InfluxDB
Ranked 6 of 6 time series databases by recommenders
Used as a time series store for monitoring and home server data, often paired with Grafana. Critics cite breaking updates and frequent product reinvention.
Used as a time series store for monitoring and home server data, often paired with Grafana. Critics cite breaking updates and frequent product reinvention.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 45%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works with push-based monitoring agents
“favoring push-based agents (for InfluxDB, KairosDB etc)”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Ten Years of Deploying to Production” Data source for endlessh-go
“Requires: endlessh-go + InfluxDB 2.x (as data source)”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Endlessh Fisher – Turn SSH tarpit bots into collectible fish” Runs alongside other databases
“runs InfluxDB 3.0 OSS alongside Aegis-DB”
Comment from 28 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Aegis-DB – Multi-paradigm database in Rust,in production”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Breaking changes and constant product reinvention
“I have broken my home server multiple times with bad InfluxDB and Grafana updates”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “Homebrew 6.0.0” “We have seen that how many times now? Terraform, docker, elasticsearch, influxdb.”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “AWS Acquires DuckLabs” “making insanely terrible product and tech decisions, chasing shiny new things”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “The End of Programming” - Comment from 25 Jun 2026 in “Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks”
Other time series databases people recommend
The four most recommended other time series databases, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VictoriaMetrics | 26 | 2 | 93% | 12 | — | Approved |
| TimescaleDB | 21 | 11 | 66% | 7 | — | — |
| Grafana Mimir | 12 | 6 | 67% | 5 | — | Approved |
| kdb+ by KX | 9 | 8 | 53% | 7 | — | — |
| InfluxDBThis page | 5 | 6 | 45% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“We have seen that how many times now? Terraform, docker, elasticsearch, influxdb.”
“making insanely terrible product and tech decisions, chasing shiny new things”
“their tendency to reinvent the product every major release”
“I have broken my home server multiple times with bad InfluxDB and Grafana updates”
“for my use case it was way better than influxdb”
“favoring push-based agents (for InfluxDB, KairosDB etc)”
“runs InfluxDB 3.0 OSS alongside Aegis-DB”
“Requires: endlessh-go + InfluxDB 2.x (as data source)”
“I want it boring, and that’s something Grafana is not offering”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.