Hey all, is there any command to check that Kapacitor is connected to InfluxDB?? also if there is a successfull connection between InfluxDB and Kapacitor does kapacitor generate a Database in Influxdb ??
thanks
I’m waiting for the answer too.
My kapacitor.conf looks like this and I was expecting _kapacitor database would be created in influxdb but it didn’t :-
{code}
hostname = “localhost”
[stats]
Emit internal statistics about Kapacitor.
enabled = true
stats-interval = “10s”
database = “_kapacitor”
retention-policy= “autogen”
[[influxdb]]
Connect to an InfluxDB cluster
Kapacitor can subscribe, query and write to this cluster.
Using InfluxDB is not required and can be disabled.
enabled = true
default = true
name = “localhost”
urls = [“http://localhost:8086”]
username = “”
password = “”
timeout = 0
{code}
I dont think it should be creating a database, but can you do show subscriptions in your influx, or you can check with kapacitor stats ingress .
I was able to make succesful connection with telegraf, influxdb, grafana and kapacitor !!! 
so just trying to help out if i can .
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You are going to need to manually create the database in Influx
Thank you guys.
On Mac- I created the database _kapacitor in influxdb and that started pushing kapacitor’s metrics to it.
Same I did on Centos- no luck
