Grafana ships with **built in** support for InfluxDB (> 0.9.x).
Grafana ships with built-in support for InfluxDB releases >0.9.x.
There are currently two separate data sources for InfluxDB in Grafana: InfluxDB 0.8.x and the latest InfluxDB release. The API and capabilities of latest (> 0.9.x) InfluxDB are completely different from InfluxDB 0.8.x which is why Grafana handles them as different data sources.
There are separate data sources for InfluxDB in Grafana: the latest InfluxDB release and [InfluxDB 0.8.x](https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-influxdb-08-datasource) that Grafana maintains support for as a convenience for its existing users. InfluxDB no longer maintains release 0.8.
InfluxDB 0.8 is no longer maintained by InfluxDB Inc, but we provide support as a convenience to existing users. You can find it [here](https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-influxdb-08-datasource).
The API and capabilities of the latest release of InfluxDB are completely different from those of InfluxDB 0.8.x, which is why Grafana handles them as different data sources.
Read more about InfluxDB here:
For more information, refer to [Using InfluxDB in Grafana](http://docs.grafana.org/datasources/influxdb/).