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title: InfluxDB tools
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- influxdb/v1.5/clients/
- influxdb/v1.5/write_protocols/json/
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This section covers the available tools for interacting with InfluxDB.
## InfluxDB command line interface (CLI/Shell)
InfluxDB's command line interface (`influx`) is an interactive shell for the
HTTP API that comes with every InfluxDB package.
Use `influx` to write data (manually or from a file), query data interactively,
and view query output in different formats:
![CLI GIF](/img/influxdb/1-3-cli-1-0-beta.gif)
Go straight to the documentation on:
* [Launching `influx`](/influxdb/v1.5/tools/shell/#using-influx)
* [Writing data with `influx`](/influxdb/v1.5/tools/shell/#write-data-to-influxdb-with-insert)
## InfluxDB HTTP API Reference
Reference documentation for the [InfluxDB HTTP API](/influxdb/v1.5/tools/api/).
Go straight to the reference documentation on:
* [Writing data with the HTTP API](/influxdb/v1.5/tools/api/#write)
* [Querying data with the HTTP API](/influxdb/v1.5/tools/api/#query)
For friendlier documentation, see the guides on
[writing data](/influxdb/v1.5/guides/writing_data/) and
[querying data](/influxdb/v1.5/guides/querying_data/) with the HTTP API.
## InfluxDB API client libraries
The list of [client libraries](/influxdb/v1.5/tools/api_client_libraries/) for interacting with the InfluxDB API.
## Influx Inspect disk shard utility
[Influx Inspect](/influxdb/v1.5/tools/influx_inspect/) is a tool designed to view detailed information about on disk shards, as well as export data from a shard to line protocol that can be inserted back into the database.
## Grafana graphs and dashboards
[Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/features/datasources/influxdb/)
is a convenient dashboard tool for visualizing time series data.
It was originally built for Graphite, modeled after Kibana, and since been updated to support InfluxDB.
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Because of the [changes](https://archive.docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.11/concepts/010_vs_011/#breaking-api-changes) to the `SHOW SERIES` and `SHOW TAG VALUES` formats in InfluxDB 0.11, InfluxDB 1.3+ will not work with the Query Editor in Grafana 2.6.
This issue does not affect existing queries and dashboards or users working with Grafana 3.0.
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