This may be a function of packages available on the underlying EL distributions used as the base for package builds. I believe that there may be an RPM in EPEL, but I personally am hesitant to rely on EPEL for anything. Installation via pip3 should work. I'll forward this to someone involved in releases / builds. ceph.spec.in has %package mgr Summary: Ceph Manager Daemon %if 0%{?suse_version} Group: System/Filesystems %endif Requires: ceph-base = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release} Requires: ceph-mgr-modules-core = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release} Requires: libcephsqlite = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release} %if 0%{?weak_deps} Recommends: ceph-mgr-dashboard = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release} Recommends: ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release} Recommends: ceph-mgr-k8sevents = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release} Recommends: ceph-mgr-cephadm = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release} Recommends: python%{python3_pkgversion}-influxdb %endif I see an RPM package in EPEL9 but not EPEL10, so I suspect that's the root cause. I suspect that 18.2.7 might still work but do not have the wherewithal to test. The EPEL 9 RPM may well have been outdated. Possibly the build just needs to install via pip3. I'll see what I can do.

On May 7, 2026, at 3:02 PM, Robert Sander via ceph-users <ceph-users@ceph.io> wrote:

Hi,

Going from 16.2.15 in packages to cephadm managed containers and upgrading to 18.2.8 we find that the InfluxDB MGR module does not work any more:

# ceph mgr module enable influx Error ENOENT: module 'influx' reports that it cannot run on the active manager daemon: influxdb python module not found (pass --force to force enablement)

The container image does not contain the necessary Python module.

There is a tracker issue open for 18 months now: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/68892

Has the InfluxDB support been deprecated?

I do not believe so, though the cool kids skate Prometheus ;)

Why is it still in the documentation for recent Ceph versions?

See above. Oversights for soft dependencies on rarely-used bits can happen.

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