# InfluxDatabase is up and running with Docker.

InfluxDB is an open-source time-series database for recording metrics, events, and analytics.

InfluxDB is a time-series database built from the ground up to handle high write and query loads. InfluxDB is meant to be used as a backing store for any use case involving large amounts of timestamped data, including DevOps monitoring, application metrics, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics.


![influx.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1655016147229/Lk-Wc-bIW.png align="left")

Please watch a video to get the details:

%[https://youtu.be/ogDAtwPIPuw]

Step 1: Pull the docker image

```
docker pull influxdb:latest
```

verify the image is available local using

```
docker images
```
create container

```
docker run --name influxdb -d -p 8086:8086  influxdb:latest
```

then hit [http://localhost:8086/](http://localhost:8086/) --> to setup influxdb


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