InfluxDB: Max values per tag limit exceeded InfluxDB

There are logging as below

2020-01-24T12:01:30Z E! [outputs.influxdb]: when writing to [http://xxx:8086]: received error partial write: max-values-per-tag limit exceeded (100001/100000): measurement="network" tag="device" value="veth646a5a8" dropped=4; discarding points

Related a document

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43770354/max-values-per-tag-limit-exceeded-influxdb

Solution

1. Edit a specific option from influxdb.conf

   # max-values-per-tag = 100000

   uncomment and replace the value to zero as shown below,

   max-values-per-tag = 0

2. Restart influxDB

   $ sudo systemctl restart influxdb