InfluxDB is a NoSQL database. In many real-world projects, it typically needs to develop data collect applications to collect and send data to the process engine, and then the process engine will process the collected matrix to save in the database. Fortunately, InfluxDB provides this kind of ecosystem to make development much easier. In typical InfluxDB ecosystem components, Telegraf is the agent to collect and send data. Kapacitor is a real-time streaming data process engine. Chronograf is a dashboard tool and is used for visualizing time-series data. In this section, we will discuss Telegraf and Kapacitor:
Telegraf is a plugin-driven agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, reporting, and writing matrix. It has more than 100 plugins. It is written in Go and compiled as a standalone library; it doesn't have external dependency. The plugin development is easy. You can write your own plugins. This plugin-driven architecture can easily fit into your application...