# timestream-influxdb

Advisory skill for planning, provisioning, and securing Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB across V2 and V3 engines using standard AWS CLI commands.

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- Author: aws
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/timestream-influxdb/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/timestream-influxdb

## What it does

The skill provides guidance and CLI commands for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB deployments. It enforces strict separation between engine variants: InfluxDB 2 uses Flux, buckets, and port 8086, while InfluxDB 3 relies on SQL, tables, and port 8181. The assistant operates strictly in an advisory role, running mutation commands only upon explicit instruction.

Whenever it generates `create-db-cluster` or `create-db-instance` calls, it appends tracking tags for `created_by` and `generation_model`. For InfluxDB 3 Core, it forbids legacy V2 fields such as `allocatedStorage` or `username`. If your local AWS CLI lacks the latest Timestream API definitions, provisioning commands will fail until you upgrade the CLI tooling.

## Requirements
- Works with: AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill timestream-influxdb -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/timestream-influxdb/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/timestream-influxdb/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill timestream-influxdb -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/timestream-influxdb/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill timestream-influxdb -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/timestream-influxdb/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws timestream-influxdb
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/timestream-influxdb/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill timestream-influxdb -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --path skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/timestream-influxdb
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/timestream-influxdb/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill timestream-influxdb -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/timestream-influxdb/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- choose between InfluxDB 2 and InfluxDB 3 based on query language and cardinality
- construct `create-db-cluster` commands for InfluxDB 3 Core without deprecated V2 parameters
- configure customer-managed KMS key policies and verify returned key ARNs
- retrieve the InfluxDB 3 initial authentication token secret from AWS Secrets Manager

## Example prompts
- Help me provision an InfluxDB 3 Core cluster in us-east-1 using a customer-managed KMS key
- How should I structure the schema for high-cardinality sensor data in Timestream for InfluxDB?

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: timestream-influxdb
version: 2
description: Retrieves authoritative guidance on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB across its supported engine variants. Applicable to any InfluxDB-on-AWS request including engine variant and licensing selection, provisioning and IAM, encryption at rest (AWS-owned and customer-managed KMS keys, key policies, and key lifecycle), schema design (tags vs fields, cardinality, HTTP/sensor/metric data modeling), migration from LiveAnalytics, Processing Engine plugins, connectivity (database endpoints and private or public access), and write/query errors.
---

# Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

## Overview

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is a managed time-series database with engine variants and deployment types whose capabilities differ. Before comparing them, retrieve the Timestream for InfluxDB documentation and inspect the applicable Create API models. For an existing resource, read its `GetDbInstance` or `GetDbCluster` response. Use those sources to verify the engine variant, endpoint port, query languages, data model, authentication flow, deployment types, licensing, and Processing Engine support for the user's Region. Do not infer one engine variant's capabilities from another variant or from examples in this skill.

For new workloads, verify the supported engine variants and recommend InfluxDB 3 when the service documentation identifies it as an option. For existing V2 deployments, verify V2 support before advising whether to stay on V2 or migrate.

Advisory in nature: it recommends actions and provides the AWS CLI and API commands to carry them out (including mutations such as instance/cluster creation and tagging). It does not act autonomously — it executes mutations only in response to an explicit user request, never on its own initiative.

**Tooling:** The AWS MCP server is recommended for streamlined AWS API interactions but is not required. All examples use standard AWS CLI syntax and can run without MCP.

## Common Tasks

### 1. Verify Dependencies

Before any guidance, confirm tooling and engine variant.

**Constraints:**

- You MUST confirm which engine variant the user runs (V2, V2 Read Replica, or V3) before giving advice specific to that engine variant — APIs and defaults differ.
- You MUST NOT mix V2 APIs (Flux, orgs, buckets, port 8086) with V3 APIs (SQL/InfluxQL, databases, tables, port 8181).
- You MUST verify the AWS CLI (or `call_aws`) is available before provisioning guidance.
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