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title: Work with Kapacitor
description: Key features of the Kapacitor daemon and client.
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The documents in this section present the key features of the Kapacitor daemon
(`kapacitord`) and the Kapacitor client (`kapacitor`).

* [Kapacitor and Chronograf](/kapacitor/v1/working/kapa-and-chrono/) – presents how Kapacitor is integrated with the Chronograf graphical user interface application for managing tasks and alerts.
* [Kapacitor API Reference documentation](/kapacitor/v1/working/api/) – presents the HTTP API and how to use it to update tasks and the Kapacitor configuration.
* [Alerts - Overview](/kapacitor/v1/working/alerts/) – presents an overview of the Kapacitor alerting system.
* [Alerts - Using topics](/kapacitor/v1/working/using_alert_topics/) – a walk-through on creating and using alert topics.
* [Alerts - Event handler setup](/kapacitor/v1/working/event-handler-setup/) – presents setting up event handlers for HipChat and Telegraf, which can serve as a blueprint for other event handlers.
* [Dynamic data scraping](/kapacitor/v1/working/scraping-and-discovery/) – introduces the discovery and scraping features, which allow metrics to be dynamically pulled into Kapacitor and then written to InfluxDB.