diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/databases/influxdb.nix b/nixos/modules/services/databases/influxdb.nix
index 08963f7aab7f..8d63f14c67b5 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/databases/influxdb.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/databases/influxdb.nix
@@ -5,43 +5,103 @@ with lib;
 let
   cfg = config.services.influxdb;
 
-  influxdbConfig = pkgs.writeText "config.toml" ''
-    bind-address = "${cfg.bindAddress}"
+  configOptions = recursiveUpdate {
+    meta = {
+      bind-address = ":8088";
+      commit-timeout = "50ms";
+      dir = "${cfg.dataDir}/meta";
+      election-timeout = "1s";
+      heartbeat-timeout = "1s";
+      hostname = "localhost";
+      leader-lease-timeout = "500ms";
+      retention-autocreate = true;
+    };
 
-    [logging]
-    level  = "info"
-    file   = "stdout"
+    data = {
+      dir = "${cfg.dataDir}/data";
+      wal-dir = "${cfg.dataDir}/wal";
+      max-wal-size = 104857600;
+      wal-enable-logging = true;
+      wal-flush-interval = "10m";
+      wal-partition-flush-delay = "2s";
+    };
 
-    [admin]
-    port   = ${toString cfg.adminPort}
-    assets = "${pkgs.influxdb}/share/influxdb/admin"
+    cluster = {
+      shard-writer-timeout = "5s";
+      write-timeout = "5s";
+    };
 
-    [api]
-    port   = ${toString cfg.apiPort}
-    ${cfg.apiExtraConfig}
+    retention = {
+      enabled = true;
+      check-interval = "30m";
+    };
 
-    [input_plugins]
-      ${cfg.inputPluginsConfig}
+    http = {
+      enabled = true;
+      auth-enabled = false;
+      bind-address = ":8086";
+      https-enabled = false;
+      log-enabled = true;
+      pprof-enabled = false;
+      write-tracing = false;
+    };
 
-    [raft]
-    dir = "${cfg.dataDir}/raft"
-    ${cfg.raftConfig}
+    monitor = {
+      store-enabled = false;
+      store-database = "_internal";
+      store-interval = "10s";
+    };
 
-    [storage]
-    dir = "${cfg.dataDir}/db"
-    ${cfg.storageConfig}
+    admin = {
+      enabled = true;
+      bind-address = ":8083";
+      https-enabled = false;
+    };
 
-    [cluster]
-    ${cfg.clusterConfig}
+    graphite = [{
+      enabled = false;
+    }];
 
-    [sharding]
-      ${cfg.shardingConfig}
+    udp = [{
+      enabled = false;
+    }];
 
-    [wal]
-    dir = "${cfg.dataDir}/wal"
-    ${cfg.walConfig}
+    collectd = {
+      enabled = false;
+      typesdb = "${pkgs.collectd}/share/collectd/types.db";
+      database = "collectd_db";
+      port = 25826;
+    };
 
-    ${cfg.extraConfig}
+    opentsdb = {
+      enabled = false;
+    };
+
+    continuous_queries = {
+      enabled = true;
+      log-enabled = true;
+      recompute-previous-n = 2;
+      recompute-no-older-than = "10m";
+      compute-runs-per-interval = 10;
+      compute-no-more-than = "2m";
+    };
+
+    hinted-handoff = {
+      enabled = true;
+      dir = "${cfg.dataDir}/hh";
+      max-size = 1073741824;
+      max-age = "168h";
+      retry-rate-limit = 0;
+      retry-interval = "1s";
+    };
+  } cfg.extraConfig;
+
+  configFile = pkgs.runCommand "config.toml" {
+    buildInputs = [ pkgs.remarshal ];
+  } ''
+    remarshal -if json -of toml \
+      < ${pkgs.writeText "config.json" (builtins.toJSON configOptions)} \
+      > $out
   '';
 in
 {
@@ -82,124 +142,10 @@ in
         type = types.path;
       };
 
