reviving code from #1447 to a new branch

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Update changelog
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--- a/.circleci/config.yml
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+---
+defaults: &defaults
+  docker:
+    - image: 'circleci/golang:1.9.2'
+  working_directory: '/go/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf'
+version: 2
+jobs:
+  build:
+    <<: *defaults
+    steps:
+      - checkout
+      - run: 'make ci-test'
+  release:
+    <<: *defaults
+    steps:
+      - checkout
+      - run: './scripts/release.sh'
+      - store_artifacts:
+          path: './artifacts'
+          destination: '.'
+  nightly:
+    <<: *defaults
+    steps:
+      - checkout
+      - run: './scripts/release.sh'
+      - store_artifacts:
+          path: './artifacts'
+          destination: '.'
+workflows:
+  version: 2
+  build_and_release:
+    jobs:
+      - 'build'
+      - 'release':
+          requires:
+            - 'build'
+  nightly:
+    jobs:
+      - 'build'
+      - 'nightly':
+          requires:
+            - 'build'
+    triggers:
+      - schedule:
+          cron: "0 18 * * *"
+          filters:
+            branches:
+              only:
+                - master
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 CHANGELOG.md merge=union
-
+README.md merge=union
+plugins/inputs/all/all.go merge=union
+plugins/outputs/all/all.go merge=union
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+## Directions
+
+GitHub Issues are reserved for actionable bug reports and feature requests.
+General questions should be asked at the [InfluxData Community](https://community.influxdata.com) site.
+
+Before opening an issue, search for similar bug reports or feature requests on GitHub Issues.
+If no similar issue can be found, fill out either the "Bug Report" or the "Feature Request" section below.
+Erase the other section and everything on and above this line.
+
+*Please note, the quickest way to fix a bug is to open a Pull Request.*
+
+## Bug report
+
+### Relevant telegraf.conf:
+
+### System info:
+
+[Include Telegraf version, operating system name, and other relevant details]
+
+### Steps to reproduce:
+
+1. ...
+2. ...
+
+### Expected behavior:
+
+### Actual behavior:
+
+### Additional info:
+
+[Include gist of relevant config, logs, etc.]
+
+
+## Feature Request
+
+Opening a feature request kicks off a discussion.
+
+### Proposal:
+
+### Current behavior:
+
+### Desired behavior:
+
+### Use case: [Why is this important (helps with prioritizing requests)]
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+### Required for all PRs:
+
+- [ ] Signed [CLA](https://influxdata.com/community/cla/).
+- [ ] Associated README.md updated.
+- [ ] Has appropriate unit tests.
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-tivan
-.vagrant
+build
 /telegraf
-.idea
+/telegraf.gz
 *~
 *#
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+## v1.6 [unreleased]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- The `mysql` input plugin has been updated to convert values to the
+  correct data type.  This may cause a `field type error` when inserting into
+  InfluxDB due the change of types.  It is recommended to drop the `mysql`,
+  `mysql_variables`, and `mysql_innodb`:
+  ```
+  DROP MEASUREMENT mysql
+  DROP MEASUREMENT mysql_variables
+  DROP MEASUREMENT mysql_innodb
+  ```
+
+- The `postgresql` plugins now defaults to using a persistent connection to the database.
+  In environments where TCP connections are terminated the `max_lifetime`
+  setting should be set less than the collection `interval` to prevent errors.
+
+- The `sqlserver` input plugin has a new query and data model that can be enabled
+  by setting `query_version = 2`.  It is encouraged to migrate to the new
+  model when possible as the old version is deprecated and will be removed in
+  a future version.
+
+- An option has been added to the `openldap` input plugin that reverses metric
+  name to improve grouping.  This change is enabled when `reverse_metric_names = true`
+  is set.  It is encouraged to enable this option when possible as the old
+  ordering is deprecated.
+
+
+### New Plugins
+
+- [ipset](./plugins/inputs/ipset/README.md) - Thanks to @sajoupa
+- [nats](./plugins/inputs/nats/README.md) - Thanks to @mjs & @levex
+
+### Features
+
+- [#3551](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3551): Add health status mapping from string to int in elasticsearch input.
+- [#3580](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3580): Add control over which stats to gather in basicstats aggregator.
+- [#3596](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3596): Add messages_delivered_get to rabbitmq input.
+- [#3632](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3632): Add wired field to mem input.
+- [#3619](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3619): Add support for gathering exchange metrics to the rabbitmq input.
+- [#3565](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3565): Add support for additional metrics on Linux in zfs input.
+- [#3524](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3524): Add available_entropy field to kernel input plugin.
+- [#3643](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3643): Add user privilege level setting to IPMI sensors.
+- [#2701](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2701): Use persistent connection to postgresql database.
+- [#2846](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2846): Add support for dropwizard input format.
+- [#3666](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3666): Add container health metrics to docker input.
+- [#3687](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3687): Add support for using globs in devices list of diskio input plugin.
+- [#2754](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2754): Allow running as console application on Windows.
+- [#3703](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3703): Add listener counts and node running status to rabbitmq input.
+- [#3674](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3674): Add NATS Monitoring Input Plugin.
+- [#3702](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3702): Add ability to select which queues will be gathered in rabbitmq input.
+- [#3726](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3726): Add support for setting bsd source address to the ping input.
+- [#3346](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3346): Add Ipset input plugin.
+- [#3719](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3719): Add TLS and HTTP basic auth to prometheus_client output.
+- [#3618](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3618): Add new sqlserver output data model.
+- [#3559](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3559): Add native Go method for finding pids to procstat.
+- [#3722](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3722): Add additional metrics and reverse metric names option to openldap.
+- [#3769](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3769): Add TLS support to the mesos input plugin.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#1896](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1896): Fix various mysql data type conversions.
+
+## v1.5.3 [unreleased]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3729](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3729): Set path to / if HOST_MOUNT_PREFIX matches full path.
+- [#3739](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3739): Remove userinfo from url tag in prometheus input.
+
+## v1.5.2 [2018-01-30]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3684](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3684): Ignore empty lines in Graphite plaintext.
+- [#3604](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3604): Fix index out of bounds error in solr input plugin.
+- [#3680](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3680): Reconnect before sending graphite metrics if disconnected.
+- [#3693](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3693): Align aggregator period with internal ticker to avoid skipping metrics.
+- [#3629](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3629): Fix a potential deadlock when using aggregators.
+- [#3697](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3697): Limit wait time for writes in mqtt output.
+- [#3698](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3698): Revert change in graphite output where dot in field key was replaced by underscore.
+- [#3710](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3710): Add timeout to wavefront output write.
+- [#3725](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3725): Exclude master_replid fields from redis input.
+
+## v1.5.1 [2018-01-10]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3624](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3624): Fix name error in jolokia2_agent sample config.
+- [#3625](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3625): Fix DC/OS login expiration time.
+- [#3593](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3593): Set Content-Type charset in influxdb output and allow it be overridden.
+- [#3594](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3594): Document permissions setup for postfix input.
+- [#3633](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3633): Fix deliver_get field in rabbitmq input.
+- [#3607](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3607): Escape environment variables during config toml parsing.
+
+## v1.5 [2017-12-14]
+
+### New Plugins
+- [basicstats](./plugins/aggregators/basicstats/README.md) - Thanks to @toni-moreno
+- [bond](./plugins/inputs/bond/README.md) - Thanks to @ildarsv
+- [cratedb](./plugins/outputs/cratedb/README.md) - Thanks to @felixge
+- [dcos](./plugins/inputs/dcos/README.md) - Thanks to @influxdata
+- [jolokia2](./plugins/inputs/jolokia2/README.md) - Thanks to @dylanmei
+- [nginx_plus](./plugins/inputs/nginx_plus/README.md) - Thanks to @mplonka & @poblahblahblah
+- [opensmtpd](./plugins/inputs/opensmtpd/README.md) - Thanks to @aromeyer
+- [particle](./plugins/inputs/webhooks/particle/README.md) - Thanks to @davidgs
+- [pf](./plugins/inputs/pf/README.md) - Thanks to @nferch
+- [postfix](./plugins/inputs/postfix/README.md) - Thanks to @phemmer
+- [smart](./plugins/inputs/smart/README.md) - Thanks to @rickard-von-essen
+- [solr](./plugins/inputs/solr/README.md) - Thanks to @ljagiello
+- [teamspeak](./plugins/inputs/teamspeak/README.md) - Thanks to @p4ddy1
+- [unbound](./plugins/inputs/unbound/README.md) - Thanks to @aromeyer
+- [wavefront](./plugins/outputs/wavefront/README.md) - Thanks to @puckpuck
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- In the `kinesis` output, use of the `partition_key` and
+  `use_random_partitionkey` options has been deprecated in favor of the
+  `partition` subtable.  This allows for more flexible methods to set the
+  partition key such as by metric name or by tag.
+
+- With the release of the new improved `jolokia2` input, the legacy `jolokia`
+  plugin is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.  Users of this
+  plugin are encouraged to update to the new `jolokia2` plugin.
+
+- In the `postgresql` and `postgresql_extensible` plugins, the type of the oid
+  data type has changed from string to integer.  It is recommended to drop
+  affected fields until a new shard is started. For details on how to
+  workaround this issue please see [#3622](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3622).
+
+### Features
+
+- [#3170](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3170): Add support for sharding based on metric name.
+- [#3196](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3196): Add Kafka output plugin topic_suffix option.
+- [#3027](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3027): Include mount mode option in disk metrics.
+- [#3191](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3191): TLS and MTLS enhancements to HTTPListener input plugin.
+- [#3213](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3213): Add polling method to logparser and tail inputs.
+- [#3211](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3211): Add timeout option for kubernetes input.
+- [#3234](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3234): Add support for timing sums in statsd input.
+- [#2617](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2617): Add resource limit monitoring to procstat.
+- [#3236](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3236): Add support for k8s service DNS discovery to prometheus input.
+- [#3245](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3245): Add configurable metrics endpoint to prometheus output.
+- [#3214](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3214): Add new nginx_plus input plugin.
+- [#3215](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3215): Add support for NSQLookupd to nsq_consumer.
+- [#2278](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2278): Add redesigned Jolokia input plugin.
+- [#3106](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3106): Add configurable separator for metrics and fields in opentsdb output.
+- [#1692](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1692): Add support for the rollbar occurrence webhook event.
+- [#3160](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3160): Add Wavefront output plugin.
+- [#3281](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3281): Add extra wired tiger cache metrics to mongodb input.
+- [#3141](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3141): Collect Docker Swarm service metrics in docker input plugin.
+- [#2449](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2449): Add smart input plugin for collecting S.M.A.R.T. data.
+- [#3269](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3269): Add cluster health level configuration to elasticsearch input.
+- [#3304](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3304): Add ability to limit node stats in elasticsearch input.
+- [#2167](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2167): Add new basicstats aggregator.
+- [#3344](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3344): Add UDP IPv6 support to statsd input.
+- [#3350](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3350): Use labels in prometheus output for string fields.
+- [#3358](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3358): Add support for decimal timestamps to ts-epoch modifier.
+- [#3337](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3337): Add histogram and summary types and use in prometheus plugins.
+- [#3365](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3365): Gather concurrently from snmp agents.
+- [#3333](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3333): Perform DNS lookup before ping and report result.
+- [#3398](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3398): Add instance name option to varnish plugin.
+- [#3406](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3406):  Add support for SSL settings to ElasticSearch output plugin.
+- [#3315](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3315): Add Teamspeak 3 input plugin.
+- [#3305](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3305): Add modification_time field to filestat input plugin.
+- [#2019](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2019): Add Solr input plugin.
+- [#3210](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3210): Add CrateDB output plugin.
+- [#3459](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3459): Add systemd unit pid and cgroup matching to procstat.
+- [#3477](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3477): Add Particle Webhook Plugin.
+- [#3471](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3471): Use MAX() instead of SUM() for latency measurements in sqlserver.
+- [#3490](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3490): Add index by week number to Elasticsearch output.
+- [#3434](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3434): Add unbound input plugin.
+- [#3449](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3449): Add opensmtpd input plugin.
+- [#3470](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3470): Add support for tags in the index name in elasticsearch output.
+- [#2553](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2553): Add postfix input plugin.
+- [#3424](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3424): Add bond input plugin.
+- [#3518](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3518): Add slab to mem plugin.
+- [#3519](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3519): Add input plugin for DC/OS.
+- [#3140](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3140): Add support for glob patterns in net input plugin.
+- [#3405](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3405): Add input plugin for OpenBSD/FreeBSD pf.
+- [#3528](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3528): Add option to amqp output to publish persistent messages.
+- [#3530](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3530): Support I (idle) process state on procfs+Linux.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3136](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3136): Fix webhooks input address in use during reload.
+- [#3258](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3258): Unlock Statsd when stopping to prevent deadlock.
+- [#3319](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3319): Fix cloudwatch output requires unneeded permissions.
+- [#3351](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3351): Fix prometheus passthrough for existing value types.
+- [#3430](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3430): Always ignore autofs filesystems in disk input.
+- [#3326](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3326): Fail metrics parsing on unescaped quotes.
+- [#3473](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3473): Whitelist allowed char classes for graphite output.
+- [#3488](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3488): Use hexadecimal ids and lowercase names in zipkin input.
+- [#3263](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3263): Fix snmp-tools output parsing with Windows EOLs.
+- [#3447](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3447): Add shadow-utils dependency to rpm package.
+- [#3448](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3448): Use deb-systemd-invoke to restart service.
+- [#3553](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3553): Fix kafka_consumer outside range of offsets error.
+- [#3568](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3568): Fix separation of multiple prometheus_client outputs.
+- [#3577](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3577): Don't add system input uptime_format as a counter.
+
+## v1.4.5 [2017-12-01]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3500](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3500): Fix global variable collection when using interval_slow option in mysql input.
+- [#3486](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3486): Fix error getting net connections info in netstat input.
+- [#3529](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3529): Fix HOST_MOUNT_PREFIX in docker with disk input.
+
+## v1.4.4 [2017-11-08]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3401](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3401): Use schema specified in mqtt_consumer input.
+- [#3419](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3419): Redact datadog API key in log output.
+- [#3311](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3311): Fix error getting pids in netstat input.
+- [#3339](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3339): Support HOST_VAR envvar to locate /var in system input.
+- [#3383](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3383): Use current time if docker container read time is zero value.
+
+## v1.4.3 [2017-10-25]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3327](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3327): Fix container name filters in docker input.
+- [#3321](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3321): Fix snmpwalk address format in leofs input.
+- [#3329](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3329): Fix case sensitivity issue in sqlserver query.
+- [#3342](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3342): Fix CPU input plugin stuck after suspend on Linux.
+- [#3013](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3013): Fix mongodb input panic when restarting mongodb.
+- [#3224](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3224): Preserve url path prefix in influx output.
+- [#3354](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3354): Fix TELEGRAF_OPTS expansion in systemd service unit.
+- [#3357](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3357): Remove warning when JSON contains null value.
+- [#3375](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3375): Fix ACL token usage in consul input plugin.
+- [#3369](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3369): Fix unquoting error with Tomcat 6.
+- [#3373](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3373): Fix syscall panic in diskio on some Linux systems.
+
+## v1.4.2 [2017-10-10]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3259](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3259): Fix error if int larger than 32-bit in /proc/vmstat.
+- [#3265](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3265): Fix parsing of JSON with a UTF8 BOM in httpjson.
+- [#2887](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2887): Allow JSON data format to contain zero metrics.
+- [#3284](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3284): Fix format of connection_timeout in mqtt_consumer.
+- [#3081](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3081): Fix case sensitivity error in sqlserver input.
+- [#3297](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3297): Add support for proxy environment variables to http_response.
+- [#1588](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1588): Add support for standard proxy env vars in outputs.
+- [#3282](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3282): Fix panic in cpu input if number of cpus changes.
+- [#2854](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2854): Use chunked transfer encoding in InfluxDB output.
+
+## v1.4.1 [2017-09-26]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3167](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3167): Fix MQTT input exits if Broker is not available on startup.
+- [#3217](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3217): Fix optional field value conversions in fluentd input.
+- [#3227](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3227): Whitelist allowed char classes for opentsdb output.
+- [#3232](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3232): Fix counter and gauge metric types.
+- [#3235](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3235): Fix skipped line with empty target in iptables.
+- [#3175](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3175): Fix duplicate keys in perf counters sqlserver query.
+- [#3230](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3230): Fix panic in statsd p100 calculation.
+- [#3242](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3242): Fix arm64 packages contain 32-bit executable.
+
+## v1.4 [2017-09-05]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- The `kafka_consumer` input has been updated to support Kafka 0.9 and
+  above style consumer offset handling.  The previous version of this plugin
+  supporting Kafka 0.8 and below is available as the `kafka_consumer_legacy`
+  plugin.
+
+- In the `aerospike` input the `node_name` field has been changed to be a tag
+  for both the `aerospike_node` and `aerospike_namespace` measurements.
+
+- The default prometheus_client port has been changed to 9273.
+
+### New Plugins
+
+- [fail2ban](./plugins/inputs/fail2ban/README.md) - Thanks to @grugrut
+- [fluentd](./plugins/inputs/fluentd/README.md) - Thanks to @DanKans
+- [histogram](./plugins/aggregators/histogram/README.md) - Thanks to @vlamug
+- [minecraft](./plugins/inputs/minecraft/README.md) - Thanks to @adamperlin & @Ayrdrie
+- [openldap](./plugins/inputs/openldap/README.md) - Thanks to @cobaugh
+- [salesforce](./plugins/inputs/salesforce/README.md) - Thanks to @rody
+- [tomcat](./plugins/inputs/tomcat/README.md) - Thanks to @mlindes
+- [win_services](./plugins/inputs/win_services/README.md) - Thanks to @vlastahajek
+- [zipkin](./plugins/inputs/zipkin/README.md) - Thanks to @adamperlin & @Ayrdrie
+
+### Features
+
+- [#2487](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2487): Add Kafka 0.9+ consumer support
+- [#2773](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2773): Add support for self-signed certs to InfluxDB input plugin
+- [#2293](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2293): Add TCP listener for statsd input
+- [#2581](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2581): Add Docker container environment variables as tags. Only whitelisted
+- [#2817](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2817): Add timeout option to IPMI sensor plugin
+- [#2883](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2883): Add support for an optional SSL/TLS configuration to nginx input plugin
+- [#2882](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2882): Add timezone support for logparser timestamps.
+- [#2814](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2814): Add result_type field for http_response input.
+- [#2734](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2734): Add include/exclude filters for docker containers.
+- [#2602](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2602): Add secure connection support to graphite output.
+- [#2908](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2908): Add min/max response time on linux/darwin to ping.
+- [#2929](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2929): Add HTTP Proxy support to influxdb output.
+- [#2933](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2933): Add standard SSL options to mysql input.
+- [#2875](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2875): Add input plugin for fail2ban.
+- [#2924](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2924): Support HOST_PROC in processes and linux_sysctl_fs inputs.
+- [#2960](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2960): Add Minecraft input plugin.
+- [#2963](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2963): Add support for RethinkDB 1.0 handshake protocol.
+- [#2943](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2943): Add optional usage_active and time_active CPU metrics.
+- [#2973](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2973): Change default prometheus_client port.
+- [#2661](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2661): Add fluentd input plugin.
+- [#2990](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2990): Add result_type field to net_response input plugin.
+- [#2571](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2571): Add read timeout to socket_listener
+- [#2612](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2612): Add input plugin for OpenLDAP.
+- [#3042](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3042): Add network option to dns_query.
+- [#3054](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3054): Add redis_version field to redis input.
+- [#3063](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3063): Add tls options to docker input.
+- [#2387](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2387): Add histogram aggregator plugin.
+- [#3080](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3080): Add zipkin input plugin.
+- [#3023](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3023): Add Windows Services input plugin.
+- [#3098](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3098): Add path tag to logparser containing path of logfile.
+- [#3075](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3075): Add salesforce input plugin.
+- [#3097](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3097): Add option to run varnish under sudo.
+- [#3119](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3119): Add weighted_io_time to diskio input.
+- [#2978](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2978): Add gzip content-encoding support to influxdb output.
+- [#3127](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3127): Allow using system plugin in Windows.
+- [#3112](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3112): Add tomcat input plugin.
+- [#3182](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3182): HTTP headers can be added to InfluxDB output.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2607](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2607): Improve logging of errors in Cassandra input.
+- [#2819](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2819): [enh] set db_version at 0 if query version fails
+- [#2749](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2749): Fixed sqlserver input to work with case sensitive server collation.
+- [#2716](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2716): Systemd does not see all shutdowns as failures
+- [#2782](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2782): Reuse transports in input plugins
+- [#2815](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2815): Inputs processes fails with "no such process".
+- [#1137](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1137): Fix multiple plugin loading in win_perf_counters.
+- [#2855](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2855):  MySQL input: log and continue on field parse error.
+- [#2885](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2885): Fix timeout option in Windows ping input sample configuration.
+- [#2911](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2911): Fix Kinesis output plugin in govcloud.
+- [#2917](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2917): Fix Aerospike input adds all nodes to a single series.
+- [#2452](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2452): Improve Prometheus Client output documentation.
+- [#2984](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2984): Display error message if prometheus output fails to listen.
+- [#2997](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2997): Fix elasticsearch output content type detection warning.
+- [#2914](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2914): Prevent possible deadlock when using aggregators.
+- [#2860](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2860): Fix combined tagdrop/tagpass filtering.
+- [#3036](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3036): Fix filtering when both pass and drop match an item.
+- [#2964](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2964): Only report cpu usage for online cpus in docker input.
+- [#3050](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3050): Start first aggregator period at startup time.
+- [#2906](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2906): Fix panic in logparser if file cannot be opened.
+- [#2886](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2886): Default to localhost if zookeeper has no servers set.
+- [#2457](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2457): Fix docker memory and cpu reporting in Windows.
+- [#3058](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3058): Allow iptable entries with trailing text.
+- [#1680](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1680): Sanitize password from couchbase metric.
+- [#3104](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3104): Converge to typed value in prometheus output.
+- [#2899](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2899): Skip compilcation of logparser and tail on solaris.
+- [#2951](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2951): Discard logging from tail library.
+- [#3126](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3126): Remove log message on ping timeout.
+- [#3144](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3144): Don't retry points beyond retention policy.
+- [#3015](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3015): Don't start Telegraf on install in Amazon Linux.
+- [#3153](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3053): Enable hddtemp input on all platforms.
+- [#3142](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3142): Escape backslash within string fields.
+- [#3162](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3162): Fix parsing of SHM remotes in ntpq input
+- [#3149](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3149): Don't fail parsing zpool stats if pool health is UNAVAIL on FreeBSD.
+- [#2672](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2672): Fix NSQ input plugin when used with version 1.0.0-compat.
+- [#2523](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2523): Added CloudWatch metric constraint validation.
+- [#3179](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3179): Skip non-numerical values in graphite format.
+- [#3187](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3187): Fix panic when handling string fields with escapes.
+
+## v1.3.5 [2017-07-26]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3049](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3049): Fix prometheus output cannot be reloaded.
+- [#3037](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3037): Fix filestat reporting exists when cannot list directory.
+- [#2386](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2386): Fix ntpq parse issue when using dns_lookup.
+- [#2554](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2554): Fix panic when agent.interval = "0s".
+
+## v1.3.4 [2017-07-12]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#3001](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3001): Fix handling of escape characters within fields.
+- [#2988](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2988): Fix chrony plugin does not track system time offset.
+- [#3004](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3004): Do not allow metrics with trailing slashes.
+- [#3011](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3011): Prevent Write from being called concurrently.
+
+## v1.3.3 [2017-06-28]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2915](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2915): Allow dos line endings in tail and logparser.
+- [#2937](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2937): Remove label value sanitization in prometheus output.
+- [#2948](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2948): Fix bug parsing default timestamps with modified precision.
+- [#2954](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2954): Fix panic in elasticsearch input if cannot determine master.
+
+## v1.3.2 [2017-06-14]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2862](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2862): Fix InfluxDB UDP metric splitting.
+- [#2888](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2888): Fix mongodb/leofs urls without scheme.
+- [#2822](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2822): Fix inconsistent label dimensions in prometheus output.
+
+## v1.3.1 [2017-05-31]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2749](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2749): Fixed sqlserver input to work with case sensitive server collation.
+- [#2782](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2782): Reuse transports in input plugins
+- [#2815](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2815): Inputs processes fails with "no such process".
+- [#2851](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2851): Fix InfluxDB output database quoting.
+- [#2856](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2856): Fix net input on older Linux kernels.
+- [#2848](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2848): Fix panic in mongo input.
+- [#2869](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2869): Fix length calculation of split metric buffer.
+
+## v1.3 [2017-05-15]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- Users of the windows `ping` plugin will need to drop or migrate their
+measurements in order to continue using the plugin. The reason for this is that
+the windows plugin was outputting a different type than the linux plugin. This
+made it impossible to use the `ping` plugin for both windows and linux
+machines.
+
+- Ceph: the `ceph_pgmap_state` metric content has been modified to use a unique field `count`, with each state expressed as a `state` tag.
+
+Telegraf < 1.3:
+
+```
+# field_name             value
+active+clean             123
+active+clean+scrubbing   3
+```
+
+Telegraf >= 1.3:
+
+```
+# field_name    value       tag
+count           123         state=active+clean
+count           3           state=active+clean+scrubbing
+```
+
+- The [Riemann output plugin](./plugins/outputs/riemann) has been rewritten
+and the previous riemann plugin is _incompatible_ with the new one. The reasons
+for this are outlined in issue [#1878](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1878).
+The previous riemann output will still be available using
+`outputs.riemann_legacy` if needed, but that will eventually be deprecated.
+It is highly recommended that all users migrate to the new riemann output plugin.
+
+- Generic [socket_listener](./plugins/inputs/socket_listener) and
+[socket_writer](./plugins/outputs/socket_writer) plugins have been implemented
+for receiving and sending UDP, TCP, unix, & unix-datagram data. These plugins
+will replace udp_listener and tcp_listener, which are still available but will
+be deprecated eventually.
+
+### Features
+
+- [#2721](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2721): Added SASL options for kafka output plugin.
+- [#2723](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2723): Added SSL configuration for input haproxy.
+- [#2494](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2494): Add interrupts input plugin.
+- [#2094](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2094): Add generic socket listener & writer.
+- [#2204](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2204): Extend http_response to support searching for a substring in response. Return 1 if found, else 0.
+- [#2137](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2137): Added userstats to mysql input plugin.
+- [#2179](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2179): Added more InnoDB metric to MySQL plugin.
+- [#2229](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2229): `ceph_pgmap_state` metric now uses a single field `count`, with PG state published as `state` tag.
+- [#2251](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2251): InfluxDB output: use own client for improved through-put and less allocations.
+- [#2330](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2330): Keep -config-directory when running as Windows service.
+- [#1900](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1900): Riemann plugin rewrite.
+- [#1453](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1453): diskio: add support for name templates and udev tags.
+- [#2277](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2277): add integer metrics for Consul check health state.
+- [#2201](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2201): Add lock option to the IPtables input plugin.
+- [#2244](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2244): Support ipmi_sensor plugin querying local ipmi sensors.
+- [#2339](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2339): Increment gather_errors for all errors emitted by inputs.
+- [#2071](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2071): Use official docker SDK.
+- [#1678](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1678): Add AMQP consumer input plugin
+- [#2512](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2512): Added pprof tool.
+- [#2501](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2501): Support DEAD(X) state in system input plugin.
+- [#2522](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2522): Add support for mongodb client certificates.
+- [#1948](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1948): Support adding SNMP table indexes as tags.
+- [#2332](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2332): Add Elasticsearch 5.x output
+- [#2587](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2587): Add json timestamp units configurability
+- [#2597](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2597): Add support for Linux sysctl-fs metrics.
+- [#2425](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2425): Support to include/exclude docker container labels as tags
+- [#1667](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1667): dmcache input plugin
+- [#2637](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2637): Add support for precision in http_listener
+- [#2636](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2636): Add `message_len_max` option to `kafka_consumer` input
+- [#1100](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1100): Add collectd parser
+- [#1820](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1820): easier plugin testing without outputs
+- [#2493](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2493): Check signature in the GitHub webhook plugin
+- [#2038](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2038): Add papertrail support to webhooks
+- [#2253](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2253): Change jolokia plugin to use bulk requests.
+- [#2575](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2575) Add diskio input for Darwin
+- [#2705](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2705): Kinesis output: add use_random_partitionkey option
+- [#2635](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2635): add tcp keep-alive to socket_listener & socket_writer
+- [#2031](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2031): Add Kapacitor input plugin
+- [#2732](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2732): Use go 1.8.1
+- [#2712](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2712): Documentation for rabbitmq input plugin
+- [#2141](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2141): Logparser handles newly-created files.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2633](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2633): ipmi_sensor: allow @ symbol in password
+- [#2077](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2077): SQL Server Input - Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type int.
+- [#2262](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2262): Flush jitter can inhibit metric collection.
+- [#2318](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2318): haproxy input - Add missing fields.
+- [#2287](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2287): Kubernetes input: Handle null startTime for stopped pods.
+- [#2356](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2356): cpu input panic when /proc/stat is empty.
+- [#2341](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2341): telegraf swallowing panics in --test mode.
+- [#2358](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2358): Create pidfile with 644 permissions & defer file deletion.
+- [#2360](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2360): Fixed install/remove of telegraf on non-systemd Debian/Ubuntu systems
+- [#2282](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2282): Reloading telegraf freezes prometheus output.
+- [#2390](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2390): Empty tag value causes error on InfluxDB output.
+- [#2380](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2380): buffer_size field value is negative number from "internal" plugin.
+- [#2414](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2414): Missing error handling in the MySQL plugin leads to segmentation violation.
+- [#2462](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2462): Fix type conflict in windows ping plugin.
+- [#2178](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2178): logparser: regexp with lookahead.
+- [#2466](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2466): Telegraf can crash in LoadDirectory on 0600 files.
+- [#2215](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2215): Iptables input: document better that rules without a comment are ignored.
+- [#2483](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2483): Fix win_perf_counters capping values at 100.
+- [#2498](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2498): Exporting Ipmi.Path to be set by config.
+- [#2500](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2500): Remove warning if parse empty content
+- [#2520](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2520): Update default value for Cloudwatch rate limit
+- [#2513](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2513): create /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d directory in tarball.
+- [#2541](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2541): Return error on unsupported serializer data format.
+- [#1827](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1827): Fix Windows Performance Counters multi instance identifier
+- [#2576](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2576): Add write timeout to Riemann output
+- [#2596](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2596): fix timestamp parsing on prometheus plugin
+- [#2610](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2610): Fix deadlock when output cannot write
+- [#2410](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2410): Fix connection leak in postgresql.
+- [#2628](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2628): Set default measurement name for snmp input.
+- [#2649](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2649): Improve performance of diskio with many disks
+- [#2671](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2671): The internal input plugin uses the wrong units for `heap_objects`
+- [#2684](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2684): Fix ipmi_sensor config is shared between all plugin instances
+- [#2450](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2450): Network statistics not collected when system has alias interfaces
+- [#1911](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1911): Sysstat plugin needs LANG=C or similar locale
+- [#2528](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2528): File output closes standard streams on reload.
+- [#2603](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2603): AMQP output disconnect blocks all outputs
+- [#2706](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2706): Improve documentation for redis input plugin
+
+## v1.2.1 [2017-02-01]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2317](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2317): Fix segfault on nil metrics with influxdb output.
+- [#2324](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2324): Fix negative number handling.
+
+### Features
+
+- [#2348](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2348): Go version 1.7.4 -> 1.7.5
+
+## v1.2 [2017-01-00]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- The StatsD plugin will now default all "delete_" config options to "true". This
+will change te default behavior for users who were not specifying these parameters
+in their config file.
+
+- The StatsD plugin will also no longer save it's state on a service reload.
+Essentially we have reverted PR [#887](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/887).
+The reason for this is that saving the state in a global variable is not
+thread-safe (see [#1975](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1975) & [#2102](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2102)),
+and this creates issues if users want to define multiple instances
+of the statsd plugin. Saving state on reload may be considered in the future,
+but this would need to be implemented at a higher level and applied to all
+plugins, not just statsd.
+
+### Features
+
+- [#2123](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2123): Fix improper calculation of CPU percentages
+- [#1564](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1564): Use RFC3339 timestamps in log output.
+- [#1997](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1997): Non-default HTTP timeouts for RabbitMQ plugin.
+- [#2074](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2074): "discard" output plugin added, primarily for testing purposes.
+- [#1965](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1965): The JSON parser can now parse an array of objects using the same configuration.
+- [#1807](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1807): Option to use device name rather than path for reporting disk stats.
+- [#1348](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1348): Telegraf "internal" plugin for collecting stats on itself.
+- [#2127](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2127): Update Go version to 1.7.4.
+- [#2126](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2126): Support a metric.Split function.
+- [#2026](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2065): elasticsearch "shield" (basic auth) support doc.
+- [#1885](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1885): Fix over-querying of cloudwatch metrics
+- [#1913](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1913): OpenTSDB basic auth support.
+- [#1908](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1908): RabbitMQ Connection metrics.
+- [#1937](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1937): HAProxy session limit metric.
+- [#2068](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2068): Accept strings for StatsD sets.
+- [#1893](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1893): Change StatsD default "reset" behavior.
+- [#2079](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2079): Enable setting ClientID in MQTT output.
+- [#2001](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2001): MongoDB input plugin: Improve state data.
+- [#2078](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2078): Ping input: add standard deviation field.
+- [#2121](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2121): Add GC pause metric to InfluxDB input plugin.
+- [#2006](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2006): Added response_timeout property to prometheus input plugin.
+- [#1763](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1763): Pulling github.com/lxn/win's pdh wrapper into telegraf.
+- [#1898](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1898): Support negative statsd counters.
+- [#1921](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1921): Elasticsearch cluster stats support.
+- [#1942](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1942): Change Amazon Kinesis output plugin to use the built-in serializer plugins.
+- [#1980](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1980): Hide username/password from elasticsearch error log messages.
+- [#2097](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2097): Configurable HTTP timeouts in Jolokia plugin
+- [#2255](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2255): Allow changing jolokia attribute delimiter
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2049](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2049): Fix the Value data format not trimming null characters from input.
+- [#1949](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1949): Fix windows `net` plugin.
+- [#1775](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1775): Cache & expire metrics for delivery to prometheus
+- [#1775](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1775): Cache & expire metrics for delivery to prometheus.
+- [#2146](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2146): Fix potential panic in aggregator plugin metric maker.
+- [#1843](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1843) & [#1668](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1668): Add optional ability to define PID as a tag.
+- [#1730](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1730) & [#2261](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2261): Fix win_perf_counters not gathering non-English counters.
+- [#2061](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2061): Fix panic when file stat info cannot be collected due to permissions or other issue(s).
+- [#2045](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2045): Graylog output should set short_message field.
+- [#1904](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1904): Hddtemp always put the value in the field temperature.
+- [#1693](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1693): Properly collect nested jolokia struct data.
+- [#1917](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1917): fix puppetagent inputs plugin to support string for config variable.
+- [#1987](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1987): fix docker input plugin tags when registry has port.
+- [#2089](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2089): Fix tail input when reading from a pipe.
+- [#1449](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1449): MongoDB plugin always shows 0 replication lag.
+- [#1825](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1825): Consul plugin: add check_id as a tag in metrics to avoid overwrites.
+- [#1973](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1973): Partial fix: logparser CLF pattern with IPv6 addresses.
+- [#1975](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1975) & [#2102](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2102): Fix thread-safety when using multiple instances of the statsd input plugin.
+- [#2027](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2027): docker input: interface conversion panic fix.
+- [#1814](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1814): snmp: ensure proper context is present on error messages.
+- [#2299](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2299): opentsdb: add tcp:// prefix if no scheme provided.
+- [#2297](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2297): influx parser: parse line-protocol without newlines.
+- [#2245](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2245): influxdb output: fix field type conflict blocking output buffer.
+
+## v1.1.2 [2016-12-12]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2007](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2007): Make snmptranslate not required when using numeric OID.
+- [#2104](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2104): Add a global snmp translation cache.
+
+## v1.1.1 [2016-11-14]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2023](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2023): Fix issue parsing toml durations with single quotes.
+
+## v1.1.0 [2016-11-07]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- Telegraf now supports two new types of plugins: processors & aggregators.
+
+- On systemd Telegraf will no longer redirect it's stdout to /var/log/telegraf/telegraf.log.
+On most systems, the logs will be directed to the systemd journal and can be
+accessed by `journalctl -u telegraf.service`. Consult the systemd journal
+documentation for configuring journald. There is also a [`logfile` config option](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/etc/telegraf.conf#L70)
+available in 1.1, which will allow users to easily configure telegraf to
+continue sending logs to /var/log/telegraf/telegraf.log.
+
+### Features
+
+- [#1726](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1726): Processor & Aggregator plugin support.
+- [#1861](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1861): adding the tags in the graylog output plugin
+- [#1732](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1732): Telegraf systemd service, log to journal.
+- [#1782](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1782): Allow numeric and non-string values for tag_keys.
+- [#1694](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1694): Adding Gauge and Counter metric types.
+- [#1606](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1606): Remove carraige returns from exec plugin output on Windows
+- [#1674](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1674): elasticsearch input: configurable timeout.
+- [#1607](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1607): Massage metric names in Instrumental output plugin
+- [#1572](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1572): mesos improvements.
+- [#1513](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1513): Add Ceph Cluster Performance Statistics
+- [#1650](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1650): Ability to configure response_timeout in httpjson input.
+- [#1685](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1685): Add additional redis metrics.
+- [#1539](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1539): Added capability to send metrics through Http API for OpenTSDB.
+- [#1471](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1471): iptables input plugin.
+- [#1542](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1542): Add filestack webhook plugin.
+- [#1599](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1599): Add server hostname for each docker measurements.
+- [#1697](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1697): Add NATS output plugin.
+- [#1407](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1407) & [#1915](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1915): HTTP service listener input plugin.
+- [#1699](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1699): Add database blacklist option for Postgresql
+- [#1791](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1791): Add Docker container state metrics to Docker input plugin output
+- [#1755](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1755): Add support to SNMP for IP & MAC address conversion.
+- [#1729](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1729): Add support to SNMP for OID index suffixes.
+- [#1813](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1813): Change default arguments for SNMP plugin.
+- [#1686](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1686): Mesos input plugin: very high-cardinality mesos-task metrics removed.
+- [#1838](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1838): Logging overhaul to centralize the logger & log levels, & provide a logfile config option.
+- [#1700](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1700): HAProxy plugin socket glob matching.
+- [#1847](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1847): Add Kubernetes plugin for retrieving pod metrics.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#1955](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1955): Fix NATS plug-ins reconnection logic.
+- [#1936](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1936): Set required default values in udp_listener & tcp_listener.
+- [#1926](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1926): Fix toml unmarshal panic in Duration objects.
+- [#1746](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1746): Fix handling of non-string values for JSON keys listed in tag_keys.
+- [#1628](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1628): Fix mongodb input panic on version 2.2.
+- [#1733](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1733): Fix statsd scientific notation parsing
+- [#1716](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1716): Sensors plugin strconv.ParseFloat: parsing "": invalid syntax
+- [#1530](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1530): Fix prometheus_client reload panic
+- [#1764](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1764): Fix kafka consumer panic when nil error is returned down errs channel.
+- [#1768](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1768): Speed up statsd parsing.
+- [#1751](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1751): Fix powerdns integer parse error handling.
+- [#1752](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1752): Fix varnish plugin defaults not being used.
+- [#1517](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1517): Fix windows glob paths.
+- [#1137](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1137): Fix issue loading config directory on windows.
+- [#1772](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1772): Windows remote management interactive service fix.
+- [#1702](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1702): sqlserver, fix issue when case sensitive collation is activated.
+- [#1823](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1823): Fix huge allocations in http_listener when dealing with huge payloads.
+- [#1833](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1833): Fix translating SNMP fields not in MIB.
+- [#1835](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1835): Fix SNMP emitting empty fields.
+- [#1854](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1853): SQL Server waitstats truncation bug.
+- [#1810](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1810): Fix logparser common log format: numbers in ident.
+- [#1793](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1793): Fix JSON Serialization in OpenTSDB output.
+- [#1731](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1731): Fix Graphite template ordering, use most specific.
+- [#1836](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1836): Fix snmp table field initialization for non-automatic table.
+- [#1724](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1724): cgroups path being parsed as metric.
+- [#1886](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1886): Fix phpfpm fcgi client panic when URL does not exist.
+- [#1344](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1344): Fix config file parse error logging.
+- [#1771](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1771): Delete nil fields in the metric maker.
+- [#870](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/870): Fix MySQL special characters in DSN parsing.
+- [#1742](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1742): Ping input odd timeout behavior.
+- [#1950](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1950): Switch to github.com/kballard/go-shellquote.
+
+## v1.0.1 [2016-09-26]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#1775](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1775): Prometheus output: Fix bug with multi-batch writes.
+- [#1738](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1738): Fix unmarshal of influxdb metrics with null tags.
+- [#1773](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1773): Add configurable timeout to influxdb input plugin.
+- [#1785](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1785): Fix statsd no default value panic.
+
+## v1.0 [2016-09-08]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+**Breaking Change** The SNMP plugin is being deprecated in it's current form.
+There is a [new SNMP plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/snmp)
+which fixes many of the issues and confusions
+of its predecessor. For users wanting to continue to use the deprecated SNMP
+plugin, you will need to change your config file from `[[inputs.snmp]]` to
+`[[inputs.snmp_legacy]]`. The configuration of the new SNMP plugin is _not_
+backwards-compatible.
+
+**Breaking Change**: Aerospike main server node measurements have been renamed
+aerospike_node. Aerospike namespace measurements have been renamed to
+aerospike_namespace. They will also now be tagged with the node_name
+that they correspond to. This has been done to differentiate measurements
+that pertain to node vs. namespace statistics.
+
+**Breaking Change**: users of github_webhooks must change to the new
+`[[inputs.webhooks]]` plugin.
+
+This means that the default github_webhooks config:
+
+```
+# A Github Webhook Event collector
+[[inputs.github_webhooks]]
+  ## Address and port to host Webhook listener on
+  service_address = ":1618"
+```
+
+should now look like:
+
+```
+# A Webhooks Event collector
+[[inputs.webhooks]]
+  ## Address and port to host Webhook listener on
+  service_address = ":1618"
+
+  [inputs.webhooks.github]
+    path = "/"
+```
+
+- Telegraf now supports being installed as an official windows service,
+which can be installed via
+`> C:\Program Files\Telegraf\telegraf.exe --service install`
+
+- `flush_jitter` behavior has been changed. The random jitter will now be
+evaluated at every flush interval, rather than once at startup. This makes it
+consistent with the behavior of `collection_jitter`.
+
+- postgresql plugins now handle oid and name typed columns seamlessly, previously they were ignored/skipped.
+
+### Features
+
+- [#1617](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1617): postgresql_extensible now handles name and oid types correctly.
+- [#1413](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1413): Separate container_version from container_image tag.
+- [#1525](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1525): Support setting per-device and total metrics for Docker network and blockio.
+- [#1466](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1466): MongoDB input plugin: adding per DB stats from db.stats()
+- [#1503](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1503): Add tls support for certs to RabbitMQ input plugin
+- [#1289](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1289): webhooks input plugin. Thanks @francois2metz and @cduez!
+- [#1247](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1247): rollbar webhook plugin.
+- [#1408](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1408): mandrill webhook plugin.
+- [#1402](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1402): docker-machine/boot2docker no longer required for unit tests.
+- [#1350](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1350): cgroup input plugin.
+- [#1369](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1369): Add input plugin for consuming metrics from NSQD.
+- [#1369](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1480): add ability to read redis from a socket.
+- [#1387](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1387): **Breaking Change** - Redis `role` tag renamed to `replication_role` to avoid global_tags override
+- [#1437](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1437): Fetching Galera status metrics in MySQL
+- [#1500](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1500): Aerospike plugin refactored to use official client lib.
+- [#1434](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1434): Add measurement name arg to logparser plugin.
+- [#1479](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1479): logparser: change resp_code from a field to a tag.
+- [#1411](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1411): Implement support for fetching hddtemp data
+- [#1340](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1340): statsd: do not log every dropped metric.
+- [#1368](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1368): Add precision rounding to all metrics on collection.
+- [#1390](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1390): Add support for Tengine
+- [#1320](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1320): Logparser input plugin for parsing grok-style log patterns.
+- [#1397](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1397): ElasticSearch: now supports connecting to ElasticSearch via SSL
+- [#1262](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1261): Add graylog input pluging.
+- [#1294](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1294): consul input plugin. Thanks @harnash
+- [#1164](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1164): conntrack input plugin. Thanks @robinpercy!
+- [#1165](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1165): vmstat input plugin. Thanks @jshim-xm!
+- [#1208](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1208): Standardized AWS credentials evaluation & wildcard CloudWatch dimensions. Thanks @johnrengelman!
+- [#1264](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1264): Add SSL config options to http_response plugin.
+- [#1272](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1272): graphite parser: add ability to specify multiple tag keys, for consistency with influxdb parser.
+- [#1265](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1265): Make dns lookups for chrony configurable. Thanks @zbindenren!
+- [#1275](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1275): Allow wildcard filtering of varnish stats.
+- [#1142](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1142): Support for glob patterns in exec plugin commands configuration.
+- [#1278](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1278): RabbitMQ input: made url parameter optional by using DefaultURL (http://localhost:15672) if not specified
+- [#1197](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1197): Limit AWS GetMetricStatistics requests to 10 per second.
+- [#1278](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1278) & [#1288](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1288) & [#1295](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1295): RabbitMQ/Apache/InfluxDB inputs: made url(s) parameter optional by using reasonable input defaults if not specified
+- [#1296](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1296): Refactor of flush_jitter argument.
+- [#1213](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1213): Add inactive & active memory to mem plugin.
+- [#1543](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1543): Official Windows service.
+- [#1414](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1414): Forking sensors command to remove C package dependency.
+- [#1389](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1389): Add a new SNMP plugin.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#1619](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1619): Fix `make windows` build target
+- [#1519](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1519): Fix error race conditions and partial failures.
+- [#1477](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1477): nstat: fix inaccurate config panic.
+- [#1481](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1481): jolokia: fix handling multiple multi-dimensional attributes.
+- [#1430](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1430): Fix prometheus character sanitizing. Sanitize more win_perf_counters characters.
+- [#1534](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1534): Add diskio io_time to FreeBSD & report timing metrics as ms (as linux does).
+- [#1379](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1379): Fix covering Amazon Linux for post remove flow.
+- [#1584](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1584): procstat missing fields: read/write bytes & count
+- [#1472](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1472): diskio input plugin: set 'skip_serial_number = true' by default to avoid high cardinality.
+- [#1426](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1426): nil metrics panic fix.
+- [#1384](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1384): Fix datarace in apache input plugin.
+- [#1399](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1399): Add `read_repairs` statistics to riak plugin.
+- [#1405](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1405): Fix memory/connection leak in prometheus input plugin.
+- [#1378](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1378): Trim BOM from config file for Windows support.
+- [#1339](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1339): Prometheus client output panic on service reload.
+- [#1461](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1461): Prometheus parser, protobuf format header fix.
+- [#1334](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1334): Prometheus output, metric refresh and caching fixes.
+- [#1432](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1432): Panic fix for multiple graphite outputs under very high load.
+- [#1412](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1412): Instrumental output has better reconnect behavior
+- [#1460](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1460): Remove PID from procstat plugin to fix cardinality issues.
+- [#1427](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1427): Cassandra input: version 2.x "column family" fix.
+- [#1463](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1463): Shared WaitGroup in Exec plugin
+- [#1436](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1436): logparser: honor modifiers in "pattern" config.
+- [#1418](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1418): logparser: error and exit on file permissions/missing errors.
+- [#1499](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1499): Make the user able to specify full path for HAproxy stats
+- [#1521](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1521): Fix Redis url, an extra "tcp://" was added.
+- [#1330](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1330): Fix exec plugin panic when using single binary.
+- [#1336](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1336): Fixed incorrect prometheus metrics source selection.
+- [#1112](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1112): Set default Zookeeper chroot to empty string.
+- [#1335](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1335): Fix overall ping timeout to be calculated based on per-ping timeout.
+- [#1374](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1374): Change "default" retention policy to "".
+- [#1377](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1377): Graphite output mangling '%' character.
+- [#1396](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1396): Prometheus input plugin now supports x509 certs authentication
+- [#1252](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1252) & [#1279](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1279): Fix systemd service. Thanks @zbindenren & @PierreF!
+- [#1221](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1221): Fix influxdb n_shards counter.
+- [#1258](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1258): Fix potential kernel plugin integer parse error.
+- [#1268](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1268): Fix potential influxdb input type assertion panic.
+- [#1283](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1283): Still send processes metrics if a process exited during metric collection.
+- [#1297](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1297): disk plugin panic when usage grab fails.
+- [#1316](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1316): Removed leaked "database" tag on redis metrics. Thanks @PierreF!
+- [#1323](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1323): Processes plugin: fix potential error with /proc/net/stat directory.
+- [#1322](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1322): Fix rare RHEL 5.2 panic in gopsutil diskio gathering function.
+- [#1586](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1586): Remove IF NOT EXISTS from influxdb output database creation.
+- [#1600](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1600): Fix quoting with text values in postgresql_extensible plugin.
+- [#1425](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1425): Fix win_perf_counter "index out of range" panic.
+- [#1634](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1634): Fix ntpq panic when field is missing.
+- [#1637](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1637): Sanitize graphite output field names.
+- [#1695](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1695): Fix MySQL plugin not sending 0 value fields.
+
+## v0.13.1 [2016-05-24]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- net_response and http_response plugins timeouts will now accept duration
+strings, ie, "2s" or "500ms".
+- Input plugin Gathers will no longer be logged by default, but a Gather for
+_each_ plugin will be logged in Debug mode.
+- Debug mode will no longer print every point added to the accumulator. This
+functionality can be duplicated using the `file` output plugin and printing
+to "stdout".
+
+### Features
+
+- [#1173](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1173): varnish input plugin. Thanks @sfox-xmatters!
+- [#1138](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1138): nstat input plugin. Thanks @Maksadbek!
+- [#1139](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1139): instrumental output plugin. Thanks @jasonroelofs!
+- [#1172](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1172): Ceph storage stats. Thanks @robinpercy!
+- [#1233](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1233): Updated golint gopsutil dependency.
+- [#1238](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1238): chrony input plugin. Thanks @zbindenren!
+- [#479](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/479): per-plugin execution time added to debug output.
+- [#1249](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1249): influxdb output: added write_consistency argument.
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#1195](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1195): Docker panic on timeout. Thanks @zstyblik!
+- [#1211](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1211): mongodb input. Fix possible panic. Thanks @kols!
+- [#1215](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1215): Fix for possible gopsutil-dependent plugin hangs.
+- [#1228](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1228): Fix service plugin host tag overwrite.
+- [#1198](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1198): http_response: override request Host header properly
+- [#1230](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1230): Fix Telegraf process hangup due to a single plugin hanging.
+- [#1214](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1214): Use TCP timeout argument in net_response plugin.
+- [#1243](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1243): Logfile not created on systemd.
+
 ## v0.13 [2016-05-11]

