influxdb1-clientv2 is the current Go client API for InfluxDB 1.x. For connecting to InfluxDB 2.x see the [influxdb-client-go](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-client-go) client library.
InfluxDB is an open-source distributed time series database, find more about [InfluxDB](https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/) at https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/latest
## Usage
To import into your Go project, run the following command in your terminal:
`go get github.com/influxdata/influxdb1-client/v2`
Then, in your import declaration section of your Go file, paste the following:
The following example creates a new client to the InfluxDB host on localhost:8086 and runs a query for the measurement `cpu_load` from the `mydb` database.