timestream-influxdb

Timestream for InfluxDB provides authoritative, advisory guidance for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB across its engine variants: managed InfluxDB 2 single-node, InfluxDB 2 Read Replica Clusters, and InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise. It solves the problem of navigating a service with materially different APIs, ports, and defaults per engine by supplying correct, non-hallucinated guidance and the standard aws CLI commands to carry out actions. It is explicitly advisory and executes mutations only in response to an explicit user request, never autonomously.

It covers engine selection (recommending InfluxDB 3 for new workloads), dependency verification, and provisioning prerequisites — including the AWS Marketplace subscription, the two required IAM managed policies, VPC-only-by-default networking with opt-in public access, and correct ports (8086 for V2, 8181 for V3). It documents schema design (low-cardinality tags versus fields), migration from LiveAnalytics, Processing Engine plugins, monitoring, and troubleshooting, with bundled reference docs and helper scripts for VPC endpoint checks, token retrieval, health checks, and input validation. A notable section lists authoritative facts that override the model's training data (upgrade paths, token storage in Secrets Manager, reboot commands, S3 log delivery) and forbids inventing metric names or nonexistent features.

It targets AWS engineers, DevOps teams, and database administrators deploying or operating InfluxDB on AWS. The skill is security-conscious defensive tooling: it runs read-only aws describe/list commands freely and performs mutations only on explicit user request, and it actively promotes secure configuration — scoped IAM over FullAccess for production, restricting security-group ingress to known CIDRs, and never using an open 0.0.0.0/0 rule.