 ### Release Notes
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 1. [Sign the CLA](http://influxdb.com/community/cla.html)
 1. Make changes or write plugin (see below for details)
-1. Add your plugin to `plugins/inputs/all/all.go` or `plugins/outputs/all/all.go`
+1. Add your plugin to one of: `plugins/{inputs,outputs,aggregators,processors}/all/all.go`
 1. If your plugin requires a new Go package,
 [add it](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-a-dependency)
 1. Write a README for your plugin, if it's an input plugin, it should be structured
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ Output plugins READMEs are less structured,
 but any information you can provide on how the data will look is appreciated.
 See the [OpenTSDB output](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/opentsdb)
 for a good example.
+1. **Optional:** Help users of your plugin by including example queries for populating dashboards. Include these sample queries in the `README.md` for the plugin.
+1. **Optional:** Write a [tickscript](https://docs.influxdata.com/kapacitor/v1.0/tick/syntax/) for your plugin and add it to [Kapacitor](https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/tree/master/examples/telegraf).

 ## GoDoc

-Public interfaces for inputs, outputs, metrics, and the accumulator can be found
-on the GoDoc
+Public interfaces for inputs, outputs, processors, aggregators, metrics,
+and the accumulator can be found on the GoDoc

 [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf)

@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ Assuming you can already build the project, run these in the telegraf directory:

 1. `go get github.com/sparrc/gdm`
 1. `gdm restore`
-1. `gdm save`
+1. `GOOS=linux gdm save`

 ## Input Plugins

@@ -44,13 +46,13 @@ and submit new inputs.

 ### Input Plugin Guidelines

-* A plugin must conform to the `telegraf.Input` interface.
+* A plugin must conform to the [`telegraf.Input`](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf#Input) interface.
 * Input Plugins should call `inputs.Add` in their `init` function to register themselves.
 See below for a quick example.
 * Input Plugins must be added to the
 `github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/all/all.go` file.
 * The `SampleConfig` function should return valid toml that describes how the
-plugin can be configured. This is include in `telegraf -sample-config`.
+plugin can be configured. This is include in `telegraf config`.
 * The `Description` function should say in one line what this plugin does.

 Let's say you've written a plugin that emits metrics about processes on the
@@ -77,14 +79,17 @@ func (s *Simple) Description() string {
 }

 func (s *Simple) SampleConfig() string {
-    return "ok = true # indicate if everything is fine"
+    return `
+  ## Indicate if everything is fine
+  ok = true
+`
 }

 func (s *Simple) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
    if s.Ok {
-        acc.Add("state", "pretty good", nil)
+        acc.AddFields("state", map[string]interface{}{"value": "pretty good"}, nil)
    } else {
-        acc.Add("state", "not great", nil)
+        acc.AddFields("state", map[string]interface{}{"value": "not great"}, nil)
    }

    return nil
@@ -95,6 +100,13 @@ func init() {
 }
 ```

+## Adding Typed Metrics
+
+In addition the the `AddFields` function, the accumulator also supports an
+`AddGauge` and `AddCounter` function. These functions are for adding _typed_
+metrics. Metric types are ignored for the InfluxDB output, but can be used
+for other outputs, such as [prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/metric_types/).
+
 ## Input Plugins Accepting Arbitrary Data Formats

 Some input plugins (such as
@@ -114,8 +126,8 @@ creating the `Parser` object.
 You should also add the following to your SampleConfig() return:

 ```toml
-  ## Data format to consume. 
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Data format to consume.
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
  data_format = "influx"
@@ -168,13 +180,13 @@ similar constructs.

 ### Output Plugin Guidelines

-* An output must conform to the `outputs.Output` interface.
+* An output must conform to the [`telegraf.Output`](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf#Output) interface.
 * Outputs should call `outputs.Add` in their `init` function to register themselves.
 See below for a quick example.
 * To be available within Telegraf itself, plugins must add themselves to the
 `github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs/all/all.go` file.
 * The `SampleConfig` function should return valid toml that describes how the
-output can be configured. This is include in `telegraf -sample-config`.
+output can be configured. This is include in `telegraf config`.
 * The `Description` function should say in one line what this output does.

