User Defined Functions in Kapacitor Tutorial Course

Course Description

Kapacitor is a data processing engine that can be used for both stream and batch processing. This course will give you a basic Kapacitor tutorial covering how to create user defined functions. First it will cover the basics of user defined functions and implement a simple function to calculate a moving average. In the last part of the course you will learn how to configure your user defined function in Kapacitor and then use that function from within a TICKscript and how to create a task to run your TICKscript and function on a regular interval.

What you'll learn

About Kapacitor User Defined Functions (UDF)
When you should use a UDF
How to set a UDF as a Kapacitor Task
How to take advantage of the Kapacitor ecosystem

Requirements

Intermediate to advanced knowledge of InfluxDB
Knowledge of Kapacitor
1.x version of InfluxDB
Basic knowledge of Python

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Instructor

Michael DeSa

Michael DeSa is a Software Engineer with extensive experience in InfluxDB technologies. He has a degree in Math, with a focus on Abstract Algebra, from the University of California, at Berkeley and was an Instructor of the Web Development Immersive series at General Assembly in San Francisco.