# What is the purpose of grafana dashboards instead of influxdb?

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**Created:** [10 February 2024 08:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-grafana-dashboards-instead-of-influxdb/85391 "2024-02-10T08:01:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![holgi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@holgi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/holgi)\
**Post date:** [10 February 2024 08:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-grafana-dashboards-instead-of-influxdb/85391/1 "2024-02-10T08:01:44Z")

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Dear all,  
I developded a flow displaying some numbers about my gas consumption. Values are stored in influxdb and I've build a nice dashboard in influxdb.

I learned that for visualization purposes one should go for grafana. So build up a more or less similar dashboard in grafana. It does not look so nice compared to the influxdb (in particular the gauge is really ugly) but it works.

Now I'm wondering was it worth, this exercise and what exactly is the benefit using grafana dashboards in stead of native influxdb.

take care  
Holger

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [10 February 2024 08:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-grafana-dashboards-instead-of-influxdb/85391/2 "2024-02-10T08:53:50Z")

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> [@holgi](#):
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> I've build a nice dashboard in influxdb.

How have you done that? I did not realize that influxdb had its own dashboard.

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**Author:** ![bakman2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bakman2/32/6207_2.png) [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)\
**Post date:** [10 February 2024 09:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-grafana-dashboards-instead-of-influxdb/85391/3 "2024-02-10T09:17:30Z")

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Influx 2.0 has built in dashboard features but the query language is horrible to interact with imo. influxdb 3.0 apperently goes back to sql.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [10 February 2024 09:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-grafana-dashboards-instead-of-influxdb/85391/4 "2024-02-10T09:45:43Z")

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OK, thanks.

@holgi I can't comment on the influxdb dashboard as I have never used it. Most use Grafana for their extremely flexible historical chart capability.

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**Author:** ![holgi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@holgi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/holgi)\
**Post date:** [10 February 2024 10:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-grafana-dashboards-instead-of-influxdb/85391/5 "2024-02-10T10:59:00Z")

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Hi Colin,  
please find here a screenshot with my dashboard

[Dashboard Screenshot](https://www.estacha.de/dashboard.png)

take care  
Holgi

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [10 May 2024 10:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-grafana-dashboards-instead-of-influxdb/85391/6 "2024-05-10T10:59:01Z")

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