 ### Output Example
@@ -198,7 +210,9 @@ func (s *Simple) Description() string {
 }

 func (s *Simple) SampleConfig() string {
-    return "url = localhost"
+    return `
+  ok = true
+`
 }

 func (s *Simple) Connect() error {
@@ -212,8 +226,8 @@ func (s *Simple) Close() error {
 }

 func (s *Simple) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
-    for _, pt := range points {
-        // write `pt` to the output sink here
+    for _, metric := range metrics {
+        // write `metric` to the output sink here
    }
    return nil
 }
@@ -244,8 +258,8 @@ instantiating and creating the `Serializer` object.
 You should also add the following to your SampleConfig() return:

 ```toml
-  ## Data format to output. 
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Data format to output.
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
  data_format = "influx"
@@ -266,35 +280,210 @@ and `Stop()` methods.
 * Same as the `Output` guidelines, except that they must conform to the
 `output.ServiceOutput` interface.

+## Processor Plugins
+
+This section is for developers who want to create a new processor plugin.
+
+### Processor Plugin Guidelines
+
+* A processor must conform to the [`telegraf.Processor`](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf#Processor) interface.
+* Processors should call `processors.Add` in their `init` function to register themselves.
+See below for a quick example.
+* To be available within Telegraf itself, plugins must add themselves to the
+`github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors/all/all.go` file.
+* The `SampleConfig` function should return valid toml that describes how the
+processor can be configured. This is include in the output of `telegraf config`.
+* The `Description` function should say in one line what this processor does.
+
+### Processor Example
+
+```go
+package printer
+
+// printer.go
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors"
+)
+
+type Printer struct {
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+`
+
+func (p *Printer) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (p *Printer) Description() string {
+	return "Print all metrics that pass through this filter."
+}
+
+func (p *Printer) Apply(in ...telegraf.Metric) []telegraf.Metric {
+	for _, metric := range in {
+		fmt.Println(metric.String())
+	}
+	return in
+}
+
+func init() {
+	processors.Add("printer", func() telegraf.Processor {
+		return &Printer{}
+	})
+}
+```
+
+## Aggregator Plugins
+
+This section is for developers who want to create a new aggregator plugin.
+
+### Aggregator Plugin Guidelines
+
+* A aggregator must conform to the [`telegraf.Aggregator`](https://godoc.org/github.com/influxdata/telegraf#Aggregator) interface.
+* Aggregators should call `aggregators.Add` in their `init` function to register themselves.
+See below for a quick example.
+* To be available within Telegraf itself, plugins must add themselves to the
+`github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators/all/all.go` file.
+* The `SampleConfig` function should return valid toml that describes how the
+aggregator can be configured. This is include in `telegraf config`.
+* The `Description` function should say in one line what this aggregator does.
+* The Aggregator plugin will need to keep caches of metrics that have passed
+through it. This should be done using the builtin `HashID()` function of each
+metric.
+* When the `Reset()` function is called, all caches should be cleared.
+
+### Aggregator Example
+
+```go
+package min
+
+// min.go
+
+import (
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators"
+)
+
+type Min struct {
+	// caches for metric fields, names, and tags
+	fieldCache map[uint64]map[string]float64
+	nameCache  map[uint64]string
+	tagCache   map[uint64]map[string]string
+}
+
+func NewMin() telegraf.Aggregator {
+	m := &Min{}
+	m.Reset()
+	return m
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## period is the flush & clear interval of the aggregator.
+  period = "30s"
+  ## If true drop_original will drop the original metrics and
+  ## only send aggregates.
+  drop_original = false
+`
+
+func (m *Min) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (m *Min) Description() string {
+	return "Keep the aggregate min of each metric passing through."
+}
+
+func (m *Min) Add(in telegraf.Metric) {
+	id := in.HashID()
+	if _, ok := m.nameCache[id]; !ok {
+		// hit an uncached metric, create caches for first time:
+		m.nameCache[id] = in.Name()
+		m.tagCache[id] = in.Tags()
+		m.fieldCache[id] = make(map[string]float64)
+		for k, v := range in.Fields() {
+			if fv, ok := convert(v); ok {
+				m.fieldCache[id][k] = fv
+			}
+		}
+	} else {
+		for k, v := range in.Fields() {
+			if fv, ok := convert(v); ok {
+				if _, ok := m.fieldCache[id][k]; !ok {
+					// hit an uncached field of a cached metric
+					m.fieldCache[id][k] = fv
+					continue
+				}
+				if fv < m.fieldCache[id][k] {
+                    // set new minimum
+					m.fieldCache[id][k] = fv
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (m *Min) Push(acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+	for id, _ := range m.nameCache {
+		fields := map[string]interface{}{}
+		for k, v := range m.fieldCache[id] {
+			fields[k+"_min"] = v
+		}
+		acc.AddFields(m.nameCache[id], fields, m.tagCache[id])
+	}
+}
+
+func (m *Min) Reset() {
+	m.fieldCache = make(map[uint64]map[string]float64)
+	m.nameCache = make(map[uint64]string)
+	m.tagCache = make(map[uint64]map[string]string)
+}
+
+func convert(in interface{}) (float64, bool) {
+	switch v := in.(type) {
+	case float64:
+		return v, true
+	case int64:
+		return float64(v), true
+	default:
+		return 0, false
+	}
+}
+
+func init() {
+	aggregators.Add("min", func() telegraf.Aggregator {
+		return NewMin()
+	})
+}
+```
+
 ## Unit Tests

+Before opening a pull request you should run the linter checks and
+the short tests.
+
+### Execute linter
+
+execute `make lint`
+
 ### Execute short tests

-execute `make test-short`
+execute `make test`

-### Execute long tests
+### Execute integration tests

-As Telegraf collects metrics from several third-party services it becomes a
-difficult task to mock each service as some of them have complicated protocols
-which would take some time to replicate.
+Running the integration tests requires several docker containers to be
+running.  You can start the containers with:
+```
+make docker-run
+```

-To overcome this situation we've decided to use docker containers to provide a
-fast and reproducible environment to test those services which require it.
-For other situations
-(i.e: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/redis/redis_test.go)
-a simple mock will suffice.
+And run the full test suite with:
+```
+make test-all
+```

-To execute Telegraf tests follow these simple steps:
-
- Install docker following [these](https://docs.docker.com/installation/)
-instructions
- execute `make test`
-
-**OSX users**: you will need to install `boot2docker` or `docker-machine`.
-The Makefile will assume that you have a `docker-machine` box called `default` to
-get the IP address.
-
-### Unit test troubleshooting
-
-Try cleaning up your test environment by executing `make docker-kill` and
-re-running
+Use `make docker-kill` to stop the containers.
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--- a/169
+++ b/169
@@ -1,108 +1,99 @@
-UNAME := $(shell sh -c 'uname')
-VERSION := $(shell sh -c 'git describe --always --tags')
+PREFIX := /usr/local
+VERSION := $(shell git describe --exact-match --tags 2>/dev/null)
+BRANCH := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+COMMIT := $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+GOFILES ?= $(shell git ls-files '*.go')
+GOFMT ?= $(shell gofmt -l $(GOFILES))
+
 ifdef GOBIN
 PATH := $(GOBIN):$(PATH)
 else
 PATH := $(subst :,/bin:,$(GOPATH))/bin:$(PATH)
 endif

-# Standard Telegraf build
-default: prepare build
+TELEGRAF := telegraf$(shell go tool dist env | grep -q 'GOOS=.windows.' && echo .exe)

-# Windows build
-windows: prepare-windows build-windows
+LDFLAGS := $(LDFLAGS) -X main.commit=$(COMMIT) -X main.branch=$(BRANCH)
+ifdef VERSION
+	LDFLAGS += -X main.version=$(VERSION)
+endif

-# Only run the build (no dependency grabbing)
-build:
-	go install -ldflags "-X main.version=$(VERSION)" ./...
+all:
+	$(MAKE) fmtcheck
+	$(MAKE) deps
+	$(MAKE) telegraf

-build-windows:
-	go build -o telegraf.exe -ldflags \
-		"-X main.version=$(VERSION)" \
-		./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
+ci-test:
+	$(MAKE) deps
+	$(MAKE) fmtcheck
+	$(MAKE) vet
+	$(MAKE) test

-build-for-docker:
-	CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -installsuffix cgo -o telegraf -ldflags \
-					"-s -X main.version=$(VERSION)" \
-					./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
-
-# Build with race detector
-dev: prepare
-	go build -race -ldflags "-X main.version=$(VERSION)" ./...
-
-# run package script
-package:
-	./scripts/build.py --package --version="$(VERSION)" --platform=linux --arch=all --upload
-
-# Get dependencies and use gdm to checkout changesets
-prepare:
+deps:
+	go get -u github.com/golang/lint/golint
 	go get github.com/sparrc/gdm
 	gdm restore

-# Use the windows godeps file to prepare dependencies
-prepare-windows:
-	go get github.com/sparrc/gdm
-	gdm restore -f Godeps_windows
+telegraf:
+	go build -i -o $(TELEGRAF) -ldflags "$(LDFLAGS)" ./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go

-# Run all docker containers necessary for unit tests
-docker-run:
-ifeq ($(UNAME), Darwin)
-	docker run --name kafka \
-		-e ADVERTISED_HOST=$(shell sh -c 'boot2docker ip || docker-machine ip default') \
-		-e ADVERTISED_PORT=9092 \
-		-p "2181:2181" -p "9092:9092" \
-		-d spotify/kafka
-endif
-ifeq ($(UNAME), Linux)
-	docker run --name kafka \
-		-e ADVERTISED_HOST=localhost \
-		-e ADVERTISED_PORT=9092 \
-		-p "2181:2181" -p "9092:9092" \
-		-d spotify/kafka
-endif
-	docker run --name mysql -p "3306:3306" -e MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes -d mysql
-	docker run --name memcached -p "11211:11211" -d memcached
-	docker run --name postgres -p "5432:5432" -d postgres
-	docker run --name rabbitmq -p "15672:15672" -p "5672:5672" -d rabbitmq:3-management
-	docker run --name opentsdb -p "4242:4242" -d petergrace/opentsdb-docker
-	docker run --name redis -p "6379:6379" -d redis
-	docker run --name aerospike -p "3000:3000" -d aerospike
-	docker run --name nsq -p "4150:4150" -d nsqio/nsq /nsqd
-	docker run --name mqtt -p "1883:1883" -d ncarlier/mqtt
-	docker run --name riemann -p "5555:5555" -d blalor/riemann
-	docker run --name snmp -p "31161:31161/udp" -d titilambert/snmpsim
+go-install:
+	go install -ldflags "-w -s $(LDFLAGS)" ./cmd/telegraf

-# Run docker containers necessary for CircleCI unit tests
-docker-run-circle:
-	docker run --name kafka \
-		-e ADVERTISED_HOST=localhost \
-		-e ADVERTISED_PORT=9092 \
-		-p "2181:2181" -p "9092:9092" \
-		-d spotify/kafka
-	docker run --name opentsdb -p "4242:4242" -d petergrace/opentsdb-docker
-	docker run --name aerospike -p "3000:3000" -d aerospike
-	docker run --name nsq -p "4150:4150" -d nsqio/nsq /nsqd
-	docker run --name mqtt -p "1883:1883" -d ncarlier/mqtt
-	docker run --name riemann -p "5555:5555" -d blalor/riemann
-	docker run --name snmp -p "31161:31161/udp" -d titilambert/snmpsim
+install: telegraf
+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/
+	cp $(TELEGRAF) $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/

-# Kill all docker containers, ignore errors
-docker-kill:
-	-docker kill nsq aerospike redis opentsdb rabbitmq postgres memcached mysql kafka mqtt riemann snmp
-	-docker rm nsq aerospike redis opentsdb rabbitmq postgres memcached mysql kafka mqtt riemann snmp
-
-# Run full unit tests using docker containers (includes setup and teardown)
-test: vet docker-kill docker-run
-	# Sleeping for kafka leadership election, TSDB setup, etc.
-	sleep 60
-	# SUCCESS, running tests
-	go test -race ./...
-
-# Run "short" unit tests
-test-short: vet
+test:
 	go test -short ./...

-vet:
-	go vet ./...
+fmt:
+	@gofmt -w $(GOFILES)

-.PHONY: test test-short vet build default
+fmtcheck:
+	@echo '[INFO] running gofmt to identify incorrectly formatted code...'
+	@if [ ! -z $(GOFMT) ]; then \
+		echo "[ERROR] gofmt has found errors in the following files:"  ; \
+		echo "$(GOFMT)" ; \
+		echo "" ;\
+		echo "Run make fmt to fix them." ; \
+		exit 1 ;\
+	fi
+	@echo '[INFO] done.'
+
+lint:
+	golint ./...
+
+test-windows:
+	go test ./plugins/inputs/ping/...
+	go test ./plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters/...
+	go test ./plugins/inputs/win_services/...
+	go test ./plugins/inputs/procstat/...
+
+# vet runs the Go source code static analysis tool `vet` to find
+# any common errors.
+vet:
+	@echo 'go vet $$(go list ./...)'
+	@go vet $$(go list ./...) ; if [ $$? -eq 1 ]; then \
+		echo ""; \
+		echo "go vet has found suspicious constructs. Please remediate any reported errors"; \
+		echo "to fix them before submitting code for review."; \
+		exit 1; \
+	fi
+
+test-all: vet
+	go test ./...
+
+package:
+	./scripts/build.py --package --platform=all --arch=all
+
+clean:
+	rm -f telegraf
+	rm -f telegraf.exe
+
+docker-image:
+	./scripts/build.py --package --platform=linux --arch=amd64
+	cp build/telegraf*$(COMMIT)*.deb .
+	docker build -f scripts/dev.docker --build-arg "package=telegraf*$(COMMIT)*.deb" -t "telegraf-dev:$(COMMIT)" .
+
+.PHONY: deps telegraf install test test-windows lint vet test-all package clean docker-image fmtcheck
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,215 +1,220 @@
-# Telegraf [![Circle CI](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf)
+# Telegraf [![Circle CI](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf) [![Docker pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/library/telegraf.svg)](https://hub.docker.com/_/telegraf/)

-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](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf#supported-output-plugins).
+Telegraf is an agent written in Go for collecting, processing, aggregating,
+and writing metrics.

 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).
+from local or remote services.

-New input and output plugins are designed to be easy to contribute,
+Telegraf is plugin-driven and has the concept of 4 distinct plugins:
+
+1. [Input Plugins](#input-plugins) collect metrics from the system, services, or 3rd party APIs
+2. [Processor Plugins](#processor-plugins) transform, decorate, and/or filter metrics
+3. [Aggregator Plugins](#aggregator-plugins) create aggregate metrics (e.g. mean, min, max, quantiles, etc.)
+4. [Output Plugins](#output-plugins) write metrics to various destinations
+
+For more information on Processor and Aggregator plugins please [read this](./docs/AGGREGATORS_AND_PROCESSORS.md).
+
+New 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](CONTRIBUTING.md) for instructions on writing
-new plugins.
+
+## Contributing
+
+There are many ways to contribute:
+- Fix and [report bugs](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/new)
+- [Improve documentation](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Adocumentation)
+- [Review code and feature proposals](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pulls)
+- Answer questions on github and on the [Community Site](https://community.influxdata.com/)
+- [Contribute plugins](CONTRIBUTING.md)

 ## Installation:

-### Linux deb and rpm Packages:
-
-Latest:
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf_0.13.0-1_amd64.deb
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0-1.x86_64.rpm
-
-Latest (arm):
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf_0.13.0-1_armhf.deb
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0-1.armhf.rpm
-
-##### Package Instructions:
-
-* 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`
-
-### yum/apt Repositories:
-
-There is a yum/apt repo available for the whole InfluxData stack, see
-[here](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.10/introduction/installation/#installation)
-for instructions on setting up the repo. Once it is configured, you will be able
-to use this repo to install & update telegraf.
-
-### Linux tarballs:
-
-Latest:
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0-1_linux_amd64.tar.gz
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0-1_linux_i386.tar.gz
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0-1_linux_armhf.tar.gz
-
-##### tarball Instructions:
-
-To install the full directory structure with config file, run:
-
-```
-sudo tar -C / -zxvf ./telegraf-0.13.0-1_linux_amd64.tar.gz
-```
-
-To extract only the binary, run:
-
-```
-tar -zxvf telegraf-0.13.0-1_linux_amd64.tar.gz --strip-components=3 ./usr/bin/telegraf
-```
-
-### FreeBSD tarball:
-
-Latest:
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0-1_freebsd_amd64.tar.gz
-
-##### tarball Instructions:
-
-See linux instructions above.
+You can download the binaries directly from the [downloads](https://www.influxdata.com/downloads) page
+or from the [releases](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/releases) section.

 ### Ansible Role:

 Ansible role: https://github.com/rossmcdonald/telegraf

-### OSX via Homebrew:
-
-```
-brew update
-brew install telegraf
-```
-
-### Windows Binaries (EXPERIMENTAL)
-
-Latest:
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0-1_windows_amd64.zip
-* https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-0.13.0-1_windows_i386.zip
-
 ### From Source:

-Telegraf manages dependencies via [gdm](https://github.com/sparrc/gdm),
-which gets installed via the Makefile
-if you don't have it already. You also must build with golang version 1.5+.
+Telegraf requires golang version 1.8+, the Makefile requires GNU make.
+
+Dependencies are managed with [gdm](https://github.com/sparrc/gdm),
+which is installed by the Makefile if you don't have it already.

 1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install)
 2. [Setup your GOPATH](https://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH)
-3. Run `go get github.com/influxdata/telegraf`
+3. Run `go get -d github.com/influxdata/telegraf`
 4. Run `cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf`
 5. Run `make`

+### Nightly Builds
+
+These builds are generated from the master branch:
+- [telegraf_nightly_amd64.deb](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf_nightly_amd64.deb)
+- [telegraf_nightly_arm64.deb](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf_nightly_arm64.deb)
+- [telegraf-nightly.arm64.rpm](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly.arm64.rpm)
+- [telegraf_nightly_armel.deb](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf_nightly_armel.deb)
+- [telegraf-nightly.armel.rpm](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly.armel.rpm)
+- [telegraf_nightly_armhf.deb](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf_nightly_armhf.deb)
+- [telegraf-nightly.armv6hl.rpm](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly.armv6hl.rpm)
+- [telegraf-nightly_freebsd_amd64.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_freebsd_amd64.tar.gz)
+- [telegraf-nightly_freebsd_i386.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_freebsd_i386.tar.gz)
+- [telegraf_nightly_i386.deb](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf_nightly_i386.deb)
+- [telegraf-nightly.i386.rpm](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly.i386.rpm)
+- [telegraf-nightly_linux_amd64.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_linux_amd64.tar.gz)
+- [telegraf-nightly_linux_arm64.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_linux_arm64.tar.gz)
+- [telegraf-nightly_linux_armel.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_linux_armel.tar.gz)
+- [telegraf-nightly_linux_armhf.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_linux_armhf.tar.gz)
+- [telegraf-nightly_linux_i386.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_linux_i386.tar.gz)
+- [telegraf-nightly_linux_s390x.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_linux_s390x.tar.gz)
+- [telegraf_nightly_s390x.deb](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf_nightly_s390x.deb)
+- [telegraf-nightly.s390x.rpm](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly.s390x.rpm)
+- [telegraf-nightly_windows_amd64.zip](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_windows_amd64.zip)
+- [telegraf-nightly_windows_i386.zip](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly_windows_i386.zip)
+- [telegraf-nightly.x86_64.rpm](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-nightly.x86_64.rpm)
+- [telegraf-static-nightly_linux_amd64.tar.gz](https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/nightlies/telegraf-static-nightly_linux_amd64.tar.gz)
+
 ## How to use it:

-```console
-$ telegraf -help
-Telegraf, The plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics.
+See usage with:

-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 influxdb
 ```
+./telegraf --help
+```
+
+#### Generate a telegraf config file:
+
+```
+./telegraf config > telegraf.conf
+```
+
+#### Generate config with only cpu input & influxdb output plugins defined:
+
+```
+./telegraf --input-filter cpu --output-filter influxdb config
+```
+
+#### 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 influxdb
+```
+

 ## Configuration

 See the [configuration guide](docs/CONFIGURATION.md) for a rundown of the more advanced
 configuration options.

-## Supported Input Plugins
+## Input Plugins

-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](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch)
-* [aerospike](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/aerospike)
-* [apache](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/apache)
-* [bcache](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/bcache)
-* [cassandra](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/cassandra)
-* [couchbase](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/couchbase)
-* [couchdb](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/couchdb)
-* [disque](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/disque)
-* [dns query time](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/dns_query)
-* [docker](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/docker)
-* [dovecot](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/dovecot)
-* [elasticsearch](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch)
-* [exec](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/exec) (generic executable plugin, support JSON, influx, graphite and nagios)
-* [filestat](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/filestat)
-* [haproxy](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/haproxy)
-* [http_response](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/http_response)
-* [httpjson](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/httpjson) (generic JSON-emitting http service plugin)
-* [influxdb](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/influxdb)
-* [ipmi_sensor](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/ipmi_sensor)
-* [jolokia](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/jolokia)
-* [leofs](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/leofs)
-* [lustre2](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/lustre2)
-* [mailchimp](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/mailchimp)
-* [memcached](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/memcached)
-* [mesos](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/mesos)
-* [mongodb](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/mongodb)
-* [mysql](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/mysql)
-* [net_response](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/net_response)
-* [nginx](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/nginx)
-* [nsq](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/nsq)
-* [ntpq](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/ntpq)
-* [phpfpm](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/phpfpm)
-* [phusion passenger](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/passenger)
-* [ping](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/ping)
-* [postgresql](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/postgresql)
-* [postgresql_extensible](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/postgresql_extensible)
-* [powerdns](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/powerdns)
-* [procstat](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/procstat)
-* [prometheus](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/prometheus)
-* [puppetagent](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/puppetagent)
-* [rabbitmq](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/rabbitmq)
-* [raindrops](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/raindrops)
-* [redis](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/redis)
-* [rethinkdb](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/rethinkdb)
-* [riak](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/riak)
-* [sensors ](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/sensors) (only available if built from source)
-* [snmp](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/snmp)
-* [sql server](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/sqlserver) (microsoft)
-* [twemproxy](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/twemproxy)
-* [zfs](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/zfs)
-* [zookeeper](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/zookeeper)
-* [win_perf_counters ](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters) (windows performance counters)
-* [sysstat](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/sysstat)
-* [system](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/system)
+* [aerospike](./plugins/inputs/aerospike)
+* [amqp_consumer](./plugins/inputs/amqp_consumer) (rabbitmq)
+* [apache](./plugins/inputs/apache)
+* [aws cloudwatch](./plugins/inputs/cloudwatch)
+* [bcache](./plugins/inputs/bcache)
+* [bond](./plugins/inputs/bond)
+* [cassandra](./plugins/inputs/cassandra)
+* [ceph](./plugins/inputs/ceph)
+* [cgroup](./plugins/inputs/cgroup)
+* [chrony](./plugins/inputs/chrony)
+* [consul](./plugins/inputs/consul)
+* [conntrack](./plugins/inputs/conntrack)
+* [couchbase](./plugins/inputs/couchbase)
+* [couchdb](./plugins/inputs/couchdb)
+* [DC/OS](./plugins/inputs/dcos)
+* [disque](./plugins/inputs/disque)
+* [dmcache](./plugins/inputs/dmcache)
+* [dns query time](./plugins/inputs/dns_query)
+* [docker](./plugins/inputs/docker)
+* [dovecot](./plugins/inputs/dovecot)
+* [elasticsearch](./plugins/inputs/elasticsearch)
+* [exec](./plugins/inputs/exec) (generic executable plugin, support JSON, influx, graphite and nagios)
+* [fail2ban](./plugins/inputs/fail2ban)
+* [filestat](./plugins/inputs/filestat)
+* [fluentd](./plugins/inputs/fluentd)
+* [graylog](./plugins/inputs/graylog)
+* [haproxy](./plugins/inputs/haproxy)
+* [hddtemp](./plugins/inputs/hddtemp)
+* [http_response](./plugins/inputs/http_response)
+* [httpjson](./plugins/inputs/httpjson) (generic JSON-emitting http service plugin)
+* [internal](./plugins/inputs/internal)
+* [influxdb](./plugins/inputs/influxdb)
+* [interrupts](./plugins/inputs/interrupts)
+* [ipmi_sensor](./plugins/inputs/ipmi_sensor)
+* [iptables](./plugins/inputs/iptables)
+* [ipset](./plugins/inputs/ipset)
+* [jolokia](./plugins/inputs/jolokia) (deprecated, use [jolokia2](./plugins/inputs/jolokia2))
+* [jolokia2](./plugins/inputs/jolokia2)
+* [kapacitor](./plugins/inputs/kapacitor)
+* [kubernetes](./plugins/inputs/kubernetes)
+* [leofs](./plugins/inputs/leofs)
+* [lustre2](./plugins/inputs/lustre2)
+* [mailchimp](./plugins/inputs/mailchimp)
+* [memcached](./plugins/inputs/memcached)
+* [mesos](./plugins/inputs/mesos)
+* [minecraft](./plugins/inputs/minecraft)
+* [mongodb](./plugins/inputs/mongodb)
+* [mysql](./plugins/inputs/mysql)
+* [nats](./plugins/inputs/nats)
+* [net_response](./plugins/inputs/net_response)
+* [nginx](./plugins/inputs/nginx)
+* [nginx_plus](./plugins/inputs/nginx_plus)
+* [nsq](./plugins/inputs/nsq)
+* [nstat](./plugins/inputs/nstat)
+* [ntpq](./plugins/inputs/ntpq)
+* [openldap](./plugins/inputs/openldap)
+* [opensmtpd](./plugins/inputs/opensmtpd)
+* [pf](./plugins/inputs/pf)
+* [phpfpm](./plugins/inputs/phpfpm)
+* [phusion passenger](./plugins/inputs/passenger)
+* [ping](./plugins/inputs/ping)
+* [postfix](./plugins/inputs/postfix)
+* [postgresql_extensible](./plugins/inputs/postgresql_extensible)
+* [postgresql](./plugins/inputs/postgresql)
+* [powerdns](./plugins/inputs/powerdns)
+* [procstat](./plugins/inputs/procstat)
+* [prometheus](./plugins/inputs/prometheus) (can be used for [Caddy server](./plugins/inputs/prometheus/README.md#usage-for-caddy-http-server))
+* [puppetagent](./plugins/inputs/puppetagent)
+* [rabbitmq](./plugins/inputs/rabbitmq)
+* [raindrops](./plugins/inputs/raindrops)
+* [redis](./plugins/inputs/redis)
+* [rethinkdb](./plugins/inputs/rethinkdb)
+* [riak](./plugins/inputs/riak)
+* [salesforce](./plugins/inputs/salesforce)
+* [sensors](./plugins/inputs/sensors)
+* [smart](./plugins/inputs/smart)
+* [snmp](./plugins/inputs/snmp)
+* [snmp_legacy](./plugins/inputs/snmp_legacy)
+* [solr](./plugins/inputs/solr)
+* [sql server](./plugins/inputs/sqlserver) (microsoft)
+* [teamspeak](./plugins/inputs/teamspeak)
+* [tomcat](./plugins/inputs/tomcat)
+* [twemproxy](./plugins/inputs/twemproxy)
+* [unbound](./plugins/input/unbound)
+* [varnish](./plugins/inputs/varnish)
+* [zfs](./plugins/inputs/zfs)
+* [zookeeper](./plugins/inputs/zookeeper)
+* [win_perf_counters](./plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters) (windows performance counters)
+* [win_services](./plugins/inputs/win_services)
+* [sysstat](./plugins/inputs/sysstat)
+* [system](./plugins/inputs/system)
    * cpu
    * mem
    * net
@@ -219,40 +224,77 @@ Currently implemented sources:
    * swap
    * processes
    * kernel (/proc/stat)
+    * kernel (/proc/vmstat)
+    * linux_sysctl_fs (/proc/sys/fs)

 Telegraf can also collect metrics via the following service plugins:

