Y Combinator-backed company Errplane began developing InfluxDB as an open-source project in late 2013 for performance monitoring and alerting.

[3] Errplane raised an $8.1M Series A financing led by Mayfield Fund and Trinity Ventures in November 2014.

[5] In February 2018, InfluxData closed a $35 million Series C round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures.

[8] InfluxDB provides an SQL-like language with built-in time-centric functions for querying a data structure composed of measurements, series, and points.

The InfluxDays cover a wide variety of different subjects: software engineering and coding talks as well as business-focused and practical workshops.

[9] In May 2016, InfluxData announced that the computer cluster component of InfluxDB would be sold as closed-source software in order to create a sustainable source of funding for the project's development.