InfluxData Kapacitor

About

This connector allows you to monitor alarms through the InfluxData Kapacitor HTTP API.

Configuration

Connections

HTTP Connection

This connector uses an HTTP connection and requires the following input during element creation:

HTTP CONNECTION:

• IP address/host: The polling IP or URL of the destination.
• IP port: The IP port of the destination.

How to use

On the General page of the element, you can monitor alarms. HTTP requests are used to retrieve alarms based on the URL specified on the Configuration page.

You can configure the URL manually by changing the Alarm Request URL, which will overwrite the Topic ID and Min-Level settings. Alternatively, you can provide the Topic ID and Min-Level, which will automatically build the expected request URL.

Under the Polling Configuration, you can set the automatic polling interval for the alarms. If the State toggle button is set to Disabled, the alarms will not be polled based on the polling interval, but it will still be possible to trigger the polling with the Refresh on Demand button.

The Debug page displays the response code and full raw response of the last requests. To see the actual response, a built-in DataMiner tool called Stream Viewer can be used. You can access it by right-clicking the element in the Surveyor and selecting View > Stream Viewer.