Kapacitor is a real-time data processing engine. It can process stream and batch data from InfluxDB. Similar to Telegraf, it has a plugin-driven design. This makes Kapacitor very flexible. It can easily integrate with many open source libraries and engines. The user can define their own plugins. It is used to publish the subscribed event-driven design pattern, which helps Kapacitor to easily handle streaming real-time data.
Consider the upcoming example.
Use Kapacitor triggering alerts and set up an alert on high CPU usage.
We use the previous telegraf example and send the CPU data to InfluxDB. Then Kapacitor pulls the data from InfluxDB using ticker script, which defines the rules and tells Kapacitor to generate the alert log: ...
