From 5a5ba749f2a0544b7c06b5412ccaa3defffeea9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:08:11 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] README.md: add an example on how Influx line protocol is
 converted into Prometheus data points

---
 README.md | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ba910ee63a..816e1837b5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -209,6 +209,19 @@ VictoriaMetrics maps Influx data using the following rules:
 * Field values are mapped to time series values
 * Tags are mapped to Prometheus labels as-is
 
+For example, the following Influx line:
+
+```
+foo,tag1=value1,tag2=value2 field1=12,field2=40
+```
+
+is converted into the following Prometheus data points:
+
+```
+foo.field1{tag1="value1", tag2="value2"} 12
+foo.field2{tag1="value1", tag2="value2"} 40
+```
+
 
 ### How to send data from Graphite-compatible agents such as [StatsD](https://github.com/etsy/statsd)?