Kapacitor: Connect to InfluxDB via a Unix Domain Socket

[binary0111]

Feature Request

Proposal:

Add support for connecting to InfluxDB over a unix domain socket

Current behavior:

We can connect to InfluxDB via UDP or HTTP(S) over TCP but not UDS. InfluxDB also supports HTTP over UDS.

See : https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7135
https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3366

Desired behavior:

Be able to talk to InfluxDB on the same host via UDS.

Use case:

1) Improved security
2) Reduce TCP overhead for hosts running the TICK stack on the same box and have limited resources

[james-lawrence]

would also like to connect to kapacitor using a domain socket.