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Manage Kapacitor Flux tasks

Use the kapacitor CLI and the Kapacitor HTTP API to manage Kapacitor Flux tasks.

Chronograf 1.9+ provides a user interface for enabling or disabling Flux tasks, viewing task logs, and more. Kapacitor Flux task code is read-only in Chronograf. For more information, see Advanced Kapacitor usage.

Create Kapacitor Flux tasks

Use the kapacitor CLI or the Kapacitor HTTP API to create Kapacitor Flux tasks.

List Kapacitor Flux tasks

Use the kapacitor CLI or the Kapacitor HTTP API to list Kapacitor Flux tasks.

Update Kapacitor Flux tasks

Use the kapacitor CLI or the Kapacitor HTTP API to update Kapacitor Flux tasks.

Manage Kapacitor Flux task runs

Use the kapacitor CLI or the Kapacitor HTTP API to manage Kapacitor Flux task runs.

View Kapacitor Flux task logs

Use the kapacitor CLI or the Kapacitor HTTP API to list Kapacitor Flux tasks.

Retry failed Kapacitor Flux tasks

Use the kapacitor flux task retry-failed command to retry failed Kapacitor Flux task runs.

Delete Kapacitor Flux tasks

Use the kapacitor CLI or the Kapacitor HTTP API to delete Kapacitor Flux tasks.

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