# Install kapacitor with Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget

Open source time series data processor. Version 1.8.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-26.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:kapacitor
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kapacitor
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#kapacitor
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/kapacitor
```

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

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id InfluxData.Kapacitor -e
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:kapacitor
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kapacitor>
- **Version:** 1.8.6
- **Source summary:** Open source time series data processor
- **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
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- kapacitor (cli)
- kapacitord (cli)
- kapacitor (alias)
- kapacitord (alias)

## Build dependencies

- go
- pkgconf
- rust

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Service: declared
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.8.6
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-26
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## 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

- <https://docs.influxdata.com/kapacitor/v1/introduction/getting-started/>
- <https://docs.influxdata.com/kapacitor/v1/reference/about_the_project/release-notes/>
- <https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/releases>
- <https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/kapacitor/>


## Security Notes

formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## 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

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

## Credential files

- Unix: /etc/kapacitor/kapacitor.conf, $KAPACITOR_CONFIG_PATH
## 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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - kapacitor: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ka/kapacitor/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/kapacitor: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/kapacitor.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - InfluxData.Kapacitor: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: InfluxData.Kapacitor from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Related links

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- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [chronograf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/chronograf/) - Popular package that depends on this formula.
- [influxdb-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/influxdb-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, influxdb, time-series.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/kapacitor.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/kapacitor.yml)


## Sources

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