diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.yml b/docker/docker-compose.yml
index 8763af056..22e709665 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ services:
       - INFLUXDB_ADMIN_USER=root
       - INFLUXDB_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
       - INFLUXDB_HTTP_AUTH_ENABLED=true
+      # The following variables are used to scale InfluxDB to larger amounts of data. It remains to be seen how this 
+      # will affect performance in the long run.
+      - INFLUXDB_DATA_MAX_SERIES_PER_DATABASE=0
+      - INFLUXDB_DATA_MAX_VALUES_PER_TAG=0
     ports:
       - 8086:8086