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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/blast-from-the-80s on 2024-09-05 16:20:14+00:00.

I’ve been running InfluxDB since I started using Home Assistant, but I feel like there’s no need for it now that we have built-in long-term data storage.

There are still two reasons I can think of:

• Statistics aggregates data, while InfluxDB keeps the data exactly as it is, so you have a finer resolution (not 100% sure about this, please correct me if I’m wrong).
• Grafana has much more powerful tools to generate all kinds of graphs (with the disadvantage that you can only use them in your dashboard with iframes).

What’s your opinion?