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Lightweight scripting language for querying databases. Version 0.200.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install flux

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install flux

MacPorts ports tree · sysutils/flux/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add flux

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · flux · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#flux

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/fl/flux/package.nix · source: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install libflux-devel

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libflux-devel · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

Lightweight scripting language for querying databases

Commands and aliases

  • flux

history

Project history and usage

Flux is InfluxData's open-source functional data scripting language for querying, analyzing, and acting on data, especially time-series data in InfluxDB 1.x and 2.x.

Project history

InfluxData documents Flux as a language that unifies querying, processing, writing, and acting on data in one syntax, with support for time-series databases, SQL databases, and CSV data sources.

The public Flux repository describes it as part of InfluxDB 1.7 and 2.0 while also runnable independently. InfluxData later placed Flux in maintenance mode and did not carry native Flux support into InfluxDB 3.

Adoption history

Flux adoption was tied to InfluxDB 1.7, InfluxDB 2.x, Flux tasks, dashboards, and the InfluxData documentation ecosystem. Its standard library grew broad support for data transformations, InfluxDB-specific operations, SQL, CSV, Prometheus-style functions, testing helpers, and notification endpoints.

InfluxData's current guidance says existing InfluxDB 1.x and 2.x users can continue using Flux, while new InfluxDB 3 work should generally use InfluxQL or SQL.

How it is used

Users write Flux scripts to read from buckets, filter and transform tables, join streams, aggregate windows, define functions, query external data sources, and drive tasks or alerts in InfluxDB-era workflows. The standalone flux command also exposes a REPL-style developer workflow in older releases.

Why package nerds care

Flux is notable to package maintainers because it is both a language runtime and a database-adjacent tool: packaging it means exposing a CLI, stdlib, parser, planner, and runtime outside the InfluxDB server that popularized it.

Its maintenance-mode status matters for curation because the package remains useful for legacy InfluxDB 1.x/2.x users even though InfluxDB 3 moved toward SQL and InfluxQL.

Timeline

  • 2018: Flux v0.7.x releases were published during early language development.
  • 2018: Flux v0.14.0 changed the flux command into a REPL and organized built-in code into Flux packages.
  • 2019: Flux v0.65.0 was published during the pre-1.0 language series.
  • 2020: InfluxDB 2.0-era adoption made Flux central to many InfluxData 2.x workflows.
  • 2026: InfluxData documentation states that Flux is in maintenance mode and not supported in InfluxDB 3.

Related projects

  • InfluxDB 1.x, InfluxDB 2.x, InfluxDB 3, InfluxQL, SQL, Telegraf, Chronograf, and Kapacitor are closely related parts of the InfluxData ecosystem.
  • Prometheus, SQL databases, and CSV sources are important integration targets documented in the Flux standard library and query-source docs.

security posture

Risk level: yellow

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. generalized runtime or code generation signal.

Risk classifier

yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
  • generalized runtime or code generation signal

Signals

  • text:database
  • text:scripting language

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
fluxcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.200.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/influxdata/flux

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/influxdata/fluxnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:flux
Version0.200.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/flux
Homepagehttps://www.influxdata.com/products/flux/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/influxdata/flux
Upstream docshttps://docs.influxdata.com/flux/v0
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/influxdata/flux.git
Build dependenciesgo, pkgconf, rust
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameflux
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Conflicts With
  • fantom
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

flux

nix profile install nixpkgs#flux
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fl/flux/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

flux 2.8.1-r2

Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes

https://fluxcd.io/

sudo apk add flux
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: flux
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: flux from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

flux-bash-completion 2.8.1-r2

Bash completions for flux

https://fluxcd.io/

sudo apk add flux-bash-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: flux
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: flux-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

flux-fish-completion 2.8.1-r2

Fish completions for flux

https://fluxcd.io/

sudo apk add flux-fish-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: flux
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: flux-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

flux-zsh-completion 2.8.1-r2

Zsh completions for flux

https://fluxcd.io/

sudo apk add flux-zsh-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: flux
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: flux-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
zypper95%

libflux-devel 0.199.0-1.2

Development libraries and header files for Influx data language

https://github.com/influxdata/flux

sudo zypper install libflux-devel
  • License: Apache-2.0 AND MIT AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0 AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0) AND BSD-3-Clause AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: flux
  • 4 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libflux-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libflux0_199_0 0.199.0-1.2

Influx data language

https://github.com/influxdata/flux

sudo zypper install libflux0_199_0
  • License: Apache-2.0 AND MIT AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0 AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0) AND BSD-3-Clause AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: flux
  • 4 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libflux0_199_0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

flux

sudo port install flux
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/flux/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Chocolatey95%

flux

choco install flux
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: flux from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','flow-launcher'
Scoop95%

extras/flux

scoop install extras/flux
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/flux.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

main/flux

scoop install main/flux
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/flux.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
winget95%

FluxCD.Flux

winget install --id FluxCD.Flux -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: FluxCD.Flux from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
winget95%

flux.flux

winget install --id flux.flux -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Flux
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: flux.flux from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • rustBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • prqlcShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, query-language.
  • influxdb-cliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, influxdb, time-series.
  • kapacitorShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, influxdb, time-series.
  • xidelShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, query-language.
  • cayleyShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, query-language.
  • csvqShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, query-language.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment