Why influxdb fails to start?

Question

I installed the Influxdb version (InfluxDB v1.7.7)

I just installed and i tried to start the infludb without changing anything in the configuration file...

I used influxd to start the influxdb

But i couldn't start...am getting the error as below....Please help me

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2019-07-11T07:17:02.124129Z     info    InfluxDB starting       {"log_id": "0GZz7YB0000", "version": "1.7.7", "branch": "1.7", "commit": "f8fdf652f348fc9980997fe1c972e2b79ddd13b0"}
2019-07-11T07:17:02.124155Z     info    Go runtime      {"log_id": "0GZz7YB0000", "version": "go1.11", "maxprocs": 4}
2019-07-11T07:17:02.225149Z     info    Using data dir  {"log_id": "0GZz7YB0000", "service": "store", "path": "/var/lib/influxdb/data"}
2019-07-11T07:17:02.225206Z     info    Compaction settings     {"log_id": "0GZz7YB0000", "service": "store", "max_concurrent_compactions": 2, "throughput_bytes_per_second": 50331648, "throughput_bytes_per_second_burst": 50331648}
2019-07-11T07:17:02.225229Z     info    Open store (start)      {"log_id": "0GZz7YB0000", "service": "store", "trace_id": "0GZz7Y_G000", "op_name": "tsdb_open", "op_event": "start"}
2019-07-11T07:17:02.225320Z     info    Open store (end)        {"log_id": "0GZz7YB0000", "service": "store", "trace_id": "0GZz7Y_G000", "op_name": "tsdb_open", "op_event": "end", "op_elapsed": "0.094ms"}
run: open server: open tsdb store: mkdir /var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/_series: permission denied

sudo influxd

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   888            d88P"  888                   888  "Y88b 888  "88b
   888            888    888                   888    888 888  .88P
   888   88888b.  888888 888 888  888 888  888 888    888 8888888K.
   888   888 "88b 888    888 888  888  Y8bd8P' 888    888 888  "Y88b
   888   888  888 888    888 888  888   X88K   888    888 888    888
   888   888  888 888    888 Y88b 888 .d8""8b. 888  .d88P 888   d88P
 8888888 888  888 888    888  "Y88888 888  888 8888888P"  8888888P"

2019-07-11T09:57:11.220614Z     info    InfluxDB starting       {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "version": "1.7.7", "branch": "1.7", "commit": "f8fdf652f348fc9980997fe1c972e2b79ddd13b0"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.220640Z     info    Go runtime      {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "version": "go1.11", "maxprocs": 4}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.321428Z     info    Using data dir  {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "store", "path": "/var/lib/influxdb/data"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.321462Z     info    Compaction settings     {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "store", "max_concurrent_compactions": 2, "throughput_bytes_per_second": 50331648, "throughput_bytes_per_second_burst": 50331648}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.321474Z     info    Open store (start)      {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "store", "trace_id": "0G_7I26G000", "op_name": "tsdb_open", "op_event": "start"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.322432Z     info    Reading file    {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "engine": "tsm1", "service": "cacheloader", "path": "/var/lib/influxdb/wal/_internal/monitor/2/_00001.wal", "size": 10413807}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.322610Z     info    Opened file     {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "engine": "tsm1", "service": "filestore", "path": "/var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1/000000001-000000001.tsm", "id": 0, "duration": "0.121ms"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.326176Z     info    Opened shard    {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "store", "trace_id": "0G_7I26G000", "op_name": "tsdb_open", "index_version": "inmem", "path": "/var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1", "duration": "4.013ms"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.853856Z     info    Opened shard    {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "store", "trace_id": "0G_7I26G000", "op_name": "tsdb_open", "index_version": "inmem", "path": "/var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/2", "duration": "531.737ms"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854060Z     info    Open store (end)        {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "store", "trace_id": "0G_7I26G000", "op_name": "tsdb_open", "op_event": "end", "op_elapsed": "532.586ms"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854108Z     info    Opened service  {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "subscriber"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854124Z     info    Starting monitor service        {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "monitor"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854137Z     info    Registered diagnostics client   {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "monitor", "name": "build"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854148Z     info    Registered diagnostics client   {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "monitor", "name": "runtime"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854158Z     info    Registered diagnostics client   {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "monitor", "name": "network"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854176Z     info    Registered diagnostics client   {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "monitor", "name": "system"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854198Z     info    Starting precreation service    {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "shard-precreation", "check_interval": "10m", "advance_period": "30m"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854213Z     info    Starting snapshot service       {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "snapshot"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854227Z     info    Starting continuous query service       {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "continuous_querier"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854243Z     info    Starting HTTP service   {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "httpd", "authentication": false}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854254Z     info    opened HTTP access log  {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "httpd", "path": "stderr"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854354Z     info    Listening on HTTP       {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "httpd", "addr": "[::]:8086", "https": false}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854377Z     info    Starting retention policy enforcement service   {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "retention", "check_interval": "30m"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.854856Z     info    Storing statistics      {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000", "service": "monitor", "db_instance": "_internal", "db_rp": "monitor", "interval": "10s"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.855369Z     info    Listening for signals   {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000"}
2019-07-11T09:57:11.855607Z     info    Sending usage statistics to usage.influxdata.com        {"log_id": "0G_7I1i0000"}

