influxdata / influxdata/influxdb

Support InfluxDB line protocol in scrapers

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Description

I like InfluxDB line protocol very much for its simplicity and consistency. So, I usually push data from my services to InfluxDB in this protocol.
Recently, I wanted to switch to the pull-scheme and surprisingly found out that [Influx own scrapers](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/write-data/no-code/scrape-data/) do not support Influx’s own protocol :-(

I can write my own scraper, of course, but it would sound logical if InfluxDB supported its own protocol in its scraper.

__Proposal:__
Let scrapers support not only Prometheus protocol, but InfluxDB line protocol as well.

__Current behaviour:__
Currently the line protocol isn’t supported.

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Research direction

No repository files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the linked scraper documentation and locating the existing scraper protocol handling; done means scrapers accept and correctly process InfluxDB line protocol alongside the currently supported Prometheus protocol.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
data, databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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