-* [statsd](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/statsd)
-* [udp_listener](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/udp_listener)
-* [tcp_listener](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/tcp_listener)
-* [mqtt_consumer](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer)
-* [kafka_consumer](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer)
-* [nats_consumer](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/nats_consumer)
-* [github_webhooks](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks)
+* [http_listener](./plugins/inputs/http_listener)
+* [kafka_consumer](./plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer)
+* [mqtt_consumer](./plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer)
+* [nats_consumer](./plugins/inputs/nats_consumer)
+* [nsq_consumer](./plugins/inputs/nsq_consumer)
+* [logparser](./plugins/inputs/logparser)
+* [statsd](./plugins/inputs/statsd)
+* [socket_listener](./plugins/inputs/socket_listener)
+* [tail](./plugins/inputs/tail)
+* [tcp_listener](./plugins/inputs/socket_listener)
+* [udp_listener](./plugins/inputs/socket_listener)
+* [webhooks](./plugins/inputs/webhooks)
+  * [filestack](./plugins/inputs/webhooks/filestack)
+  * [github](./plugins/inputs/webhooks/github)
+  * [mandrill](./plugins/inputs/webhooks/mandrill)
+  * [papertrail](./plugins/inputs/webhooks/papertrail)
+  * [particle](./plugins/inputs/webhooks/particle)
+  * [rollbar](./plugins/inputs/webhooks/rollbar)
+* [zipkin](./plugins/inputs/zipkin)

-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.
+Telegraf is able to parse the following input data formats into metrics, these
+formats may be used with input plugins supporting the `data_format` option:

-## Supported Output Plugins
+* [InfluxDB Line Protocol](./docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#influx)
+* [JSON](./docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#json)
+* [Graphite](./docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#graphite)
+* [Value](./docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#value)
+* [Nagios](./docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#nagios)
+* [Collectd](./docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#collectd)
+* [Dropwizard](./docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#dropwizard)

-* [influxdb](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/influxdb)
-* [amon](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/amon)
-* [amqp](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/amqp)
-* [aws kinesis](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/kinesis)
-* [aws cloudwatch](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch)
-* [datadog](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/datadog)
-* [file](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/file)
-* [graphite](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/graphite)
-* [kafka](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/kafka)
-* [librato](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/librato)
-* [mqtt](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/mqtt)
-* [nsq](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/nsq)
-* [opentsdb](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/opentsdb)
-* [prometheus](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/prometheus_client)
-* [riemann](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/riemann)
+## Processor Plugins

-## Contributing
+* [printer](./plugins/processors/printer)

-Please see the
-[contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md)
-for details on contributing a plugin to Telegraf.
+## Aggregator Plugins
+
+* [basicstats](./plugins/aggregators/basicstats)
+* [minmax](./plugins/aggregators/minmax)
+* [histogram](./plugins/aggregators/histogram)
+
+## Output Plugins
+
+* [influxdb](./plugins/outputs/influxdb)
+* [amon](./plugins/outputs/amon)
+* [amqp](./plugins/outputs/amqp) (rabbitmq)
+* [aws kinesis](./plugins/outputs/kinesis)
+* [aws cloudwatch](./plugins/outputs/cloudwatch)
+* [cratedb](./plugins/outputs/cratedb)
+* [datadog](./plugins/outputs/datadog)
+* [discard](./plugins/outputs/discard)
+* [elasticsearch](./plugins/outputs/elasticsearch)
+* [file](./plugins/outputs/file)
+* [graphite](./plugins/outputs/graphite)
+* [graylog](./plugins/outputs/graylog)
+* [instrumental](./plugins/outputs/instrumental)
+* [kafka](./plugins/outputs/kafka)
+* [librato](./plugins/outputs/librato)
+* [mqtt](./plugins/outputs/mqtt)
+* [nats](./plugins/outputs/nats)
+* [nsq](./plugins/outputs/nsq)
+* [opentsdb](./plugins/outputs/opentsdb)
+* [prometheus](./plugins/outputs/prometheus_client)
+* [riemann](./plugins/outputs/riemann)
+* [riemann_legacy](./plugins/outputs/riemann_legacy)
+* [socket_writer](./plugins/outputs/socket_writer)
+* [tcp](./plugins/outputs/socket_writer)
+* [udp](./plugins/outputs/socket_writer)
+* [wavefront](./plugins/outputs/wavefront)
--- a/accumulator.go
+++ b/accumulator.go
@@ -2,20 +2,45 @@ package telegraf

 import "time"

+// Accumulator is an interface for "accumulating" metrics from plugin(s).
+// The metrics are sent down a channel shared between all plugins.
 type Accumulator interface {
+	// AddFields adds a metric to the accumulator with the given measurement
+	// name, fields, and tags (and timestamp). If a timestamp is not provided,
+	// then the accumulator sets it to "now".
 	// Create a point with a value, decorating it with tags
 	// NOTE: tags is expected to be owned by the caller, don't mutate
 	// it after passing to Add.
-	Add(measurement string,
-		value interface{},
-		tags map[string]string,
-		t ...time.Time)
-
 	AddFields(measurement string,
 		fields map[string]interface{},
 		tags map[string]string,
 		t ...time.Time)

-	Debug() bool
-	SetDebug(enabled bool)
+	// AddGauge is the same as AddFields, but will add the metric as a "Gauge" type
+	AddGauge(measurement string,
+		fields map[string]interface{},
+		tags map[string]string,
+		t ...time.Time)
+
+	// AddCounter is the same as AddFields, but will add the metric as a "Counter" type
+	AddCounter(measurement string,
+		fields map[string]interface{},
+		tags map[string]string,
+		t ...time.Time)
+
+	// AddSummary is the same as AddFields, but will add the metric as a "Summary" type
+	AddSummary(measurement string,
+		fields map[string]interface{},
+		tags map[string]string,
+		t ...time.Time)
+
+	// AddHistogram is the same as AddFields, but will add the metric as a "Histogram" type
+	AddHistogram(measurement string,
+		fields map[string]interface{},
+		tags map[string]string,
+		t ...time.Time)
+
+	SetPrecision(precision, interval time.Duration)
+
+	AddError(err error)
 }
--- a/agent/accumulator.go
+++ b/agent/accumulator.go
@@ -1,54 +1,46 @@
 package agent

 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"log"
-	"math"
-	"sync"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/selfstat"
 )

+var (
+	NErrors = selfstat.Register("agent", "gather_errors", map[string]string{})
+)
+
+type MetricMaker interface {
+	Name() string
+	MakeMetric(
+		measurement string,
+		fields map[string]interface{},
+		tags map[string]string,
+		mType telegraf.ValueType,
+		t time.Time,
+	) telegraf.Metric
+}
+
 func NewAccumulator(
-	inputConfig *internal_models.InputConfig,
+	maker MetricMaker,
 	metrics chan telegraf.Metric,
-) *accumulator {
-	acc := accumulator{}
-	acc.metrics = metrics
-	acc.inputConfig = inputConfig
+) telegraf.Accumulator {
+	acc := accumulator{
+		maker:     maker,
+		metrics:   metrics,
+		precision: time.Nanosecond,
+	}
 	return &acc
 }

 type accumulator struct {
-	sync.Mutex
-
 	metrics chan telegraf.Metric

-	defaultTags map[string]string
+	maker MetricMaker

-	debug bool
-
-	inputConfig *internal_models.InputConfig
-
-	prefix string
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) Add(
-	measurement string,
-	value interface{},
-	tags map[string]string,
-	t ...time.Time,
-) {
-	fields := make(map[string]interface{})
-	fields["value"] = value
-
-	if !ac.inputConfig.Filter.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
-		return
-	}
-
-	ac.AddFields(measurement, fields, tags, t...)
+	precision time.Duration
 }

 func (ac *accumulator) AddFields(
@@ -57,118 +49,93 @@ func (ac *accumulator) AddFields(
 	tags map[string]string,
 	t ...time.Time,
 ) {
-	if len(fields) == 0 || len(measurement) == 0 {
+	if m := ac.maker.MakeMetric(measurement, fields, tags, telegraf.Untyped, ac.getTime(t)); m != nil {
+		ac.metrics <- m
+	}
+}
+
+func (ac *accumulator) AddGauge(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	t ...time.Time,
+) {
+	if m := ac.maker.MakeMetric(measurement, fields, tags, telegraf.Gauge, ac.getTime(t)); m != nil {
+		ac.metrics <- m
+	}
+}
+
+func (ac *accumulator) AddCounter(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	t ...time.Time,
+) {
+	if m := ac.maker.MakeMetric(measurement, fields, tags, telegraf.Counter, ac.getTime(t)); m != nil {
+		ac.metrics <- m
+	}
+}
+
+func (ac *accumulator) AddSummary(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	t ...time.Time,
+) {
+	if m := ac.maker.MakeMetric(measurement, fields, tags, telegraf.Summary, ac.getTime(t)); m != nil {
+		ac.metrics <- m
+	}
+}
+
+func (ac *accumulator) AddHistogram(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	t ...time.Time,
+) {
+	if m := ac.maker.MakeMetric(measurement, fields, tags, telegraf.Histogram, ac.getTime(t)); m != nil {
+		ac.metrics <- m
+	}
+}
+
+// AddError passes a runtime error to the accumulator.
+// The error will be tagged with the plugin name and written to the log.
+func (ac *accumulator) AddError(err error) {
+	if err == nil {
 		return
 	}
+	NErrors.Incr(1)
+	//TODO suppress/throttle consecutive duplicate errors?
+	log.Printf("E! Error in plugin [%s]: %s", ac.maker.Name(), err)
+}

-	if !ac.inputConfig.Filter.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
-		return
-	}
-
-	if !ac.inputConfig.Filter.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
-		return
-	}
-
-	// Override measurement name if set
-	if len(ac.inputConfig.NameOverride) != 0 {
-		measurement = ac.inputConfig.NameOverride
-	}
-	// Apply measurement prefix and suffix if set
-	if len(ac.inputConfig.MeasurementPrefix) != 0 {
-		measurement = ac.inputConfig.MeasurementPrefix + measurement
-	}
-	if len(ac.inputConfig.MeasurementSuffix) != 0 {
-		measurement = measurement + ac.inputConfig.MeasurementSuffix
-	}
-
-	if tags == nil {
-		tags = make(map[string]string)
-	}
-	// Apply daemon-wide tags if set
-	for k, v := range ac.defaultTags {
-		tags[k] = v
-	}
-	// Apply plugin-wide tags if set
-	for k, v := range ac.inputConfig.Tags {
-		tags[k] = v
-	}
-	ac.inputConfig.Filter.FilterTags(tags)
-
-	result := make(map[string]interface{})
-	for k, v := range fields {
-		// Filter out any filtered fields
-		if ac.inputConfig != nil {
-			if !ac.inputConfig.Filter.ShouldFieldsPass(k) {
-				continue
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Validate uint64 and float64 fields
-		switch val := v.(type) {
-		case uint64:
-			// InfluxDB does not support writing uint64
-			if val < uint64(9223372036854775808) {
-				result[k] = int64(val)
-			} else {
-				result[k] = int64(9223372036854775807)
-			}
-			continue
-		case float64:
-			// NaNs are invalid values in influxdb, skip measurement
-			if math.IsNaN(val) || math.IsInf(val, 0) {
-				if ac.debug {
-					log.Printf("Measurement [%s] field [%s] has a NaN or Inf "+
-						"field, skipping",
-						measurement, k)
-				}
-				continue
-			}
-		}
-
-		result[k] = v
-	}
-	fields = nil
-	if len(result) == 0 {
+// SetPrecision takes two time.Duration objects. If the first is non-zero,
+// it sets that as the precision. Otherwise, it takes the second argument
+// as the order of time that the metrics should be rounded to, with the
+// maximum being 1s.
+func (ac *accumulator) SetPrecision(precision, interval time.Duration) {
+	if precision > 0 {
+		ac.precision = precision
 		return
 	}
+	switch {
+	case interval >= time.Second:
+		ac.precision = time.Second
+	case interval >= time.Millisecond:
+		ac.precision = time.Millisecond
+	case interval >= time.Microsecond:
+		ac.precision = time.Microsecond
+	default:
+		ac.precision = time.Nanosecond
+	}
+}

+func (ac accumulator) getTime(t []time.Time) time.Time {
 	var timestamp time.Time
 	if len(t) > 0 {
 		timestamp = t[0]
 	} else {
 		timestamp = time.Now()
 	}
-
-	if ac.prefix != "" {
-		measurement = ac.prefix + measurement
-	}
-
-	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(measurement, tags, result, timestamp)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("Error adding point [%s]: %s\n", measurement, err.Error())
-		return
-	}
-	if ac.debug {
-		fmt.Println("> " + m.String())
-	}
-	ac.metrics <- m
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) Debug() bool {
-	return ac.debug
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) SetDebug(debug bool) {
-	ac.debug = debug
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) setDefaultTags(tags map[string]string) {
-	ac.defaultTags = tags
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) addDefaultTag(key, value string) {
-	if ac.defaultTags == nil {
-		ac.defaultTags = make(map[string]string)
-	}
-	ac.defaultTags[key] = value
+	return timestamp.Round(ac.precision)
 }
--- a/agent/accumulator_test.go
+++ b/agent/accumulator_test.go
@@ -1,334 +1,340 @@
 package agent

 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
-	"math"
+	"log"
+	"os"
 	"testing"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"

 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )

 func TestAdd(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
 	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)

-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{})
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{})
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)

-	testm := <-a.metrics
+	testm := <-metrics
 	actual := testm.String()
 	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")

-	testm = <-a.metrics
+	testm = <-metrics
 	actual = testm.String()
 	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test value=101")

-	testm = <-a.metrics
+	testm = <-metrics
 	actual = testm.String()
 	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d", now.UnixNano()),
-		actual)
-}
-
-func TestAddDefaultTags(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
-	a.addDefaultTag("default", "tag")
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
-
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{})
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,default=tag value=101")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=101")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=101 %d", now.UnixNano()),
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
 		actual)
 }

 func TestAddFields(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
 	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)

 	fields := map[string]interface{}{
 		"usage": float64(99),
 	}
 	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+	a.AddGauge("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
+	a.AddCounter("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)

-	testm := <-a.metrics
+	testm := <-metrics
 	actual := testm.String()
 	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest usage=99")

-	testm = <-a.metrics
+	testm = <-metrics
 	actual = testm.String()
 	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test usage=99")

-	testm = <-a.metrics
+	testm = <-metrics
 	actual = testm.String()
 	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test usage=99 %d", now.UnixNano()),
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test usage=99 %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
 		actual)
 }

-// Test that all Inf fields get dropped, and not added to metrics channel
-func TestAddInfFields(t *testing.T) {
-	inf := math.Inf(1)
-	ninf := math.Inf(-1)
+func TestAccAddError(t *testing.T) {
+	errBuf := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
+	log.SetOutput(errBuf)
+	defer log.SetOutput(os.Stderr)

-	a := accumulator{}
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)

-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"usage":  inf,
-		"nusage": ninf,
-	}
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+	a.AddError(fmt.Errorf("foo"))
+	a.AddError(fmt.Errorf("bar"))
+	a.AddError(fmt.Errorf("baz"))

-	assert.Len(t, a.metrics, 0)
-
-	// test that non-inf fields are kept and not dropped
-	fields["notinf"] = float64(100)
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{})
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest notinf=100")
+	errs := bytes.Split(errBuf.Bytes(), []byte{'\n'})
+	assert.EqualValues(t, int64(3), NErrors.Get())
+	require.Len(t, errs, 4) // 4 because of trailing newline
+	assert.Contains(t, string(errs[0]), "TestPlugin")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(errs[0]), "foo")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(errs[1]), "TestPlugin")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(errs[1]), "bar")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(errs[2]), "TestPlugin")
+	assert.Contains(t, string(errs[2]), "baz")
 }

-// Test that nan fields are dropped and not added
-func TestAddNaNFields(t *testing.T) {
-	nan := math.NaN()
+func TestAddNoIntervalWithPrecision(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2006, time.February, 10, 12, 0, 0, 82912748, time.UTC)
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)
+	a.SetPrecision(0, time.Second)

-	a := accumulator{}
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{})
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)

-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"usage": nan,
-	}
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	assert.Len(t, a.metrics, 0)
-
-	// test that non-nan fields are kept and not dropped
-	fields["notnan"] = float64(100)
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{})
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest notnan=100")
-}
-
-func TestAddUint64Fields(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
-
-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"usage": uint64(99),
-	}
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest usage=99i")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test usage=99i")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test usage=99i %d", now.UnixNano()),
-		actual)
-}
-
-func TestAddUint64Overflow(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
-
-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"usage": uint64(9223372036854775808),
-	}
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.AddFields("acctest", fields, map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest usage=9223372036854775807i")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test usage=9223372036854775807i")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test usage=9223372036854775807i %d", now.UnixNano()),
-		actual)
-}
-
-func TestAddInts(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
-	a.addDefaultTag("default", "tag")
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
-
-	a.Add("acctest", int(101), map[string]string{})
-	a.Add("acctest", int32(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.Add("acctest", int64(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,default=tag value=101i")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=101i")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=101i %d", now.UnixNano()),
-		actual)
-}
-
-func TestAddFloats(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
-	a.addDefaultTag("default", "tag")
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
-
-	a.Add("acctest", float32(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=101")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=101 %d", now.UnixNano()),
-		actual)
-}
-
-func TestAddStrings(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
-	a.addDefaultTag("default", "tag")
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
-
-	a.Add("acctest", "test", map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.Add("acctest", "foo", map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=\"test\"")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=\"foo\" %d", now.UnixNano()),
-		actual)
-}
-
-func TestAddBools(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
-	a.addDefaultTag("default", "tag")
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
-
-	a.Add("acctest", true, map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.Add("acctest", false, map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	testm := <-a.metrics
-	actual := testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=true")
-
-	testm = <-a.metrics
-	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test,default=tag value=false %d", now.UnixNano()),
-		actual)
-}
-
-// Test that tag filters get applied to metrics.
-func TestAccFilterTags(t *testing.T) {
-	a := accumulator{}
-	now := time.Now()
-	a.metrics = make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
-	defer close(a.metrics)
-	filter := internal_models.Filter{
-		TagExclude: []string{"acc"},
-	}
-	assert.NoError(t, filter.CompileFilter())
-	a.inputConfig = &internal_models.InputConfig{}
-	a.inputConfig.Filter = filter
-
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{})
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
-	a.Add("acctest", float64(101), map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
-
-	testm := <-a.metrics
+	testm := <-metrics
 	actual := testm.String()
 	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")

-	testm = <-a.metrics
+	testm = <-metrics
 	actual = testm.String()
-	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test value=101")

-	testm = <-a.metrics
+	testm = <-metrics
 	actual = testm.String()
 	assert.Equal(t,
-		fmt.Sprintf("acctest value=101 %d", now.UnixNano()),
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", int64(1139572800000000000)),
 		actual)
 }
+
+func TestAddDisablePrecision(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2006, time.February, 10, 12, 0, 0, 82912748, time.UTC)
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)
+
+	a.SetPrecision(time.Nanosecond, 0)
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{})
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+
+	testm := <-metrics
+	actual := testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")
+
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test value=101")
+
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", int64(1139572800082912748)),
+		actual)
+}
+
+func TestAddNoPrecisionWithInterval(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2006, time.February, 10, 12, 0, 0, 82912748, time.UTC)
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)
+
+	a.SetPrecision(0, time.Second)
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{})
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+
+	testm := <-metrics
+	actual := testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")
+
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test value=101")
+
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", int64(1139572800000000000)),
+		actual)
+}
+
+func TestDifferentPrecisions(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2006, time.February, 10, 12, 0, 0, 82912748, time.UTC)
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)
+
+	a.SetPrecision(0, time.Second)
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+	testm := <-metrics
+	actual := testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", int64(1139572800000000000)),
+		actual)
+
+	a.SetPrecision(0, time.Millisecond)
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", int64(1139572800083000000)),
+		actual)
+
+	a.SetPrecision(0, time.Microsecond)
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", int64(1139572800082913000)),
+		actual)
+
+	a.SetPrecision(0, time.Nanosecond)
+	a.AddFields("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", int64(1139572800082912748)),
+		actual)
+}
+
+func TestAddGauge(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)
+
+	a.AddGauge("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{})
+	a.AddGauge("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
+	a.AddGauge("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+
+	testm := <-metrics
+	actual := testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")
+	assert.Equal(t, testm.Type(), telegraf.Gauge)
+
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test value=101")
+	assert.Equal(t, testm.Type(), telegraf.Gauge)
+
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		actual)
+	assert.Equal(t, testm.Type(), telegraf.Gauge)
+}
+
+func TestAddCounter(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	metrics := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	defer close(metrics)
+	a := NewAccumulator(&TestMetricMaker{}, metrics)
+
+	a.AddCounter("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{})
+	a.AddCounter("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"})
+	a.AddCounter("acctest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(101)},
+		map[string]string{"acc": "test"}, now)
+
+	testm := <-metrics
+	actual := testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")
+	assert.Equal(t, testm.Type(), telegraf.Counter)
+
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test value=101")
+	assert.Equal(t, testm.Type(), telegraf.Counter)
+
+	testm = <-metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test value=101 %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		actual)
+	assert.Equal(t, testm.Type(), telegraf.Counter)
+}
+
+type TestMetricMaker struct {
+}
+
+func (tm *TestMetricMaker) Name() string {
+	return "TestPlugin"
+}
+func (tm *TestMetricMaker) MakeMetric(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	mType telegraf.ValueType,
+	t time.Time,
+) telegraf.Metric {
+	switch mType {
+	case telegraf.Untyped:
+		if m, err := metric.New(measurement, tags, fields, t); err == nil {
+			return m
+		}
+	case telegraf.Counter:
+		if m, err := metric.New(measurement, tags, fields, t, telegraf.Counter); err == nil {
+			return m
+		}
+	case telegraf.Gauge:
+		if m, err := metric.New(measurement, tags, fields, t, telegraf.Gauge); err == nil {
+			return m
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
--- a/agent/agent.go
+++ b/agent/agent.go
@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
 package agent

 import (
-	cryptorand "crypto/rand"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
-	"math/big"
-	"math/rand"
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"sync"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/selfstat"
 )

 // Agent runs telegraf and collects data based on the given config
@@ -46,23 +45,19 @@ func NewAgent(config *config.Config) (*Agent, error) {
 // Connect connects to all configured outputs
 func (a *Agent) Connect() error {
 	for _, o := range a.Config.Outputs {
-		o.Quiet = a.Config.Agent.Quiet
-
 		switch ot := o.Output.(type) {
 		case telegraf.ServiceOutput:
 			if err := ot.Start(); err != nil {
-				log.Printf("Service for output %s failed to start, exiting\n%s\n",
+				log.Printf("E! Service for output %s failed to start, exiting\n%s\n",
 					o.Name, err.Error())
 				return err
 			}
 		}

-		if a.Config.Agent.Debug {
-			log.Printf("Attempting connection to output: %s\n", o.Name)
-		}
+		log.Printf("D! Attempting connection to output: %s\n", o.Name)
 		err := o.Output.Connect()
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("Failed to connect to output %s, retrying in 15s, "+
+			log.Printf("E! Failed to connect to output %s, retrying in 15s, "+
 				"error was '%s' \n", o.Name, err)
 			time.Sleep(15 * time.Second)
 			err = o.Output.Connect()
@@ -70,9 +65,7 @@ func (a *Agent) Connect() error {
 				return err
 			}
 		}
-		if a.Config.Agent.Debug {
-			log.Printf("Successfully connected to output: %s\n", o.Name)
-		}
+		log.Printf("D! Successfully connected to output: %s\n", o.Name)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -90,115 +83,94 @@ func (a *Agent) Close() error {
 	return err
 }

-func panicRecover(input *internal_models.RunningInput) {
+func panicRecover(input *models.RunningInput) {
 	if err := recover(); err != nil {
 		trace := make([]byte, 2048)
 		runtime.Stack(trace, true)
-		log.Printf("FATAL: Input [%s] panicked: %s, Stack:\n%s\n",
-			input.Name, err, trace)
-		log.Println("PLEASE REPORT THIS PANIC ON GITHUB with " +
+		log.Printf("E! FATAL: Input [%s] panicked: %s, Stack:\n%s\n",
+			input.Name(), err, trace)
+		log.Println("E! PLEASE REPORT THIS PANIC ON GITHUB with " +
 			"stack trace, configuration, and OS information: " +
 			"https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/new")
 	}
 }

-// gatherParallel runs the inputs that are using the same reporting interval
-// as the telegraf agent.
-func (a *Agent) gatherParallel(metricC chan telegraf.Metric) error {
-	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-
-	start := time.Now()
-	counter := 0
-	jitter := a.Config.Agent.CollectionJitter.Duration.Nanoseconds()
-	for _, input := range a.Config.Inputs {
-		if input.Config.Interval != 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		wg.Add(1)
-		counter++
-		go func(input *internal_models.RunningInput) {
-			defer panicRecover(input)
-			defer wg.Done()
-
-			acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, metricC)
-			acc.SetDebug(a.Config.Agent.Debug)
-			acc.setDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
-
-			if jitter != 0 {
-				nanoSleep := rand.Int63n(jitter)
-				d, err := time.ParseDuration(fmt.Sprintf("%dns", nanoSleep))
-				if err != nil {
-					log.Printf("Jittering collection interval failed for plugin %s",
-						input.Name)
-				} else {
-					time.Sleep(d)
-				}
-			}
-
-			if err := input.Input.Gather(acc); err != nil {
-				log.Printf("Error in input [%s]: %s", input.Name, err)
-			}
-
-		}(input)
-	}
-
-	if counter == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	wg.Wait()
-
-	elapsed := time.Since(start)
-	if !a.Config.Agent.Quiet {
-		log.Printf("Gathered metrics, (%s interval), from %d inputs in %s\n",
-			a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration, counter, elapsed)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// gatherSeparate runs the inputs that have been configured with their own
+// gatherer runs the inputs that have been configured with their own
 // reporting interval.
-func (a *Agent) gatherSeparate(
+func (a *Agent) gatherer(
 	shutdown chan struct{},
-	input *internal_models.RunningInput,
+	input *models.RunningInput,
+	interval time.Duration,
 	metricC chan telegraf.Metric,
-) error {
+) {
 	defer panicRecover(input)

-	ticker := time.NewTicker(input.Config.Interval)
+	GatherTime := selfstat.RegisterTiming("gather",
+		"gather_time_ns",
+		map[string]string{"input": input.Config.Name},
+	)
+
+	acc := NewAccumulator(input, metricC)
+	acc.SetPrecision(a.Config.Agent.Precision.Duration,
+		a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration)
+
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(interval)
+	defer ticker.Stop()

 	for {
-		var outerr error
+		internal.RandomSleep(a.Config.Agent.CollectionJitter.Duration, shutdown)
+
 		start := time.Now()
-
-		acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, metricC)
-		acc.SetDebug(a.Config.Agent.Debug)
-		acc.setDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
-
-		if err := input.Input.Gather(acc); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("Error in input [%s]: %s", input.Name, err)
-		}
-
+		gatherWithTimeout(shutdown, input, acc, interval)
 		elapsed := time.Since(start)
-		if !a.Config.Agent.Quiet {
-			log.Printf("Gathered metrics, (separate %s interval), from %s in %s\n",
-				input.Config.Interval, input.Name, elapsed)
-		}

-		if outerr != nil {
-			return outerr
-		}
+		GatherTime.Incr(elapsed.Nanoseconds())

 		select {
 		case <-shutdown:
-			return nil
+			return
 		case <-ticker.C:
 			continue
 		}
 	}
 }

