InfluxDB

Shardul | Apr 2, 2025 min read

Chronograf

Chronograf is the user interface and administrative component of the InfluxDB 1.x platform. Use templates and libraries to rapidly build dashboards with real-time visualizations.

Chronograf allows you to quickly see the data that you have stored in InfluxDB so you can build robust queries and alerts. It is simple to use and includes templates and libraries to allow you to rapidly build dashboards with real-time visualizations of your data.

  • Dashboards
  • Administration
  • Alerting

Kapacitor

Kapacitor is a native data processing engine for InfluxDB 1.x and is an integrated component in the InfluxDB 2.0 platform. Kapacitor can process both stream and batch data from InfluxDB, acting on this data in real-time via its programming language TICKscript.

  • Action-oriented
  • Streaming analytics
  • Anomaly detection

Telegraf

Telegraf is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.

  • Offers a comprehensive suite of over 300 plugins, covering a wide range of functionalities including system monitoring, cloud services, and message passing
  • Enables the integration of user-defined code to collect, transform, and transmit data efficiently
  • Compiles into a standalone static binary without any external dependencies, ensuring a streamlined deployment process
  • Utilizes TOML for configuration, providing a user-friendly and unambiguous setup experience
  • Developed with contributions from a diverse community of over 1,200 contributors

Downloads

Telegraf

In our case we will be setting up telegraf using docker. Debian-based image

docker pull telegraf

Alpine-based image

docker pull telegraf:alpine