Warning! This page documents an old version of Kapacitor, which is no longer actively developed. Kapacitor v1.3 is the most recent stable version of Kapacitor.
Kapacitor has two binaries:
- kapacitor – a CLI program for calling the Kapacitor API.
- kapacitord – the Kapacitor server daemon.
You can either download the binaries directly from the downloads page or go get them:
go get github.com/influxdb/kapacitor/cmd/kapacitor
go get github.com/influxdb/kapacitor/cmd/kapacitord
Configuration
An example configuration file can be found here
Kapacitor can also provide an example config for you using this command:
kapacitord config