Answer 1

Run the DB as a service (not from the command line) and check the status:

sudo service influxdb start

sudo service influxdb status

Or if your operating system is using systemd (CentOS 7+, RHEL 7+):

sudo systemctl start influxdb

sudo systemctl status influxdb

Then you can try to connect to localhost on port 8086 with your browser: http://localhost:8086

To view the configuration:

influxd config

The configuration file is located at /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf.

Follow the documentation:

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.7/administration/config/

Answer 2

My influxdb was starting just fine as root, and the directory was owned by influxdb, just the wrong influxdb user. I had copied the database files from an old install, which had a different influxdb user

root@host# ls /var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/_series
00  01  02  03  04  05  06  07
root@host# ls -alh /var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/_series
total 40K
drwxr-xr-x 10 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 .
drwx------  4      129      135 4.0K Sep 12  2021 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 00
drwxr-xr-x  2 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 01
drwxr-xr-x  2 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 02
drwxr-xr-x  2 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 03
drwxr-xr-x  2 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 04
drwxr-xr-x  2 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 05
drwxr-xr-x  2 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 06
drwxr-xr-x  2 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 07
root@host# ls -alhd /var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/_series
drwxr-xr-x 10 influxdb influxdb 4.0K May 21 10:45 /var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/_series
root@host# ls -alhd /var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/
drwx------ 4 129 135 4.0K Sep 12  2021 /var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/
root@host# ls -alhd /var/lib/influxdb/data/
drwxr-xr-x 4 129 135 4.0K Sep 12  2021 /var/lib/influxdb/data/
root@host# ls -alhd /var/lib/influxdb/
drwxr-xr-x 5 129 135 4.0K Sep 12  2021 /var/lib/influxdb/

The new user id should be 116, not 129 as listed in the last few ls -alh. Fixed with:

   root@host# chown -R influxdb:influxdb /var/lib/influxdb/
   root@host# systemctl reset-failed influxdb

Answer 3

run: open server: open tsdb store: mkdir /var/lib/influxdb/data/_internal/_series: permission denied

Your user don't have access to this path. That is causing the problem. Usually /var/lib path is owned by root user. So if your user has sudo permission, executing start up command using sudo should resolve this issue.

Check influxDB config file to manipulate the data path of InfluxDB as per your need. Config file path is normally /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf.

Your second problem is accessing the DB using browser.

Check http configuration within influxdb.conf file:

[http]
  enabled = true
  bind-address = ":8086"
  auth-enabled = false
  log-enabled = true
  write-tracing = false
  pprof-enabled = false
  https-enabled = false
  https-certificate = "/etc/ssl/influxdb.pem"
  ### Use a separate private key location.
  # https-private-key = ""
  max-row-limit = 10000
  realm = "InfluxDB"

• Make sure you are using correct port.
• Check there is no other process currently holding that port other than influxdb.
• Make sure there is no firewall stopping you from accessing that port.