# Kapacitor reading/writing to remote influxdb

**URL:** https://community.influxdata.com/t/kapacitor-reading-writing-to-remote-influxdb/22732
**Category:** Kapacitor
**Tags:** influxdb, kapacitor, chronograf
**Created:** [November 29, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/kapacitor-reading-writing-to-remote-influxdb/22732 "2021-11-29T17:42:36Z")
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### Author: ![Ryebot33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@Ryebot33](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Ryebot33)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/kapacitor-reading-writing-to-remote-influxdb/22732/1 "2021-11-29T17:42:36Z")

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I am using Kapacitor as my rules engine and I want to read and write to a remote influxdb instance. I am using docker as the setup and have the environment set up as:

kapacitor:  
environment:  
- KAPACITOR\_INFLUXDB\_0\_URLS\_0=http://\<remote\_ip\>:8086

I am able to use chronograf to see the data, it just seems as though kapacitor is having an issue reading/writing to the remote instance. Any suggestions on what I could check?