Thank to a new and improved core database engine, InfluxDB now supports native SQL queries. Leveraging Flight SQL, InfluxData Developer Advocate, Jay Clifford, walks through how to set up querying InfluxDB using Grafana. He shows you how to configure Flight SQL and how to build a dashboard in Grafana for visualizing industrial IoT data.

Helpful Links:
Sign up for a free InfluxDB Cloud account: https://www.influxdata.com/get-influxdb/

Install the Flight SQL plugin: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/cloud-iox/query-data/tools/grafana/

InfluxDB Quick Starts Repo: https://github.com/InfluxCommunity/InfluxDB-IOx-Quick-Starts

Intro: 0:00
Overview: 0:23
What is Grafana?: 1:04
About the Flight SQL plugin: 2:02
Grafana Set up: 3:12
Building a Grafana Dashboard: 6:51
Wrap up: 14:15