Hi everyone, I wanted to share my recent experience with InfluxDB on my Synology NAS. I’ve been using Home Assistant (HA) along with InfluxDB and Grafana for monitoring, and initially, everything ran smoothly. However, after a few months, I noticed a significant slowdown in both HA and other applications on my NAS. The logs indicated high CPU and RAM usage by InfluxDB, which was surprising since the data volume wasn’t that large—just 5 temperature readings every 5 minutes over 60 days.
After some troubleshooting, I discovered that stopping the InfluxDB Docker container resolved the issue immediately. This made me curious about why such a small dataset would cause such high resource consumption. I’m wondering if others have encountered similar issues or have insights into optimizing InfluxDB’s resource usage in this context.
It’s fascinating how even a well-optimized system can hit unexpected bottlenecks. I’d love to hear from anyone who has successfully managed InfluxDB on their NAS without performance degradation. Maybe there are configuration tweaks or best practices I’m missing out on. Let’s discuss!
Cheers,
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