influxdb

What is InfluxDB?

The InfluxDB image packages the InfluxDB time series database so teams can store and query timestamped data — infrastructure metrics, application telemetry, IoT sensor readings, and event streams — without installing it on the host. InfluxDB is optimized for high write throughput and time-based queries, with retention policies, downsampling tasks, and query languages such as Flux and InfluxQL. The image exposes the HTTP API and UI on port 8086, is configured through INFLUXDB_* and DOCKER_INFLUXDB_INIT_* environment variables, and persists data to mounted volumes. It is used by DevOps, observability, and IoT teams, commonly alongside Telegraf and Grafana, and by platform teams that want a reproducible, version-pinned database across environments.

What is Echo's InfluxDB image?

Echo's InfluxDB image is a hardened build of InfluxDB on Echo's hardened base. Echo images are designed to be a drop-in replacement: swap the image reference in your Dockerfile or deployment manifest and CVEs go to zero without disrupting your buckets, retention policies, API tokens, and data volumes. Every image is tested across clouds, image use cases, and deployment targets. Echo ships every image in two variants:

• Distroless variant — optimized for runtime use, with the smallest possible attack surface
• Default variant — includes essential build tools, package managers, and shells for teams that need operational access

For production InfluxDB deployments, the distroless variant keeps all runtime operations — time series writes, queries, downsampling tasks, retention enforcement, and HTTP API operations — fully intact while minimizing exposure; the default variant suits observability and data platform teams that need shell access for running influx CLI commands, backing up data, or debugging query performance.

What is the difference between Echo's InfluxDB image and the public InfluxDB image?

Public InfluxDB images ship on bases that include OS-level tooling convenient for development but which contribute CVEs that accumulate on a time series database used in production. InfluxDB images run continuously with access to telemetry data, API tokens, and TLS keys for client connections. OS-level CVEs in the base image — particularly in libraries such as openssl, zlib, and libc, along with the Go runtime dependencies — create exploitable paths that bypass application-layer controls entirely, allowing attackers to move from a network-reachable service to host-level access. For teams running InfluxDB across many environments, the image is also a steady source of scanner noise in the CI pipeline — every package in the base becomes a finding your security team must triage, even when none of it is reachable from the service. Echo's build retains everything InfluxDB needs for time series writes, queries, downsampling tasks, retention enforcement, and HTTP API operations while removing the packages that don't belong in a production InfluxDB time series database. As we covered in our post on how to protect your company from software supply chain attacks, long-running services that hold sensitive data and listen on the network are among the widest attack surfaces in the container stack. Echo commits to a 7-day SLA for critical and high severity vulnerabilities, and 10 days for medium, low, and unknown — with vulnerabilities triaged within 24 hours. Echo images are recognized by all major scanners and mirrored to all major registries, so they fit into existing pipelines without changing your registry, scanner, or runtime tooling.

FAQ

Can I replace my InfluxDB image with Echo's InfluxDB image?

Yes. Echo's InfluxDB image is a drop-in replacement. Update the FROM line in your Dockerfile and your workloads keep running. HTTP API access, API tokens, buckets and retention settings, Telegraf and Grafana integrations, and mounted data volumes all continue to work without changes to your queries or collectors.

Is Echo's InfluxDB image FIPS-validated?

Yes. Echo's FIPS-validated images use cryptographic modules with an active FIPS 140-3 CMVP certificate, making them fit for federal use — unlike FIPS-compliant images that haven't been validated. This matters for teams running InfluxDB workloads inside FedRAMP boundaries, where a time series database that ingests high-volume timestamped data and serves queries to dashboards and alerting systems must meet cryptographic requirements across the full stack — including the OpenSSL and TLS libraries bundled with the InfluxDB image.

What is Echo's vulnerability management SLA on the InfluxDB image?

Echo commits to a 7-day SLA for critical and high severity vulnerabilities, and 10 days for medium, low, and unknown — with vulnerabilities triaged within 24 hours. Patches are mirrored automatically into your private registry so you're always running a clean version — critical for a long-running service that holds telemetry data, API tokens, and TLS keys for client connections and is reachable over the network.

Is Echo's InfluxDB image distroless?

Echo ships every image in two variants: a distroless variant optimized for runtime use, and a default variant that includes essential build tools, package managers, and shells. For production InfluxDB deployments, the distroless variant is the leaner, more secure choice; for observability and data platform teams that need shell access for running influx CLI commands, backing up data, or debugging query performance, the default variant is the right fit.

How does Echo achieve such a drastic CVE reduction in InfluxDB?

Echo's InfluxDB image is built from source with only the absolute essentials needed to run the InfluxDB time series database, which significantly shrinks the attack surface. Echo also patches aggressively over time, with backports available so you can stay on the InfluxDB version your applications and their dependencies are certified against — avoiding a disruptive upgrade forced purely by OS-level vulnerabilities in the base image rather than by your own requirements.

Will Echo's InfluxDB image help us achieve FedRAMP?

Yes. The hard parts of FedRAMP — managing vulnerabilities, applying fixes, and using FIPS-validated cryptography — are baked into Echo images, including STIG-hardened configuration and ConMon/POA&M-ready reporting. For observability and data platform teams running InfluxDB under an ATO — whether that's infrastructure monitoring, sensor telemetry, or operational metrics for a government system — Echo's hardened InfluxDB image keeps the time series database layer in-boundary and compliant without requiring custom hardening scripts or manual base image patching between compliance cycles.

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