Guides

The following is a list of examples in no particular order that demonstrate some of the features of Kapacitor. These guides assume you’re familiar with the basics of defining, recording, replaying and enabling tasks within Kapacitor. See the getting started guide if you need a refresher.

Calculate Rates across joined series + Backfill

Learn how to join two series and calculate a combined results, plus how to perform that operation on historical data.

Live Leaderboard of game scores

See how you can use Kapacitor to create a live updating leaderboard for a game.

Custom Anomaly Detection

Integrate your custom anomaly detection algorithm with Kapacitor.

Continuous Queries

See how to use Kapacitor as a continuous query engine.

Socket based UDF

Learn how to write a simple socket based UDF.

Template Tasks

Use task templates to reduce the amount of TICKscripts you need to write.

Reference TICKscripts

Some examples of TICKscripts built against common Telegraf plugin data.

Event Handler Setup

Step-by-step instructions for setting up event handlers with Kapacitor.