This is me playing with InfluxDB and Chronograf using Coindesk's API to look through historical bitcoin prices.
- Ensure JQ, Docker Engine, and Docker Compose is installed on the host machine
- Clone the project repository
cdinto the project repository and rundocker-compose up- Run
./ingest.sh
The ingest will take a minute, but in the meantime you can point your browser to http://localhost:8888. When creating the InfluxDB Connection, point the Connection URL to http://db:8086 (uses Docker Compose’s built-in DNS resolution to connect to the influxdb container).
Check out the Explore tab on the left, where you can execute InfluxQL queries. See what's been inserted so far with SELECT * FROM "bitcoin"."autogen"."bitcoin". You can create visualizations for dashboards from data retrieved through this sweet query interface.
I'm impressed with these products so far. Chronograf is slick like butter. 😱