What’s New in InfluxDB 3.2: Explorer UI Now GA Plus Key Enhancements

By Paul Dix / Product,
Jun 30, 2025

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InfluxDB 3.2 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, bringing the general availability of InfluxDB 3 Explorer, a new UI that simplifies how you query, explore, and visualize data. On top of that, 3.2 includes a wide range of performance improvements, feature updates, and bug fixes.

InfluxDB 3 Core is free and open source, optimized for recent data, and licensed under MIT and Apache 2. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise builds on that foundation with support for longer-term historical queries, high availability, enhanced security, and multi-node deployments.

With 3.2, we’re focused on helping developers handle real-world problems faster, with less overhead, and a better developer experience from the start.

InfluxDB 3 Explorer: a new UI for InfluxDB 3

Explorer is a new user interface for working with Core and Enterprise. It brings everything into one place, from getting data in to querying, visualizing, and managing your database. It’s designed to remove friction: fewer tools, less context switching, and faster feedback.

Getting Started with InfluxDB 3

When you first launch Explorer, you’ll get an optional onboarding guide that adjusts to your experience level. If you’re new to InfluxDB, it does a full walkthrough. Experienced users can skip straight to the editor.

welcome

Explorer helps you learn how to write data into InfluxDB 3. From there, you can get started immediately—use a built-in sample dataset, import your own CSV or JSON, or generate a connection string to write from code or Telegraf.

write-sample

Configuration & Management

Explorer provides point-and-click access to common admin tasks. You can create and drop databases, manage tokens, or auto-generate the server startup command.

manage-tokens

All of this is optional if you prefer the CLI, but it’s nice to have it in the UI when you need it.

command-line-builder

Querying & Visualizations

Explorer makes it easy to explore your schema and start querying right away. Write SQL with autocomplete, view results as tables or charts, and refine your query as you go. When you’re ready to use it in your app, just click View Code to copy a runnable version.

Built-In Integrations

Explorer includes integrations that make working with time series smoother:

  • OpenAI + Natural Language Search: Add your OpenAI token and run SQL queries using everyday language. Explorer passes your schema for context and builds a runnable query.
  • Grafana Export: You can also export queries straight to a Grafana dashboard with a few clicks. Perfect for users already visualizing InfluxDB data with Grafana.

Run It Your Way

Explorer runs as a standalone Docker container that you can deploy alongside any InfluxDB 3 instance. Run it in Admin mode to get full functionality with InfluxDB 3 Core or Enterprise. Alternatively, use Query mode to give users read-only access, which is ideal for connecting to InfluxDB 3 Cloud Serverless, Cloud Dedicated, or Clustered deployments. You control the access level depending on your use case.

Smarter data retention: now per table in Enterprise

InfluxDB 3.2 adds new flexible and granular data retention policies, helping developers manage storage costs and data lifecycle requirements with greater precision:

  • In Core, you can now configure retention policies per database.
  • In Enterprise, you can go even further with per-table retention policies, allowing you to define different data lifecycles for different workloads within the same database.

This is a big step for teams that require tighter control over data retention and costs without creating multiple databases.

Soft deletes are also now supported across Core and Enterprise, with a default 72-hour grace period before permanent removal. See the release notes for the full list of updates: Core release notes, Enterprise release notes.

Getting started

Download InfluxDB 3.2 or pull the latest Docker image for Core and Enterprise.

Check out the docs for details, and let us know what you think in Discord or Community Slack. Your feedback helps shape where we go next.