This method is reported to not work with IAM Instance Profiles, and we
do not want to make any calls that would require additional permissions.
(cherry picked from commit 5b40173bcb)
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