Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.20.0

By Samantha Wang / Product
Sep 17, 2021

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

• Telegraf 1.20.0 — 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 to Go 1.17.0
• Support for RTU/ASCII over TCP in the Modbus Input Plugin
• HTTP Listener v2 Input Plugin now allows for multiple paths
• Added JSON, MessagePack, and Protocol-buffers format support to the XPath parser
• Added RFC 3164 support to Syslog Input Plugin for BSD-style syslog messages

New Inputs

• Elasticsearch Query Input Plugin (elasticsearch_query)
  • This plugin queries endpoints to obtain metrics from data stored in an Elasticsearch cluster. Contributed by @lpic10
• Internet Speed Monitor Input Plugin (internet_speed)
  • The Internet Speed Monitor plugin collects stats about the internet speed on the system. Contributed by @ersanyamarya
• mdstat Input Plugin (mdstat)
  • The mdstat plugin gathers statistics about any Linux MD RAID arrays configured on the host by reading /proc/mdstat. Contributed by @johnseekins
• ROCm System Management Interface (SMI) Input Plugin (amd_rocm_smi)
  • This plugin pulls statistics from NVIDIA GPU stats including memory, usage, and temperature. Contributed by @mconcas

New Outputs

• OpenTelemetry Output Plugin (opentelemetry)
  • This plugin sends metrics to OpenTelemetry servers and agents via gRPC. Contributed by @jacobmarble
• Azure Data Explorer Output Plugin (azure_data_explorer)
  • This plugin writes metrics to Azure Data Explorer. Contributed by @minwal

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.