Kapacitor
The State of TICKscript Development
In order to get the most out of Kapacitor (the ‘K’ of the TICK Stack) and the monitoring and alerting it provides, you and your team will need to write TICKscripts. TICKscript is a simple yet powerful way to aggregate, analyze,...
Kapacitor and Continuous Queries: How To Decide Which Tool You Need
Here at InfluxData, we have a pretty great community. You all ask smart questions and contribute to the constant improvement of our platform. You’re the butter on our bread and the glaze on our donut. Okay, now I’m hungry. <figcaption> What...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.5.3, Chronograf 1.4.2.3, and Kapacitor 1.4.1
Three maintenance releases are available now: Telegraf 1.5.3 -- release notes Chronograf 1.4.2.3 -- release notes Kapacitor 1.4.1 -- release notes Each release delivers a small number of fixes to address issues reported through the community and by our customers. The binaries for...
Sending Alerts from Kapacitor via MQTT
A long long time ago (in a galaxy far far away) I wrote about using this little GlowOrb I had to show alerts from Kapacitor. It was really pretty cool, and I’ve been using it for demos ever since to great...
Windows Support and Telegraf socket_listener Tutorial Added to TICK Sandbox
We’ve updated the TICK Sandbox with some new functionality and an additional tutorial! The TICK Sandbox is the fastest way to get started with the entire TICK Stack by bringing up each component in Docker, simulating a production InfluxData installation running...
Announcing Flux (formerly IFQL) - A New Query Language and Engine for InfluxDB
Today we’re releasing an early alpha of IFQL, or Influx Query Language. [This was later renamed Flux and is referred to as such below]. It’s an all-new query language and execution engine that works out of the box with InfluxDB 1.4....
TICKscript Templates
Kapacitor is an integral piece of the InfluxData platform, and in fact as the platform continues to develop, we are looking to Kapacitor to do more and more in terms of data processing and workloads. At the core of these workloads...
Enriching Your Data with Kapacitor
From time to time, we have seen requests from the community around querying InfluxDB based on a business period such as the typical business day or broken down into shift periods. Consider the following request: How do I summarize my data...
Using InfluxDB and NODE-RED to Bring Your Data to Life
Putting your IoT data into a backend system is great. Being able to query and visualize your IoT data is even better. Making your IoT data actionable is, really, what should be the ultimate goal of an IoT data system. As...
InfluxDB and Kapacitor: An Enhanced Data Model and Functional Query Language
The current data model in InfluxDB of measurements, tags, and fields is a major change we made near the end of 2014. The query language has largely been the same since the initial introduction of the project in November of 2013....