14 engineers on Hacker News describe using InfluxDB first-hand: 2 endorse it, 5 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“I was just not confident sticking with influxDB. Thankfully another OSS project really surprised me in terms of performance and reliability, which is questdb.”
regret · production · gabemocan · 2023-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Influx Enterprise at a previous startup. Support was so bad after our first year we switched back to the OSS Influx”
regret · production · 1 yr · cfeduke · 2023-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“InfluxDB is very difficult to work with large datasets and enterprise/region compliance.”
regret · production · ecoqba11 · 2020-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We killed our influx cluster numerous times with high cardinality metrics.”
regret · production · sa46 · 2020-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But, soon we wanted to group, filter, sort by various dimensions and it lead to performance issues.”
regret · production · geekybiz · 2019-01-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Influx from Graphite but some queries where unable or cumbersome to translate into Influx query language”
mixed · production · aequitas · 2017-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Influx was at pre-1.0 and definitely had a tendency to "fall apart" under stress... Bit of a gamble but it turned out well!”
mixed · production · invertedohm · 2016-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been running InfluxDB at scale for over a year in production and it's been a joy to use.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · invertedohm · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it with influx, works great, though I find influx's syntax to be funky.”
mixed · production · beachy · 2016-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Influx for about a year know and I'm really happy with it already.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · q_no · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I thought you might like that we moved to InfluxDB but: no.”
neutral · production · mikemcquaid · 2023-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“From our testing we are considerably faster to ingest data than Influx.”
neutral · personal · bluestreak · 2019-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As Influx is a fine product, but they acknowledged our particular use-case was not a good fit”
neutral · production · LogicX · 2018-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“scrubbing and feeding data into influxdb”
neutral · production · Ixiaus · 2014-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?