title: Changing influxdb configuration (max-values-per-tag = 100000) for influxdb set up as a GKE application
body: <p>I took advantage of the GKE Application console to quickly spin up an instance of Influxdb in my existing GKE cluster. This allowed me to get started with influxdb with relative ease. However, after I started writing data to the cluster, I quickly ran into the 'Max values per tag exceeded limit'. Looking this up, I found articles that recommend setting of the 'max-values-per-tag' to 0 and restarting the influxdb. Problem is, given that I setup influxdb as a GKE application, I don't know if there is a way to change the configuration settings for influxdb via the GKE console or any other way. I did a kubexec to the influxdb pod but don't find this setting in the /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf file. Even if I do change the file, I don't think the value will survive a restart of the pod since I don't believe this file is in a persistent volume. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to change influxdb settings of my influxdb instance that I have spun using GKE application console. </p>
  
  <p>This is the current contents of my /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf file in the influxdb pod</p>
  
  <pre><code>[meta]
    dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/meta"
  
  [data]
    dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/data"
    engine = "tsm1"
    wal-dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/wal" 
  </code></pre>