+// gatherWithTimeout gathers from the given input, with the given timeout.
+//   when the given timeout is reached, gatherWithTimeout logs an error message
+//   but continues waiting for it to return. This is to avoid leaving behind
+//   hung processes, and to prevent re-calling the same hung process over and
+//   over.
+func gatherWithTimeout(
+	shutdown chan struct{},
+	input *models.RunningInput,
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
+	timeout time.Duration,
+) {
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(timeout)
+	defer ticker.Stop()
+	done := make(chan error)
+	go func() {
+		done <- input.Input.Gather(acc)
+	}()
+
+	for {
+		select {
+		case err := <-done:
+			if err != nil {
+				acc.AddError(err)
+			}
+			return
+		case <-ticker.C:
+			err := fmt.Errorf("took longer to collect than collection interval (%s)",
+				timeout)
+			acc.AddError(err)
+			continue
+		case <-shutdown:
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // Test verifies that we can 'Gather' from all inputs with their configured
 // Config struct
 func (a *Agent) Test() error {
@@ -219,11 +191,19 @@ func (a *Agent) Test() error {
 	}()

 	for _, input := range a.Config.Inputs {
-		acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, metricC)
-		acc.SetDebug(true)
-		acc.setDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
+		if _, ok := input.Input.(telegraf.ServiceInput); ok {
+			fmt.Printf("\nWARNING: skipping plugin [[%s]]: service inputs not supported in --test mode\n",
+				input.Name())
+			continue
+		}

-		fmt.Printf("* Plugin: %s, Collection 1\n", input.Name)
+		acc := NewAccumulator(input, metricC)
+		acc.SetPrecision(a.Config.Agent.Precision.Duration,
+			a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration)
+		input.SetTrace(true)
+		input.SetDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
+
+		fmt.Printf("* Plugin: %s, Collection 1\n", input.Name())
 		if input.Config.Interval != 0 {
 			fmt.Printf("* Internal: %s\n", input.Config.Interval)
 		}
@@ -234,10 +214,10 @@ func (a *Agent) Test() error {

 		// Special instructions for some inputs. cpu, for example, needs to be
 		// run twice in order to return cpu usage percentages.
-		switch input.Name {
-		case "cpu", "mongodb", "procstat":
+		switch input.Name() {
+		case "inputs.cpu", "inputs.mongodb", "inputs.procstat":
 			time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
-			fmt.Printf("* Plugin: %s, Collection 2\n", input.Name)
+			fmt.Printf("* Plugin: %s, Collection 2\n", input.Name())
 			if err := input.Input.Gather(acc); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -253,11 +233,11 @@ func (a *Agent) flush() {

 	wg.Add(len(a.Config.Outputs))
 	for _, o := range a.Config.Outputs {
-		go func(output *internal_models.RunningOutput) {
+		go func(output *models.RunningOutput) {
 			defer wg.Done()
 			err := output.Write()
 			if err != nil {
-				log.Printf("Error writing to output [%s]: %s\n",
+				log.Printf("E! Error writing to output [%s]: %s\n",
 					output.Name, err.Error())
 			}
 		}(o)
@@ -267,76 +247,141 @@ func (a *Agent) flush() {
 }

 // flusher monitors the metrics input channel and flushes on the minimum interval
-func (a *Agent) flusher(shutdown chan struct{}, metricC chan telegraf.Metric) error {
+func (a *Agent) flusher(shutdown chan struct{}, metricC chan telegraf.Metric, aggC chan telegraf.Metric) error {
 	// Inelegant, but this sleep is to allow the Gather threads to run, so that
 	// the flusher will flush after metrics are collected.
-	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 200)
+	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 300)
+
+	// create an output metric channel and a gorouting that continuously passes
+	// each metric onto the output plugins & aggregators.
+	outMetricC := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 100)
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(1)
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-shutdown:
+				if len(outMetricC) > 0 {
+					// keep going until outMetricC is flushed
+					continue
+				}
+				return
+			case m := <-outMetricC:
+				// if dropOriginal is set to true, then we will only send this
+				// metric to the aggregators, not the outputs.
+				var dropOriginal bool
+				if !m.IsAggregate() {
+					for _, agg := range a.Config.Aggregators {
+						if ok := agg.Add(m.Copy()); ok {
+							dropOriginal = true
+						}
+					}
+				}
+				if !dropOriginal {
+					for i, o := range a.Config.Outputs {
+						if i == len(a.Config.Outputs)-1 {
+							o.AddMetric(m)
+						} else {
+							o.AddMetric(m.Copy())
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+
+	wg.Add(1)
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-shutdown:
+				if len(aggC) > 0 {
+					// keep going until aggC is flushed
+					continue
+				}
+				return
+			case metric := <-aggC:
+				metrics := []telegraf.Metric{metric}
+				for _, processor := range a.Config.Processors {
+					metrics = processor.Apply(metrics...)
+				}
+				for _, m := range metrics {
+					for i, o := range a.Config.Outputs {
+						if i == len(a.Config.Outputs)-1 {
+							o.AddMetric(m)
+						} else {
+							o.AddMetric(m.Copy())
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}()

 	ticker := time.NewTicker(a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration)
-
+	semaphore := make(chan struct{}, 1)
 	for {
 		select {
 		case <-shutdown:
-			log.Println("Hang on, flushing any cached metrics before shutdown")
+			log.Println("I! Hang on, flushing any cached metrics before shutdown")
+			// wait for outMetricC to get flushed before flushing outputs
+			wg.Wait()
 			a.flush()
 			return nil
 		case <-ticker.C:
-			a.flush()
-		case m := <-metricC:
-			for _, o := range a.Config.Outputs {
-				o.AddMetric(m)
+			go func() {
+				select {
+				case semaphore <- struct{}{}:
+					internal.RandomSleep(a.Config.Agent.FlushJitter.Duration, shutdown)
+					a.flush()
+					<-semaphore
+				default:
+					// skipping this flush because one is already happening
+					log.Println("W! Skipping a scheduled flush because there is" +
+						" already a flush ongoing.")
+				}
+			}()
+		case metric := <-metricC:
+			// NOTE potential bottleneck here as we put each metric through the
+			// processors serially.
+			mS := []telegraf.Metric{metric}
+			for _, processor := range a.Config.Processors {
+				mS = processor.Apply(mS...)
+			}
+			for _, m := range mS {
+				outMetricC <- m
 			}
 		}
 	}
 }

-// jitterInterval applies the the interval jitter to the flush interval using
-// crypto/rand number generator
-func jitterInterval(ininterval, injitter time.Duration) time.Duration {
-	var jitter int64
-	outinterval := ininterval
-	if injitter.Nanoseconds() != 0 {
-		maxjitter := big.NewInt(injitter.Nanoseconds())
-		if j, err := cryptorand.Int(cryptorand.Reader, maxjitter); err == nil {
-			jitter = j.Int64()
-		}
-		outinterval = time.Duration(jitter + ininterval.Nanoseconds())
-	}
-
-	if outinterval.Nanoseconds() < time.Duration(500*time.Millisecond).Nanoseconds() {
-		log.Printf("Flush interval %s too low, setting to 500ms\n", outinterval)
-		outinterval = time.Duration(500 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-
-	return outinterval
-}
-
 // Run runs the agent daemon, gathering every Interval
 func (a *Agent) Run(shutdown chan struct{}) error {
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup

-	a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration = jitterInterval(
-		a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration,
-		a.Config.Agent.FlushJitter.Duration)
-
-	log.Printf("Agent Config: Interval:%s, Debug:%#v, Quiet:%#v, Hostname:%#v, "+
+	log.Printf("I! Agent Config: Interval:%s, Quiet:%#v, Hostname:%#v, "+
 		"Flush Interval:%s \n",
-		a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration, a.Config.Agent.Debug, a.Config.Agent.Quiet,
+		a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration, a.Config.Agent.Quiet,
 		a.Config.Agent.Hostname, a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration)

 	// channel shared between all input threads for accumulating metrics
-	metricC := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10000)
+	metricC := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 100)
+	aggC := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 100)

+	// Start all ServicePlugins
 	for _, input := range a.Config.Inputs {
-		// Start service of any ServicePlugins
+		input.SetDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
 		switch p := input.Input.(type) {
 		case telegraf.ServiceInput:
-			acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, metricC)
-			acc.SetDebug(a.Config.Agent.Debug)
-			acc.setDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
+			acc := NewAccumulator(input, metricC)
+			// Service input plugins should set their own precision of their
+			// metrics.
+			acc.SetPrecision(time.Nanosecond, 0)
 			if err := p.Start(acc); err != nil {
-				log.Printf("Service for input %s failed to start, exiting\n%s\n",
-					input.Name, err.Error())
+				log.Printf("E! Service for input %s failed to start, exiting\n%s\n",
+					input.Name(), err.Error())
 				return err
 			}
 			defer p.Stop()
@@ -348,43 +393,41 @@ func (a *Agent) Run(shutdown chan struct{}) error {
 		i := int64(a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration)
 		time.Sleep(time.Duration(i - (time.Now().UnixNano() % i)))
 	}
-	ticker := time.NewTicker(a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration)

 	wg.Add(1)
 	go func() {
 		defer wg.Done()
-		if err := a.flusher(shutdown, metricC); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("Flusher routine failed, exiting: %s\n", err.Error())
+		if err := a.flusher(shutdown, metricC, aggC); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("E! Flusher routine failed, exiting: %s\n", err.Error())
 			close(shutdown)
 		}
 	}()

+	wg.Add(len(a.Config.Aggregators))
+	for _, aggregator := range a.Config.Aggregators {
+		go func(agg *models.RunningAggregator) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			acc := NewAccumulator(agg, aggC)
+			acc.SetPrecision(a.Config.Agent.Precision.Duration,
+				a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration)
+			agg.Run(acc, shutdown)
+		}(aggregator)
+	}
+
+	wg.Add(len(a.Config.Inputs))
 	for _, input := range a.Config.Inputs {
-		// Special handling for inputs that have their own collection interval
-		// configured. Default intervals are handled below with gatherParallel
+		interval := a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration
+		// overwrite global interval if this plugin has it's own.
 		if input.Config.Interval != 0 {
-			wg.Add(1)
-			go func(input *internal_models.RunningInput) {
-				defer wg.Done()
-				if err := a.gatherSeparate(shutdown, input, metricC); err != nil {
-					log.Printf(err.Error())
-				}
-			}(input)
+			interval = input.Config.Interval
 		}
+		go func(in *models.RunningInput, interv time.Duration) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			a.gatherer(shutdown, in, interv, metricC)
+		}(input, interval)
 	}

-	defer wg.Wait()
-
-	for {
-		if err := a.gatherParallel(metricC); err != nil {
-			log.Printf(err.Error())
-		}
-
-		select {
-		case <-shutdown:
-			return nil
-		case <-ticker.C:
-			continue
-		}
-	}
+	wg.Wait()
+	a.Close()
+	return nil
 }
--- a/agent/agent_test.go
+++ b/agent/agent_test.go
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package agent

 import (
 	"testing"
-	"time"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config"

@@ -110,75 +109,3 @@ func TestAgent_LoadOutput(t *testing.T) {
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 3, len(a.Config.Outputs))
 }
-
-func TestAgent_ZeroJitter(t *testing.T) {
-	flushinterval := jitterInterval(time.Duration(10*time.Second),
-		time.Duration(0*time.Second))
-
-	actual := flushinterval.Nanoseconds()
-	exp := time.Duration(10 * time.Second).Nanoseconds()
-
-	if actual != exp {
-		t.Errorf("Actual %v, expected %v", actual, exp)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAgent_ZeroInterval(t *testing.T) {
-	min := time.Duration(500 * time.Millisecond).Nanoseconds()
-	max := time.Duration(5 * time.Second).Nanoseconds()
-
-	for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
-		flushinterval := jitterInterval(time.Duration(0*time.Second),
-			time.Duration(5*time.Second))
-		actual := flushinterval.Nanoseconds()
-
-		if actual > max {
-			t.Errorf("Didn't expect interval %d to be > %d", actual, max)
-			break
-		}
-		if actual < min {
-			t.Errorf("Didn't expect interval %d to be < %d", actual, min)
-			break
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAgent_ZeroBoth(t *testing.T) {
-	flushinterval := jitterInterval(time.Duration(0*time.Second),
-		time.Duration(0*time.Second))
-
-	actual := flushinterval
-	exp := time.Duration(500 * time.Millisecond)
-
-	if actual != exp {
-		t.Errorf("Actual %v, expected %v", actual, exp)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAgent_JitterMax(t *testing.T) {
-	max := time.Duration(32 * time.Second).Nanoseconds()
-
-	for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
-		flushinterval := jitterInterval(time.Duration(30*time.Second),
-			time.Duration(2*time.Second))
-		actual := flushinterval.Nanoseconds()
-		if actual > max {
-			t.Errorf("Didn't expect interval %d to be > %d", actual, max)
-			break
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAgent_JitterMin(t *testing.T) {
-	min := time.Duration(30 * time.Second).Nanoseconds()
-
-	for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
-		flushinterval := jitterInterval(time.Duration(30*time.Second),
-			time.Duration(2*time.Second))
-		actual := flushinterval.Nanoseconds()
-		if actual < min {
-			t.Errorf("Didn't expect interval %d to be < %d", actual, min)
-			break
-		}
-	}
-}
--- a/aggregator.go
+++ b/aggregator.go
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package telegraf
+
+// Aggregator is an interface for implementing an Aggregator plugin.
+// the RunningAggregator wraps this interface and guarantees that
+// Add, Push, and Reset can not be called concurrently, so locking is not
+// required when implementing an Aggregator plugin.
+type Aggregator interface {
+	// SampleConfig returns the default configuration of the Input.
+	SampleConfig() string
+
+	// Description returns a one-sentence description on the Input.
+	Description() string
+
+	// Add the metric to the aggregator.
+	Add(in Metric)
+
+	// Push pushes the current aggregates to the accumulator.
+	Push(acc Accumulator)
+
+	// Reset resets the aggregators caches and aggregates.
+	Reset()
+}
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+version: "{build}"
+
+cache:
+ - C:\Cache
+
+clone_folder: C:\gopath\src\github.com\influxdata\telegraf
+
+environment:
+  GOPATH: C:\gopath
+
+platform: x64
+
+install:
+  - IF NOT EXIST "C:\Cache" mkdir C:\Cache
+  - IF NOT EXIST "C:\Cache\go1.9.2.msi" curl -o "C:\Cache\go1.9.2.msi" https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.9.2.windows-amd64.msi
+  - IF NOT EXIST "C:\Cache\gnuwin32-bin.zip" curl -o "C:\Cache\gnuwin32-bin.zip" https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/ci/make-3.81-bin.zip
+  - IF NOT EXIST "C:\Cache\gnuwin32-dep.zip" curl -o "C:\Cache\gnuwin32-dep.zip" https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/ci/make-3.81-dep.zip
+  - IF EXIST "C:\Go" rmdir /S /Q C:\Go
+  - msiexec.exe /i "C:\Cache\go1.9.2.msi" /quiet
+  - 7z x "C:\Cache\gnuwin32-bin.zip" -oC:\GnuWin32 -y
+  - 7z x "C:\Cache\gnuwin32-dep.zip" -oC:\GnuWin32 -y
+  - go version
+  - go env
+
+build_script:
+  - cmd: C:\GnuWin32\bin\make deps
+  - cmd: C:\GnuWin32\bin\make telegraf
+
+test_script:
+  - cmd: C:\GnuWin32\bin\make test-windows
+
+artifacts:
+  - path: telegraf.exe
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-machine:
-  services:
-    - docker
-  post:
-    - sudo service zookeeper stop
-    - go version
-    - go version | grep 1.6.2 || sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
-    - wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.6.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
-    - sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.6.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
-    - go version
-
-dependencies:
-  override:
-    - docker info
-  post:
-    - gem install fpm
-    - sudo apt-get install -y rpm python-boto
-
-test:
-  override:
-    - bash scripts/circle-test.sh
--- a/cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
+++ b/cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
@@ -4,21 +4,30 @@ import (
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	_ "net/http/pprof" // Comment this line to disable pprof endpoint.
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
+	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"syscall"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/agent"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/logger"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators/all"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/all"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs/all"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors/all"
+	"github.com/kardianos/service"
 )

 var fDebug = flag.Bool("debug", false,
-	"show metrics as they're generated to stdout")
+	"turn on debug logging")
+var pprofAddr = flag.String("pprof-addr", "",
+	"pprof address to listen on, not activate pprof if empty")
 var fQuiet = flag.Bool("quiet", false,
 	"run in quiet mode")
 var fTest = flag.Bool("test", false, "gather metrics, print them out, and exit")
@@ -37,149 +46,88 @@ var fOutputFilters = flag.String("output-filter", "",
 	"filter the outputs to enable, separator is :")
 var fOutputList = flag.Bool("output-list", false,
 	"print available output plugins.")
+var fAggregatorFilters = flag.String("aggregator-filter", "",
+	"filter the aggregators to enable, separator is :")
+var fProcessorFilters = flag.String("processor-filter", "",
+	"filter the processors to enable, separator is :")
 var fUsage = flag.String("usage", "",
-	"print usage for a plugin, ie, 'telegraf -usage mysql'")
-var fInputFiltersLegacy = flag.String("filter", "",
-	"filter the inputs to enable, separator is :")
-var fOutputFiltersLegacy = flag.String("outputfilter", "",
-	"filter the outputs to enable, separator is :")
-var fConfigDirectoryLegacy = flag.String("configdirectory", "",
-	"directory containing additional *.conf files")
+	"print usage for a plugin, ie, 'telegraf --usage mysql'")
+var fService = flag.String("service", "",
+	"operate on the service")
+var fRunAsConsole = flag.Bool("console", false, "run as console application (windows only)")

-// Telegraf version, populated linker.
-//   ie, -ldflags "-X main.version=`git describe --always --tags`"
 var (
-	version string
-	commit  string
-	branch  string
+	nextVersion = "1.6.0"
+	version     string
+	commit      string
+	branch      string
 )

+func init() {
+	// If commit or branch are not set, make that clear.
+	if commit == "" {
+		commit = "unknown"
+	}
+	if branch == "" {
+		branch = "unknown"
+	}
+}
+
 const usage = `Telegraf, The plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics.

 Usage:

-  telegraf <flags>
+  telegraf [commands|flags]

-The flags are:
+The commands & 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 :
-  -input-list        print all the plugins inputs
-  -output-filter     filter the output plugins to enable, separator is :
-  -output-list       print all the available outputs
-  -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
+  config              print out full sample configuration to stdout
+  version             print the version to stdout

-In addition to the -config flag, telegraf will also load the config file from
-an environment variable or default location. Precedence is:
-  1. -config flag
-  2. $TELEGRAF_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
-  3. $HOME/.telegraf/telegraf.conf
-  4. /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf
+  --config <file>     configuration file to load
+  --test              gather metrics once, print them to stdout, and exit
+  --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
+  --pprof-addr        pprof address to listen on, format: localhost:6060 or :6060
+  --quiet             run in quiet mode

 Examples:

  # generate a telegraf config file:
-  telegraf -sample-config > telegraf.conf
+  telegraf config > telegraf.conf

  # generate config with only cpu input & influxdb output plugins defined
-  telegraf -sample-config -input-filter cpu -output-filter influxdb
+  telegraf --input-filter cpu --output-filter influxdb config

  # run a single telegraf collection, outputing metrics to stdout
-  telegraf -config telegraf.conf -test
+  telegraf --config telegraf.conf --test

  # run telegraf with all plugins defined in config file
-  telegraf -config telegraf.conf
+  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 influxdb
+  telegraf --config telegraf.conf --input-filter cpu:mem --output-filter influxdb
+
+  # run telegraf with pprof
+  telegraf --config telegraf.conf --pprof-addr localhost:6060
 `

-func main() {
+var stop chan struct{}
+
+func reloadLoop(
+	stop chan struct{},
+	inputFilters []string,
+	outputFilters []string,
+	aggregatorFilters []string,
+	processorFilters []string,
+) {
 	reload := make(chan bool, 1)
 	reload <- true
 	for <-reload {
 		reload <- false
-		flag.Usage = func() { usageExit(0) }
-		flag.Parse()
-		args := flag.Args()
-
-		var inputFilters []string
-		if *fInputFiltersLegacy != "" {
-			fmt.Printf("WARNING '--filter' flag is deprecated, please use" +
-				" '--input-filter'")
-			inputFilter := strings.TrimSpace(*fInputFiltersLegacy)
-			inputFilters = strings.Split(":"+inputFilter+":", ":")
-		}
-		if *fInputFilters != "" {
-			inputFilter := strings.TrimSpace(*fInputFilters)
-			inputFilters = strings.Split(":"+inputFilter+":", ":")
-		}
-
-		var outputFilters []string
-		if *fOutputFiltersLegacy != "" {
-			fmt.Printf("WARNING '--outputfilter' flag is deprecated, please use" +
-				" '--output-filter'")
-			outputFilter := strings.TrimSpace(*fOutputFiltersLegacy)
-			outputFilters = strings.Split(":"+outputFilter+":", ":")
-		}
-		if *fOutputFilters != "" {
-			outputFilter := strings.TrimSpace(*fOutputFilters)
-			outputFilters = strings.Split(":"+outputFilter+":", ":")
-		}
-
-		if len(args) > 0 {
-			switch args[0] {
-			case "version":
-				v := fmt.Sprintf("Telegraf - version %s", version)
-				fmt.Println(v)
-				return
-			case "config":
-				config.PrintSampleConfig(inputFilters, outputFilters)
-				return
-			}
-		}
-
-		if *fOutputList {
-			fmt.Println("Available Output Plugins:")
-			for k, _ := range outputs.Outputs {
-				fmt.Printf("  %s\n", k)
-			}
-			return
-		}
-
-		if *fInputList {
-			fmt.Println("Available Input Plugins:")
-			for k, _ := range inputs.Inputs {
-				fmt.Printf("  %s\n", k)
-			}
-			return
-		}
-
-		if *fVersion {
-			v := fmt.Sprintf("Telegraf - version %s", version)
-			fmt.Println(v)
-			return
-		}
-
-		if *fSampleConfig {
-			config.PrintSampleConfig(inputFilters, outputFilters)
-			return
-		}
-
-		if *fUsage != "" {
-			if err := config.PrintInputConfig(*fUsage); err != nil {
-				if err2 := config.PrintOutputConfig(*fUsage); err2 != nil {
-					log.Fatalf("%s and %s", err, err2)
-				}
-			}
-			return
-		}

 		// If no other options are specified, load the config file and run.
 		c := config.NewConfig()
@@ -187,88 +135,98 @@ func main() {
 		c.InputFilters = inputFilters
 		err := c.LoadConfig(*fConfig)
 		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Println(err)
-			os.Exit(1)
-		}
-
-		if *fConfigDirectoryLegacy != "" {
-			fmt.Printf("WARNING '--configdirectory' flag is deprecated, please use" +
-				" '--config-directory'")
-			err = c.LoadDirectory(*fConfigDirectoryLegacy)
-			if err != nil {
-				log.Fatal(err)
-			}
+			log.Fatal("E! " + err.Error())
 		}

 		if *fConfigDirectory != "" {
 			err = c.LoadDirectory(*fConfigDirectory)
 			if err != nil {
-				log.Fatal(err)
+				log.Fatal("E! " + err.Error())
 			}
 		}
-		if len(c.Outputs) == 0 {
-			log.Fatalf("Error: no outputs found, did you provide a valid config file?")
+		if !*fTest && len(c.Outputs) == 0 {
+			log.Fatalf("E! Error: no outputs found, did you provide a valid config file?")
 		}
 		if len(c.Inputs) == 0 {
-			log.Fatalf("Error: no inputs found, did you provide a valid config file?")
+			log.Fatalf("E! Error: no inputs found, did you provide a valid config file?")
+		}
+
+		if int64(c.Agent.Interval.Duration) <= 0 {
+			log.Fatalf("E! Agent interval must be positive, found %s",
+				c.Agent.Interval.Duration)
+		}
+
+		if int64(c.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration) <= 0 {
+			log.Fatalf("E! Agent flush_interval must be positive; found %s",
+				c.Agent.Interval.Duration)
 		}

 		ag, err := agent.NewAgent(c)
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Fatal(err)
+			log.Fatal("E! " + err.Error())
 		}

-		if *fDebug {
-			ag.Config.Agent.Debug = true
-		}
-
-		if *fQuiet {
-			ag.Config.Agent.Quiet = true
-		}
+		// Setup logging
+		logger.SetupLogging(
+			ag.Config.Agent.Debug || *fDebug,
+			ag.Config.Agent.Quiet || *fQuiet,
+			ag.Config.Agent.Logfile,
+		)

 		if *fTest {
 			err = ag.Test()
 			if err != nil {
-				log.Fatal(err)
+				log.Fatal("E! " + err.Error())
 			}
-			return
+			os.Exit(0)
 		}

 		err = ag.Connect()
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Fatal(err)
+			log.Fatal("E! " + err.Error())
 		}

 		shutdown := make(chan struct{})
 		signals := make(chan os.Signal)
 		signal.Notify(signals, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGHUP)
 		go func() {
-			sig := <-signals
-			if sig == os.Interrupt {
-				close(shutdown)
-			}
-			if sig == syscall.SIGHUP {
-				log.Printf("Reloading Telegraf config\n")
-				<-reload
-				reload <- true
+			select {
+			case sig := <-signals:
+				if sig == os.Interrupt {
+					close(shutdown)
+				}
+				if sig == syscall.SIGHUP {
+					log.Printf("I! Reloading Telegraf config\n")
+					<-reload
+					reload <- true
+					close(shutdown)
+				}
+			case <-stop:
 				close(shutdown)
 			}
 		}()

