---
sidebar_label: OpenTSDB Line Protocol
title: OpenTSDB Line Protocol
---

import Tabs from "@theme/Tabs";
import TabItem from "@theme/TabItem";
import JavaTelnet from "./_java_opts_telnet.mdx";
import PyTelnet from "./_py_opts_telnet.mdx";
import GoTelnet from "./_go_opts_telnet.mdx";
import RustTelnet from "./_rust_opts_telnet.mdx";
import NodeTelnet from "./_js_opts_telnet.mdx";
import CsTelnet from "./_cs_opts_telnet.mdx";
import CTelnet from "./_c_opts_telnet.mdx";

## Introduction

A single line of text is used in OpenTSDB line protocol to represent one row of data. OpenTSDB employs single column data model, so one line can only contain a single data column. There can be multiple tags. Each line contains 4 parts as below:

```
<metric> <timestamp> <value> <tagk_1>=<tagv_1>[ <tagk_n>=<tagv_n>]
```

- `metric` will be used as the STable name.
- `timestamp` is the timestamp of current row of data. The time precision will be determined automatically based on the length of the timestamp. Second and millisecond time precision are supported.
- `value` is a metric which must be a numeric value, the corresponding column name is "value".
- The last part is the tag set separated by spaces, all tags will be converted to nchar type automatically.

For example:

```txt
meters.current 1648432611250 11.3 location=California.LoSangeles groupid=3
```

Please refer to [OpenTSDB Telnet API](http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/api_telnet/put.html) for more details.

## Examples

<Tabs defaultValue="java" groupId="lang">
  <TabItem label="Java" value="java">
    <JavaTelnet />
  </TabItem>
  <TabItem label="Python" value="Python">
    <PyTelnet />
  </TabItem>
  <TabItem label="Go" value="go">
    <GoTelnet />
  </TabItem>
  <TabItem label="Rust" value="rust">
    <RustTelnet />
  </TabItem>
  <TabItem label="Node.js" value="nodejs">
    <NodeTelnet />
  </TabItem>
  <TabItem label="C#" value="csharp">
    <CsTelnet />
  </TabItem>
  <TabItem label="C" value="c">
    <CTelnet />
  </TabItem>
</Tabs>

2 STables will be crated automatically while each STable has 4 rows of data in the above sample code.

```cmd
taos> use test;
Database changed.

taos> show STables;
              name              |      created_time       | columns |  tags  |   tables    |
============================================================================================
 meters.current                 | 2022-03-30 17:04:10.877 |       2 |      2 |           2 |
 meters.voltage                 | 2022-03-30 17:04:10.882 |       2 |      2 |           2 |
Query OK, 2 row(s) in set (0.002544s)

taos> select tbname, * from `meters.current`;
             tbname             |           ts            |           value           | groupid |            location            |
==================================================================================================================================
 t_0e7bcfa21a02331c06764f275... | 2022-03-28 09:56:51.249 |              10.800000000 | 3       | California.LoSangeles                |
 t_0e7bcfa21a02331c06764f275... | 2022-03-28 09:56:51.250 |              11.300000000 | 3       | California.LoSangeles                |
 t_7e7b26dd860280242c6492a16... | 2022-03-28 09:56:51.249 |              10.300000000 | 2       | California.SanFrancisco               |
 t_7e7b26dd860280242c6492a16... | 2022-03-28 09:56:51.250 |              12.600000000 | 2       | California.SanFrancisco               |
Query OK, 4 row(s) in set (0.005399s)
```