Tab Count to InfluxDB Autor: sly

Periodically send the number of open tabs across all windows to an InfluxDB server's HTTP API using POST requests and the InfluxDB Line Protocol. The organization name/ID and bucket name must be configured. The names for the measurement "tab_metrics", field "count" and source "firefox_extension" are hard-coded.

The interval seems to set the minimum time between two submissions to InfluxDB. It doesn't seem to send anything when the tab count has not changed. It works well enough I would say..

This add-on will store an InfluxDB API token. It should be generated with a limited scope that only allows writing to a specific bucket.

Written by Gemini 2.5 Flash because I totally cannot write JavaScript, let alone a whole browser plugin, and I wanted quick results - it kind of worked!