In this video we take a look at Installing InfluxDB and Grafana with Home Assistant, giving you access to next level data logging, statistics and analytics so that you can retain your Home Assistant sensor data for longer, allowing you to do long term visualization and graphing of your data to view trends. We go through how to install InfluxDB and Grafana, the difference between InfluxDB and MariaDB and we also create a couple of basic graphs inside Grafana. If you'd like to support me and future projects: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingsmarthome Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/EverySmartHome Written Article: https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk/ EVERYWHERE YOU CAN FIND ME: Everything Smart Home Community Discord: https://discord.gg/Bgfvy2f Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverySmartHome (@EverySmartHome) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/EverythingSmartHome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everythingsmarthomeofficial/ #homeassistant #smarthome ________________________ Some of the links above are affiliate links, where I earn a small commission if you click on the link and purchase an item. You are not obligated to do so, but it does help fund these videos in hopes of bringing value to you! 0:00 - Intro 1:06 - Pre-warning 1:24 - What do InfluxDB and Grafana do? 2:56 - Practical application of what you can use it for 3:32 - InfluxDB vs MariaDB 4:52 - InfluxDB Installation and Configuration 8:13 - Grafana Installation and Configuration 10:15 - Using Grafana, creating a systems monitoring dashboard with 4 Graphs. 34:33 - Outro