install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install kapacitor

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#kapacitor

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ka/kapacitor/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%

scoop install main/kapacitor

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/kapacitor.json · source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%

winget install --id InfluxData.Kapacitor -e

Windows Package Manager source index · InfluxData.Kapacitor · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Open source time series data processor

Project links

Commands and aliases

kapacitor
kapacitord

history

Project history and usage

Kapacitor is InfluxData's time-series processing and alerting engine, built to process stream and batch data from InfluxDB with TICKscript.

Project history

Kapacitor grew out of the InfluxData time-series stack as the action and processing layer paired with InfluxDB. InfluxData describes it as the native data processing engine for InfluxDB 1.x and an integrated component in the InfluxDB 2.0 platform, able to process both stream and batch data.

Adoption history

Kapacitor became familiar to operators through the TICK stack: Telegraf collected metrics, InfluxDB stored them, Chronograf visualized them, and Kapacitor transformed, analyzed, and acted on them. Its presence in Homebrew, Scoop, winget, and Nix reflects its use as both a server daemon and an operator CLI in monitoring setups.

How it is used

A typical Kapacitor setup runs kapacitord, defines tasks with TICKscript, subscribes to InfluxDB data, and routes alerts or computed output through handlers. The kapacitor CLI and HTTP API are used to define tasks, manage recordings, inspect task state, and administer the daemon.

Why package nerds care

Kapacitor is a classic infrastructure package because it ships both a daemon and a CLI, keeps its main configuration under /etc, and ties package installation directly to service management. For package nerds it marks the era when time-series monitoring stacks were installed as composable Unix services before hosted observability platforms dominated many workflows.

Timeline

2016: Kapacitor's v1.0.0-beta1 GitHub milestone closed on July 22 during the 1.0 stabilization period.
2020: Kapacitor 1.6 added Flux task support and moved user authentication and authorization into the open source distribution.
2025: Kapacitor 1.7.7 release notes deprecated Python 2 user-defined functions ahead of the 1.8 line.

Related projects

InfluxDB is the database Kapacitor was built to process data from.
Telegraf and Chronograf are the other named tools in the TICK stack.
Flux and TICKscript are the query/task languages most closely associated with Kapacitor's evolution.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: orange

formula declares a Homebrew service.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

formula declares a Homebrew service

Signals

metadata:service

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Formula metadata declares a service or daemon block.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: /etc/kapacitor/kapacitor.conf$KAPACITOR_CONFIG_PATH

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: /etc/kapacitor/kapacitor.conf$KAPACITOR_CONFIG_PATH

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`kapacitor`	cli	global executable
`kapacitord`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version1.8.6

manager updated2026-05-26

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor

infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitornone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:kapacitor
Version	1.8.6
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kapacitor
Homepage	https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor
Repository	https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor
Upstream docs	https://docs.influxdata.com/kapacitor/v1
License	MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor.git
Last updated	2026-05-26T17:09:09Z
Pulse	updated
Build dependencies	go, pkgconf, rust
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	kapacitor
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

kapacitor

nix profile install nixpkgs#kapacitor

normalized package name match
Matched by: Kapacitor

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ka/kapacitor/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Scoop95%

main/kapacitor

scoop install main/kapacitor

normalized package name match
Matched by: Kapacitor

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/kapacitor.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

winget95%

InfluxData.Kapacitor

winget install --id InfluxData.Kapacitor -e

normalized package name match
Matched by: Kapacitor

Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: InfluxData.Kapacitor from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/kapacitor.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

Install kapacitor with Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget