Working with Kapacitor

The documents in this section present the key features of the Kapacitor daemon (kapacitord) and the Kapacitor client (kapacitor).

• Using Kapacitor in Chronograf
  • Presents how Kapacitor is integrated with the Chronograf graphical user interface application for managing tasks and alerts.
• Kapacitor HTTP API reference
  • Presents the HTTP API and how to use it to update tasks and the Kapacitor configuration.
• Kapacitor command line client
  • Overview of the Kapacitor command line client, commands, data sampling, and working with topics and tasks.
• Kapacitor alerts overview
  • Presents an overview of the Kapacitor alerting system.
• Using Kapacitor alert topics
  • A walk-through on creating and using alert topics.
• Using Kapacitor event handlers to send alert messages
  • Presents setting up event handlers for HipChat and Telegraf, which can serve as a blueprint for other event handlers.
• Using Kapacitor template tasks
  • Use Kapacitor task templates to reduce the amount of TICKscripts you need to write
• Discovering and scraping data with Kapacitor
  • Introduces the discovery and scraping features of Kapacitor, which allow metrics to be dynamically pulled into Kapacitor and then written to InfluxDB.