxDB", https://hackerapproved.com/p/influxdb/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).