What’s Inside InfluxDB 3.1: New Features for Security, Performance, and Visibility

By Peter Barnett / Developer
May 29, 2025

InfluxDB 3.1 is now available for both Core and Enterprise editions, bringing significant improvements that make managing high-volume, high-velocity time series data even easier, faster, and more secure.

InfluxDB 3 Core is the free, open source edition of InfluxDB 3—a high-speed, recent-data engine licensed under MIT and Apache 2. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is the commercial version of Core, adding support for longer-term historical queries, high availability, enhanced security, and more.

This release tightens security, accelerates performance, and gives you better visibility into what’s happening in your database while keeping operational overhead low.

Expanded token support

InfluxDB 3.1 includes expanded token support to give you greater control over access, expiration, and privilege boundaries. This significantly enhances security and administrative flexibility, particularly for Enterprise deployments. Enterprise now supports four distinct types of tokens:

• Operator Token: A special, non-removable admin token (_admin) with full system privileges.
• Admin Tokens: Named tokens with configurable expiration for safe, auditable administration.
• Database Tokens: Grant precise read/write access to individual databases.
• System Resource Tokens: Allow secure, read-only access to runtime stats and health checks (ideal for monitoring without exposing sensitive internals).

Automatic expiration, regeneration, and resource-based permissions mean you can enforce best practices by default. You can set tokens to automatically expire after specified durations, ensuring your access management remains fresh and secure without manual intervention.

InfluxDB 3 Core also now supports named tokens, making it easier to implement token rotations for lighter deployments.

Cache reloading for Enterprise

With 3.1, we’ve upgraded both the Last Value Cache and the Distinct Value Cache for Enterprise. They now automatically reload on initial creation and restart, backfilling from historical data. That means:

• Your dashboard dropdowns load instantly, even after a restart, for great user experience
• The most recent values are always available for real-time dashboards and alerting
• Less planning around when you decide to create a cache

For anyone running critical monitoring workflows, these changes improve continuity across restarts, maintenance windows, and scaling events.

Enhanced database metrics

InfluxDB 3.1 now gives you more visibility into how your database is running with expanded metrics for catalog operations, query performance, and data ingestion. You can track growth at a granular level, identify slow queries before they become issues, and monitor ingestion in real-time to keep data flowing smoothly. These metrics make it easier to spot inefficiencies early, optimize where it counts, and operate confidently at scale.

And 50+ more improvements

InfluxDB 3.1 includes more than 50 enhancements across Core and Enterprise that get into the finer details of the database. Key highlights include improved memory management for more stable workloads and faster HTTP queries, making operations safer and smoother.

Plus: InfluxDB 3 Explorer Beta 2

InfluxDB 3 Explorer Beta 2 is here, which makes it easier to work with your data, manage your setup, and write queries faster than ever. Beta 2 enables streamlined database and table configuration, comprehensive token management, and substantial improvements to querying capabilities. We’ve also added support for AMD architectures to expand where and how you run it. More enhancements are already in the works, so stay tuned for updates in upcoming releases.

Our path forward and InfluxDB 3.2

We’re continuing to iterate and build new features for both Core and Enterprise based on your feedback. While we launched InfluxDB 3.1 today, our update to 3.2 is just around the corner, landing in June. A main focus is data management, with built-in retention periods down to the table level and hard deletes for databases and tables. Additionally, we will continue to expand on usability, licensing, and security improvements.

Getting started

Upgrade to InfluxDB 3.1 to start using the latest performance, security, and usability improvements. You can download the newest update or pull the latest image from Docker for Core and Enterprise.

Explore the docs for full details, and share your feedback in our Discord or Community Slack to help shape the future of InfluxDB.