TL;DR InfluxDB Tech Tips – Using Tasks and Checks for Monitoring with InfluxDB

InfluxDB provides a monitoring workflow that involves querying data, assigning a status level based on specific conditions, storing the output in a measurement, and sending notifications to an endpoint based on notification rules. To create a check, users can navigate to the Alerts tab, select a threshold or deadman check type, name their check, define aggregation functions, configure thresholds, and assign custom statuses. Users can also view the output of their checks by navigating to the default _monitoring bucket in their InfluxDB instance. If data transformation is required before creating a check, users can create tasks to perform data transformations and then create a check on the transformed data. This allows for more complex data analysis and notification rules, enabling users to add custom statuses beyond the standard four levels (CRIT, WARN, INFO, OK).