The Modern Alternative to Data Historians
Whether your historian stays or goes, per-tag pricing, plant-level silos, and short retention are the same wall.
InfluxDB captures high-frequency machine, sensor, and process data at any scale and makes it usable for quality, production, reliability, and AI. Keep your historian and extend it, or replace it outright. Either way, InfluxDB is the modern time series layer underneath.
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Works alongside your historian, or replaces it — your call
Your Historian Wasn't Built to Scale Beyond the Plant
OSI PI, AVEVA, Wonderware, GE Historian, Honeywell PHD—different vendors, same wall. Per-tag licensing turns every new sensor into a budget fight. Plant-centric architecture makes cross-site benchmarking a manual project, not a query.
Proprietary interfaces lock data out of Grafana, Power BI, Python, and your AI pipeline. The historian is doing it's job, but it wasn't designed for Industry 4.0
Real-Time Performance, Predictable Cost
See OEE, scrap, and process behavior as it happens, not in tomorrow's report. Compute-based pricing means adding sensors doesn't mean renegotiating your tag budget, whether InfluxDB sits beside your historian or replaces it.
Edge-to-Cloud Freedom
Run InfluxDB at the plant for local dashboards and low-latency operational visibility, then replicate to the cloud for cross-site benchmarking and enterprise reporting. One platform, not a pipeline per site.
Purpose-Built for Time Series at Scale
Built to handle the sensor growth that Industry 4.0, physical AI, and predictive maintenance programs demand, without the performance drop-off that breaks general-purpose databases.
Simplicity & Developer-First Access
Quality, reliability, and data science teams query process data directly with SQL and Python—no more waiting on OT to pull a historian export, and no proprietary SDK to learn.
Two Ways to Modernize Your Historian
There's no single right way to modernize—it depends on whether your historian is validated, control-adjacent, and politically protected, or whether you're facing a renewal, a new plant, or a legacy stack nobody wants to own.
Enterprise Security
InfluxData is ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and SOC 2 Type II certified with end-to-end encryption.
Turn Historian Data Into a Foundation for Industrial AI
From factory-floor sensors to AI and analytics tools, InfluxDB turns scattered historian data—augmented or replaced—into one queryable telemetry layer.
Compute-Based Pricing, Not Per-Tag Penalties
InfluxDB runs alongside the historian on compute-based pricing. Adding sensors adds data, not cost.
20x
more data
50%
lower cost
One Platform Instead of a Historian Per Site
InfluxDB consolidates every site's data into one queryable platform, turning cross-site benchmarking into a query instead of a manual project.
160
breweries
$100M+
projected savings
Edge Visibility, Cloud-Wide Access
InfluxDB runs at the edge for local visibility, then replicates to the cloud for enterprise-wide access.
First UK
Ofgem-approved cloud-hosted historian
Simplified
architecture
Trusted Across Industrial Historian Modernization
Built for Developers, Trusted by Engineers
Native SQL, 14+ client libraries, and a REST API that plugs into the tools your team already uses: Grafana, Power BI, Python, Databricks. Collect data at the edge through 400+ Telegraf plugins, including direct OPC UA and MQTT support, or through Litmus/HighByte for full asset context.
SQL Query Example
-- Compare average sensor readings across every plant — no per-tag license limit
SELECT
site_id,
AVG(temperature) AS avg_temp,
COUNT(DISTINCT tag_id) AS active_tags
FROM sensor_readings
WHERE
time >= NOW() - INTERVAL '24 hours'
GROUP BY site_id
ORDER BY avg_temp DESC;
Query millions of process data points in milliseconds. Sub-second response times at scale.
Quick Start
Deploy locally in seconds
docker pull influxdb:3-enterprisecurl -O https://www.influxdata.com/d/install_influxdb3.sh && sh install_influxdb3.sh enterprisecurl -O https://www.influxdata.com/d/install_influxdb3.sh && sh install_influxdb3.sh enterpriseWant Help Deciding Between Augment and Replace?
Do you need answers about deployment, pricing, features, support plans? Contact us today.
What You'll Get
- Technical consultation
- Custom deployment architecture review (edge, cloud, or both)
- Proof of concept on your own historian data
- A straight answer on whether augment or replace fits your situation
