InfluxDB

Name

InfluxDB

Legal name

InfluxData Inc.

Website

https://influxdata.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Time Series Database Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Time-Series Databases (HDAEAAAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Platforms (HDAEAAAN), Managed Databases (Relational/NoSQL/In-Memory DBaaS) (HDABAAAE), Data & Analytics Platforms (Data Warehousing, Lakes, Streaming) (HDABAAAF), Data Engineering, Integration & ETL/ELT Services (BPAEAHAB)

Keywords

• Time series database
• Real-time analytics platform
• IoT data ingestion
• Observability monitoring software
• Cloud database services

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. InfluxDB Cloud Serverless: Fully managed cloud service with usage-based pricing. Pay for actual data ingestion and query compute consumed. Free tier available for evaluation and small workloads.
2. InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated: Fully managed dedicated cloud deployment with subscription pricing. Provides dedicated infrastructure, guaranteed SLA, and enterprise support for mission-critical deployments.
3. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: Self-managed enterprise software license with subscription for support and updates. Commercial Software License Subscription Agreement for on-premises deployments requiring dedicated infrastructure and control.
4. InfluxDB 3 Core (OSS): Free open source version with community support. Revenue generated through enterprise upsell and professional services rather than the software itself.
5. Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB: AWS-managed InfluxDB offering as a fully managed service on AWS. Revenue share or commercial arrangement with Amazon Web Services.
6. Professional Services and Training: InfluxDB University training courses, professional services for implementation, and Flux training at InfluxDays events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

InfluxData develops InfluxDB, a purpose-built open-source time series database optimized for real-time ingest, storage, and analysis of high-resolution time series data. The company sells self-managed software (InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, InfluxDB 3 Core), fully managed cloud services (InfluxDB Cloud Serverless, Cloud Dedicated), and an AWS-managed distribution (Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB), complemented by the Telegraf data collection agent with 400+ plugins.

Product overview

InfluxData offers a comprehensive time series data platform consisting of InfluxDB as the core database engine available in both open-source (InfluxDB 3 Core) and enterprise (InfluxDB 3 Enterprise) self-managed variants, complemented by fully managed cloud offerings (InfluxDB Cloud Serverless and InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated) and an AWS Timestream deployment option. The platform includes Telegraf as the data collection and integration layer with 400+ plugins, and InfluxDB Explorer for visualization and query management. Client libraries in Python, JavaScript, Go, C#, Java and other languages enable application integration. The products support real-time analytics, physical AI workloads, and high-speed data ingest at millions of data points per second.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• InfluxDB: Time series database platform for real-time systems powering physical AI
• Telegraf
• InfluxDB Cloud
• InfluxDB Enterprise
• InfluxDB 3

Products and services

• InfluxDB 3 Enterprise Self-managed, enterprise-grade time series database with full feature support including automated backup/restore, row-level deletions, user management, and high availability for production on-premises deployments. Targets large organizations with mission-critical workloads.
• InfluxDB 3 Core (OSS) Open-source time series database engine optimized for high-velocity data ingest with efficient compression and storage, supporting SQL query interface and real-time analytics for developers and evaluators.
• InfluxDB Cloud Serverless Fully managed, serverless cloud deployment that scales automatically with usage-based pricing, allowing users to start querying in minutes without infrastructure management. Free tier available.
• InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated Fully managed dedicated cloud deployment offering dedicated resources and infrastructure for enterprise workloads requiring predictable performance, guaranteed SLAs, and enterprise support.
• Telegraf Open-source data collector plugin system with 400+ plugins enabling seamless integration with diverse tools and data sources for metrics and event collection into InfluxDB.
• Telegraf Enterprise Enterprise version of Telegraf data collector with additional features and support for mission-critical data collection deployments.
• Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB AWS-managed time series database service that runs InfluxDB technology on AWS infrastructure, available through AWS Marketplace as a fully managed deployment with AWS-native billing.
• InfluxDB Explorer Web-based visual interface for querying, visualizing, and managing time series data with support for InfluxQL and AI-assisted Flux to SQL conversion.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1B+ downloads of InfluxDB software
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability7 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Amazon Web ServicescoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerAWS is a strategic cloud infrastructure partner providing the foundation for InfluxDB Cloud Serverless and Cloud Dedicated deployments. InfluxDB is also available as Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, an AWS-managed service, representing deep OEM-level integration.
• Litmus EdgeflagshipTechnology or IntegrationAnnounced InfluxDB 3 + Litmus Edge partnership for Industrial AI at the Edge. Litmus Edge integrates InfluxDB for industrial data collection and analytics, enabling real-time manufacturing intelligence and predictive maintenance at the edge.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Timescale: TimescaleDB is the most direct competitor to InfluxDB in the time series database category, offering a PostgreSQL-extensible TSDB with both self-managed and managed cloud offerings. Both companies target developers for monitoring, IoT, and analytics workloads and compete head-to-head on DB Engines rankings.
• QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL-native time series database competing directly with InfluxDB on high-throughput ingest and real-time analytics. Both target developers and serve overlapping monitoring, IoT, and financial analytics use cases with similar OSS-led GTM motions.
• VictoriaMetrics: VictoriaMetrics is an open-source time series database and monitoring solution that competes with InfluxDB for infrastructure monitoring, metrics storage, and observability workloads. Both products emphasize high compression, fast ingestion, and Prometheus compatibility.
• Prometheus: Prometheus is the de facto open-source standard for infrastructure and DevOps monitoring metrics, often paired with InfluxDB as alternatives in the same observability stack. Both ingest high-cardinality time series and are commonly deployed alongside Grafana for visualization.

Broad incumbents

• Amazon Timestream: Amazon Timestream is AWS's native managed time series database that competes directly with InfluxDB Cloud offerings for AWS-resident workloads. Notably, AWS also OEM-resells InfluxDB technology as 'Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB,' creating a dual competitor-and-partner dynamic.
• ClickHouse: ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar analytical database that increasingly serves time series workloads alongside its broader OLAP use cases. It competes with InfluxDB for real-time analytics, observability, and high-throughput ingestion scenarios where customers want a general-purpose analytical engine.
• Microsoft Azure Data Explorer (Kusto): Azure Data Explorer is Microsoft's hyperscaler-managed analytics engine optimized for time series and log analytics. It competes with InfluxDB for cloud-native monitoring and IoT workloads on Azure and is deeply integrated into Microsoft's enterprise and Azure Monitor ecosystem.
• Datadog: Datadog is a leading cloud monitoring and observability platform with its own time series storage layer that competes with InfluxDB for infrastructure monitoring, APM, and DevOps workloads. Enterprise customers that standardize on Datadog have less need for a separate TSDB vendor like InfluxDB.

Emerging players

• Grafana Labs: Grafana Labs (parent of Prometheus and Grafana Mimir) provides a complete observability stack with time series storage components that overlap with InfluxDB's monitoring use case. The companies are also deeply integrated — InfluxDB is a primary Grafana data source — but Grafana Labs is increasingly building its own storage layer.
• Apache Druid (Imply): Imply's Apache Druid is a real-time analytics database used for high-throughput event and time series workloads. It competes with InfluxDB in observability, user analytics, and IoT scenarios where sub-second query latency and high ingest rates are required.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/influxdb
• GitHubgithub.com/influxdata/influxdb
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/influxdb

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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