influxdb-satellite-telemetry

Using InfluxDB for storage of simulated satellite telemetry

Why Use InfluxDB for Spacecraft Telemetry

If you’re not already familiar, InfluxDB is a time-series database from InfluxData that is much better than relational databases like Postgres, and document databases like MongoDB, at collecting time-series data

Telegraf is an agent platform for collecting time-series data and sending it to InfluxDB, which then stores the data for later analysis and presentation.

Installation and Running

1. Make a subdirectory for the docker container data volume:

2. Inside the subdirectory, run:

   docker run --name influxdb \
       -p 8086:8086 \
       --volume $PWD:/var/lib/influxdb2 \
       influxdb:2.0.6
   

3. In the root directory, run:

   docker run \
       --rm influxdb:2.0.6 \
       influxd print-config > config.yml
   

4. Edit the config.yml file in the root directory to locate the correct paths for the bolt path and engine path

5. Run the container in the root directory:

   docker run -p 8086:8086 \
       -v $PWD/config.yml:/etc/influxdb2/config.yml \
       influxdb:2.0.6
   

6. Set Up User at localhost:8086

ex. Username: telemetry Password: telemetry Org Name: Projects Bucket Name: Telemetry

7. Determine a config: use docker start 7b9767358f35ab522cf168b5a4995852944d25762fb70f301f23cacc9a940f4d for now

8. Run the Influx container command line: docker exec -it quizzical_bouman bash