Daily queries hit Core file limit
Querying one day of rarely sampled data in InfluxDB 3 Core exceeds the file limit even with 48 small files per day.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 6 January 2026 · last reported 6 January 2026
What's going wrong
A user sampling data twice an hour found that one day held 48 small Parquet files, and a query for that day returned an error about the file limit, even after raising the limit to 1,000.
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