Kapacitor, a monitoring and alerting tool for time series data, has been made available on InfluxData's cloud platform, offering a fully managed instance starting at $200 per month. Existing and new customers can now use Kapacitor's API to create and enable TICKscripts that send alerts based on various criteria such as CPU utilization, moving averages, and outliers. The tool is designed to perform checks every 10 seconds, allowing for real-time monitoring of time series data. With the integration with InfluxDB Cloud, users can access a range of features including alerts, Grafana, and more.