-		log.Printf("Starting Telegraf (version %s)\n", version)
-		log.Printf("Loaded outputs: %s", strings.Join(c.OutputNames(), " "))
-		log.Printf("Loaded inputs: %s", strings.Join(c.InputNames(), " "))
-		log.Printf("Tags enabled: %s", c.ListTags())
+		log.Printf("I! Starting Telegraf %s\n", displayVersion())
+		log.Printf("I! Loaded outputs: %s", strings.Join(c.OutputNames(), " "))
+		log.Printf("I! Loaded inputs: %s", strings.Join(c.InputNames(), " "))
+		log.Printf("I! Tags enabled: %s", c.ListTags())

 		if *fPidfile != "" {
-			f, err := os.Create(*fPidfile)
+			f, err := os.OpenFile(*fPidfile, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
 			if err != nil {
-				log.Fatalf("Unable to create pidfile: %s", err)
+				log.Printf("E! Unable to create pidfile: %s", err)
+			} else {
+				fmt.Fprintf(f, "%d\n", os.Getpid())
+
+				f.Close()
+
+				defer func() {
+					err := os.Remove(*fPidfile)
+					if err != nil {
+						log.Printf("E! Unable to remove pidfile: %s", err)
+					}
+				}()
 			}
-
-			fmt.Fprintf(f, "%d\n", os.Getpid())
-
-			f.Close()
 		}

 		ag.Run(shutdown)
@@ -279,3 +237,175 @@ func usageExit(rc int) {
 	fmt.Println(usage)
 	os.Exit(rc)
 }
+
+type program struct {
+	inputFilters      []string
+	outputFilters     []string
+	aggregatorFilters []string
+	processorFilters  []string
+}
+
+func (p *program) Start(s service.Service) error {
+	go p.run()
+	return nil
+}
+func (p *program) run() {
+	stop = make(chan struct{})
+	reloadLoop(
+		stop,
+		p.inputFilters,
+		p.outputFilters,
+		p.aggregatorFilters,
+		p.processorFilters,
+	)
+}
+func (p *program) Stop(s service.Service) error {
+	close(stop)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func displayVersion() string {
+	if version == "" {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("v%s~%s", nextVersion, commit)
+	}
+	return "v" + version
+}
+
+func main() {
+	flag.Usage = func() { usageExit(0) }
+	flag.Parse()
+	args := flag.Args()
+
+	inputFilters, outputFilters := []string{}, []string{}
+	if *fInputFilters != "" {
+		inputFilters = strings.Split(":"+strings.TrimSpace(*fInputFilters)+":", ":")
+	}
+	if *fOutputFilters != "" {
+		outputFilters = strings.Split(":"+strings.TrimSpace(*fOutputFilters)+":", ":")
+	}
+
+	aggregatorFilters, processorFilters := []string{}, []string{}
+	if *fAggregatorFilters != "" {
+		aggregatorFilters = strings.Split(":"+strings.TrimSpace(*fAggregatorFilters)+":", ":")
+	}
+	if *fProcessorFilters != "" {
+		processorFilters = strings.Split(":"+strings.TrimSpace(*fProcessorFilters)+":", ":")
+	}
+
+	if *pprofAddr != "" {
+		go func() {
+			pprofHostPort := *pprofAddr
+			parts := strings.Split(pprofHostPort, ":")
+			if len(parts) == 2 && parts[0] == "" {
+				pprofHostPort = fmt.Sprintf("localhost:%s", parts[1])
+			}
+			pprofHostPort = "http://" + pprofHostPort + "/debug/pprof"
+
+			log.Printf("I! Starting pprof HTTP server at: %s", pprofHostPort)
+
+			if err := http.ListenAndServe(*pprofAddr, nil); err != nil {
+				log.Fatal("E! " + err.Error())
+			}
+		}()
+	}
+
+	if len(args) > 0 {
+		switch args[0] {
+		case "version":
+			fmt.Printf("Telegraf %s (git: %s %s)\n", displayVersion(), branch, commit)
+			return
+		case "config":
+			config.PrintSampleConfig(
+				inputFilters,
+				outputFilters,
+				aggregatorFilters,
+				processorFilters,
+			)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	// switch for flags which just do something and exit immediately
+	switch {
+	case *fOutputList:
+		fmt.Println("Available Output Plugins:")
+		for k, _ := range outputs.Outputs {
+			fmt.Printf("  %s\n", k)
+		}
+		return
+	case *fInputList:
+		fmt.Println("Available Input Plugins:")
+		for k, _ := range inputs.Inputs {
+			fmt.Printf("  %s\n", k)
+		}
+		return
+	case *fVersion:
+		fmt.Printf("Telegraf %s (git: %s %s)\n", displayVersion(), branch, commit)
+		return
+	case *fSampleConfig:
+		config.PrintSampleConfig(
+			inputFilters,
+			outputFilters,
+			aggregatorFilters,
+			processorFilters,
+		)
+		return
+	case *fUsage != "":
+		err := config.PrintInputConfig(*fUsage)
+		err2 := config.PrintOutputConfig(*fUsage)
+		if err != nil && err2 != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("E! %s and %s", err, err2)
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
+	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" && !(*fRunAsConsole) {
+		svcConfig := &service.Config{
+			Name:        "telegraf",
+			DisplayName: "Telegraf Data Collector Service",
+			Description: "Collects data using a series of plugins and publishes it to" +
+				"another series of plugins.",
+			Arguments: []string{"-config", "C:\\Program Files\\Telegraf\\telegraf.conf"},
+		}
+
+		prg := &program{
+			inputFilters:      inputFilters,
+			outputFilters:     outputFilters,
+			aggregatorFilters: aggregatorFilters,
+			processorFilters:  processorFilters,
+		}
+		s, err := service.New(prg, svcConfig)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Fatal("E! " + err.Error())
+		}
+		// Handle the -service flag here to prevent any issues with tooling that
+		// may not have an interactive session, e.g. installing from Ansible.
+		if *fService != "" {
+			if *fConfig != "" {
+				(*svcConfig).Arguments = []string{"-config", *fConfig}
+			}
+			if *fConfigDirectory != "" {
+				(*svcConfig).Arguments = append((*svcConfig).Arguments, "-config-directory", *fConfigDirectory)
+			}
+			err := service.Control(s, *fService)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Fatal("E! " + err.Error())
+			}
+			os.Exit(0)
+		} else {
+			err = s.Run()
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Println("E! " + err.Error())
+			}
+		}
+	} else {
+		stop = make(chan struct{})
+		reloadLoop(
+			stop,
+			inputFilters,
+			outputFilters,
+			aggregatorFilters,
+			processorFilters,
+		)
+	}
+}
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+version: '3'
+
+services:
+  aerospike:
+    image: aerospike/aerospike-server:3.9.0
+    ports:
+      - "3000:3000"
+  zookeeper:
+    image: wurstmeister/zookeeper
+    environment:
+      - JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx256m"
+    ports:
+      - "2181:2181"
+  kafka:
+    image: wurstmeister/kafka
+    environment:
+      - KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME=localhost
+      - KAFKA_ADVERTISED_PORT=9092
+      - KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT=zookeeper:2181
+      - KAFKA_CREATE_TOPICS="test:1:1"
+      - JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx256m"
+    ports:
+      - "9092:9092"
+    depends_on:
+      - zookeeper
+  elasticsearch:
+    image: elasticsearch:5
+    environment:
+    - JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx256m"
+    ports:
+      - "9200:9200"
+      - "9300:9300"
+  mysql:
+    image: mysql
+    environment:
+      - MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes
+    ports:
+      - "3306:3306"
+  memcached:
+    image: memcached
+    ports: 
+      - "11211:11211"
+  postgres:
+    image: postgres:alpine
+    ports:
+      - "5432:5432"
+  rabbitmq:
+    image: rabbitmq:3-management
+    ports:
+      - "15672:15672"
+      - "5672:5672"
+  redis:
+    image: redis:alpine
+    ports:
+      - "6379:6379"
+  nsq:
+    image: nsqio/nsq
+    ports:
+      - "4150:4150"
+    command: "/nsqd"
+  mqtt:
+    image: ncarlier/mqtt
+    ports:
+      - "1883:1883"
+  riemann:
+    image: stealthly/docker-riemann
+    ports:
+      - "5555:5555"
+  nats:
+    image: nats
+    ports:
+      - "4222:4222"
+  openldap:
+    image: cobaugh/openldap-alpine
+    environment:
+      - SLAPD_CONFIG_ROOTDN="cn=manager,cn=config"
+      - SLAPD_CONFIG_ROOTPW="secret"
+    ports:
+      - "389:389"
+      - "636:636"
+  crate:
+   image: crate/crate
+   ports:
+    - "4200:4200"
+    - "4230:4230"
+   command:
+    - crate
+    - -Cnetwork.host=0.0.0.0
+    - -Ctransport.host=localhost
+    - -Clicense.enterprise=false
+   environment:
+    - CRATE_HEAP_SIZE=128m
+    - JAVA_OPTS='-Xms256m -Xmx256m'
--- a/docs/AGGREGATORS_AND_PROCESSORS.md
+++ b/docs/AGGREGATORS_AND_PROCESSORS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# Telegraf Aggregator & Processor Plugins
+
+As of release 1.1.0, Telegraf has the concept of Aggregator and Processor Plugins.
+
+These plugins sit in-between Input & Output plugins, aggregating and processing
+metrics as they pass through Telegraf:
+
+```
+┌───────────┐
+│           │
+│    CPU    │───┐
+│           │   │
+└───────────┘   │
+                │
+┌───────────┐   │                                              ┌───────────┐
+│           │   │                                              │           │
+│  Memory   │───┤                                          ┌──▶│ InfluxDB  │
+│           │   │                                          │   │           │
+└───────────┘   │    ┌─────────────┐     ┌─────────────┐   │   └───────────┘
+                │    │             │     │Aggregate    │   │
+┌───────────┐   │    │Process      │     │ - mean      │   │   ┌───────────┐
+│           │   │    │ - transform │     │ - quantiles │   │   │           │
+│   MySQL   │───┼───▶│ - decorate  │────▶│ - min/max   │───┼──▶│   File    │
+│           │   │    │ - filter    │     │ - count     │   │   │           │
+└───────────┘   │    │             │     │             │   │   └───────────┘
+                │    └─────────────┘     └─────────────┘   │
+┌───────────┐   │                                          │   ┌───────────┐
+│           │   │                                          │   │           │
+│   SNMP    │───┤                                          └──▶│   Kafka   │
+│           │   │                                              │           │
+└───────────┘   │                                              └───────────┘
+                │
+┌───────────┐   │
+│           │   │
+│  Docker   │───┘
+│           │
+└───────────┘
+```
+
+Both Aggregators and Processors analyze metrics as they pass through Telegraf.
+
+Use [measurement filtering](CONFIGURATION.md#measurement-filtering)
+to control which metrics are passed through a processor or aggregator.  If a
+metric is filtered out the metric bypasses the plugin and is passed downstream
+to the next plugin.
+
+**Processor** plugins process metrics as they pass through and immediately emit
+results based on the values they process. For example, this could be printing
+all metrics or adding a tag to all metrics that pass through.
+
+**Aggregator** plugins, on the other hand, are a bit more complicated. Aggregators
+are typically for emitting new _aggregate_ metrics, such as a running mean,
+minimum, maximum, quantiles, or standard deviation. For this reason, all _aggregator_
+plugins are configured with a `period`. The `period` is the size of the window
+of metrics that each _aggregate_ represents. In other words, the emitted
+_aggregate_ metric will be the aggregated value of the past `period` seconds.
+Since many users will only care about their aggregates and not every single metric
+gathered, there is also a `drop_original` argument, which tells Telegraf to only
+emit the aggregates and not the original metrics.
+
+**NOTE** That since aggregators only aggregate metrics within their period, that
+historical data is not supported. In other words, if your metric timestamp is more
+than `now() - period` in the past, it will not be aggregated. If this is a feature
+that you need, please comment on this [github issue](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1992)
--- a/docs/CONFIGURATION.md
+++ b/docs/CONFIGURATION.md
@@ -1,38 +1,54 @@
 # Telegraf Configuration

-## Generating a Configuration File
-
-A default Telegraf config file can be generated using the -sample-config flag:
-
-```
-telegraf -sample-config > telegraf.conf
-```
-
-To generate a file with specific inputs and outputs, you can use the
-input-filter and -output-filter flags:
-
-```
-telegraf -sample-config -input-filter cpu:mem:net:swap -output-filter influxdb:kafka
-```
-
 You can see the latest config file with all available plugins here:
 [telegraf.conf](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/etc/telegraf.conf)

+## Generating a Configuration File
+
+A default Telegraf config file can be auto-generated by telegraf:
+
+```
+telegraf config > telegraf.conf
+```
+
+To generate a file with specific inputs and outputs, you can use the
+--input-filter and --output-filter flags:
+
+```
+telegraf --input-filter cpu:mem:net:swap --output-filter influxdb:kafka config
+```
+
 ## Environment Variables

 Environment variables can be used anywhere in the config file, simply prepend
 them with $. For strings the variable must be within quotes (ie, "$STR_VAR"),
 for numbers and booleans they should be plain (ie, $INT_VAR, $BOOL_VAR)

-## `[global_tags]` Configuration
+When using the `.deb` or `.rpm` packages, you can define environment variables
+in the `/etc/default/telegraf` file.
+
+## Configuration file locations
+
+The location of the configuration file can be set via the `--config` command
+line flag.
+
+When the `--config-directory` command line flag is used files ending with
+`.conf` in the specified directory will also be included in the Telegraf
+configuration.
+
+On most systems, the default locations are `/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf` for
+the main configuration file and `/etc/telegraf/telegraf.d` for the directory of
+configuration files.
+
+# Global Tags

 Global tags can be specified in the `[global_tags]` section of the config file
 in key="value" format. All metrics being gathered on this host will be tagged
 with the tags specified here.

-## `[agent]` Configuration
+## Agent Configuration

-Telegraf has a few options you can configure under the `agent` section of the
+Telegraf has a few options you can configure under the `[agent]` section of the
 config.

 * **interval**: Default data collection interval for all inputs
@@ -56,48 +72,114 @@ interval. Maximum flush_interval will be flush_interval + flush_jitter
 This is primarily to avoid
 large write spikes for users running a large number of telegraf instances.
 ie, a jitter of 5s and flush_interval 10s means flushes will happen every 10-15s.
+* **precision**:
+   By default or when set to "0s", precision will be set to the same
+   timestamp order as the collection interval, with the maximum being 1s.
+   Precision will NOT be used for service inputs. It is up to each individual
+   service input to set the timestamp at the appropriate precision.
+   Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s".
+
+* **logfile**: Specify the log file name. The empty string means to log to stderr.
 * **debug**: Run telegraf in debug mode.
-* **quiet**: Run telegraf in quiet mode.
+* **quiet**: Run telegraf in quiet mode (error messages only).
 * **hostname**: Override default hostname, if empty use os.Hostname().
-
-#### Measurement Filtering
-
-Filters can be configured per input or output, see below for examples.
-
-* **namepass**: An array of strings that is used to filter metrics generated by the
-current input. Each string in the array is tested as a glob match against
-measurement names and if it matches, the field is emitted.
-* **namedrop**: The inverse of pass, if a measurement name matches, it is not emitted.
-* **fieldpass**: An array of strings that is used to filter metrics generated by the
-current input. Each string in the array is tested as a glob match against field names
-and if it matches, the field is emitted. fieldpass is not available for outputs.
-* **fielddrop**: The inverse of pass, if a field name matches, it is not emitted.
-fielddrop is not available for outputs.
-* **tagpass**: tag names and arrays of strings that are used to filter
-measurements by the current input. Each string in the array is tested as a glob
-match against the tag name, and if it matches the measurement is emitted.
-* **tagdrop**: The inverse of tagpass. If a tag matches, the measurement is not
-emitted. This is tested on measurements that have passed the tagpass test.
-* **tagexclude**: tagexclude can be used to exclude a tag from measurement(s).
-As opposed to tagdrop, which will drop an entire measurement based on it's
-tags, tagexclude simply strips the given tag keys from the measurement. This
-can be used on inputs & outputs, but it is _recommended_ to be used on inputs,
-as it is more efficient to filter out tags at the ingestion point.
-* **taginclude**: taginclude is the inverse of tagexclude. It will only include
-the tag keys in the final measurement.
+* **omit_hostname**: If true, do no set the "host" tag in the telegraf agent.

 ## Input Configuration

-Some configuration options are configurable per input:
+The following config parameters are available for all inputs:

+* **interval**: How often to gather this metric. Normal plugins use a single
+global interval, but if one particular input should be run less or more often,
+you can configure that here.
 * **name_override**: Override the base name of the measurement.
 (Default is the name of the input).
 * **name_prefix**: Specifies a prefix to attach to the measurement name.
 * **name_suffix**: Specifies a suffix to attach to the measurement name.
 * **tags**: A map of tags to apply to a specific input's measurements.
-* **interval**: How often to gather this metric. Normal plugins use a single
-global interval, but if one particular input should be run less or more often,
-you can configure that here.
+
+The [measurement filtering](#measurement-filtering) parameters can be used to
+limit what metrics are emitted from the input plugin.
+
+## Output Configuration
+
+The [measurement filtering](#measurement-filtering) parameters can be used to
+limit what metrics are emitted from the output plugin.
+
+## Aggregator Configuration
+
+The following config parameters are available for all aggregators:
+
+* **period**: The period on which to flush & clear each aggregator. All metrics
+that are sent with timestamps outside of this period will be ignored by the
+aggregator.
+* **delay**: The delay before each aggregator is flushed. This is to control
+how long for aggregators to wait before receiving metrics from input plugins,
+in the case that aggregators are flushing and inputs are gathering on the
+same interval.
+* **drop_original**: If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
+aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
+* **name_override**: Override the base name of the measurement.
+(Default is the name of the input).
+* **name_prefix**: Specifies a prefix to attach to the measurement name.
+* **name_suffix**: Specifies a suffix to attach to the measurement name.
+* **tags**: A map of tags to apply to a specific input's measurements.
+
+The [measurement filtering](#measurement-filtering) parameters can be used to
+limit what metrics are handled by the aggregator.  Excluded metrics are passed
+downstream to the next aggregator.
+
+## Processor Configuration
+
+The following config parameters are available for all processors:
+
+* **order**: This is the order in which the processor(s) get executed. If this
+is not specified then processor execution order will be random.
+
+The [measurement filtering](#measurement-filtering) parameters can be used
+to limit what metrics are handled by the processor.  Excluded metrics are
+passed downstream to the next processor.
+
+#### Measurement Filtering
+
+Filters can be configured per input, output, processor, or aggregator,
+see below for examples.
+
+* **namepass**:
+An array of glob pattern strings.  Only points whose measurement name matches
+a pattern in this list are emitted.
+* **namedrop**:
+The inverse of `namepass`.  If a match is found the point is discarded. This
+is tested on points after they have passed the `namepass` test.
+* **fieldpass**:
+An array of glob pattern strings.  Only fields whose field key matches a
+pattern in this list are emitted.  Not available for outputs.
+* **fielddrop**:
+The inverse of `fieldpass`.  Fields with a field key matching one of the
+patterns will be discarded from the point.  This is tested on points after
+they have passed the `fieldpass` test.  Not available for outputs.
+* **tagpass**:
+A table mapping tag keys to arrays of glob pattern strings.  Only points
+that contain a tag key in the table and a tag value matching one of its
+patterns is emitted.
+* **tagdrop**:
+The inverse of `tagpass`.  If a match is found the point is discarded. This
+is tested on points after they have passed the `tagpass` test.
+* **taginclude**:
+An array of glob pattern strings.  Only tags with a tag key matching one of
+the patterns are emitted.  In contrast to `tagpass`, which will pass an entire
+point based on its tag, `taginclude` removes all non matching tags from the
+point.  This filter can be used on both inputs & outputs, but it is
+_recommended_ to be used on inputs, as it is more efficient to filter out tags
+at the ingestion point.
+* **tagexclude**:
+The inverse of `taginclude`. Tags with a tag key matching one of the patterns
+will be discarded from the point.
+
+**NOTE** Due to the way TOML is parsed, `tagpass` and `tagdrop` parameters
+must be defined at the _end_ of the plugin definition, otherwise subsequent
+plugin config options will be interpreted as part of the tagpass/tagdrop
+tables.

 #### Input Configuration Examples

@@ -117,7 +199,6 @@ fields which begin with `time_`.
 [[outputs.influxdb]]
  url = "http://192.168.59.103:8086" # required.
  database = "telegraf" # required.
-  precision = "s"

 # INPUTS
 [[inputs.cpu]]
@@ -129,6 +210,10 @@ fields which begin with `time_`.

 #### Input Config: tagpass and tagdrop

+**NOTE** `tagpass` and `tagdrop` parameters must be defined at the _end_ of
+the plugin definition, otherwise subsequent plugin config options will be
+interpreted as part of the tagpass/tagdrop map.
+
 ```toml
 [[inputs.cpu]]
  percpu = true
@@ -246,32 +331,73 @@ to avoid measurement collisions:
  fielddrop = ["cpu_time*"]
 ```

-## Output Configuration
-
-Telegraf also supports specifying multiple output sinks to send data to,
-configuring each output sink is different, but examples can be
-found by running `telegraf -sample-config`.
+#### Output Configuration Examples:

 ```toml
 [[outputs.influxdb]]
  urls = [ "http://localhost:8086" ]
  database = "telegraf"
-  precision = "s"
  # Drop all measurements that start with "aerospike"
  namedrop = ["aerospike*"]

 [[outputs.influxdb]]
  urls = [ "http://localhost:8086" ]
  database = "telegraf-aerospike-data"
-  precision = "s"
  # Only accept aerospike data:
  namepass = ["aerospike*"]

 [[outputs.influxdb]]
  urls = [ "http://localhost:8086" ]
  database = "telegraf-cpu0-data"
-  precision = "s"
  # Only store measurements where the tag "cpu" matches the value "cpu0"
  [outputs.influxdb.tagpass]
    cpu = ["cpu0"]
 ```
+
+#### Aggregator Configuration Examples:
+
+This will collect and emit the min/max of the system load1 metric every
+30s, dropping the originals.
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.system]]
+  fieldpass = ["load1"] # collects system load1 metric.
+
+[[aggregators.minmax]]
+  period = "30s"        # send & clear the aggregate every 30s.
+  drop_original = true  # drop the original metrics.
+
+[[outputs.file]]
+  files = ["stdout"]
+```
+
+This will collect and emit the min/max of the swap metrics every
+30s, dropping the originals. The aggregator will not be applied
+to the system load metrics due to the `namepass` parameter.
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.swap]]
+
+[[inputs.system]]
+  fieldpass = ["load1"] # collects system load1 metric.
+
+[[aggregators.minmax]]
+  period = "30s"        # send & clear the aggregate every 30s.
+  drop_original = true  # drop the original metrics.
+  namepass = ["swap"]   # only "pass" swap metrics through the aggregator.
+
+[[outputs.file]]
+  files = ["stdout"]
+```
+
+#### Processor Configuration Examples:
+
+Print only the metrics with `cpu` as the measurement name, all metrics are
+passed to the output:
+```toml
+[[processors.printer]]
+  namepass = "cpu"
+
+[[outputs.file]]
+  files = ["/tmp/metrics.out"]
+```
--- a/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+++ b/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Telegraf is able to parse the following input data formats into metrics:
 1. [Graphite](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#graphite)
 1. [Value](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#value), ie: 45 or "booyah"
 1. [Nagios](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#nagios) (exec input only)
+1. [Collectd](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#collectd)
+1. [Dropwizard](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#dropwizard)

 Telegraf metrics, like InfluxDB
 [points](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.10/write_protocols/line/),
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ example, in the exec plugin:
  name_suffix = "_mycollector"

  ## Data format to consume.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
  data_format = "json"
@@ -67,7 +69,7 @@ metrics are parsed directly into Telegraf metrics.
  name_suffix = "_mycollector"

  ## Data format to consume.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
  data_format = "influx"
@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ For example, if you had this configuration:
  name_suffix = "_mycollector"

  ## Data format to consume.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
  data_format = "json"
@@ -147,6 +149,62 @@ Your Telegraf metrics would get tagged with "my_tag_1"
 exec_mycollector,my_tag_1=foo a=5,b_c=6
 ```

+If the JSON data is an array, then each element of the array is parsed with the configured settings.
+Each resulting metric will be output with the same timestamp.
+
+For example, if the following configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  ## Commands array
+  commands = ["/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"]
+
+  ## measurement name suffix (for separating different commands)
+  name_suffix = "_mycollector"
+
+  ## Data format to consume.
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "json"
+
+  ## List of tag names to extract from top-level of JSON server response
+  tag_keys = [
+    "my_tag_1",
+    "my_tag_2"
+  ]
+```
+
+with this JSON output from a command:
+
+```json
+[
+    {
+        "a": 5,
+        "b": {
+            "c": 6
+        },
+        "my_tag_1": "foo",
+        "my_tag_2": "baz"
+    },
+    {
+        "a": 7,
+        "b": {
+            "c": 8
+        },
+        "my_tag_1": "bar",
+        "my_tag_2": "baz"
+    }
+]
+```
+
+Your Telegraf metrics would get tagged with "my_tag_1" and "my_tag_2"
+
+```
+exec_mycollector,my_tag_1=foo,my_tag_2=baz a=5,b_c=6
+exec_mycollector,my_tag_1=bar,my_tag_2=baz a=7,b_c=8
+```
+
 # Value:

 The "value" data format translates single values into Telegraf metrics. This
@@ -176,7 +234,7 @@ name of the plugin.
  name_override = "entropy_available"

  ## Data format to consume.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
  data_format = "value"
@@ -186,49 +244,69 @@ name of the plugin.
 # Graphite:

 The Graphite data format translates graphite _dot_ buckets directly into
-telegraf measurement names, with a single value field, and without any tags. For
-more advanced options, Telegraf supports specifying "templates" to translate
+telegraf measurement names, with a single value field, and without any tags.
+By default, the separator is left as ".", but this can be changed using the
+"separator" argument. For more advanced options,
+Telegraf supports specifying "templates" to translate
 graphite buckets into Telegraf metrics.

-#### Separator:
-
-You can specify a separator to use for the parsed metrics.
-By default, it will leave the metrics with a "." separator.
-Setting `separator = "_"` will translate:
+Templates are of the form:

 ```
-cpu.usage.idle 99
-=> cpu_usage_idle value=99
+"host.mytag.mytag.measurement.measurement.field*"
 ```

-#### Measurement/Tag Templates:
+Where the following keywords exist:
+
+1. `measurement`: specifies that this section of the graphite bucket corresponds
+to the measurement name. This can be specified multiple times.
+2. `field`: specifies that this section of the graphite bucket corresponds
+to the field name. This can be specified multiple times.
+3. `measurement*`: specifies that all remaining elements of the graphite bucket
+correspond to the measurement name.
+4. `field*`: specifies that all remaining elements of the graphite bucket
+correspond to the field name.
+
+Any part of the template that is not a keyword is treated as a tag key. This
+can also be specified multiple times.
+
+NOTE: `field*` cannot be used in conjunction with `measurement*`!
+
+#### Measurement & Tag Templates:

 The most basic template is to specify a single transformation to apply to all
-incoming metrics. _measurement_ is a special keyword that tells Telegraf which
-parts of the graphite bucket to combine into the measurement name. It can have a
-trailing `*` to indicate that the remainder of the metric should be used.
-Other words are considered tag keys. So the following template:
+incoming metrics. So the following template:

 ```toml
 templates = [
-    "region.measurement*"
+    "region.region.measurement*"
 ]
 ```

 would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.

 ```
-us-west.cpu.load 100
-=> cpu.load,region=us-west value=100
+us.west.cpu.load 100
+=> cpu.load,region=us.west value=100
+```
+
+Multiple templates can also be specified, but these should be differentiated
+using _filters_ (see below for more details)
+
+```toml
+templates = [
+    "*.*.* region.region.measurement", # <- all 3-part measurements will match this one.
+    "*.*.*.* region.region.host.measurement", # <- all 4-part measurements will match this one.
+]
 ```

 #### Field Templates:

-There is also a _field_ keyword, which can only be specified once.
 The field keyword tells Telegraf to give the metric that field name.
 So the following template:

 ```toml
+separator = "_"
 templates = [
    "measurement.measurement.field.field.region"
 ]
@@ -237,24 +315,26 @@ templates = [
 would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.

 ```
-cpu.usage.idle.percent.us-west 100
-=> cpu_usage,region=us-west idle_percent=100
+cpu.usage.idle.percent.eu-east 100
+=> cpu_usage,region=eu-east idle_percent=100
 ```

-The field key can also be derived from the second "half" of the input metric-name by specifying ```field*```:
+The field key can also be derived from all remaining elements of the graphite
+bucket by specifying `field*`:
+
 ```toml
+separator = "_"
 templates = [
    "measurement.measurement.region.field*"
 ]
 ```

-would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.
+which would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.

 ```
-cpu.usage.us-west.idle.percentage 100
-=> cpu_usage,region=us-west idle_percentage=100
+cpu.usage.eu-east.idle.percentage 100
+=> cpu_usage,region=eu-east idle_percentage=100
 ```
-(This cannot be used in conjunction with "measurement*"!)

 #### Filter Templates:

@@ -271,8 +351,8 @@ templates = [
 which would result in the following transformation:

 ```
-cpu.load.us-west 100
-=> cpu_load,region=us-west value=100
+cpu.load.eu-east 100
+=> cpu_load,region=eu-east value=100

 mem.cached.localhost 256
 => mem_cached,host=localhost value=256
@@ -294,8 +374,8 @@ templates = [
 would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.

