this is for supporting external plugins.
external plugins will depend on a few telegraf interface types, as well
as a common telegraf registry.
this will allow external and internal plugins to both share this package
and make it easier to vendor/version the whole thing semantically, which
will make it easier to keep plugins supported across build and telegraf
versions.
see #1717
in this commit:
- centralize logging output handler.
- set global Info/Debug/Error log levels based on config file or flags.
- remove per-plugin debug arg handling.
- add a I!, D!, or E! to every log message.
- add configuration option to specify where to send logs.
closes#1786
* Use shared AWS credential configuration.
* Cloudwatch dimension wilcards
* Allow configuring cache_ttl for cloudwatch metrics.
* Allow for wildcard in dimension values to select all available metrics.
* Use internal.Duration for CacheTTL and go fmt
* Refactor to not use embedded structs for config.
* Update AWS plugin READMEs with credentials details, update Changelog.
* Fix changelog after rebasing to master and 0.13.1 release.
* Fix changelog after rebase.
This will basically make the root directory a place for storing the
major telegraf interfaces, which will make telegraf's godoc looks quite
a bit nicer. And make it easier for contributors to lookup the few data
types that they actually care about.
closes#564
Cameron Sparr
John Engelman
Stephen Kwong