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MCP InfluxDB Server

The MCP InfluxDB Server lets Claude or other MCP clients talk to InfluxDB 2.x and 3.x time-series databases. It exposes buckets, measurements, and query execution (Flux or SQL in InfluxDB 3.0) — perfect for metrics exploration, IoT telemetry, and observability use cases.

MCP facts

Kind: server
Ecosystem: anthropic-mcp
Language: Python
Transports: stdio

Capabilities

Tools: list_buckets, list_measurements, run_flux_query, run_sql_query
Token-scoped access — pass INFLUXDB_TOKEN with read-only permission
Works with InfluxDB Cloud and OSS

Install

pip install mcp-influxdb

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "influxdb": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-influxdb"],
      "env": {
        "INFLUXDB_URL": "https://us-west-2-1.aws.cloud2.influxdata.com",
        "INFLUXDB_TOKEN": "<token>",
        "INFLUXDB_ORG": "my-org"
      }
    }
  }
}

Frequently asked questions

Does this support InfluxDB 3?

Yes — InfluxDB 3 uses SQL via the FlightSQL protocol. The server auto-detects the version and picks the right driver.

Good use cases?

Incident triage (ask the LLM to summarize anomalies in a metric), dashboard bootstrapping (ask for Flux queries), and IoT fleet exploration.

Can it write points?

Typically the server is read-only. Prefer dedicated ingest pipelines like Telegraf for writes; the MCP surface area is for queries.

Sources

InfluxDB Documentation — accessed 2026-04-20
Model Context Protocol — accessed 2026-04-20