> Um. Yes. Wait, there are people that use influxdb _without_ kapacitor alerting??? People who use InfluxDB for reporting, not for alarms. Our reporting team

> Um. Yes. Wait, there are people that use influxdb _without_ kapacitor alerting??? People who use InfluxDB for reporting, not for alarms. Our reporting team uses InfluxDB-sourced data to send customers reports on things such as bandwidth utilization and performance statistics, and we also have some reports and dashboards for internal purposes. And honestly, we use Zabbix for a lot of internal metrics too. For simple things, it's much easier for me to just set up an item and a graph in Zabbix than it is to stand up a "cron" job to farm data into InfluxDB ("cron" in quotes because it's not literal cron but a Jenkins-based system). For actually monitoring devices for problems and generating alarms, we use Zabbix for internal systems and Netcool for customer-facing systems. (for the record, I'm an NMS engineer at a mid-sized telecom)