diff --git a/tests/package-lock.json b/tests/package-lock.json
index 64765da388e..1396907021c 100644
--- a/tests/package-lock.json
+++ b/tests/package-lock.json
@@ -1542,6 +1542,11 @@
         "once": "^1.4.0"
       }
     },
+    "eol": {
+      "version": "0.9.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/eol/-/eol-0.9.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-Ds/TEoZjwggRoz/Q2O7SE3i4Jm66mqTDfmdHdq/7DKVk3bro9Q8h6WdXKdPqFLMoqxrDK5SVRzHVPOS6uuGtrg=="
+    },
     "equal-length": {
       "version": "1.0.1",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/equal-length/-/equal-length-1.0.1.tgz",
diff --git a/tests/package.json b/tests/package.json
index 1d4d504fc12..26a7238337f 100644
--- a/tests/package.json
+++ b/tests/package.json
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     "ava": "^2.4.0",
     "azure-storage": "^2.10.3",
     "chalk": "^2.4.2",
+    "eol": "^0.9.1",
     "node-forge": "^0.10.0",
     "shelljs": "^0.8.3",
     "tmp": "^0.1.0",
diff --git a/tests/scalers/influxdb.test.ts b/tests/scalers/influxdb.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4992c22ce45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/scalers/influxdb.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,230 @@
+import test from 'ava'
+import * as eol from 'eol'
+import * as fs from 'fs'
+import * as sh from 'shelljs'
+import * as tmp from 'tmp'
+
+const influxdbJobName = 'influx-client-job'
+const influxdbNamespaceName = 'influxdb'
+const influxdbPodName = 'influxdb-0'
+
+const authTokenPrefixConstant = 20
+const nginxDeploymentName = 'nginx-deployment'
+const orgNamePrefixConstant = 18
+
+function runWriteJob(t) {
+    const influxdbJobTmpFile = tmp.fileSync()
+    fs.writeFileSync(influxdbJobTmpFile.name, influxdbWriteJobYaml)
+
+    t.is(0, sh.exec(`kubectl apply --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} -f ${influxdbJobTmpFile.name}`).code)
+
+    let influxdbJobStatus = '0'
+    for (let i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
+        influxdbJobStatus = sh.exec(`kubectl get job --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} ${influxdbJobName} -o jsonpath='{.status.succeeded}'`).stdout
+        console.log(influxdbJobStatus)
+        if (influxdbJobStatus !== '1') {
+            sh.exec('sleep 2s')
+        } else {
+            break
+        }
+    }
+
+    t.is('1', influxdbJobStatus, 'Job did not complete')
+    
+    // get stdout from logs in running job
+    const podName = sh.exec(`kubectl get pods --namespace influxdb --template '{{range .items}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\\n"}}{{end}}' | grep ${influxdbJobName} | head -1`).stdout
+    console.log('This is the pod', podName)
+
+    const infoOutput = sh.exec(`kubectl logs --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} ${podName}`).stdout
+
+
+    const splitInfo = eol.split(infoOutput)
+
+    const authToken = splitInfo[0].substring(authTokenPrefixConstant)
+    const orgName = splitInfo[1].substring(orgNamePrefixConstant)
+
+    return {
+        authToken,
+        orgName,
+    }
+}
+
+test.before((t) => {
+    const influxdbDeployTmpFile = tmp.fileSync()
+    fs.writeFileSync(influxdbDeployTmpFile.name, influxdbDeployYaml)
+
+    // Deploy influxdb instance
+    t.is(0, sh.exec(`kubectl apply --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} -f ${influxdbDeployTmpFile.name}`).code)
+
+    // Wait for influxdb instance to be ready
+    let influxdbStatus = 'false'
+    for (let i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
+        influxdbStatus = sh.exec(`kubectl get pod ${influxdbPodName} --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} -o jsonpath='{.status.containerStatuses[0].started}'`).stdout
+        if (influxdbStatus !== 'true') {
+            sh.exec('sleep 2s')
+        } else {
+            break
+        }
+    }
+
+    t.is('true', influxdbStatus, 'Influxdb is not in a ready state')
+})
+
+test.serial('Should start off deployment with 0 replicas and scale to 2 replicas when scaled object is applied', (t) => {
+    const { authToken, orgName } = runWriteJob(t)
+    
+    const basicDeploymentTmpFile = tmp.fileSync()
+    fs.writeFileSync(basicDeploymentTmpFile.name, basicDeploymentYaml)
