core-concepts.md

TICK Stack Core Concepts

What is TICK Stack?

The TICK Stack is a loosely coupled yet tightly integrated set of open source projects designed to handle massive amounts of time-stamped information to support your metrics analysis needs.

Collectively, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf and Kapacitor are known as the TICK Stack.

Using this repository

• Telegraf

  1. Use the scripts in the install-telegraf modules to create a machine image with Telegraf installed.

  2. Configure each application server to execute the run-telegraf script during boot.

• InfluxDB

  1. Use the scripts in the install-influxdb modules to create a machine image with InfluxDB Enterprise installed.

  2. Deploy the server across one or more Instance Groups using the tick-instance-group module.

  3. Configure each server in the Instance Groups to execute the run-influxdb script during boot.

  4. Deploy a load balancer in front of the data node Instance Group.

• Chronograf

  1. Use the scripts in the install-chronograf modules to create a machine image with Chronograf installed.

1. Deploy the image in a single instance group using the tick-instance-group module.
2. Configure the server to execute the run-chronograf script during boot.
3. Deploy a load balancer in front of the instance group.

• Kapacitor

  1. Use the scripts in the install-kapacitor modules to create a machine image with Kapacitor installed.

1. Deploy the image in a single instance group using the tick-instance-group module.
2. Configure the server to execute the run-kapacitor script during boot.
   1. Deploy a load balancer in front of the instance group.

See the examples folder for working sample code.