Icinga2: What type of clustered timeseries database is supported?

lobr · February 7, 2022, 12:15pm

Hello,

currently we are using Icinga2 in combination with a single InfluxDB instance.
Since we had some downtimes on that InfluxDB-node, we want to implement a time series DB HA cluster.

Timescale does support that, InfluxDB does not seem to have HA.
But as far as I am informed icinga2 does not support timescaleDB right know?

github.com/Icinga/icinga2

Add Support for TimeScaleDB

opened 06:04PM - 31 May 21 UTC

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## Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. icinga2 sup…ports influxdb for its timeseries data (performance metrics), but it would be nice if it supported timescaleDB. The reason for the request is that timescaleDB appears to be the only opensource tsdb (time series db) that supports HA. and since Icinga2 supports HA via master _> master, it would be nice if the timeseries data could also be HA timescale DB is based on postgresql ## Describe the solution you'd like Add a "feature" to icinga2 to enable timescaleDB to be a destination for performance metrics ## Describe alternatives you've considered influxDB only supports HA in the enterprise (paid) version. ## Additional context Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

Al2Klimov · February 8, 2022, 2:11pm

Confirmed. And adding it isn’t planned, yet.

lobr · February 9, 2022, 12:14pm

What is the best open source practice when replication of a time series db is required?

Using influxdb with influxdb-relay?

mooneym17 · September 7, 2025, 11:53am

i am also interested in this. Do we have another alternative to influxdb ? Clickhouse/timescale/quest ..

bberg · September 8, 2025, 8:34am

Currently there are 4 Variants:
Graphite
InfluxDB
InfluxDB2
OpenTSDB

Graphite is pretty much in life support rn, but its working and i am very sure it will continue doing so.
InfluxDB and InfluxDB2… Well, InfluxDB3 is not a good option for most Icinga Users (Retention are 3 Days in their OSS Edition), and we just dont know when they will deprecate InfluxDB2)
About OpenTSDB, i tried it for once, but i literally never saw a setup running it.

As far as i know currently other backends are in evaluation by some Icinga Partners.

moreamazingnick · September 8, 2025, 1:50pm

since victoria metrics is working with the icinga2 influxdb1writer this can also be used