-      bindAddress = mkOption {
-        default = "127.0.0.1";
-        description = "Address where influxdb listens";
-        type = types.str;
-      };
-
-      adminPort = mkOption {
-        default = 8083;
-        description = "The port where influxdb admin listens";
-        type = types.int;
-      };
-
-      apiPort = mkOption {
-        default = 8086;
-        description = "The port where influxdb api listens";
-        type = types.int;
-      };
-
-      apiExtraConfig = mkOption {
-        default = ''
-          read-timeout = "5s"
-        '';
-        description = "Extra influxdb api configuration";
-        example = ''
-          ssl-port = 8084
-          ssl-cert = /path/to/cert.pem
-          read-timeout = "5s"
-        '';
-        type = types.lines;
-      };
-
-      inputPluginsConfig = mkOption {
-        default = "";
-        description = "Configuration of influxdb extra plugins";
-        example = ''
-          [input_plugins.graphite]
-          enabled = true
-          port = 2003
-          database = "graphite"
-        '';
-      };
-
-      raftConfig = mkOption {
-        default = ''
-          port = 8090
-        '';
-        description = "Influxdb raft configuration";
-        type = types.lines;
-      };
-
-      storageConfig = mkOption {
-        default = ''
-          write-buffer-size = 10000
-        '';
-        description = "Influxdb raft configuration";
-        type = types.lines;
-      };
-
-      clusterConfig = mkOption {
-        default = ''
-          protobuf_port = 8099
-          protobuf_timeout = "2s"
-          protobuf_heartbeat = "200ms"
-          protobuf_min_backoff = "1s"
-          protobuf_max_backoff = "10s"
-
-          write-buffer-size = 10000
-          max-response-buffer-size = 100
-
-          concurrent-shard-query-limit = 10
-        '';
-        description = "Influxdb cluster configuration";
-        type = types.lines;
-      };
-
-      leveldbConfig = mkOption {
-        default = ''
-          max-open-files = 40
-          lru-cache-size = "200m"
-          max-open-shards = 0
-          point-batch-size = 100
-          write-batch-size = 5000000
-        '';
-        description = "Influxdb leveldb configuration";
-        type = types.lines;
-      };
-
-      shardingConfig = mkOption {
-        default = ''
-          replication-factor = 1
-
-          [sharding.short-term]
-          duration = "7d"
-          split = 1
-
-          [sharding.long-term]
-          duration = "30d"
-          split = 1
-        '';
-        description = "Influxdb sharding configuration";
-        type = types.lines;
-      };
-
-      walConfig = mkOption {
-        default = ''
-          flush-after = 1000
-          bookmark-after = 1000
-          index-after = 1000
-          requests-per-logfile = 10000
-        '';
-        description = "Influxdb write-ahead log configuration";
-        type = types.lines;
-      };
-
       extraConfig = mkOption {
-        default = "";
+        default = {};
         description = "Extra configuration options for influxdb";
-        type = types.string;
+        type = types.attrs;
       };
     };
 
@@ -215,7 +161,7 @@ in
       wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
       after = [ "network-interfaces.target" ];
       serviceConfig = {
-        ExecStart = ''${cfg.package}/bin/influxdb -config "${influxdbConfig}"'';
+        ExecStart = ''${cfg.package}/bin/influxd -config "${configFile}"'';
         User = "${cfg.user}";
         Group = "${cfg.group}";
         PermissionsStartOnly = true;
@@ -224,11 +170,6 @@ in
         mkdir -m 0770 -p ${cfg.dataDir}
         if [ "$(id -u)" = 0 ]; then chown -R ${cfg.user}:${cfg.group} ${cfg.dataDir}; fi
       '';
-      postStart = mkBefore ''
-        until ${pkgs.curl}/bin/curl -s -o /dev/null 'http://${cfg.bindAddress}:${toString cfg.apiPort}/'; do
-          sleep 1;
-        done
-      '';
     };
 
     users.extraUsers = optional (cfg.user == "influxdb") {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/remarshal/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/remarshal/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..91aedac1748f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/remarshal/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ lib, goPackages, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+goPackages.buildGoPackage rec {
+  name = "remarshal-${rev}";
+  rev = "0.3.0";
+  goPackagePath = "github.com/dbohdan/remarshal";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    rev = "v${rev}";
+    owner  = "dbohdan";
+    repo   = "remarshal";
+    sha256 = "0lhsqca3lq3xvdwsmrngv4p6b7k2lkbfnxnk5qj6jdd5y7f4b496";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = with goPackages; [ toml yaml-v2 ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Convert between TOML, YAML and JSON";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    homepage = https://github.com/dbohdan/remarshal;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ offline ];
+    platforms = with platforms; linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nosql/influxdb/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/nosql/influxdb/default.nix
index 92b1b73d0a0f..d3843b0b2523 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/nosql/influxdb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nosql/influxdb/default.nix
@@ -1,37 +1,29 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, zlib, bzip2 }:
+{ lib, goPackages, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-assert stdenv.isLinux;
+goPackages.buildGoPackage rec {
+  name = "influxdb-${rev}";
+  rev = "v0.9.4";
+  goPackagePath = "github.com/influxdb/influxdb";
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "influxdb-${version}";
-  version = "0.8.3";
-  arch = if stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux" then "amd64" else "386";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://s3.amazonaws.com/influxdb/${name}.${arch}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = if arch == "amd64" then
-        "e625902d403434c799f9d9ffc2592a3880f82d435423fde7174e5e4fe0f41148" else
-        "5abe9f432553e66c8aff86c4311eba16b874678d04b52bfe9e2019c01059ec78";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    inherit rev;
+    owner = "influxdb";
+    repo = "influxdb";
+    sha256 = "0yarymppnlpf2xab57i8jx595v47s5mdwnf13719mc1fv3q84yqn";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+  excludedPackages = "test";
 
