08. Golang with influxDB

Golang instructions to run influxDB golang codebase

---

1. Check influxd server status (Should be running)

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb # service influxd  status
influxd is running as pid 92624.

---

2. Copy golang code base shared by name go_influxdb

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb # ll
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Nov 30 05:51 go_influxdb/

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb # cd go_influxdb/

---

3. Go get the influxDB go driver

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb/go_influxdb # go get github.com/influxdata/influxdb/client/v2

---

4. Compile, build and run

Note :- Uuid and timestamp gets generated in code, only input required is a file path.

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb/go_influxdb # go build .

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb/go_influxdb # ./go_influxdb 
Enter absolute path of file(utf-8 format): 
/root/performance/influxdb/go_influxdb/sample_input.csv

---

5. Verify data by checking in influxDB shell

root@freebsd:~/performance/influxdb/go_influxdb # influx -format 'json' -pretty
Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 1.6.2
InfluxDB shell version: 1.6.2
> use testdb
Using database testdb
> 
> SELECT * FROM test_collection
{
    "results": [
        {
            "series": [
                {
                    "name": "test_collection",
                    "columns": [
                        "time",
                        "Blob_data",
                        "Timestamp",
                        "Uuid"
                    ],
                    "values": [
                        [
                            1543558020000000000,
                            "col1, col2, col3\nval1, val2, val3",
                            "2018-11-30 06:07:00.838498263 +0000 UTC m=+17.700475205",
                            "26ba4184-f466-11e8-b148-b755ac6ddae1\n"
                        ]
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
>