Mysql-to-influxdb

Quick hack to get data from MySQL into influx db to display with Graphite and Grafana. This is a quick script I created for a very specific use case so it won't copy your whole database over magically. If you need this you can modify the script to fit your needs.

This script will meant to run constantly or one time and send data from a single table in MYSQL to influx. If you have multiple tables this will be an issue. Also it requires that the MYSQL table is altered to have a specific column which indicates whether this piece of data has been copied to influx already or not.

Config

This script needs a config file to run simply create config file. Below is a samle config file for settings.ini

[mysql]
host : mysql_server_hostname
port : mysql_server_port # Default is3306
username : mysql_user_name
password : mysql_user_password
db : mysql_database
table : mysql_table
check_field : column_to_check_if_data_has_been_transferred
time_field : colum_that_contains_timestam_in_table
siteid_field : column_which_contains_site_id_tag


[influx]
host : localhost
port : 8086
username : influx_username
password : influx_pass
db : sesh

[server]
interval : 5 

[site_info]
site_name : tag_name_to_append_to_all_data_going_into_influx

Usage

first run pip install -r requirements.txt then python mysql2influx.py -d -c settings.ini -s

This will run the script as a server in debug mode