Failed to connect to http://localhost:8086, Please check your connection settings and ensure 'influxd' is running

Question

Searched online but I don't see the solution. I have influx installed: InfluxDB shell version: v1.6.2. But it throws me this error:

Failed to connect to http://localhost:8086: Get http://localhost:8086/ping: dial tcp [::1]:8086: connect: connection refused Please check your connection settings and ensure 'influxd' is running.

Answer 1

Just a couple things to check: make sure the the service is running (use the service manager on your OS or the influxd command to check). Another test you can do is to use the actual machine IP address http://:8086 instead of localhost. It could be access is restricted (iptables).

If none of that works, I would check out the discussion on this GitHub issue.