community.general.influxdb_write – Write data points into InfluxDB
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible
package.
It is not included in ansible-core
.
To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list
.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.influxdb_write
.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python >= 2.6
influxdb >= 0.9
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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Data points as dict to write into the database. |
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Name of the database. |
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The hostname or IP address on which InfluxDB server is listening. Since Ansible 2.5, defaulted to localhost. Default: “localhost” |
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Password that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server. Alias Default: “root” |
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The path on which InfluxDB server is accessible Only available when using python-influxdb >= 5.1.0 |
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The port on which InfluxDB server is listening Default: 8086 |
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HTTP(S) proxy to use for Requests to connect to InfluxDB server. |
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Number of retries client will try before aborting.
Only available when using python-influxdb >= 4.1.0 Default: 3 |
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Use https instead of http to connect to InfluxDB server. Choices:
|
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Number of seconds Requests will wait for client to establish a connection. |
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UDP port to connect to InfluxDB server. Default: 4444 |
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Use UDP to connect to InfluxDB server. Choices:
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Username that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server. Alias Default: “root” |
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If set to This should only set to Choices:
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Examples
- name: Write points into database
community.general.influxdb_write:
hostname: "{{influxdb_ip_address}}"
database_name: "{{influxdb_database_name}}"
data_points:
- measurement: connections
tags:
host: server01
region: us-west
time: "{{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}"
fields:
value: 2000
- measurement: connections
tags:
host: server02
region: us-east
time: "{{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}"
fields:
value: 3000
Authors
René Moser (@resmo)