Laravel InfluxDB provider

A minimal service provider to set up and use InfluxDB SDK in Laravel 5

Installation

• Add a line to require section of composer.json and execute $ composer install

"require": {
//  ...
    "pdffiller/laravel-influx-provider": "^1.2"
}

• Add a line to config/app.php

'providers' => [
//  ...
    Pdffiller\LaravelInfluxProvider\InfluxDBServiceProvider::class,
]

• Define env variables to connect to InfluxDB

LARAVEL_INFLUX_PROVIDER_PROTOCOL=http
LARAVEL_INFLUX_PROVIDER_USER=some_user
LARAVEL_INFLUX_PROVIDER_PASSWORD=some_password
LARAVEL_INFLUX_PROVIDER_HOST=host
LARAVEL_INFLUX_PROVIDER_PORT=8086
LARAVEL_INFLUX_PROVIDER_DATABASE=database_name

How to use

$point = [
    new \InfluxDB\Point(
        'name' => 'some_name',
        'value' => 1, // some value for some_name
        'tags' => [
            // array of string values
        ],
        'fields' => [
            // array of numeric values
        ],
        'timestamp' => exec('date +%s%N')  // timestamp in nanoseconds on Linux ONLY
    )
];
try {
    Influx::writePoints($point);
} catch (\InfluxDB\Exception $e) {
    // something is wrong, track this
}

Also you can send data to another database like this:

Influx::selectDB($dbName)->writePoints($point);