 ```
-cpu.usage.idle.us-west 100
-=> cpu_usage,region=us-west,datacenter=1a idle=100
+cpu.usage.idle.eu-east 100
+=> cpu_usage,region=eu-east,datacenter=1a idle=100
 ```

 There are many more options available,
@@ -312,7 +392,7 @@ There are many more options available,
  name_suffix = "_mycollector"

  ## Data format to consume.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
  data_format = "graphite"
@@ -326,12 +406,12 @@ There are many more options available,
  ## similar to the line protocol format. There can be only one default template.
  ## Templates support below format:
  ## 1. filter + template
-  ## 2. filter + template + extra tag
+  ## 2. filter + template + extra tag(s)
  ## 3. filter + template with field key
  ## 4. default template
  templates = [
    "*.app env.service.resource.measurement",
-    "stats.* .host.measurement* region=us-west,agent=sensu",
+    "stats.* .host.measurement* region=eu-east,agent=sensu",
    "stats2.* .host.measurement.field",
    "measurement*"
  ]
@@ -349,14 +429,227 @@ Note: Nagios Input Data Formats is only supported in `exec` input plugin.
 ```toml
 [[inputs.exec]]
  ## Commands array
-  commands = ["/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_load", "-w 5,6,7 -c 7,8,9"]
+  commands = ["/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_load -w 5,6,7 -c 7,8,9"]

  ## measurement name suffix (for separating different commands)
  name_suffix = "_mycollector"

  ## Data format to consume.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
  data_format = "nagios"
 ```
+
+# Collectd:
+
+The collectd format parses the collectd binary network protocol.  Tags are
+created for host, instance, type, and type instance.  All collectd values are
+added as float64 fields.
+
+For more information about the binary network protocol see
+[here](https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Binary_protocol).
+
+You can control the cryptographic settings with parser options.  Create an
+authentication file and set `collectd_auth_file` to the path of the file, then
+set the desired security level in `collectd_security_level`.
+
+Additional information including client setup can be found
+[here](https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_introduction#Cryptographic_setup).
+
+You can also change the path to the typesdb or add additional typesdb using
+`collectd_typesdb`.
+
+#### Collectd Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.socket_listener]]
+  service_address = "udp://127.0.0.1:25826"
+  name_prefix = "collectd_"
+
+  ## Data format to consume.
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "collectd"
+
+  ## Authentication file for cryptographic security levels
+  collectd_auth_file = "/etc/collectd/auth_file"
+  ## One of none (default), sign, or encrypt
+  collectd_security_level = "encrypt"
+  ## Path of to TypesDB specifications
+  collectd_typesdb = ["/usr/share/collectd/types.db"]
+```
+
+# Dropwizard:
+
+The dropwizard format can parse the JSON representation of a single dropwizard metric registry. By default, tags are parsed from metric names as if they were actual influxdb line protocol keys (`measurement<,tag_set>`) which can be overriden by defining custom [measurement & tag templates](./DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#measurement--tag-templates). All field value types are supported, `string`, `number` and `boolean`.
+
+A typical JSON of a dropwizard metric registry:
+
+```json
+{
+	"version": "3.0.0",
+	"counters" : {
+		"measurement,tag1=green" : {
+			"count" : 1
+		}
+	},
+	"meters" : {
+		"measurement" : {
+			"count" : 1,
+			"m15_rate" : 1.0,
+			"m1_rate" : 1.0,
+			"m5_rate" : 1.0,
+			"mean_rate" : 1.0,
+			"units" : "events/second"
+		}
+	},
+	"gauges" : {
+		"measurement" : {
+			"value" : 1
+		}
+	},
+	"histograms" : {
+		"measurement" : {
+			"count" : 1,
+			"max" : 1.0,
+			"mean" : 1.0,
+			"min" : 1.0,
+			"p50" : 1.0,
+			"p75" : 1.0,
+			"p95" : 1.0,
+			"p98" : 1.0,
+			"p99" : 1.0,
+			"p999" : 1.0,
+			"stddev" : 1.0
+		}
+	},
+	"timers" : {
+		"measurement" : {
+			"count" : 1,
+			"max" : 1.0,
+			"mean" : 1.0,
+			"min" : 1.0,
+			"p50" : 1.0,
+			"p75" : 1.0,
+			"p95" : 1.0,
+			"p98" : 1.0,
+			"p99" : 1.0,
+			"p999" : 1.0,
+			"stddev" : 1.0,
+			"m15_rate" : 1.0,
+			"m1_rate" : 1.0,
+			"m5_rate" : 1.0,
+			"mean_rate" : 1.0,
+			"duration_units" : "seconds",
+			"rate_units" : "calls/second"
+		}
+	}
+}
+```
+
+Would get translated into 4 different measurements:
+
+```
+measurement,metric_type=counter,tag1=green count=1
+measurement,metric_type=meter count=1,m15_rate=1.0,m1_rate=1.0,m5_rate=1.0,mean_rate=1.0
+measurement,metric_type=gauge value=1
+measurement,metric_type=histogram count=1,max=1.0,mean=1.0,min=1.0,p50=1.0,p75=1.0,p95=1.0,p98=1.0,p99=1.0,p999=1.0
+measurement,metric_type=timer count=1,max=1.0,mean=1.0,min=1.0,p50=1.0,p75=1.0,p95=1.0,p98=1.0,p99=1.0,p999=1.0,stddev=1.0,m15_rate=1.0,m1_rate=1.0,m5_rate=1.0,mean_rate=1.0
+```
+
+You may also parse a dropwizard registry from any JSON document which contains a dropwizard registry in some inner field. 
+Eg. to parse the following JSON document:
+
+```json
+{
+	"time" : "2017-02-22T14:33:03.662+02:00",
+	"tags" : {
+		"tag1" : "green",
+		"tag2" : "yellow"
+	},
+	"metrics" : {
+		"counters" : 	{ 
+			"measurement" : {
+				"count" : 1
+			}
+		},
+		"meters" : {},
+		"gauges" : {},
+		"histograms" : {},
+		"timers" : {}
+	}
+}
+```
+and translate it into:
+
+```
+measurement,metric_type=counter,tag1=green,tag2=yellow count=1 1487766783662000000
+```
+
+you simply need to use the following additional configuration properties:
+
+```toml
+dropwizard_metric_registry_path = "metrics"
+dropwizard_time_path = "time"
+dropwizard_time_format = "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00"
+dropwizard_tags_path = "tags"
+## tag paths per tag are supported too, eg.
+#[inputs.yourinput.dropwizard_tag_paths]
+#  tag1 = "tags.tag1"
+#  tag2 = "tags.tag2"
+```
+
+
+For more information about the dropwizard json format see
+[here](http://metrics.dropwizard.io/3.1.0/manual/json/).
+
+#### Dropwizard Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  ## Commands array
+  commands = ["curl http://localhost:8080/sys/metrics"]
+  timeout = "5s"
+
+  ## Data format to consume.
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "dropwizard"
+
+  ## Used by the templating engine to join matched values when cardinality is > 1
+  separator = "_"
+
+  ## Each template line requires a template pattern. It can have an optional
+  ## filter before the template and separated by spaces. It can also have optional extra
+  ## tags following the template. Multiple tags should be separated by commas and no spaces
+  ## similar to the line protocol format. There can be only one default template.
+  ## Templates support below format:
+  ## 1. filter + template
+  ## 2. filter + template + extra tag(s)
+  ## 3. filter + template with field key
+  ## 4. default template
+  ## By providing an empty template array, templating is disabled and measurements are parsed as influxdb line protocol keys (measurement<,tag_set>)
+  templates = []
+
+  ## You may use an appropriate [gjson path](https://github.com/tidwall/gjson#path-syntax) 
+  ## to locate the metric registry within the JSON document
+  # dropwizard_metric_registry_path = "metrics"
+  
+  ## You may use an appropriate [gjson path](https://github.com/tidwall/gjson#path-syntax) 
+  ## to locate the default time of the measurements within the JSON document
+  # dropwizard_time_path = "time"
+  # dropwizard_time_format = "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00"
+  
+  ## You may use an appropriate [gjson path](https://github.com/tidwall/gjson#path-syntax) 
+  ## to locate the tags map within the JSON document
+  # dropwizard_tags_path = "tags"
+
+  ## You may even use tag paths per tag
+  # [inputs.exec.dropwizard_tag_paths]
+  #   tag1 = "tags.tag1"
+  #   tag2 = "tags.tag2"
+
+```
--- a/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
+++ b/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ config option, for example, in the `file` output plugin:
  files = ["stdout"]

  ## Data format to output.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
  data_format = "influx"
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ metrics are serialized directly into InfluxDB line-protocol.
  files = ["stdout", "/tmp/metrics.out"]

  ## Data format to output.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
  data_format = "influx"
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ tars.cpu-total.us-east-1.cpu.usage_user 0.89 1455320690
 tars.cpu-total.us-east-1.cpu.usage_idle 98.09 1455320690
 ```

+Fields with string values will be skipped.  Boolean fields will be converted
+to 1 (true) or 0 (false).
+
 ### Graphite Configuration:

 ```toml
@@ -104,7 +107,7 @@ tars.cpu-total.us-east-1.cpu.usage_idle 98.09 1455320690
  files = ["stdout", "/tmp/metrics.out"]

  ## Data format to output.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
  data_format = "graphite"
@@ -143,8 +146,18 @@ The JSON data format serialized Telegraf metrics in json format. The format is:
  files = ["stdout", "/tmp/metrics.out"]

  ## Data format to output.
-  ## Each data format has it's own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
  ## more about them here:
  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
  data_format = "json"
+  json_timestamp_units = "1ns"
 ```
+
+By default, the timestamp that is output in JSON data format serialized Telegraf
+metrics is in seconds. The precision of this timestamp can be adjusted for any output
+by adding the optional `json_timestamp_units` parameter to the configuration for
+that output. This parameter can be used to set the timestamp units to  nanoseconds (`ns`),
+microseconds (`us` or `µs`), milliseconds (`ms`), or seconds (`s`). Note that this
+parameter will be truncated to the nearest power of 10 that, so if the `json_timestamp_units`
+are set to `15ms` the timestamps for the JSON format serialized Telegraf metrics will be
+output in hundredths of a second (`10ms`).
--- a/docs/FAQ.md
+++ b/docs/FAQ.md
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Frequently Asked Questions
+
+### Q: How can I monitor the Docker Engine Host from within a container?
+
+You will need to setup several volume mounts as well as some environment
+variables:
+```
+docker run --name telegraf
+	-v /:/hostfs:ro
+	-v /etc:/hostfs/etc:ro
+	-v /proc:/hostfs/proc:ro
+	-v /sys:/hostfs/sys:ro
+	-v /var/run/utmp:/var/run/utmp:ro
+	-e HOST_ETC=/hostfs/etc
+	-e HOST_PROC=/hostfs/proc
+	-e HOST_SYS=/hostfs/sys
+	-e HOST_MOUNT_PREFIX=/hostfs
+	telegraf
+```
+
+
+### Q: Why do I get a "no such host" error resolving hostnames that other
+programs can resolve?
+
+Go uses a pure Go resolver by default for [name resolution](https://golang.org/pkg/net/#hdr-Name_Resolution).
+This resolver behaves differently than the C library functions but is more
+efficient when used with the Go runtime.
+
+If you encounter problems or want to use more advanced name resolution methods
+that are unsupported by the pure Go resolver, you can switch to the cgo
+resolver.
+
+If running manually set:
+```
+export GODEBUG=netdns=cgo
+```
+
+If running as a service add the environment variable to `/etc/default/telegraf`:
+```
+GODEBUG=netdns=cgo
+```
+
+### Q: When will the next version be released?
+
+The latest release date estimate can be viewed on the
+[milestones](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/milestones) page.
--- a/docs/LICENSE_OF_DEPENDENCIES.md
+++ b/docs/LICENSE_OF_DEPENDENCIES.md
@@ -1,32 +1,107 @@
-# List
- github.com/Shopify/sarama [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE)
- github.com/Sirupsen/logrus [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/armon/go-metrics [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/armon/go-metrics/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/boltdb/bolt [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/boltdb/bolt/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/cenkalti/backoff [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/dancannon/gorethink [APACHE LICENSE](https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/eapache/go-resiliency [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/eapache/go-resiliency/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/eapache/queue [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/eapache/queue/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql [MPL LICENSE](https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/gogo/protobuf [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/gogo/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/golang/protobuf [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/golang/snappy [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/snappy/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/gonuts/go-shellquote (No License, but the project it was forked from https://github.com/kballard/go-shellquote is [MIT](https://github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/blob/master/LICENSE)).
- github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/hashicorp/raft [MPL LICENSE](https://github.com/hashicorp/raft/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb [MPL LICENSE](https://github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/lib/pq [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/lib/pq/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
- github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions [APACHE LICENSE](https://github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/naoina/go-stringutil [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/naoina/go-stringutil/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/naoina/toml [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/naoina/toml/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/prometheus/client_golang [APACHE LICENSE](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/samuel/go-zookeeper [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/samuel/go-zookeeper/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/stretchr/objx [MIT LICENSE](github.com/stretchr/objx)
- github.com/stretchr/testify [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/stretchr/testify/blob/master/LICENCE.txt)
- github.com/wvanbergen/kafka [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/wvanbergen/kafka/blob/master/LICENSE)
- github.com/wvanbergen/kazoo-go [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/wvanbergen/kazoo-go/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE)
- gopkg.in/dancannon/gorethink.v1 [APACHE LICENSE](https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/blob/v1.1.2/LICENSE)
- gopkg.in/mgo.v2 [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/go-mgo/mgo/blob/v2/LICENSE)
- golang.org/x/crypto/ [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/LICENSE)
+# Licenses of dependencies

+When distributed in a binary form, Telegraf may contain portions of the
+following works:
+
+- collectd.org [MIT](https://github.com/collectd/go-collectd/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go [APACHE](https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/amir/raidman [PUBLIC DOMAIN](https://github.com/amir/raidman/blob/master/UNLICENSE)
+- github.com/armon/go-metrics [MIT](https://github.com/armon/go-metrics/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go [APACHE](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
+- github.com/beorn7/perks [MIT](https://github.com/beorn7/perks/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/boltdb/bolt [MIT](https://github.com/boltdb/bolt/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/bsm/sarama-cluster [MIT](https://github.com/bsm/sarama-cluster/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/cenkalti/backoff [MIT](https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/chuckpreslar/rcon [MIT](https://github.com/chuckpreslar/rcon#license)
+- github.com/couchbase/go-couchbase [MIT](https://github.com/couchbase/go-couchbase/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/couchbase/gomemcached [MIT](https://github.com/couchbase/gomemcached/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/couchbase/goutils [MIT](https://github.com/couchbase/go-couchbase/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/dancannon/gorethink [APACHE](https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/davecgh/go-spew [ISC](https://github.com/davecgh/go-spew/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/docker/docker [APACHE](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/docker/cli [APACHE](https://github.com/docker/cli/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/eapache/go-resiliency [MIT](https://github.com/eapache/go-resiliency/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/eapache/go-xerial-snappy [MIT](https://github.com/eapache/go-xerial-snappy/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/eapache/queue [MIT](https://github.com/eapache/queue/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang [ECLIPSE](https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient [BSD](https://github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/gobwas/glob [MIT](https://github.com/gobwas/glob/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/google/go-cmp [BSD](https://github.com/google/go-cmp/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/gogo/protobuf [BSD](https://github.com/gogo/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/golang/protobuf [BSD](https://github.com/golang/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/golang/snappy [BSD](https://github.com/golang/snappy/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt [MIT](https://github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/gorilla/mux [BSD](https://github.com/gorilla/mux/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/go-ini/ini [APACHE](https://github.com/go-ini/ini/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/go-ole/go-ole [MPL](http://mattn.mit-license.org/2013)
+- github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql [MPL](https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/hailocab/go-hostpool [MIT](https://github.com/hailocab/go-hostpool/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/hashicorp/consul [MPL](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack [BSD](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb [MPL](https://github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/hashicorp/raft [MPL](https://github.com/hashicorp/raft/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/influxdata/tail [MIT](https://github.com/influxdata/tail/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
+- github.com/influxdata/toml [MIT](https://github.com/influxdata/toml/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/influxdata/wlog [MIT](https://github.com/influxdata/wlog/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/jackc/pgx [MIT](https://github.com/jackc/pgx/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath [APACHE](https://github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/kardianos/osext [BSD](https://github.com/kardianos/osext/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/kardianos/service [ZLIB](https://github.com/kardianos/service/blob/master/LICENSE) (License not named but matches word for word with ZLib)
+- github.com/kballard/go-shellquote [MIT](https://github.com/kballard/go-shellquote/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/lib/pq [MIT](https://github.com/lib/pq/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
+- github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions [APACHE](https://github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/Microsoft/go-winio [MIT](https://github.com/Microsoft/go-winio/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/miekg/dns [BSD](https://github.com/miekg/dns/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/naoina/go-stringutil [MIT](https://github.com/naoina/go-stringutil/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/naoina/toml [MIT](https://github.com/naoina/toml/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/nats-io/gnatsd [MIT](https://github.com/nats-io/gnatsd/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/nats-io/go-nats [MIT](https://github.com/nats-io/go-nats/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/nats-io/nats [MIT](https://github.com/nats-io/nats/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/nats-io/nuid [MIT](https://github.com/nats-io/nuid/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/nsqio/go-nsq [MIT](https://github.com/nsqio/go-nsq/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/opentracing-contrib/go-observer [APACHE](https://github.com/opentracing-contrib/go-observer/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go [MIT](https://github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-go-opentracing [MIT](https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-go-opentracing/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/pierrec/lz4 [BSD](https://github.com/pierrec/lz4/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/pierrec/xxHash [BSD](https://github.com/pierrec/xxHash/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/pkg/errors [BSD](https://github.com/pkg/errors/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/pmezard/go-difflib [BSD](https://github.com/pmezard/go-difflib/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/prometheus/client_golang [APACHE](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/prometheus/client_model [APACHE](https://github.com/prometheus/client_model/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/prometheus/common [APACHE](https://github.com/prometheus/common/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/prometheus/procfs [APACHE](https://github.com/prometheus/procfs/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics [BSD](https://github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/samuel/go-zookeeper [BSD](https://github.com/samuel/go-zookeeper/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/satori/go.uuid [MIT](https://github.com/satori/go.uuid/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/shirou/gopsutil [BSD](https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/shirou/w32 [BSD](https://github.com/shirou/w32/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/Shopify/sarama [MIT](https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE)
+- github.com/Sirupsen/logrus [MIT](https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/StackExchange/wmi [MIT](https://github.com/StackExchange/wmi/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/stretchr/objx [MIT](https://github.com/stretchr/objx/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
+- github.com/soniah/gosnmp [BSD](https://github.com/soniah/gosnmp/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/streadway/amqp [BSD](https://github.com/streadway/amqp/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/stretchr/objx [MIT](https://github.com/stretchr/objx/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
+- github.com/stretchr/testify [MIT](https://github.com/stretchr/testify/blob/master/LICENCE.txt)
+- github.com/tidwall/gjson [MIT](https://github.com/tidwall/gjson/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/tidwall/match [MIT](https://github.com/tidwall/match/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure [MIT](https://github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/multiplay/go-ts3 [BSD](https://github.com/multiplay/go-ts3/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/vjeantet/grok [APACHE](https://github.com/vjeantet/grok/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/wvanbergen/kafka [MIT](https://github.com/wvanbergen/kafka/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/wvanbergen/kazoo-go [MIT](https://github.com/wvanbergen/kazoo-go/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE)
+- github.com/yuin/gopher-lua [MIT](https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- github.com/zensqlmonitor/go-mssqldb [BSD](https://github.com/zensqlmonitor/go-mssqldb/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
+- golang.org/x/crypto [BSD](https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- golang.org/x/net [BSD](https://go.googlesource.com/net/+/master/LICENSE)
+- golang.org/x/text [BSD](https://go.googlesource.com/text/+/master/LICENSE)
+- golang.org/x/sys [BSD](https://go.googlesource.com/sys/+/master/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/asn1-ber.v1 [MIT](https://github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber/blob/v1.2/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/dancannon/gorethink.v1 [APACHE](https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/blob/v1.1.2/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/fatih/pool.v2 [MIT](https://github.com/fatih/pool/blob/v2.0.0/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1 [BSD](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/blob/v1.4.2/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/ldap.v2 [MIT](https://github.com/go-ldap/ldap/blob/v2.5.0/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/mgo.v2 [BSD](https://github.com/go-mgo/mgo/blob/v2/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/olivere/elastic.v5 [MIT](https://github.com/olivere/elastic/blob/v5.0.38/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/tomb.v1 [BSD](https://github.com/go-tomb/tomb/blob/v1/LICENSE)
+- gopkg.in/yaml.v2 [APACHE](https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/blob/v2/LICENSE)
--- a/docs/PROFILING.md
+++ b/docs/PROFILING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Telegraf profiling
+
+Telegraf uses the standard package `net/http/pprof`. This package serves via its HTTP server runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool.
+
+By default, the profiling is turned off.
+
+To enable profiling you need to specify address to config parameter `pprof-addr`, for example:
+
+```
+telegraf --config telegraf.conf --pprof-addr localhost:6060
+```
+
+There are several paths to get different profiling information:
+
+To look at the heap profile:
+
+`go tool pprof http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/heap`
+
+or to look at a 30-second CPU profile:
+
+`go tool pprof http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/profile?seconds=30`
+
+To view all available profiles, open `http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/` in your browser.
+
--- a/docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md
+++ b/docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md
@@ -1,36 +1,45 @@
 # Running Telegraf as a Windows Service

-If you have tried to install Go binaries as Windows Services with the **sc.exe**
-tool you may have seen that the service errors and stops running after a while.
+Telegraf natively supports running as a Windows Service. Outlined below is are
+the general steps to set it up.

-**NSSM** (the Non-Sucking Service Manager) is a tool that helps you in a 
-[number of scenarios](http://nssm.cc/scenarios) including running Go binaries
-that were not specifically designed to run only in Windows platforms.
+1. Obtain the telegraf windows distribution
+2. Create the directory `C:\Program Files\Telegraf` (if you install in a different
+   location simply specify the `-config` parameter with the desired location)
+3. Place the telegraf.exe and the telegraf.conf config file into `C:\Program Files\Telegraf`
+4. To install the service into the Windows Service Manager, run the following in PowerShell as an administrator (If necessary, you can wrap any spaces in the file paths in double quotes ""):

-## NSSM Installation via Chocolatey
+   ```
+   > C:\"Program Files"\Telegraf\telegraf.exe --service install
+   ```

-You can install [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) and [NSSM](http://nssm.cc/) 
-with these commands
+5. Edit the configuration file to meet your needs
+6. To check that it works, run:

-```powershell
-iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
-choco install -y nssm
-```
+   ```
+   > C:\"Program Files"\Telegraf\telegraf.exe --config C:\"Program Files"\Telegraf\telegraf.conf --test
+   ```

-## Installing Telegraf as a Windows Service with NSSM
+7. To start collecting data, run:

-You can download the latest Telegraf Windows binaries (still Experimental at 
-the moment) from [the Telegraf Github repo](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf).
+   ```
+   > net start telegraf
+   ```

-Then you can create a C:\telegraf folder, unzip the binary there and modify the 
-**telegraf.conf** sample to allocate the metrics you want to send to **InfluxDB**.
+## Other supported operations

-Once you have NSSM installed in your system, the process is quite straightforward.
-You only need to type this command in your Windows shell
+Telegraf can manage its own service through the --service flag:

-```powershell
-nssm install Telegraf c:\telegraf\telegraf.exe -config c:\telegraf\telegraf.config
-```
+| Command                            | Effect                        |
+|------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
+| `telegraf.exe --service install`   | Install telegraf as a service |
+| `telegraf.exe --service uninstall` | Remove the telegraf service   |
+| `telegraf.exe --service start`     | Start the telegraf service    |
+| `telegraf.exe --service stop`      | Stop the telegraf service     |

-And now your service will be installed in Windows and you will be able to start and
-stop it gracefully
+
+Troubleshooting  common error #1067
+
+When installing as service in Windows, always double check to specify full path of the config file, otherwise windows service will fail to start
+
+ --config C:\"Program Files"\Telegraf\telegraf.conf
--- a/etc/telegraf.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf.conf
--- a/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
@@ -42,10 +42,14 @@
  ## ie, a jitter of 5s and interval 10s means flushes will happen every 10-15s
  flush_jitter = "0s"

+  ## Logging configuration:
  ## Run telegraf in debug mode
  debug = false
  ## Run telegraf in quiet mode
  quiet = false
+  ## Specify the log file name. The empty string means to log to stdout.
+  logfile = "/Program Files/Telegraf/telegraf.log"
+
  ## Override default hostname, if empty use os.Hostname()
  hostname = ""

@@ -59,8 +63,8 @@
  # The full HTTP or UDP endpoint URL for your InfluxDB instance.
  # Multiple urls can be specified but it is assumed that they are part of the same
  # cluster, this means that only ONE of the urls will be written to each interval.
-  # urls = ["udp://localhost:8089"] # UDP endpoint example
-  urls = ["http://localhost:8086"] # required
+  # urls = ["udp://127.0.0.1:8089"] # UDP endpoint example
+  urls = ["http://127.0.0.1:8086"] # required
  # The target database for metrics (telegraf will create it if not exists)
  database = "telegraf" # required
  # Precision of writes, valid values are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h".
@@ -85,7 +89,7 @@
 # Windows Performance Counters plugin.
 # These are the recommended method of monitoring system metrics on windows,
 # as the regular system plugins (inputs.cpu, inputs.mem, etc.) rely on WMI,
-# which utilizes a lot of system resources.
+# which utilize more system resources.
 #
 # See more configuration examples at:
 #   https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters
@@ -95,70 +99,168 @@
    # Processor usage, alternative to native, reports on a per core.
    ObjectName = "Processor"
    Instances = ["*"]
-    Counters = ["% Idle Time", "% Interrupt Time", "% Privileged Time", "% User Time", "% Processor Time"]
+    Counters = [
+      "% Idle Time",
+      "% Interrupt Time",
+      "% Privileged Time",
+      "% User Time",
+      "% Processor Time",
+      "% DPC Time",
+    ]
    Measurement = "win_cpu"
-    #IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+    # Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+    IncludeTotal=true

  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
    # Disk times and queues
    ObjectName = "LogicalDisk"
    Instances = ["*"]
-    Counters = ["% Idle Time", "% Disk Time","% Disk Read Time", "% Disk Write Time", "% User Time", "Current Disk Queue Length"]
+    Counters = [
+      "% Idle Time",
+      "% Disk Time",
+      "% Disk Read Time",
+      "% Disk Write Time",
+      "Current Disk Queue Length",
+      "% Free Space",
+      "Free Megabytes",
+    ]
    Measurement = "win_disk"
-    #IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+    # Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+    #IncludeTotal=false
+
+  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
+    ObjectName = "PhysicalDisk"
+    Instances = ["*"]
+    Counters = [
+      "Disk Read Bytes/sec",
+      "Disk Write Bytes/sec",
+      "Current Disk Queue Length",
+      "Disk Reads/sec",
+      "Disk Writes/sec",
+      "% Disk Time",
+      "% Disk Read Time",
+      "% Disk Write Time",
+    ]
+    Measurement = "win_diskio"
+
+  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
+    ObjectName = "Network Interface"
+    Instances = ["*"]
+    Counters = [
+      "Bytes Received/sec",
+      "Bytes Sent/sec",
+      "Packets Received/sec",
+      "Packets Sent/sec",
+      "Packets Received Discarded",
+      "Packets Outbound Discarded",
+      "Packets Received Errors",
+      "Packets Outbound Errors",
+    ]
+    Measurement = "win_net"

  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
    ObjectName = "System"
-    Counters = ["Context Switches/sec","System Calls/sec"]
+    Counters = [
+      "Context Switches/sec",
+      "System Calls/sec",
+      "Processor Queue Length",
+      "System Up Time",
+    ]
    Instances = ["------"]
    Measurement = "win_system"
-    #IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+    # Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+    #IncludeTotal=false

