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Kapacitor

Real-time streaming data processing and alerting engine

Monitoring & Status ★ 2.4k stars Medium setup MIT

Kapacitor is the native data processing engine of the InfluxData stack, used to process, transform, and act on time series data in real time or batch mode. It defines alerts and anomaly detection through its TICKscript language and integrates with many notification channels.

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Key features

  • Stream and batch processing
  • TICKscript alerting language
  • Anomaly detection support
  • Many alert handler integrations

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Tight InfluxDB integration
  • Flexible alert routing

Trade-offs

  • TICKscript has a learning curve
  • Best paired with InfluxDB 1.x

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