-  installPhase = ''
-    install -D influxdb $out/bin/influxdb
-    patchelf --set-interpreter "$(cat $NIX_CC/nix-support/dynamic-linker)" $out/bin/influxdb
-    wrapProgram "$out/bin/influxdb" \
-        --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${stdenv.cc.cc}/lib:${stdenv.cc.cc}/lib64:${zlib}/lib:${bzip2}/lib"
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with goPackages; [
+    raft raft-boltdb snappy crypto gogo.protobuf pool pat toml
+    gollectd statik liner
+  ];
 
-    mkdir -p $out/share/influxdb
-    cp -R admin scripts config.toml $out/share/influxdb
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics";
-    homepage = http://influxdb.com/;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "An open-source distributed time series database";
     license = licenses.mit;
-
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.offline ];
-    platforms = ["i686-linux" "x86_64-linux"];
+    homepage = https://influxdb.com/;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ offline ];
+    platforms = with platforms; linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3402795067eb..d0404db8005c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2780,6 +2780,8 @@ let
 
   pytrainer = callPackage ../applications/misc/pytrainer { };
 
+  remarshal = (callPackage ../development/tools/remarshal { }).bin // { outputs = [ "bin" ]; };
+
   openmpi = callPackage ../development/libraries/openmpi { };
 
   openmodelica = callPackage ../applications/science/misc/openmodelica { };
@@ -9304,9 +9306,7 @@ let
   riak = callPackage ../servers/nosql/riak/1.3.1.nix { };
   riak2 = callPackage ../servers/nosql/riak/2.1.1.nix { };
 
-  influxdb = callPackage ../servers/nosql/influxdb { };
-
-  influxdb-backup = goPackages.influxdb-backup.bin // { outputs = [ "bin" ]; };
+  influxdb = (callPackage ../servers/nosql/influxdb { }).bin // { outputs = [ "bin" ]; };
 
   hyperdex = callPackage ../servers/nosql/hyperdex { };
 
@@ -9391,7 +9391,7 @@ let
 
   pyMAILt = builderDefsPackage (callPackage ../servers/xmpp/pyMAILt) {};
 
-  qpid-cpp = callPackage ../servers/amqp/qpid-cpp { 
+  qpid-cpp = callPackage ../servers/amqp/qpid-cpp {
     boost = boost155;
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
index fc89b5f5be0e..d2d9a1025274 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
@@ -1622,15 +1622,6 @@ let
     goPackageAliases = [ "github.com/go-inf/inf" ];
   };
 
-  influxdb = buildFromGitHub {
-    rev = "v0.9.3";
-    owner = "influxdb";
-    repo = "influxdb";
-    sha256 = "0hsvm8ls1g12j1d5ap396vqfpvd0g72hymhczdqg6z96h3zi90bx";
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ raft raft-boltdb snappy crypto gogo.protobuf pool pat toml gollectd statik liner ];
-    excludedPackages = "test";
-  };
-
   influxdb8-client = buildFromGitHub{
     rev = "v0.8.8";
     owner = "influxdb";
@@ -1639,15 +1630,6 @@ let
     subPackages = [ "client" ];
   };
 
-  influxdb-backup = buildFromGitHub {
-    rev = "4556edbffa914a8c17fa1fa1564962a33c6c7596";
-    date = "2014-07-28";
-    owner = "eckardt";
-    repo = "influxdb-backup";
-    sha256 = "2928063e6dfe4be7b69c8e72e4d6a5fc557f0c75e9625fadf607d59b8e80e34b";
-    buildInputs = [ eckardt.influxdb-go ];
-  };
-
   eckardt.influxdb-go = buildGoPackage rec {
     rev = "8b71952efc257237e077c5d0672e936713bad38f";
     name = "influxdb-go-${stdenv.lib.strings.substring 0 7 rev}";