This document discusses tools for working with time series data, including InfluxDB for storing time series data, Telegraf for collecting metrics, and Kapacitor for processing and alerting on metrics. It provides an overview of how to install and use InfluxDB, describes its HTTP and UDP APIs, query language, and advantages over alternatives. Continuous queries, input and output plugins for Telegraf, and alerting capabilities of Kapacitor are also summarized. The document encourages representing log lines and other time-indexed data as compact time series for scalability.