Telegraf Plugin System Overview


Telegraf offers users hundreds of plugins to choose from. In this video, learn about the plugin ecosystem, the different types of plugins available, and walks through an example to explain how a plugin works.

Why use a Telegraf Output Plugin

Telegraf Output plugins are used to send metrics to a variety of datastores such as InfluxDB and Graphite, services such as Azure Data explorer, and messaging queues like Kafka.

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Efficient data collector

Telegraf offers flexible processing to turn the messiest data into consistent clean data as it’s coming into your database on whatever time interval. You can filter and route specific metrics to a specific data source saving time and storage space.

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Open source

Telegraf is an open source plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics and is distributed under the MIT license. You can also build a plugin in your favorite language to extend your metric collection to include any custom metric you may have.

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Native support for InfluxDB

Telegraf’s plugin-driven architecture and lightweight footprint requires no external dependencies. Telegraf can run directly on the server, VM, or container from which you wish to ingest metrics or in a centralized location that polls the desired services.

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Telegraf Output Plugin key capabilities

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Telegraf Output plugins

Integrations to a variety of metrics, events, and logs from popular containers and systems.

Resources


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Download Telegraf

Download the Telegraf open source collector agent

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Telegraf Documentation

Documentation to help you get started with Telegraf

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Getting Started with Telegraf

Introduction to Data Collection in InfluxDB

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How to configure your Telegraf Plugin

How to Configure a Telegraf Plugin

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How to Filter Metrics

Watch this video to learn how to filter metrics.

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How to Write a Telegraf Plugin

Watch this video to learn how to write your own Telegraf plugin.

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Sending Metrics to InfluxDB

Watch this video to learn how Telegraf can make your life easier.

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