This project adds a basic high availability layer to InfluxDB. With the right architecture and disaster recovery processes, this achieves a highly available setup.
NOTE: influxdb-relay must be built with Go 1.5+
To build from source and run:
influxdb-relay -config etc/config.tomlThe architecture is fairly simple and consists of a load balancer, two or more InfluxDB Relay processes and two or more InfluxDB processes. The load balancer should point UDP traffic and HTTP POST requests with the path /write to the two relays while pointing GET requests with the path /query to the two InfluxDB servers.
The setup should look like this:
┌─────────────────┐
│writes & queries │
└─────────────────┘
│
▼
┌───────────────┐
│ │
┌────────│ Load Balancer │─────────┐
│ │ │ │
│ └──────┬─┬──────┘ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ ┌──────┘ └────────┐ │
│ │ ┌─────────────┐ │ │┌──────┐
│ │ │/write or TCP│ │ ││/query│
│ ▼ └─────────────┘ ▼ │└──────┘
│ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ │
│ │ InfluxDB │ │ InfluxDB │ │
│ │ Relay │ │ Relay │ │
│ └──┬────┬──┘ └────┬──┬──┘ │
│ │ | | │ │
│ | ┌─┼──────────────┘ | │
│ │ │ └──────────────┐ │ │
│ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ │
│ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ │
│ │ │ │ │ │
└─▶│ InfluxDB │ │ InfluxDB │◀─┘
│ │ │ │
└──────────┘ └──────────┘