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title: Intro paragraph
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[InfluxDB](https://www.influxdata.com/products/) is an open-source time series database (TSDB) developed by [InfluxData](https://www.influxdata.com/). It is optimized for fast, high-availability storage and retrieval of time series data in fields such as operations monitoring, application metrics, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics.