Telegraf is an agent written in Go for collecting metrics from the system it's running on, or from other services, and writing them into InfluxDB or other outputs.
Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics from well known services (like Hadoop, Postgres, or Redis) and third party APIs (like Mailchimp, AWS CloudWatch, or Google Analytics).
New input and output plugins are designed to be easy to contribute, we'll eagerly accept pull requests and will manage the set of plugins that Telegraf supports. See the contributing guide for instructions on writing new plugins.
Latest:
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf_0.13.0_amd64.deb
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0.x86_64.rpm
Latest (arm):
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf_0.13.0_armhf.deb
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0.armhf.rpm
- Telegraf binary is installed in
/usr/bin/telegraf - Telegraf daemon configuration file is in
/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf - On sysv systems, the telegraf daemon can be controlled via
service telegraf [action] - On systemd systems (such as Ubuntu 15+), the telegraf daemon can be
controlled via
systemctl [action] telegraf
There is a yum/apt repo available for the whole InfluxData stack, see here for instructions on setting up the repo. Once it is configured, you will be able to use this repo to install & update telegraf.
Latest:
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0_linux_i386.tar.gz
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0_linux_armhf.tar.gz
To install the full directory structure with config file, run:
sudo tar -C / -zxvf ./telegraf-0.13.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
To extract only the binary, run:
tar -zxvf telegraf-0.13.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz --strip-components=3 ./usr/bin/telegraf
Latest:
See linux instructions above.
Ansible role: https://github.com/rossmcdonald/telegraf
brew update
brew install telegraf
Latest:
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0_windows_amd64.zip
- https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0_windows_i386.zip
Telegraf manages dependencies via gdm, which gets installed via the Makefile if you don't have it already. You also must build with golang version 1.5+.
- Install Go
- Setup your GOPATH
- Run
go get github.com/influxdata/telegraf - Run
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf - Run
make
$ telegraf -help
Telegraf, The plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics.
Usage:
telegraf <flags>
The flags are:
-config <file> configuration file to load
-test gather metrics once, print them to stdout, and exit
-sample-config print out full sample configuration to stdout
-config-directory directory containing additional *.conf files
-input-filter filter the input plugins to enable, separator is :
-output-filter filter the output plugins to enable, separator is :
-usage print usage for a plugin, ie, 'telegraf -usage mysql'
-debug print metrics as they're generated to stdout
-quiet run in quiet mode
-version print the version to stdout
Examples:
# generate a telegraf config file:
telegraf -sample-config > telegraf.conf
# generate config with only cpu input & influxdb output plugins defined
telegraf -sample-config -input-filter cpu -output-filter influxdb
# run a single telegraf collection, outputing metrics to stdout
telegraf -config telegraf.conf -test
# run telegraf with all plugins defined in config file
telegraf -config telegraf.conf
# run telegraf, enabling the cpu & memory input, and influxdb output plugins
telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter cpu:mem -output-filter influxdbSee the configuration guide for a rundown of the more advanced configuration options.
Telegraf currently has support for collecting metrics from many sources. For
more information on each, please look at the directory of the same name in
plugins/inputs.
Currently implemented sources:
- aws cloudwatch
- aerospike
- apache
- bcache
- cassandra
- couchbase
- couchdb
- disque
- dns query time
- docker
- dovecot
- elasticsearch
- exec (generic executable plugin, support JSON, influx, graphite and nagios)
- filestat
- haproxy
- http_response
- httpjson (generic JSON-emitting http service plugin)
- influxdb
- ipmi_sensor
- jolokia
- leofs
- lustre2
- mailchimp
- memcached
- mesos
- mongodb
- mysql
- net_response
- nginx
- nsq
- ntpq
- phpfpm
- phusion passenger
- ping
- postgresql
- postgresql_extensible
- powerdns
- procstat
- prometheus
- puppetagent
- rabbitmq
- raindrops
- redis
- rethinkdb
- riak
- sensors (only available if built from source)
- snmp
- sql server (microsoft)
- twemproxy
- zfs
- zookeeper
- win_perf_counters (windows performance counters)
- sysstat
- system
- cpu
- mem
- net
- netstat
- disk
- diskio
- swap
- processes
- kernel (/proc/stat)
Telegraf can also collect metrics via the following service plugins:
We'll be adding support for many more over the coming months. Read on if you want to add support for another service or third-party API.
- influxdb
- amon
- amqp
- aws kinesis
- aws cloudwatch
- datadog
- file
- graphite
- kafka
- librato
- mqtt
- nsq
- opentsdb
- prometheus
- riemann
Please see the contributing guide for details on contributing a plugin to Telegraf.