influx bucket delete

  • influx CLI 2.0.0+
  • InfluxDB 2.0.0+

The influx bucket delete command deletes a bucket from InfluxDB and all the data it contains.

Usage

  1. influx bucket delete [flags]

Flags

FlagDescriptionInput typeMaps to ?
-c—active-configCLI configuration to use for commandstring
—configs-pathPath to influx CLI configurations (default ~/.influxdbv2/configs)stringINFLUX_CONFIGS_PATH
-h—helpHelp for the delete command
—hide-headersHide table headers (default false)INFLUX_HIDE_HEADERS
—hostHTTP address of InfluxDB (default http://localhost:8086)stringINFLUX_HOST
—http-debugInspect communication with InfluxDB servers.string
-i—idBucket ID (required if no —name)string
—jsonOutput data as JSON (default false)INFLUX_OUTPUT_JSON
-n—nameBucket name (requires —org or org-id)string
-o—orgOrganization name (mutually exclusive with —org-id)stringINFLUX_ORG
—org-idOrganization ID (mutually exclusive with —org)stringINFLUX_ORG_ID
—skip-verifySkip TLS certificate verificationINFLUX_SKIP_VERIFY
-t—tokenAPI tokenstringINFLUX_TOKEN

Examples

Authentication credentials

The examples below assume your InfluxDB host, organization, and token are provided by the active influx CLI configuration. If you do not have a CLI configuration set up, use the appropriate flags to provide these required credentials.

Delete a bucket by name
  1. influx bucket delete --name example-bucket
Delete a bucket by ID
  1. influx bucket delete --id 06c86c40a9f36000