From 220cd8afd998b879289683383874ccc139212c50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ursula Kallio <73951760+osg-grafana@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:12:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Revise README.md. (#30145) --- public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/README.md | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/README.md b/public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/README.md index 5e7750e7cf9..3cfb8c07ef1 100644 --- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/README.md +++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,9 @@ -# InfluxDB Data Source - Native Plugin +# InfluxDB data source -Grafana ships with **built in** support for InfluxDB (> 0.9.x). +Grafana ships with built-in support for InfluxDB releases >0.9.x. -There are currently two separate data sources for InfluxDB in Grafana: InfluxDB 0.8.x and the latest InfluxDB release. The API and capabilities of latest (> 0.9.x) InfluxDB are completely different from InfluxDB 0.8.x which is why Grafana handles them as different data sources. +There are separate data sources for InfluxDB in Grafana: the latest InfluxDB release and [InfluxDB 0.8.x](https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-influxdb-08-datasource) that Grafana maintains support for as a convenience for its existing users. InfluxDB no longer maintains release 0.8. -InfluxDB 0.8 is no longer maintained by InfluxDB Inc, but we provide support as a convenience to existing users. You can find it [here](https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-influxdb-08-datasource). +The API and capabilities of the latest release of InfluxDB are completely different from those of InfluxDB 0.8.x, which is why Grafana handles them as different data sources. -Read more about InfluxDB here: - -[http://docs.grafana.org/datasources/influxdb/](http://docs.grafana.org/datasources/influxdb/) +For more information, refer to [Using InfluxDB in Grafana](http://docs.grafana.org/datasources/influxdb/).