InfluxDB is a popular time-series database used for storing and analyzing data. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the steps to install InfluxDB on your macOS machine.
Before installing InfluxDB, you need to ensure that you have the following installed on your system:
Open your terminal and run the following command to install InfluxDB through Homebrew:
brew update
brew install influxdb
This will download and install InfluxDB onto your system.
To start InfluxDB, run the following command:
brew services start influxdb
This will start the InfluxDB server and set it to run automatically at startup.
To confirm that InfluxDB is running correctly, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8086/. This will open the InfluxDB web interface, where you can create and manage databases.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed InfluxDB on your macOS machine.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install InfluxDB on your macOS machine using Homebrew. Now you can start exploring the world of time-series data storage and analysis with InfluxDB.
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