Telegraf
Telegraf is the open source server agent to help you collect metrics from your stacks, sensors, and systems.
Why use Telegraf?
Telegraf is a server-based agent for collecting and sending all metrics and events from databases, systems, and IoT sensors. Written in Go, it compiles into a single binary with no external dependencies, and requires a minimal memory footprint.
Collect and store all kinds of data:
IoT sensors
Collect critical stateful data (pressure levels, temp levels, etc.) with popular protocols like MQTT, ModBus, OPC-UA, and Kafka.
DevOps Tools and frameworks
Gather metrics from cloud platforms, containers, and orchestrators like GitHub, Kubernetes, CloudWatch, Prometheus and more.
System telemetry
Metrics from system telemetry like iptables, Netstat, NGINX, and HAProxy help provide a full stack view of your apps.
Telegraf key capabilities
Agent for collecting
Telegraf is an open source plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics. It is written in Go and compiled as a standalone binary so that it can be executed on any system with no external dependencies. Telegraf also contains in-memory metric buffers to maintain data collection if the downstream database is temporarily unavailable.
Coverage
With 300+ plugins written by community members who are subject matter experts on the data, Telegraf is the way to start collecting metrics from cloud services, apps, IoT sensors and more. It enables flexible parsing and serializing for a variety of data formats (such as JSON, CSV) and can serialize the data in InfluxDB line protocol and Prometheus to name a few.
Robust delivery
Telegraf has reliable metric delivery guarantees with flow back-pressure. It also includes a scheduler, adjusts for clockdrift, full streaming support, and allows you to parse, format, or serialize your unstructured data before sending it to its final destination, saving time and storage space.
Telegraf key capabilities
Agent for collecting
Telegraf is an open source plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics. It is written in Go and compiled as a standalone binary so that it can be executed on any system with no external dependencies. Telegraf also contains in-memory metric buffers to maintain data collection if the downstream database is temporarily unavailable.
Coverage
With 300+ plugins written by community members who are subject matter experts on the data, Telegraf is the way to start collecting metrics from cloud services, applications, IoT sensors and more. It enables flexible parsing and serializing for a variety of data formats (such as JSON, CSV, Graphite) and can serialize the data in InfluxDB line protocol and Prometheus to name a few.
Robust Delivery
Telegraf has reliable metric delivery guarantees with flow back-pressure. It also includes a scheduler, adjusts for clockdrift, full streaming support, and allows you to parse, format, or serialize your unstructured data before sending it to its final destination, saving time and storage space.
Intro to Telegraf video
Telegraf plugin system overview
4 Types of Telegraf Plugins
There are the four basic plugin types: Input, output, processor, and aggregator.
1. Input
Telegraf Input Plugins collect metrics from the system, services, and 3rd party APIs.
2. Process
Processor Plugins transform, decorate, and filter metrics before they are sent allowing your data to be sanitized as it arrives.
3. Aggregate
Aggregator Plugins create aggregate metrics, for example the average mean, minimum and maximum from the metrics you have collected, and processed.
4. Output
Output Plugins write to a variety of datastores, services, & message queues, like InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Datadog, Kafka, MQTT, NSQ, and others.
Video: Telegraf Plugin System Overview
Telegraf plugins
Integrations to a variety of metrics, events, and logs from popular containers and systems.
Telegraf also has output plugins to send metrics to a variety of other datastores, services, and message queues, including InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Datadog, Librato, Kafka, MQTT, NSQ, and many others.
Seamlessly connect with 300+ plugins to the platforms that make sense to you.
Telegraf news
Telegraf 1.22.4 released with updates to Couchbase, Azure, Statsd, and Wavefront plugins
Telegraf 1.22.3 released with Security updates for Go
Resources
Download Telegraf
Download the Telegraf open source collector agent
Telegraf Documentation
Documentation to help you get started with Telegraf
Free Telegraf Training
Take the Data Collection with Telegraf course
How to configure your Telegraf Plugin
Video: How to Configure a Telegraf Plugin
Save Time with Telegraf
Video: How can Telegraf make my life easier?
Getting Involved
Video: Why should I get involved in open source?
Telegraf Use Cases
Video: What are some use cases for Telegraf?
Telegraf Improvements
Video: How do improvements land in Telegraf?
Developer Education
Free training for time series app developers.
Community
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