Series queries against InfluxDB v0.8+ don't work

[nickchappell]

Adding new queries to a graph with an InfluxDB data source no longer functions in InfluxDB versions 0.8 and above.

If you know the complete series name, you can still add a query, but typing out the first few letters of a series name no longer autocompletes with a list of possibilities.

This may be caused by series data in InfluxDB 0.8 and above being stored in Raft.

[torkelo]

It might be that v.0.8 has deprecated the "list series" query. Grafana master and develop branch use the new approach for querying for series names

[jgerschk]

I'm not sure this is v0.8 only. I'm using the "master" (pulled today) branch of Grafana, and using version v0.7.2 and I am seeing the same as what @nickchappell is. Start typing and nothing comes up.

Now, I just went back to the release version (1.6.1) and things work fine. Start typing and the series come up.

[huhongbo]

list series is faster then "select * from /.*/ limit 1"
I think the recent PR using the select is not a good option

[torkelo]

@huhongbo but list series doesn't return continues queries. I can see why "select * from /.*/ limit 1" is not a good option however as it actually returns a data point from every series. Will have to revert that change and make do a hybrid approach. Would be good if list series would take a regex or fuzzy match query

[hydandata]

They just changed the format of returned data for 'list series'. I had to do the following in my python script to make previous code work (instead of return client.query('list series'): return [{u'name':x[1]} for x in client.query('list series')[0]['points']] I am sure something similar can work for Grafana too.

[huhongbo]

list series seems return continues queries. at influxdb 0.80
influxdata/influxdb#773