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As a side note, the Flux language that they introduced in v2 never seems to have taken off as there are a few (2) public Grafana dashboards made with it, whereas the older influx language has around 1345 currently.

Unfortunately I was stupid enough to build my dashboard on flux, which I’m really sorry to say I dislike quite a bit, while still wanting to be respectful for the people who build the stuff.

All that said, I think that influx is a great tool although I’m mostly using it for personal projects and haven’t run anything at scale.



I tried it and it was more complex to do anything compared to PromQL.

Like, it looks super powerful for complex queries I will never need to make...


Yes, and in another HN post the Influx founder stated (me paraphrasing) it’s and it’s all about SQL compatibility.




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