Telegraf
InfluxData Releases Telegraf 1.21.2 with support for M1 MacOS and RISC-V Linux Builds
Happy new year! A new Telegraf maintenance release includes support for M1 devices and RISC-V Linux builds and a series of SNMP plugin bug fixes. The new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.21.2 – Release Notes Builds Added...
MQTT Topic and Payload Parsing with Telegraf
Buckle up, this one isn’t short…but I’m hoping it will be thoroughly informative! This post is about Telegraf as a consumer of MQTT messages in the context of writing them to InfluxDB. If you are interested in and unfamiliar with Telegraf,...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.21.1
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.21.1 – Release Notes Input plugin updates File, Tail, Directory Monitoring Input We fixed a panic for all plugins using the SetParserFunc due to the parsers' missing Log. OpenStack Input Renamed...
InfluxData Releases Telegraf 1.21.0
A new Telegraf feature-bearing release includes seven new plugins, SNMP plugin performance improvements, and plugin deprecation warnings. Telegraf 1.21.0 – release notes The binaries for the latest Telegraf release can be found on our downloads page. Many thanks to the 70+...
Expand Kubernetes Monitoring with Telegraf Operator
This article was originally published in The New Stack. Monitoring is a critical aspect of cloud computing. At any time, you need to know what’s working, what isn’t, and have the ability to respond to changes occurring in a given environment....
Plugin Spotlight: Exec & Execd
Telegraf comes included with over 200+ input plugins that collect metrics and events from a comprehensive list of sources. While these plugins cover a large number of use cases, Telegraf provides another mechanism to give users the power to meet nearly...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.20.4
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.20.4 – Release Notes This maintenance release of Telegraf includes the following improvements and linter fixes for plugins/inputs/[h-o] (Thank you Pawe?!). Builds Removed Modbus Input Plugin from the build on OpenBSD. The...
How to Monitor Your Internet Speed with Telegraf & InfluxDB Cloud
Complaining about your crappy internet speed is a tale as old as time. Given the rapid shift for so many of us to work from home, our internet speed now affects us on a daily basis. Where in my house should...
Docker: Run Telegraf as non-root
The Telegraf 1.20.3 release changed the official Telegraf DockerHub image to no longer run the Telegraf service as root. With this change, the Telegraf service runs with the least amount of privileges in the container to enhance security given the wide...
How to Parse JSON with Telegraf into InfluxDB Cloud
In Telegraf 1.19 we released a new JSON parser (json_v2). The original parser suffered from an inflexible configuration, and there were a handful of pretty common cases where data could not be parsed. While a lot of edge cases for parsing...