influxdb-cxx

InfluxDB C++ client library

• Batch write
• Data exploration
• Supported transports
  • HTTP/HTTPS with Basic Auth
  • UDP
  • Unix datagram socket

Installation

Build requirements

• CMake 3.12+
• C++17 compiler

Dependencies

• CURL (required)
• boost 1.57+ (optional – see Transports)

Generic

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
sudo make install

macOS

brew install awegrzyn/influxdata/influxdb-cxx

Quick start

Basic write

// Provide complete URI
auto influxdb = influxdb::InfluxDBFactory::Get("http://localhost:8086/?db=test");
influxdb->write(Point{"test"}
  .addField("value", 10)
  .addTag("host", "localhost")
);

Batch write

// Provide complete URI
auto influxdb = influxdb::InfluxDBFactory::Get("http://localhost:8086/?db=test");
// Write batches of 100 points
influxdb->batchOf(100);

for (;;) {
  influxdb->write(Point{"test"}.addField("value", 10));
}

Query

// Available over HTTP only
auto influxdb = influxdb::InfluxDBFactory::Get("http://localhost:8086/?db=test");
/// Pass an IFQL to get list of points
std::vector<Point> points = idb->query("SELECT * FROM test");

Transports

An underlying transport is fully configurable by passing an URI:

[protocol]://[username:password@]host:port[/?db=database]

List of supported transport is following:

Name	Dependency	URI protocol	Sample URI
HTTP	cURL	http/https	http://localhost:8086/?db=<db>
UDP	boost	udp	udp://localhost:8094
Unix socket	boost	unix	unix:///tmp/telegraf.sock