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influx ping

This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB OSS. InfluxDB 3 Core is the latest stable version.

The influx ping command checks the health of a running InfluxDB instance by querying the /health endpoint. It does not require an API token.

Usage

influx ping [flags]

Flags

FlagDescriptionInput typeMaps to ?
-c--active-configCLI configuration to use for commandstring
--configs-pathPath to influx CLI configurations (default ~/.influxdbv2/configs)stringINFLUX_CONFIGS_PATH
-h--helpHelp for the ping command
--hostHTTP address of InfluxDB (default http://localhost:8086)stringINFLUX_HOST
--http-debugInspect communication with InfluxDB servers.string
--skip-verifySkip TLS certificate verificationINFLUX_SKIP_VERIFY

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