Plugins 〉KapacitorSimpleJson
Dependencies
Grafana
Developer
Last updated
Sign up to receive occasional product news and updates:
Register today! Explore sessions covering OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, & Loki, discover Grafana 12's latest features, and more.
Register
After last year's record sellout, our biggest community event is headed to Seattle on May 6-8! Discover what's new in Grafana 12, learn from 20+ talks covering Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, & Loki, and much more.

See demos of new Grafana Cloud observability workflows, hear community success stories, and leave with what you need to advance your observability roadmap.

Become a Champion
Helping others embodies the spirit of open source, and we want to celebrate your invaluable contributions.
Become a ChampionGolden Grots
Helping others embodies the spirit of open source, and we want to celebrate your invaluable contributions.
Submit your dashboardBecome a Contributor
Helping others embodies the spirit of open source, and we want to celebrate your invaluable contributions.
- Reduce metric cardinality by 30-50%
- Pay only for metrics you use
- Centralize control over your data in Grafana Cloud
Gain insight into unused metrics and optimize metric cardinality with the new cardinality management dashboards and Adaptive Metrics
The KapacitorSimpleJson plugin has been deprecated and is no longer maintained.
KapacitorSimpleJson
- Overview
- Installation
- Related content
kapacitor-grafana-datasource-plugin - a kapacitor backend datasource plugin for grafana
More documentation about datasource plugins can be found in the Docs.
Kapacitor Datasource Setup
- Go to Configurations and select 'Data Sources'.
- Go to 'Add data source' and select 'KapacitorSimpleJson'.
- In the KapacitorSimpleJson Datasource configuration, enter the URL of the kapacitor server. Please do not add '/kapacitor/v1/tasks' or any other apiendpoint in it, just enter the URL including the port number of the kapacitor server if required.
- Save and Test the settings.
Kapacitor Datasource Usage
- While creating a new dashboard use the KapacitorSimpleJson datasource.
- Once you select the KapacitorSimpleJson datasource in the Queries panel,a drop down menu to select the particular database will appear.
- Select the database whose alerts list you want to view.
- Under the Visualisation panel select Table.
- The list of all alerts on the selected database allong with its details will appear in the table.
Dev setup
This plugin requires node 6.10.0
npm install -g yarn
yarn install
npm run build
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Installing KapacitorSimpleJson on Grafana Cloud:
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.
Installing on a local Grafana:
For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.
1. Install the Data Source
Use the grafana-cli tool to install KapacitorSimpleJson from the commandline:
grafana-cli plugins install
The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file for your architecture below and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
2. Configure the Data Source
Accessed from the Grafana main menu, newly installed data sources can be added immediately within the Data Sources section.
Next, click the Add data source button in the upper right. The data source will be available for selection in the Type select box.
To see a list of installed data sources, click the Plugins item in the main menu. Both core data sources and installed data sources will appear.
Installing on a local Grafana:
For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.
1. Install the Data Source
Use the grafana-cli tool to install KapacitorSimpleJson from the commandline:
grafana-cli plugins install
The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file for your architecture below and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
2. Configure the Data Source
Accessed from the Grafana main menu, newly installed data sources can be added immediately within the Data Sources section.
Next, click the Add data source button in the upper right. The data source will be available for selection in the Type select box.
To see a list of installed data sources, click the Plugins item in the main menu. Both core data sources and installed data sources will appear.