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---
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title: Flux data scripting language
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description: >
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Flux is a functional data scripting language designed for querying, analyzing, and acting on time series data.
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menu:
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influxdb_v1:
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name: Flux
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weight: 80
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alt_links:
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v2: /influxdb/v2/query-data/get-started/
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---
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Flux is a functional data scripting language designed for querying, analyzing, and acting on time series data.
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It takes the power of [InfluxQL](/influxdb/v1/query_language/spec/) and the functionality of [TICKscript](/kapacitor/v1/reference/tick/introduction/) and combines them into a single, unified syntax.
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> Flux is production-ready and included with [InfluxDB v1.8+](/influxdb/v1/).
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## Flux design principles
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Flux is designed to be usable, readable, flexible, composable, testable, contributable, and shareable.
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Its syntax is largely inspired by [2018's most popular scripting language](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#technology),
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JavaScript, and takes a functional approach to data exploration and processing.
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The following example illustrates pulling data from a bucket (similar to an InfluxQL database) for the last five minutes,
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filtering that data by the `cpu` measurement and the `cpu=cpu-total` tag, windowing the data in 1 minute intervals,
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and calculating the average of each window:
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```js
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from(bucket:"telegraf/autogen")
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|> range(start:-1h)
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|> filter(fn:(r) =>
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r._measurement == "cpu" and
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r.cpu == "cpu-total"
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)
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|> aggregateWindow(every: 1m, fn: mean)
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```
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