Exporting data to InfluxDB while still preserving local information

[Ferre]

We do have a LibreNMS with local storage → Works

We tried exporting data to InfluxDB (for an external project) → Works

We then realized that while exporting data, the same data does not enter local storage, meaning that all graphs and other use of LibreNMS was useless! Hence the export was stopped and data reentered the local storage.

Did we do something wrong? Or is this simply a selection item - either InfluxDB or local files?

Thanks in advance.

Jan Ferré

[pjchilds]

Enabling influx just write the data to influx in addition to storage in RRD files

[Ferre]

Thanks for your answer. Which seems to indicate we do something wrong or have broken the LibreNMS in some way as this was not our experience. In fact we have a hole in the graphs - it was not just a matter of not displaying graphs correctly.

I do assume you use influx and RRD-files yourself?

[pjchilds]

yes our runbook has this

# send data to influxdb
./lnms config:set influxdb.enable true
./lnms config:set influxdb.transport http
./lnms config:set influxdb.host localhost
./lnms config:set influxdb.port 8086
./lnms config:set influxdb.db librenms
./lnms config:set influxdb.timeout 0
./lnms config:set influxdb.verifySSL false

we run a telegraf instance on each poller that then forwards on to a central influxdb