Home Assistant Community — Smart Home — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:50:02 +0000
Summary
A Home Assistant community member asked how the InfluxDB integration relates to the built-in Recorder, Logbook (Activity), and History integrations. Respondents explained that InfluxDB is a completely separate database from Home Assistant's default recorder database. Users can send data to InfluxDB for long-term historical storage and analytics while using Recorder for short-term data retention. However, InfluxDB only updates in real time, meaning previously recorded historical data cannot be imported into it retroactively.
Team sorry to bother but I’m confused.
How the
relate to
I’m little confused on how and if they relate
thank you
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InfluxDB is a completely different and seperate database.
Ok, so I can load there all data for historical reason, analytics etc… and use the recorder etc for a shot time ?
The database updates in real time. You can’t load previously recorded data.
Original article: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/influxdb-and-recorder-history/1023050 Source: Home Assistant Community