Blog – InfluxData

Security improvements now available in Kapacitor 1.6.4

Sam Dillard — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:47:56 -0700

Kapacitor 1.6.4 – release notes Includes the following fixes and improvements: Security For those integrating Kapacitor with Kafka, we've added support for SASL-based security authentication. This is similar to the security provided by Telegraf for integrating with Kafka. We've deprecated additional...

Security and extensibility enhancements are now available in Kapacitor 1.6.3

Tim Hall — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:01:54 -0700

Security and extensibility enhancements are now available in Kapacitor 1.6.3. Kapacitor 1.6.3 – release notes Kapacitor 1.6.3 includes the following fixes and improvements: Security We've deprecated ciphers that were identified as "weak" as part of the sweet32 attack. TICKscript enhancements - additional config...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor 1.6.2

Tim Hall — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 04:00:48 -0700

A new maintenance release of Kapacitor is available now. Kapacitor 1.6.2 release notes This release for Kapacitor includes the following fixes and improvements: TICKscript Enhancement jsonCompact - For alert templates, row templates, and details templates, add support for third-party services that...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor 1.6.1

Tim Hall — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:18:55 -0700

A new feature-bearing release of Kapacitor is available now. Kapacitor 1.6.1 release notes This release for Kapacitor includes the following fixes and improvements: Flux Tasks Kapacitor now includes an embedded Flux engine to allow for Flux scripts to be scheduled. A...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor 1.5.9

Tim Hall — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 04:00:11 -0700

A new maintenance release for Kapacitor is available now. Kapacitor 1.5.9 release notes Important Highlight Gzip compression is turned on by default for data being written to InfluxDB starting with this release. There was a defect associated with this change which...

Kapacitor 1.5.8 Rollback Announcement

Tim Hall — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:10:54 -0700

If you are currently using Kapacitor 1.5.8, we strongly recommend that you downgrade immediately to Kapacitor 1.5.7. Details We have detected a defect in Kapacitor v1.5.8 wherein large batch tasks may not completely write all points back to InfluxDB. This primarily...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor 1.5.8

Tim Hall — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:57:42 -0700

A new maintenance release for Kapacitor is available now. Kapacitor 1.5.8 release notes Important Highlight We’ve recently updated the package validation mechanics to use SHA-256. Versions prior to 1.5.5 used MD5 which had some known security vulnerabilities. This release for Kapacitor...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor 1.5.7

Tim Hall — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:00:14 -0700

A new maintenance release for Kapacitor is available now. Kapacitor 1.5.7 release notes Important Highlight We’ve recently updated the package validation mechanics to use SHA-256. Versions prior to 1.5.5 used MD5 which had some known security vulnerabilities. This release for Kapacitor...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor 1.5.6

Tim Hall — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:49:07 -0700

A new maintenance release for Kapacitor is available now. Kapacitor 1.5.6 release notes Important Highlight: We’ve recently updated the package validation mechanics to use SHA-256. Versions prior to 1.5.5 used MD5 which had some known security vulnerabilities. This release for Kapacitor...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor and Kapacitor Enterprise 1.5.5

Tim Hall — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:00:48 -0700

Two new maintenance releases for Kapacitor and Kapacitor Enterprise are available now. Kapacitor 1.5.5 release notes Kapacitor Enterprise 1.5.5 release notes Important Highlight We’ve updated the package validation mechanics to use SHA-256. Previously versions used MD5 which had some known security...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor and Kapacitor Enterprise 1.5.4

Tim Hall — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:20:47 -0700

Two new maintenance releases for Kapacitor and Kapacitor Enterprise are available now. Kapacitor 1.5.4 release notes Kapacitor Enterprise 1.5.4 release notes This maintenance release for Kapacitor includes the following updates: Added the ability to use templates when specifying MQTT (message queue...

Release Announcement: Kapacitor and Kapacitor Enterprise 1.5.3

Tim Hall — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:22:07 -0700

New maintenance releases for Kapacitor and Kapacitor Enterprise are available now. Kapacitor 1.5.3 release notes Kapacitor Enterprise 1.5.3 release notes This maintenance release for Kapacitor includes the following updates: Security Enhancements Add ability to skip SSL verification with an alert post...

Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.9.1, InfluxDB 1.7.2, Chronograf 1.7.4, and Kapacitor 1.5.2

Tim Hall — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:39:36 -0700

Four new maintenance releases for Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor are all available now. Telegraf 1.9.1 release notes InfluxDB 1.7.2 release notes Chronograf 1.7.4 release notes Kapacitor 1.5.2 release notes This maintenance release of Telegraf 1.9.1 includes improvements to the following...

The Developer's Guide to Not Losing the Metrics You Need

Gianluca Arbezzano — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 09:00:41 -0700

Gathering and storing metrics is one of the many parallel tasks a developer must do through the production cycle. Since you never know when an adverse event might occur, you have the metric you need to debug a problem when and...

How to Use the Open Source TICK Stack to Spin Up a Modern Monitoring System for Your Application and Infrastructure

Gianluca Arbezzano — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:00:40 -0700

Our applications speak, and time series is one of their languages. DevOps, cloud computing and containers have changed how we write and run our applications. This post shows what InfluxData and the community is building to provide a modern and flexible...

