# Node red + InfluxDB question
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877
**Category:** General
**Tags:** database
**Created:** [8 December 2021 13:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877 "2021-12-08T13:44:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@traderjoe](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/traderjoe)
#### Post date: [8 December 2021 13:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877/1 "2021-12-08T13:44:55Z")
I have a project that uses NR + influxDB. I have grafana displaying my data, but the chart is embedded into an NR page. I'm trying to avoid using grafana dashboard. I'm just embedding the charts. from NR, how do I download the data?
Let's say I'm storing a lot of data, where does this data go? Is it written into a CSV file that just gets bigger and bigger until my Pi runs out of room?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [8 December 2021 13:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877/2 "2021-12-08T13:59:07Z")
Do you mean that you don't want to use the grafana charts? Or perhaps that you want to use the grafana charts, but without the grafana menus etc.
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### Author:  [@traderjoe](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/traderjoe)
#### Post date: [8 December 2021 14:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877/3 "2021-12-08T14:00:47Z")
I'm using the grafana charts, but embedding them into NR dash.
Does NR have a way to download influxDB data?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [8 December 2021 14:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877/4 "2021-12-08T14:03:25Z")
> [@traderjoe](#):
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> Does NR have a way to download influxDB data?
Yes, of course, node-red-contrib-influxdb.
You will not be able to achieve anything like the functionality that grafana supplies though.
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### Author:  [@traderjoe](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/traderjoe)
#### Post date: [8 December 2021 14:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877/5 "2021-12-08T14:12:01Z")
How would you download influxDB data? In Grafana I've poked around and found a download to CSV button.
Do you know how influxDB stores its data? Is it logging every point that comes in? What happens when I run out of room on the Pi?
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### Author:  [@ScheepersJohan](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ScheepersJohan)
#### Post date: [8 December 2021 14:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877/6 "2021-12-08T14:24:34Z")
> [@traderjoe](#):
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> influxDB
It is a DB so the data is already on you PI, if you installed InfluxDB on your pi.
Why do you want to download it?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [8 December 2021 14:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877/7 "2021-12-08T14:58:37Z")
> [@traderjoe](#):
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> How would you download influxDB data?
Download from where to where?
If you mean you want to get it into node-red then use node-red-contrib-influxdb as I said.
> [@traderjoe](#):
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> Do you know how influxDB stores its data? Is it logging every point that comes in? What happens when I run out of room on the Pi?
How can you be using Influxdb and not know the answer to those questions already? I think you need to do some serious reading up on influx, which is nothing to do with node-red of course.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [6 February 2022 14:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-influxdb-question/54877/8 "2022-02-06T14:59:34Z")
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