Config Example in Documentation not working

[momonator25]

Problem/Motivation

I have spent some time to find out why there is no data saved to influxdb-addon database from HA because the provided example in the documentation ist not correct.

influxdb:
  host: a0d7b954-influxdb
  port: 8086
  database: homeassistant
  username: homeassistant
  password: <yourpassword>
  max_retries: 3
  default_measurement: state

Expected behavior

The host can be copied from the example because it stays the same for all installations.

Actual behavior

HA could not save data to influxdb.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install addon-influxdb
2. Create config from example
3. Copy paste the block above in the configuration.yaml (of course change the password)

Proposed changes

For me the problem was solved with using the IP Address of the HA installation instead of the a0d7b954-influxdb string as written here.