connection refused when trying connect to influx

[cuhavp]

docker exec -it c78aaa755550 influx
Failed to connect to http://localhost:8086: Get http://localhost:8086/ping: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8086: getsockopt: connection refused
Please check your connection settings and ensure 'influxd' is running.

[jaalvarezvi]

Hi @cuhavp , did you find a fix for your issue?
In my case, influxdb container does not run. Do you have any idea why it doesn't run?
Thank you in advance!

[Maithrie]

hi @jaalvarezvi did you find a solution to the issue of why influxdb was not running?

[cameronbunce]

Back in the Readme, there is a link to an article that lays out how this should be used. The docker-compose.yaml file should be used by running docker compose docker-compose up after which a lot of things will print to the terminal that will show the success or failure of that command which should bring up the whole lot of the containers. If you exit that with CTRL-C you will be stopping the containers. To bring up the containers without the active dialog from them, invoke with docker-compose -d after which you can ask docker to tell you what is running by docker ps