What Is Kapacitor

What Is Kapacitor

Kapacitor is a native data processing engine for InfluxDB 1. x and is an integrated component in the InfluxDB 2.0 platform. Kapacitor can process both stream and batch data from InfluxDB, acting on this data in real-time via its programming language TICKscript.

What is tick InfluxDB?

The TICK Stack is an acronym for a platform of open source tools built to make collection, storage, graphing, and alerting on time series data incredibly easy. … Use it to set up graphs and dashboards of data in InfluxDB and hook up Kapacitor alerts.

How do I start Kapacitor?

  1. Run the following command to generate a Kapacitor configuration file: kapacitord config > kapacitor.conf. …
  2. (Optional) To view log data, run the following command: $ sudo tail -f -n 128 /var/log/kapacitor/kapacitor.log. Kapacitor listens on an HTTP port and posts data to InfluxDB.
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