Availability and pricing

Cloud	Version	Software price	Last build
AWS Marketplace EC2 AMI · all commercial regions	2.9.1	$0.05/hr Recommended instance: t3.medium · 5-day free trial	2026-09-02	Listing ↗
Azure Marketplace VM image · plan payg-gen2 · Gen2	2.9.1	$0.028/vCPU/hr Recommended VM: Standard_D2s_v3	2026-09-03	Listing ↗

Software price only; cloud infrastructure is billed separately by the provider. Prices in USD.

Image facts

Base OS	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Hardening	CIS Level 1, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (tailored)
License	MIT
Upstream	InfluxData
Machine-readable	product.json · catalog.json

What is InfluxDB

InfluxDB is an open-source time series database purpose-built for high write and query loads on timestamped data - infrastructure and application metrics, application events, IoT and sensor telemetry, and real-time analytics. This image ships the 2.x line: a single Go server (influxd) with a built-in web UI, a token-authenticated HTTP API on port 8086, and two query languages - Flux and InfluxQL. Features include unbounded retention policies, downsampling tasks, dashboards, alerting checks, and the line-protocol write API compatible with Telegraf and the broad InfluxData client ecosystem (Go, Python, JavaScript, Java, and more). Data persists to a local bolt metadata store and TSM storage engine under a dedicated data directory. MIT license, no vendor lock-in - distinct from the managed InfluxDB Cloud service.

What the Lynxroute image adds

Security hardening:

Native TLS on port 8086 - a per-instance self-signed certificate is generated at first boot (no shared key baked into the image); swap in your own CA certificate anytime
Admin user, password, and an all-access operator token generated at first boot - written to /root/influxdb-credentials.txt (readable only by root)
Usage telemetry disabled
HTTP API and web UI require token / login authentication; unauthenticated API calls are refused
UFW firewall - SSH on 22 and InfluxDB on 8086 only
fail2ban, AppArmor
CVE scan - every image is scanned for vulnerabilities before release

OS hardening (CIS Level 1):

CIS Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Level 1 benchmark applied via ansible-lockdown
auditd, SSH hardening, Kernel hardening, IMDSv2 enforced

Compliance artifacts:

SBOM - CycloneDX 1.6 at /etc/lynxroute/sbom.json
CIS Conformance Report at /etc/lynxroute/cis-report.html
CIS Tailored Profile at /usr/share/doc/lynxroute/CIS_TAILORED_PROFILE.md

Deploy

Launch in one command

Credentials are generated at first boot and written to /root/influxdb-credentials.txt.

AWS CLIAzure CLI

# subscribe once on the AWS Marketplace listing, then:
aws ec2 run-instances \
  --image-id resolve:ssm:/aws/service/marketplace/prod-ervny2lqfxpjg/latest \
  --instance-type t3.medium --key-name my-key --security-group-ids sg-xxxxxxxx

# accept the plan terms once, then:
az vm image terms accept --publisher lynxroute --offer influxdb --plan payg-gen2
az vm create -g my-rg -n influxdb --size Standard_D2s_v3 \
  --image lynxroute:influxdb:payg-gen2:latest --admin-username azureuser --generate-ssh-keys

Release notes

Latest release

The most recent release with notes; the full release history is in product.json.

Influxdb 2.9.1

AWS · 2026-09-02Azure · 2026-09-03

InfluxDB 2.9.1 - upgraded from 2.7.12, moving onto the maintained 2.x line (2.7.12 dated 2025-05-29; 2.8.0 and 2.9.x superseded it). MIT licence unchanged. Brings the 2.8 and 2.9 series: optional API token hashing (NOT enabled in this image, so tokens remain downgrade-safe), a BoltDB index bucket added on first start, compaction and purger fixes, InfluxQL JSON marshaling and CSV output corrections, and Flux 0.200.0. The influx CLI moves to 2.8.0. Rebuilt on the current CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base.