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title: Chronograf documentation
description: Chronograf is InfluxData’s open source web application. Use Chronograf with the other components of the TICK stack to visualize your monitoring data and easily create alerting and automation rules.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/chronograf/v1/
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product: Chronograf
version: v1
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# Chronograf documentation

Chronograf is InfluxData’s open source web application. Use Chronograf with the other components of the [TICK stack](https://www.influxdata.com/products/) to visualize your monitoring data and easily create alerting and automation rules.

## Key features

### Infrastructure monitoring

-   View all hosts and their statuses in your infrastructure
-   View the configured applications on each host
-   Monitor your applications with Chronograf’s [pre-created dashboards](/chronograf/v1/guides/using-precreated-dashboards/)

### Alert management

Chronograf offers a UI for [Kapacitor](https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor), InfluxData’s data processing framework for creating alerts, running ETL jobs, and detecting anomalies in your data.

-   Generate threshold, relative, and deadman alerts on your data
-   Easily enable and disable existing alert rules
-   View all active alerts on an alert dashboard
-   Send alerts to the supported event handlers, including Slack, PagerDuty, HipChat, and [more](/chronograf/v1/guides/configuring-alert-endpoints/)

### Data visualization

-   Monitor your application data with Chronograf’s [pre-created dashboards](/chronograf/v1/guides/using-precreated-dashboards/)
-   Create your own customized dashboards complete with various graph types and [template variables](/chronograf/v1/guides/dashboard-template-variables/)
-   Investigate your data with Chronograf’s data explorer and query templates

### Database management

-   Create and delete databases and retention policies
-   View currently-running queries and stop inefficient queries from overloading your system
-   Create, delete, and assign permissions to users (Chronograf supports [InfluxDB OSS](/influxdb/v1/administration/authentication_and_authorization/#authorization) and InfluxDB Enterprise user management)

### Query management

-   View a list of databases, queries and their status
-   Kill a query
-   Download a list of queries in your instance to a CSV file

### Multi-organization and multi-user support

**Note:** To use this feature, OAuth 2.0 authentication must be configured. Once configured, the Chronograf Admin tab on the Admin menu is visible. For details, see [Managing Chronograf security](/chronograf/v1/administration/managing-security/).

-   Create organizations and assign users to those organizations
-   Restrict access to administrative functions
-   Allow users to set up and maintain unique dashboards for their organizations