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 # Telegraf - A native agent for InfluxDB
 
+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.
+
+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 and third party APIs.
+
+We'll happily accept pull requests for new plugins and will manage the set of plugins that Telegraf supports. See the bottom of this doc for instructions on writing new plugins.
+
 ## Quickstart
 
-* Build from source or download telegraf (binaries forthcoming)
+* Build from source or download telegraf. Packages here:
+
+```
+http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_0.1.1_amd64.deb
+http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm
+```
+
 * Run `telegraf -sample-config > telegraf.toml` to create an initial configuration
 * Edit the configuration to match your needs
 * Run `telegraf -config telegraf.toml -test` to output one full measurement sample to STDOUT