Manage user accounts and databases

Before you manage user accounts and databases, log on to the Alibaba Cloud official website. Go to the TSDB console and select the target instance.

Account type

TSDB for InfluxDB® supports two types of database accounts: administrator and standard accounts. You can manage all accounts and databases in the console. For more information about the specific permissions of an account, see Accounts and permissions.

Manage accounts

Create an account

1. On the Accounts page, click Create.

The following figure shows the Accounts page.

1. On the Create page that appears, set the account name and its password.

The following figure shows how to create an administrator account.

The following figure shows how to create a standard account.

• You can create an administrator account or a standard account. You can create only one administrator account for each TSDB for InfluxDB® instance.
• The account name must be up to 16 characters in length, and can contain lowercase letters, digits, and underscores (_). It must start with a letter and end with a letter or digit.
• The password must be 8 to 32 characters in length and, can contain three of the following types: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters. Special characters include exclamation points (!), at signs (@), number signs (#), dollar signs ($), percent signs (%), carets (^), ampersands (&), asterisks (*), parentheses (), underscores (_), plus signs (+), hyphens (-), and equal signs (=).

After the db_test account is created, the following page appears.

Delete an account

On the Accounts page, find the target account and click Delete.

Manage databases

Create a database

1. On the Databases page, click Create.

1. On the Create page that appears, enter the database name. After the mydb database is created, the following page appears.

By default, the retention policy for a new database is autogen. In this policy, the initial retention period is 0s, which indicates that data is permanently stored. You can click Storage Policy Management to modify the retention policy or create a new retention policy for the database.

Create a retention policy

On the Storage Policy Management page, click Create.

Create retention policy oneday and set the retention period to 1 day.

Modify the current retention policy

If you want to change the retention period in retention policy autogen to 2 hours, click Modify.

Set the retention period to 2 hours.

Set the default retention policy

A retention policy specifies the retention period of data stored in TSDB for InfluxDB®. If no retention policy is specified when you read or write data, the default retention policy takes effect.

Delete a database

On the Databases page, find the target database and click Delete.

Permission management

You can change the read and write permissions on databases for a specified standard account.

For example, you can grant read and write permissions on database mydb, as shown in the following figure.

Administrator permissions

The administrator has all permissions on databases.

Accounts and permissions