Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.16.0

By Samantha Wang / Product
Oct 22, 2020

A new feature-bearing release for Telegraf is now available

• Telegraf 1.16.0 — release notes

The binaries for the latest open source release can be found on our downloads page.

Many thanks to the 60+ open source community members who contributed to this effort!

Key feature highlights from the release include:

• Official packages now built with Go 1.15.
• Removed deprecated RabbitMQ server health check from rabbitmq input plugin
• Changed default InfluxDB port from 9999 to 8086 to match port change for InfluxDB OSS 2.0 release
• Plugin names output in sorted list when Telegraf is run
• Added JSON support in the Starlark processor

New Inputs

1. InfluxDB v2 Listener Input Plugin (influxdb_v2_listener)
   • InfluxDB V2 Listener is a service input plugin that listens for requests sent according to the InfluxDB HTTP API. Contributed by @magichair
2. Intel RDT Input Plugin (intel_rdt)
   • This input plugin collects information provided by monitoring features of the Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel RDT). Contributed by @p-zak
3. NSD Input Plugin (nsd)
   • This plugin gathers stats from NSD - an authoritative DNS name server. Contributed by @gearnode
4. OPC UA Input Plugin (opcua)
   • This input plugin retrieves data from OPC UA client devices. Contributed by @influxdata
5. Proxmox Input Plugin (proxmox)
   • The Proxmox input plugin gathers metrics about containers and VMs using the Proxmox API. Contributed by @effitient
6. RAS Input Plugin  (ras)
   • The RAS input plugin gathers and counts errors provided by RASDaemon. Contributed by @p-zak
7. Windows Eventlog Input Plugin (win_eventlog)
   • The Windows Eventlog input plugin collects Windows Event Log messages. Contributed by @simnv

New Outputs

1. Dynatrace Output Plugin (dynatrace)
   • This output plugin is sending telegraf metrics to Dynatrace. Contributed by @theschue
2. Sumo Logic Output Plugin (sumologic)
   • This plugin sends metrics to the Sumo Logic HTTP Source in HTTP messages. Contributed by @pmalek-sumo
3. Timestream Output Plugin (timestream)
   • The Timestream output plugin writes metrics to the Amazon Timestream service. Contributed by @piotrwest

New External Plugins

See full list of external plugins.  These plugins can be run in Telegraf with execd.

1. Amazon Cloudwatch Alarms Input Plugin (awsalarms)
   • This input plugin pulls alarm stats from Amazon CloudWatch. Contributed by @vipinvkmenon
2. YouTube Input Plugin (youtube)
   • This plugin gathers view and subscriber stats from Youtube videos. Contributed by @inabagumi
3. Octoprint Input Plugin (octoprint)
   • This input plugin gathers information from the Octoprint API. Contributed by @BattleBas
4. Systemd Timings Input Plugin (systemd_timings)
   • This plugin gathers systemd boot and unit timestamp metrics. Contributed by @pdmorrow

The binaries for the latest open source release can be found on our downloads page.