+
+    t.is(0, sh.exec(`kubectl apply --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} -f ${basicDeploymentTmpFile.name}`).code)
+
+    const numReplicasBefore = sh.exec(`kubectl get deployment --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} ${nginxDeploymentName} -o jsonpath='{.spec.replicas}'`).stdout
+    t.is(numReplicasBefore, '0', 'Number of replicas should be 0 to start with')
+
+    const scaledObjectTmpFile = tmp.fileSync()
+    fs.writeFileSync(scaledObjectTmpFile.name, scaledObjectYaml.replace('{{INFLUXDB_AUTH_TOKEN}}', authToken).replace('{{INFLUXDB_ORG_NAME}}', orgName))
+
+    t.is(0, sh.exec(`kubectl apply --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} -f ${scaledObjectTmpFile.name}`).code)
+
+    // polling/waiting for deployment to scale to desired amount of replicas
+    let numReplicasAfter = '1'
+    for (let i = 0; i < 15; i++){
+        numReplicasAfter = sh.exec(`kubectl get deployment --namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName} ${nginxDeploymentName} -o jsonpath='{.spec.replicas}'`).stdout
+        if (numReplicasAfter !== '2') {
+            sh.exec('sleep 2s')
+        } else {
+            break
+        }
+    }
+
+    t.is(numReplicasAfter, '2', 'Number of replicas should have scaled to 2')
+})
+
+test.after((t) => {
+    t.is(0, sh.exec(`kubectl delete namespace ${influxdbNamespaceName}`).code, 'Should delete influxdb namespace')
+})
+
+const influxdbDeployYaml = `
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Namespace
+metadata:
+    name: influxdb
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: StatefulSet
+metadata:
+    labels:
+        app: influxdb
+    name: influxdb
+    namespace: influxdb
+spec:
+    replicas: 1
+    selector:
+        matchLabels:
+            app: influxdb
+    serviceName: influxdb
+    template:
+        metadata:
+            labels:
+                app: influxdb
+        spec:
+            containers:
+              - image: quay.io/influxdb/influxdb:v2.0.1
+                name: influxdb
+                ports:
+                  - containerPort: 8086
+                    name: influxdb
+                volumeMounts:
+                  - mountPath: /root/.influxdbv2
+                    name: data
+    volumeClaimTemplates:
+      - metadata:
+            name: data
+            namespace: influxdb
+        spec:
+            accessModes:
+              - ReadWriteOnce
+            resources:
+                requests:
+                    storage: 10G
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+    name: influxdb
+    namespace: influxdb
+spec:
+    ports:
+      - name: influxdb
+        port: 8086
+        targetPort: 8086
+    selector:
+        app: influxdb
+    type: ClusterIP
+`
+
+const scaledObjectYaml = `
+apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
+kind: ScaledObject
+metadata:
+  name: influxdb-scaler
+  namespace: influxdb
+spec:
+  scaleTargetRef:
+    name: nginx-deployment
+  maxReplicaCount: 2
+  triggers:
+  - type: influxdb
+    metadata:
+      authToken: {{INFLUXDB_AUTH_TOKEN}}
+      organizationName: {{INFLUXDB_ORG_NAME}}
+      serverURL: http://influxdb.influxdb.svc:8086
+      thresholdValue: "3"
+      query: |
+        from(bucket:"bucket")
+        |> range(start: -1h)
+        |> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "stat")
+`
+
+const influxdbWriteJobYaml = `
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: influx-client-job
+  namespace: influxdb
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: influx-client-job
+        image: docker.io/yquansah/influxdb:2-client
+        env:
+        - name: INFLUXDB_SERVER_URL
+          value: http://influxdb:8086
+      restartPolicy: OnFailure
+`
+
+const basicDeploymentYaml = `
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: nginx-deployment
+  labels:
+    app: nginx-deployment
+spec:
+  replicas: 0
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: nginx-deployment
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: nginx-deployment
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: nginx-deployment
+        image: nginx:1.14.2
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 80
+`