Installing Kapacitor

This is archived documentation for InfluxData product versions that are no longer maintained. For newer documentation, see the latest InfluxData documentation.

Kapacitor has two binaries:

  • kapacitor – a CLI program for calling the Kapacitor API.
  • kapacitord – the Kapacitor server daemon.

You can either download the binaries directly from the downloads page or go get them:

go get github.com/influxdb/kapacitor/cmd/kapacitor
go get github.com/influxdb/kapacitor/cmd/kapacitord

Configuration

An example configuration file can be found here

Kapacitor can also provide an example config for you using this command:

kapacitord config