What’s New in InfluxDB 3.5: Explorer Dashboards, Cache Querying, and Expanded Control

By Peter Barnett / Product, Developer,
Sep 30, 2025

InfluxDB 3.5 is now available for both Core and Enterprise, along with updates to the new Explorer UI that make it easier to save, organize, and query your data. This release highlights the biggest updates since our 3.4 release, including Explorer Dashboards in beta, new cache querying capabilities, and stronger operational tools for managing clusters.

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.

Explorer Dashboards (beta)

InfluxDB 3 Explorer is designed for visualizing, querying, and managing your data stored in InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise. Explorer now supports Dashboards, giving you the ability to save and revisit your preferred queries in one place. Whether you’re tracking ongoing metrics or running repeat analyses, Dashboards make Explorer a more powerful workspace for time series monitoring and analysis.

Cache querying in Explorer

InfluxDB 3’s built-in Last Value and Distinct Value Caches eliminate costly full-table scans by providing immediate access to a time series’s most recent or unique values. With the release of 3.5, you can perform ad hoc queries against these caches from Explorer to support exploratory analysis and everyday workflows.

• Last Values Cache: Pull the most recent values for each series with millisecond latency, ideal for “current state” dashboards or alerting.
• Distinct Values Cache: Instantly query unique tag and field values, perfect for powering filters, dropdowns, or doing fast metadata lookups.

Smarter operational visibility and performance improvements

We’ve also introduced new features to simplify cluster management and improve oversight, and rolled out general improvements for production deployments:

• CLI parameters in system tables: Startup parameters for each node are now queryable, giving operators direct visibility into configurations without chasing logs or flags.
• Manual node management (Enterprise): Admins can stop cluster nodes in a controlled way, freeing up licensed cores and enabling smoother maintenance workflows.
• Tightened security: Stronger token permissions prevent unintended access to the internal system database, and configurable TLS verification enables safe object store connections.

Get started

InfluxDB 3.5 is available today. To get started, download InfluxDB 3.5 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 our Community Slack. Your feedback helps shape where we go next.