From dcd7861c1a6e16c8b29ea5c8289a94fcbc488030 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Beckett Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 12:33:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] issue 5 closed, updating readme --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ef064426d..867c6a1ca 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Telegraf has a few options you can configure under the `agent` section of the config. If you don't see an `agent` section run `telegraf -sample-config > telegraf.toml` to create a valid initial configuration: -* **hostname**: The hostname is passed as a tag. By default this will be the hostname of the machine running Telegraf. You can override that value here. +* **hostname**: The hostname is passed as a tag. By default this will be the value retured by `hostname` on the machine running Telegraf. You can override that value here. * **interval**: How ofter to gather metrics. Uses a simple number + unit parser, ie "10s" for 10 seconds or "5m" for 5 minutes. -* **debug**: currently non-functional. Run `telegraf -config telegraf.toml -debug` to gather and send metrics to InfluxDB and to STDOUT for debugging purposes +* **debug**: Set to true to gather and send metrics to STDOUT as well as InfluxDB. ## Plugin Options