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title: Process Data with InfluxDB tasks
seotitle: Process Data with InfluxDB tasks
description: >
  InfluxDB's task engine runs scheduled Flux tasks that process and analyze data.
  This collection of articles provides information about creating and managing InfluxDB tasks.
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InfluxDB's _**task engine**_ is designed for processing and analyzing data.
A task is a scheduled Flux query that take a stream of input data, modify or
analyze it in some way, then perform an action.
Examples include data downsampling, anomaly detection _(Coming)_, alerting _(Coming)_, etc.

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Tasks are a replacement for InfluxDB v1.x's continuous queries.
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The following articles explain how to configure and build tasks using the InfluxDB user interface (UI)
and via raw Flux scripts with the `influx` command line interface (CLI).
They also provide examples of commonly used tasks.

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