OpenMetrics to Join the CNCF

Noah Crowley — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:00:32 -0700

Last Friday, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the acceptance of OpenMetrics, an open source metrics exposition format and evolution of the Prometheus exposition format, into the CNCF Sandbox. The CNCF is an “open source software foundation dedicated to making cloud...

Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.7.3, InfluxDB 1.6.1, and Kapacitor 1.5.1

Tim Hall — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 05:00:16 -0700

A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.7.3 release notes This maintenance release for Telegraf includes the following updates: Agent The output buffer is now locked when adding new metrics to avoid concurrency issues. The agent will preserve...

Chronograf 1.5 and Kapacitor 1.5 Released

Russ Savage — Wed, 23 May 2018 14:17:09 -0700

Chronograf started out a year and a half ago with one goal: be the user interface for the TICK Stack. Our goal hasn’t changed, but the way our users are leveraging our stack for metrics and events is evolving, and that...

Release Announcement: Chronograf 1.5 and Kapacitor 1.5

Russ Savage — Wed, 23 May 2018 14:00:31 -0700

A new feature-bearing release for Chronograf is now available: Chronograf 1.5.0 release notes. Key feature highlights from the release include: Users can now visualize tabular data using the table graph type in dashboards Added support for latest Kapacitor alert endpoints for Kafka,...

Running the TICK Stack on Windows

Noah Crowley — Thu, 17 May 2018 12:00:06 -0700

Every now and then we get requests from a developer using Windows, or a Windows-using participant at one of our workshops or events. Windows support is considered “experimental” for all components except Telegraf, but the full TICK Stack will still build...

The State of TICKscript Development

Russ Savage — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:04:52 -0700

In order to get the most out of Kapacitor (the ‘K’ of the TICK Stack) and the monitoring and alerting it provides, you and your team will need to write TICKscripts. TICKscript is a simple yet powerful way to aggregate, analyze,...

Kapacitor and Continuous Queries: How To Decide Which Tool You Need

Katy Farmer — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:18:40 -0700

Here at InfluxData, we have a pretty great community. You all ask smart questions and contribute to the constant improvement of our platform. You’re the butter on our bread and the glaze on our donut. Okay, now I’m hungry.

What...

Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.5.3, Chronograf 1.4.2.3, and Kapacitor 1.4.1

Tim Hall — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:40:48 -0700

Three maintenance releases are available now: Telegraf 1.5.3 -- release notes Chronograf 1.4.2.3 -- release notes Kapacitor 1.4.1 -- release notes Each release delivers a small number of fixes to address issues reported through the community and by our customers. The binaries for...

Sending Alerts from Kapacitor via MQTT

David G. Simmons — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:53:02 -0700

A long long time ago (in a galaxy far far away) I wrote about using this little GlowOrb I had to show alerts from Kapacitor. It was really pretty cool, and I’ve been using it for demos ever since to great...

Windows Support and Telegraf socket_listener Tutorial Added to TICK Sandbox

Noah Crowley — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:19:24 -0700

We’ve updated the TICK Sandbox with some new functionality and an additional tutorial! The TICK Sandbox is the fastest way to get started with the entire TICK Stack by bringing up each component in Docker, simulating a production InfluxData installation running...

Announcing Flux (formerly IFQL) - A New Query Language and Engine for InfluxDB

Paul Dix — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:52:05 -0700

Today we’re releasing an early alpha of IFQL, or Influx Query Language. [This was later renamed Flux and is referred to as such below]. It’s an all-new query language and execution engine that works out of the box with InfluxDB 1.4....

TICKscript Templates

Dave Patton — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 04:00:03 -0700

Kapacitor is an integral piece of the InfluxData platform, and in fact as the platform continues to develop, we are looking to Kapacitor to do more and more in terms of data processing and workloads. At the core of these workloads...

Enriching Your Data with Kapacitor

Alan Caldera — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 06:00:54 -0700

From time to time, we have seen requests from the community around querying InfluxDB based on a business period such as the typical business day or broken down into shift periods. Consider the following request: How do I summarize my data...

Using InfluxDB and NODE-RED to Bring Your Data to Life

David G. Simmons — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 12:28:13 -0700

Putting your IoT data into a backend system is great. Being able to query and visualize your IoT data is even better. Making your IoT data actionable is, really, what should be the ultimate goal of an IoT data system. As...

InfluxDB and Kapacitor: An Enhanced Data Model and Functional Query Language

Paul Dix — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:39:23 -0700

The current data model in InfluxDB of measurements, tags, and fields is a major change we made near the end of 2014. The query language has largely been the same since the initial introduction of the project in November of 2013....

TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips: Identical Field Keys & Tag Keys, Existing Kapacitor TICKscripts in Chronograf & More

Regan Kuchan — Thu, 18 May 2017 04:00:56 -0700

In this post, we recap some new material that you might have missed in the past week or so. Check in next week for the most interesting TICK-stack related issues, workarounds, how-tos, and Q&A from GitHub, IRC, and the InfluxData Community. Identical field...