Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.19.0

By Samantha Wang / Product
Jun 17, 2021

A new feature-bearing release for Telegraf is now available:

• Telegraf 1.19.0 — release notes

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

Many thanks to the 70+ open source community members who contributed to this effort!

Key feature highlights from the release include:

• Update Go to 1.16.5
• Linter fixes
• Fixed an issue to the Kafka Output Plugin that Telegraf will not fail to start when this fails to connect to output
• Allow multiple --config and --config-directory flags
• Configuration file environment variable can now be a URL

New Inputs

• • Alibaba (Aliyun) CloudMonitor Service Input Plugin (aliyuncms)
    • This plugin pulls metric statistics from Aliyun CMS. Contributed by @i-prudnikov
  • OpenTelemetry Input Plugin (opentelemetry)
    • This plugin receives traces, metrics and logs from OpenTelemetry clients and agents via gRPC. Contributed by @jacobmarble
  • Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) Input Plugin (dpdk)
    • The DPDK Plugin collects metrics exposed by applications built with Data Plane Development Kit, an extensive set of open source libraries designed for accelerating packet processing workloads. Contributed by @p-zak
  • KNX Input Plugin (knx_listener)
    • The KNX Input Plugin listens for messages on the KNX (Konnex) home-automation bus. Contributed by @DocLambda
  • SQL Input Plugin (sql)
    • This plugin reads metrics from performing SQL queries against a SQL server. Contributed by @srebhan

New Outputs

• Websocket Output Plugin (websocket)
  • The Websocket Output Plugin can write to a WebSocket endpoint. Contributed by @FZambia
• SQL Output Plugin (sql)
  • The SQL Output Plugin saves Telegraf metric data to an SQL database. Contributed by @illuusio
• AWS Cloudwatch Logs Output Plugin (cloudwatch_logs)
  • This output plugin sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch. Contributed by @i-prudnikov

New External Plugins

• 389 Directory Server Input Plugin (ds389)
  • This plugin gathers metrics from 389 Directory Servers' cn=Monitor backend. Contributed by @falon
• LDAP organization Input Plugin (ldap_org)
  • This plugin monitors the number of entries inside LDAP trees. Contributed by @falon
• X509 CRL Input Plugin (x509_crl)
  • This plugin provides information about X509 CRL (Certificate Revocation Lists) accessible via a file. Contributed by @jcgonnard
• Dnsmasq Input Plugin (dnsmasq)
  • This plugin gathers dnsmasq statistics on the DNS side. Contributed by @machinly
• BigBlueButton Input Plugin (bigbluebutton)
  • The BigBlueButton Input Plugin gathers metrics from a BigBlueButton server. Contributed by @SLedunois
• Siemens S7 Comm Input Plugin (s7comm) This plugin gathers information from Siemens PLC (Programmatic Logic Controller). Contributed @nicolasme

New Parsers

• Prometheus Remote Write Parser (prometheusremotewrite)
  • This parser converts prometheus remote write samples directly into Telegraf metrics. Contributed by @influxdata
• JSON v2 Parser (json_v2)
  • This parser takes valid JSON input and turns it into metrics. This json_v2 plugin should be the preferred JSON parser from the existing JSON parser. Contributed by @influxdata

Head to our downloads page to get the latest Telegraf release. If you find issues or have questions, please join our InfluxDB Community Slack, post them in our InfluxDB GitHub Repo or our Community Site and we will take a look.