  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
-    # Example query where the Instance portion must be removed to get data back, such as from the Memory object.
+    # Example query where the Instance portion must be removed to get data back,
+    # such as from the Memory object.
    ObjectName = "Memory"
-    Counters = ["Available Bytes","Cache Faults/sec","Demand Zero Faults/sec","Page Faults/sec","Pages/sec","Transition Faults/sec","Pool Nonpaged Bytes","Pool Paged Bytes"]
-    Instances = ["------"] # Use 6 x - to remove the Instance bit from the query.
+    Counters = [
+      "Available Bytes",
+      "Cache Faults/sec",
+      "Demand Zero Faults/sec",
+      "Page Faults/sec",
+      "Pages/sec",
+      "Transition Faults/sec",
+      "Pool Nonpaged Bytes",
+      "Pool Paged Bytes",
+      "Standby Cache Reserve Bytes",
+      "Standby Cache Normal Priority Bytes",
+      "Standby Cache Core Bytes",
+
+    ]
+    # Use 6 x - to remove the Instance bit from the query.
+    Instances = ["------"]
    Measurement = "win_mem"
-    #IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+    # Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+    #IncludeTotal=false
+
+  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
+    # Example query where the Instance portion must be removed to get data back,
+    # such as from the Paging File object.
+    ObjectName = "Paging File"
+    Counters = [
+      "% Usage",
+    ]
+    Instances = ["_Total"]
+    Measurement = "win_swap"
+
+  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
+    ObjectName = "Network Interface"
+    Instances = ["*"]
+    Counters = [
+      "Bytes Sent/sec",
+      "Bytes Received/sec",
+      "Packets Sent/sec",
+      "Packets Received/sec",
+      "Packets Received Discarded",
+      "Packets Received Errors",
+      "Packets Outbound Discarded",
+      "Packets Outbound Errors",
+    ]
+


 # Windows system plugins using WMI (disabled by default, using
 # win_perf_counters over WMI is recommended)

-# Read metrics about cpu usage
-#[[inputs.cpu]]
-  ## Whether to report per-cpu stats or not
-  #percpu = true
-  ## Whether to report total system cpu stats or not
-  #totalcpu = true
-  ## Comment this line if you want the raw CPU time metrics
-  #fielddrop = ["time_*"]
+# # Read metrics about cpu usage
+# [[inputs.cpu]]
+#   ## Whether to report per-cpu stats or not
+#   percpu = true
+#   ## Whether to report total system cpu stats or not
+#   totalcpu = true
+#   ## Comment this line if you want the raw CPU time metrics
+#   fielddrop = ["time_*"]

-# Read metrics about disk usage by mount point
-#[[inputs.disk]]
-  ## By default, telegraf gather stats for all mountpoints.
-  ## Setting mountpoints will restrict the stats to the specified mountpoints.
-  ## mount_points=["/"]

-  ## Ignore some mountpoints by filesystem type. For example (dev)tmpfs (usually
-  ## present on /run, /var/run, /dev/shm or /dev).
-  #ignore_fs = ["tmpfs", "devtmpfs"]
+# # Read metrics about disk usage by mount point
+# [[inputs.disk]]
+#   ## By default, telegraf gather stats for all mountpoints.
+#   ## Setting mountpoints will restrict the stats to the specified mountpoints.
+#   ## mount_points=["/"]
+#
+#   ## Ignore some mountpoints by filesystem type. For example (dev)tmpfs (usually
+#   ## present on /run, /var/run, /dev/shm or /dev).
+#   # ignore_fs = ["tmpfs", "devtmpfs"]

-# Read metrics about disk IO by device
-#[[inputs.diskio]]
-  ## By default, telegraf will gather stats for all devices including
-  ## disk partitions.
-  ## Setting devices will restrict the stats to the specified devices.
-  ## devices = ["sda", "sdb"]
-  ## Uncomment the following line if you do not need disk serial numbers.
-  ## skip_serial_number = true

-# Read metrics about memory usage
-#[[inputs.mem]]
-  # no configuration
+# # Read metrics about disk IO by device
+# [[inputs.diskio]]
+#   ## By default, telegraf will gather stats for all devices including
+#   ## disk partitions.
+#   ## Setting devices will restrict the stats to the specified devices.
+#   ## devices = ["sda", "sdb"]
+#   ## Uncomment the following line if you do not need disk serial numbers.
+#   ## skip_serial_number = true

-# Read metrics about swap memory usage
-#[[inputs.swap]]
-  # no configuration
+
+# # Read metrics about memory usage
+# [[inputs.mem]]
+#   # no configuration
+
+
+# # Read metrics about swap memory usage
+# [[inputs.swap]]
+#   # no configuration

--- a/filter/filter.go
+++ b/filter/filter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+package filter
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/gobwas/glob"
+)
+
+type Filter interface {
+	Match(string) bool
+}
+
+// Compile takes a list of string filters and returns a Filter interface
+// for matching a given string against the filter list. The filter list
+// supports glob matching too, ie:
+//
+//   f, _ := Compile([]string{"cpu", "mem", "net*"})
+//   f.Match("cpu")     // true
+//   f.Match("network") // true
+//   f.Match("memory")  // false
+//
+func Compile(filters []string) (Filter, error) {
+	// return if there is nothing to compile
+	if len(filters) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	// check if we can compile a non-glob filter
+	noGlob := true
+	for _, filter := range filters {
+		if hasMeta(filter) {
+			noGlob = false
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
+	switch {
+	case noGlob:
+		// return non-globbing filter if not needed.
+		return compileFilterNoGlob(filters), nil
+	case len(filters) == 1:
+		return glob.Compile(filters[0])
+	default:
+		return glob.Compile("{" + strings.Join(filters, ",") + "}")
+	}
+}
+
+// hasMeta reports whether path contains any magic glob characters.
+func hasMeta(s string) bool {
+	return strings.IndexAny(s, "*?[") >= 0
+}
+
+type filter struct {
+	m map[string]struct{}
+}
+
+func (f *filter) Match(s string) bool {
+	_, ok := f.m[s]
+	return ok
+}
+
+type filtersingle struct {
+	s string
+}
+
+func (f *filtersingle) Match(s string) bool {
+	return f.s == s
+}
+
+func compileFilterNoGlob(filters []string) Filter {
+	if len(filters) == 1 {
+		return &filtersingle{s: filters[0]}
+	}
+	out := filter{m: make(map[string]struct{})}
+	for _, filter := range filters {
+		out.m[filter] = struct{}{}
+	}
+	return &out
+}
+
+type IncludeExcludeFilter struct {
+	include Filter
+	exclude Filter
+}
+
+func NewIncludeExcludeFilter(
+	include []string,
+	exclude []string,
+) (Filter, error) {
+	in, err := Compile(include)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	ex, err := Compile(exclude)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return &IncludeExcludeFilter{in, ex}, nil
+}
+
+func (f *IncludeExcludeFilter) Match(s string) bool {
+	if f.include != nil {
+		if !f.include.Match(s) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+
+	if f.exclude != nil {
+		if f.exclude.Match(s) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
--- a/filter/filter_test.go
+++ b/filter/filter_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+package filter
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestCompile(t *testing.T) {
+	f, err := Compile([]string{})
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Nil(t, f)
+
+	f, err = Compile([]string{"cpu"})
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.True(t, f.Match("cpu"))
+	assert.False(t, f.Match("cpu0"))
+	assert.False(t, f.Match("mem"))
+
+	f, err = Compile([]string{"cpu*"})
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.True(t, f.Match("cpu"))
+	assert.True(t, f.Match("cpu0"))
+	assert.False(t, f.Match("mem"))
+
+	f, err = Compile([]string{"cpu", "mem"})
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.True(t, f.Match("cpu"))
+	assert.False(t, f.Match("cpu0"))
+	assert.True(t, f.Match("mem"))
+
+	f, err = Compile([]string{"cpu", "mem", "net*"})
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.True(t, f.Match("cpu"))
+	assert.False(t, f.Match("cpu0"))
+	assert.True(t, f.Match("mem"))
+	assert.True(t, f.Match("network"))
+}
+
+var benchbool bool
+
+func BenchmarkFilterSingleNoGlobFalse(b *testing.B) {
+	f, _ := Compile([]string{"cpu"})
+	var tmp bool
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		tmp = f.Match("network")
+	}
+	benchbool = tmp
+}
+
+func BenchmarkFilterSingleNoGlobTrue(b *testing.B) {
+	f, _ := Compile([]string{"cpu"})
+	var tmp bool
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		tmp = f.Match("cpu")
+	}
+	benchbool = tmp
+}
+
+func BenchmarkFilter(b *testing.B) {
+	f, _ := Compile([]string{"cpu", "mem", "net*"})
+	var tmp bool
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		tmp = f.Match("network")
+	}
+	benchbool = tmp
+}
+
+func BenchmarkFilterNoGlob(b *testing.B) {
+	f, _ := Compile([]string{"cpu", "mem", "net"})
+	var tmp bool
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		tmp = f.Match("net")
+	}
+	benchbool = tmp
+}
+
+func BenchmarkFilter2(b *testing.B) {
+	f, _ := Compile([]string{"aa", "bb", "c", "ad", "ar", "at", "aq",
+		"aw", "az", "axxx", "ab", "cpu", "mem", "net*"})
+	var tmp bool
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		tmp = f.Match("network")
+	}
+	benchbool = tmp
+}
+
+func BenchmarkFilter2NoGlob(b *testing.B) {
+	f, _ := Compile([]string{"aa", "bb", "c", "ad", "ar", "at", "aq",
+		"aw", "az", "axxx", "ab", "cpu", "mem", "net"})
+	var tmp bool
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		tmp = f.Match("net")
+	}
+	benchbool = tmp
+}
--- a/internal/buffer/buffer.go
+++ b/internal/buffer/buffer.go
@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
 package buffer

 import (
+	"sync"
+
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/selfstat"
+)
+
+var (
+	MetricsWritten = selfstat.Register("agent", "metrics_written", map[string]string{})
+	MetricsDropped = selfstat.Register("agent", "metrics_dropped", map[string]string{})
 )

 // Buffer is an object for storing metrics in a circular buffer.
 type Buffer struct {
 	buf chan telegraf.Metric
-	// total dropped metrics
-	drops int
-	// total metrics added
-	total int
+
+	mu sync.Mutex
 }

 // NewBuffer returns a Buffer
@@ -32,27 +38,18 @@ func (b *Buffer) Len() int {
 	return len(b.buf)
 }

-// Drops returns the total number of dropped metrics that have occured in this
-// buffer since instantiation.
-func (b *Buffer) Drops() int {
-	return b.drops
-}
-
-// Total returns the total number of metrics that have been added to this buffer.
-func (b *Buffer) Total() int {
-	return b.total
-}
-
 // Add adds metrics to the buffer.
 func (b *Buffer) Add(metrics ...telegraf.Metric) {
 	for i, _ := range metrics {
-		b.total++
+		MetricsWritten.Incr(1)
 		select {
 		case b.buf <- metrics[i]:
 		default:
-			b.drops++
+			b.mu.Lock()
+			MetricsDropped.Incr(1)
 			<-b.buf
 			b.buf <- metrics[i]
+			b.mu.Unlock()
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -61,11 +58,13 @@ func (b *Buffer) Add(metrics ...telegraf.Metric) {
 // the batch will be of maximum length batchSize. It can be less than batchSize,
 // if the length of Buffer is less than batchSize.
 func (b *Buffer) Batch(batchSize int) []telegraf.Metric {
+	b.mu.Lock()
 	n := min(len(b.buf), batchSize)
 	out := make([]telegraf.Metric, n)
 	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
 		out[i] = <-b.buf
 	}
+	b.mu.Unlock()
 	return out
 }

--- a/internal/buffer/buffer_test.go
+++ b/internal/buffer/buffer_test.go
@@ -27,47 +27,53 @@ func BenchmarkAddMetrics(b *testing.B) {

 func TestNewBufferBasicFuncs(t *testing.T) {
 	b := NewBuffer(10)
+	MetricsDropped.Set(0)
+	MetricsWritten.Set(0)

 	assert.True(t, b.IsEmpty())
 	assert.Zero(t, b.Len())
-	assert.Zero(t, b.Drops())
-	assert.Zero(t, b.Total())
+	assert.Zero(t, MetricsDropped.Get())
+	assert.Zero(t, MetricsWritten.Get())

 	m := testutil.TestMetric(1, "mymetric")
 	b.Add(m)
 	assert.False(t, b.IsEmpty())
 	assert.Equal(t, b.Len(), 1)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Drops(), 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Total(), 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(0), MetricsDropped.Get())
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(1), MetricsWritten.Get())

 	b.Add(metricList...)
 	assert.False(t, b.IsEmpty())
 	assert.Equal(t, b.Len(), 6)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Drops(), 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Total(), 6)
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(0), MetricsDropped.Get())
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(6), MetricsWritten.Get())
 }

 func TestDroppingMetrics(t *testing.T) {
 	b := NewBuffer(10)
+	MetricsDropped.Set(0)
+	MetricsWritten.Set(0)

 	// Add up to the size of the buffer
 	b.Add(metricList...)
 	b.Add(metricList...)
 	assert.False(t, b.IsEmpty())
 	assert.Equal(t, b.Len(), 10)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Drops(), 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Total(), 10)
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(0), MetricsDropped.Get())
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(10), MetricsWritten.Get())

 	// Add 5 more and verify they were dropped
 	b.Add(metricList...)
 	assert.False(t, b.IsEmpty())
 	assert.Equal(t, b.Len(), 10)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Drops(), 5)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Total(), 15)
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(5), MetricsDropped.Get())
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(15), MetricsWritten.Get())
 }

 func TestGettingBatches(t *testing.T) {
 	b := NewBuffer(20)
+	MetricsDropped.Set(0)
+	MetricsWritten.Set(0)

 	// Verify that the buffer returned is smaller than requested when there are
 	// not as many items as requested.
@@ -78,8 +84,8 @@ func TestGettingBatches(t *testing.T) {
 	// Verify that the buffer is now empty
 	assert.True(t, b.IsEmpty())
 	assert.Zero(t, b.Len())
-	assert.Zero(t, b.Drops())
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Total(), 5)
+	assert.Zero(t, MetricsDropped.Get())
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(5), MetricsWritten.Get())

 	// Verify that the buffer returned is not more than the size requested
 	b.Add(metricList...)
@@ -89,6 +95,6 @@ func TestGettingBatches(t *testing.T) {
 	// Verify that buffer is not empty
 	assert.False(t, b.IsEmpty())
 	assert.Equal(t, b.Len(), 2)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Drops(), 0)
-	assert.Equal(t, b.Total(), 10)
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(0), MetricsDropped.Get())
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(10), MetricsWritten.Get())
 }
--- a/internal/config/aws/credentials.go
+++ b/internal/config/aws/credentials.go
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package aws
+
+import (
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/client"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials/stscreds"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
+)
+
+type CredentialConfig struct {
+	Region    string
+	AccessKey string
+	SecretKey string
+	RoleARN   string
+	Profile   string
+	Filename  string
+	Token     string
+}
+
+func (c *CredentialConfig) Credentials() client.ConfigProvider {
+	if c.RoleARN != "" {
+		return c.assumeCredentials()
+	} else {
+		return c.rootCredentials()
+	}
+}
+
+func (c *CredentialConfig) rootCredentials() client.ConfigProvider {
+	config := &aws.Config{
+		Region: aws.String(c.Region),
+	}
+	if c.AccessKey != "" || c.SecretKey != "" {
+		config.Credentials = credentials.NewStaticCredentials(c.AccessKey, c.SecretKey, c.Token)
+	} else if c.Profile != "" || c.Filename != "" {
+		config.Credentials = credentials.NewSharedCredentials(c.Filename, c.Profile)
+	}
+
+	return session.New(config)
+}
+
+func (c *CredentialConfig) assumeCredentials() client.ConfigProvider {
+	rootCredentials := c.rootCredentials()
+	config := &aws.Config{
+		Region: aws.String(c.Region),
+	}
+	config.Credentials = stscreds.NewCredentials(rootCredentials, c.RoleARN)
+	return session.New(config)
+}
--- a/internal/config/config.go
+++ b/internal/config/config.go
@@ -6,22 +6,26 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
+	"math"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
+	"runtime"
 	"sort"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/serializers"

-	"github.com/influxdata/config"
 	"github.com/influxdata/toml"
 	"github.com/influxdata/toml/ast"
 )
@@ -36,6 +40,11 @@ var (

 	// envVarRe is a regex to find environment variables in the config file
 	envVarRe = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\w+`)
+
+	envVarEscaper = strings.NewReplacer(
+		`"`, `\"`,
+		`\`, `\\`,
+	)
 )

 // Config specifies the URL/user/password for the database that telegraf
@@ -46,9 +55,12 @@ type Config struct {
 	InputFilters  []string
 	OutputFilters []string

-	Agent   *AgentConfig
-	Inputs  []*internal_models.RunningInput
-	Outputs []*internal_models.RunningOutput
+	Agent       *AgentConfig
+	Inputs      []*models.RunningInput
+	Outputs     []*models.RunningOutput
+	Aggregators []*models.RunningAggregator
+	// Processors have a slice wrapper type because they need to be sorted
+	Processors models.RunningProcessors
 }

 func NewConfig() *Config {
@@ -58,12 +70,12 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 			Interval:      internal.Duration{Duration: 10 * time.Second},
 			RoundInterval: true,
 			FlushInterval: internal.Duration{Duration: 10 * time.Second},
-			FlushJitter:   internal.Duration{Duration: 5 * time.Second},
 		},

 		Tags:          make(map[string]string),
-		Inputs:        make([]*internal_models.RunningInput, 0),
-		Outputs:       make([]*internal_models.RunningOutput, 0),
+		Inputs:        make([]*models.RunningInput, 0),
+		Outputs:       make([]*models.RunningOutput, 0),
+		Processors:    make([]*models.RunningProcessor, 0),
 		InputFilters:  make([]string, 0),
 		OutputFilters: make([]string, 0),
 	}
@@ -78,6 +90,14 @@ type AgentConfig struct {
 	//     ie, if Interval=10s then always collect on :00, :10, :20, etc.
 	RoundInterval bool

+	// By default or when set to "0s", precision will be set to the same
+	// timestamp order as the collection interval, with the maximum being 1s.
+	//   ie, when interval = "10s", precision will be "1s"
+	//       when interval = "250ms", precision will be "1ms"
+	// Precision will NOT be used for service inputs. It is up to each individual
+	// service input to set the timestamp at the appropriate precision.
+	Precision internal.Duration
+
 	// CollectionJitter is used to jitter the collection by a random amount.
 	// Each plugin will sleep for a random time within jitter before collecting.
 	// This can be used to avoid many plugins querying things like sysfs at the
@@ -109,15 +129,17 @@ type AgentConfig struct {
 	// does _not_ deactivate FlushInterval.
 	FlushBufferWhenFull bool

-	// TODO(cam): Remove UTC and Precision parameters, they are no longer
+	// TODO(cam): Remove UTC and parameter, they are no longer
 	// valid for the agent config. Leaving them here for now for backwards-
-	// compatability
-	UTC       bool `toml:"utc"`
-	Precision string
+	// compatibility
+	UTC bool `toml:"utc"`

 	// Debug is the option for running in debug mode
 	Debug bool

+	// Logfile specifies the file to send logs to
+	Logfile string
+
 	// Quiet is the option for running in quiet mode
 	Quiet        bool
 	Hostname     string
@@ -128,12 +150,12 @@ type AgentConfig struct {
 func (c *Config) InputNames() []string {
 	var name []string
 	for _, input := range c.Inputs {
-		name = append(name, input.Name)
+		name = append(name, input.Name())
 	}
 	return name
 }

-// Outputs returns a list of strings of the configured inputs.
+// Outputs returns a list of strings of the configured outputs.
 func (c *Config) OutputNames() []string {
 	var name []string
 	for _, output := range c.Outputs {
@@ -188,12 +210,15 @@ var header = `# Telegraf Configuration
  ## ie, if interval="10s" then always collect on :00, :10, :20, etc.
  round_interval = true

-  ## Telegraf will send metrics to outputs in batches of at
-  ## most metric_batch_size metrics.
+  ## Telegraf will send metrics to outputs in batches of at most
+  ## metric_batch_size metrics.
+  ## This controls the size of writes that Telegraf sends to output plugins.
  metric_batch_size = 1000
+
  ## For failed writes, telegraf will cache metric_buffer_limit metrics for each
  ## output, and will flush this buffer on a successful write. Oldest metrics
  ## are dropped first when this buffer fills.
+  ## This buffer only fills when writes fail to output plugin(s).
  metric_buffer_limit = 10000

  ## Collection jitter is used to jitter the collection by a random amount.
@@ -210,10 +235,23 @@ var header = `# Telegraf Configuration
  ## ie, a jitter of 5s and interval 10s means flushes will happen every 10-15s
  flush_jitter = "0s"

-  ## Run telegraf in debug mode
+  ## By default or when set to "0s", precision will be set to the same
+  ## timestamp order as the collection interval, with the maximum being 1s.
+  ##   ie, when interval = "10s", precision will be "1s"
+  ##       when interval = "250ms", precision will be "1ms"
+  ## Precision will NOT be used for service inputs. It is up to each individual
+  ## service input to set the timestamp at the appropriate precision.
+  ## Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s".
+  precision = ""
+
+  ## Logging configuration:
+  ## Run telegraf with debug log messages.
  debug = false
-  ## Run telegraf in quiet mode
+  ## Run telegraf in quiet mode (error log messages only).
  quiet = false
+  ## Specify the log file name. The empty string means to log to stderr.
+  logfile = ""
+
  ## Override default hostname, if empty use os.Hostname()
  hostname = ""
  ## If set to true, do no set the "host" tag in the telegraf agent.
@@ -225,6 +263,20 @@ var header = `# Telegraf Configuration
 ###############################################################################
 `

+var processorHeader = `
+
+###############################################################################
+#                            PROCESSOR PLUGINS                                #
+###############################################################################
+`
+
+var aggregatorHeader = `
+
+###############################################################################
+#                            AGGREGATOR PLUGINS                               #
+###############################################################################
+`
+
 var inputHeader = `

 ###############################################################################
@@ -240,9 +292,15 @@ var serviceInputHeader = `
 `

 // PrintSampleConfig prints the sample config
-func PrintSampleConfig(inputFilters []string, outputFilters []string) {
+func PrintSampleConfig(
+	inputFilters []string,
+	outputFilters []string,
+	aggregatorFilters []string,
+	processorFilters []string,
+) {
 	fmt.Printf(header)

+	// print output plugins
 	if len(outputFilters) != 0 {
 		printFilteredOutputs(outputFilters, false)
 	} else {
@@ -258,6 +316,33 @@ func PrintSampleConfig(inputFilters []string, outputFilters []string) {
 		printFilteredOutputs(pnames, true)
 	}

+	// print processor plugins
+	fmt.Printf(processorHeader)
+	if len(processorFilters) != 0 {
+		printFilteredProcessors(processorFilters, false)
+	} else {
+		pnames := []string{}
+		for pname := range processors.Processors {
+			pnames = append(pnames, pname)
+		}
+		sort.Strings(pnames)
+		printFilteredProcessors(pnames, true)
+	}
+
+	// pring aggregator plugins
+	fmt.Printf(aggregatorHeader)
+	if len(aggregatorFilters) != 0 {
+		printFilteredAggregators(aggregatorFilters, false)
+	} else {
+		pnames := []string{}
+		for pname := range aggregators.Aggregators {
+			pnames = append(pnames, pname)
+		}
+		sort.Strings(pnames)
+		printFilteredAggregators(pnames, true)
+	}
+
+	// print input plugins
 	fmt.Printf(inputHeader)
 	if len(inputFilters) != 0 {
 		printFilteredInputs(inputFilters, false)
@@ -275,6 +360,42 @@ func PrintSampleConfig(inputFilters []string, outputFilters []string) {
 	}
 }

+func printFilteredProcessors(processorFilters []string, commented bool) {
+	// Filter processors
+	var pnames []string
+	for pname := range processors.Processors {
+		if sliceContains(pname, processorFilters) {
+			pnames = append(pnames, pname)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(pnames)
+
+	// Print Outputs
+	for _, pname := range pnames {
+		creator := processors.Processors[pname]
+		output := creator()
+		printConfig(pname, output, "processors", commented)
+	}
+}
+
+func printFilteredAggregators(aggregatorFilters []string, commented bool) {
+	// Filter outputs
+	var anames []string
+	for aname := range aggregators.Aggregators {
+		if sliceContains(aname, aggregatorFilters) {
+			anames = append(anames, aname)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(anames)
+
+	// Print Outputs
+	for _, aname := range anames {
+		creator := aggregators.Aggregators[aname]
+		output := creator()
+		printConfig(aname, output, "aggregators", commented)
+	}
+}
+
 func printFilteredInputs(inputFilters []string, commented bool) {
 	// Filter inputs
 	var pnames []string
@@ -357,7 +478,7 @@ func printConfig(name string, p printer, op string, commented bool) {
 				fmt.Print("\n")
 				continue
 			}
-			fmt.Print(comment + line + "\n")
+			fmt.Print(strings.TrimRight(comment+line, " ") + "\n")
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -392,24 +513,25 @@ func PrintOutputConfig(name string) error {
 }

 func (c *Config) LoadDirectory(path string) error {
-	directoryEntries, err := ioutil.ReadDir(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	for _, entry := range directoryEntries {
-		if entry.IsDir() {
-			continue
+	walkfn := func(thispath string, info os.FileInfo, _ error) error {
+		if info == nil {
+			log.Printf("W! Telegraf is not permitted to read %s", thispath)
+			return nil
 		}
-		name := entry.Name()
+		if info.IsDir() {
+			return nil
+		}
+		name := info.Name()
 		if len(name) < 6 || name[len(name)-5:] != ".conf" {
-			continue
+			return nil
 		}
-		err := c.LoadConfig(filepath.Join(path, name))
+		err := c.LoadConfig(thispath)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
+		return nil
 	}
-	return nil
+	return filepath.Walk(path, walkfn)
 }

 // Try to find a default config file at these locations (in order):
@@ -421,9 +543,12 @@ func getDefaultConfigPath() (string, error) {
 	envfile := os.Getenv("TELEGRAF_CONFIG_PATH")
 	homefile := os.ExpandEnv("${HOME}/.telegraf/telegraf.conf")
 	etcfile := "/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf"
+	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
+		etcfile = `C:\Program Files\Telegraf\telegraf.conf`
+	}
 	for _, path := range []string{envfile, homefile, etcfile} {
 		if _, err := os.Stat(path); err == nil {
-			log.Printf("Using config file: %s", path)
+			log.Printf("I! Using config file: %s", path)
 			return path, nil
 		}
 	}
@@ -453,8 +578,8 @@ func (c *Config) LoadConfig(path string) error {
 			if !ok {
 				return fmt.Errorf("%s: invalid configuration", path)
 			}
-			if err = config.UnmarshalTable(subTable, c.Tags); err != nil {
-				log.Printf("Could not parse [global_tags] config\n")
+			if err = toml.UnmarshalTable(subTable, c.Tags); err != nil {
+				log.Printf("E! Could not parse [global_tags] config\n")
 				return fmt.Errorf("Error parsing %s, %s", path, err)
 			}
 		}
@@ -466,8 +591,8 @@ func (c *Config) LoadConfig(path string) error {
 		if !ok {
 			return fmt.Errorf("%s: invalid configuration", path)
 		}
-		if err = config.UnmarshalTable(subTable, c.Agent); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("Could not parse [agent] config\n")
+		if err = toml.UnmarshalTable(subTable, c.Agent); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("E! Could not parse [agent] config\n")
 			return fmt.Errorf("Error parsing %s, %s", path, err)
 		}
 	}
@@ -484,6 +609,7 @@ func (c *Config) LoadConfig(path string) error {
 		case "outputs":
 			for pluginName, pluginVal := range subTable.Fields {
 				switch pluginSubTable := pluginVal.(type) {
+				// legacy [outputs.influxdb] support
 				case *ast.Table:
 					if err = c.addOutput(pluginName, pluginSubTable); err != nil {
 						return fmt.Errorf("Error parsing %s, %s", path, err)
@@ -502,6 +628,7 @@ func (c *Config) LoadConfig(path string) error {
 		case "inputs", "plugins":
 			for pluginName, pluginVal := range subTable.Fields {
 				switch pluginSubTable := pluginVal.(type) {
+				// legacy [inputs.cpu] support
 				case *ast.Table:
 					if err = c.addInput(pluginName, pluginSubTable); err != nil {
 						return fmt.Errorf("Error parsing %s, %s", path, err)
@@ -517,6 +644,34 @@ func (c *Config) LoadConfig(path string) error {
 						pluginName, path)
 				}
 			}
+		case "processors":
+			for pluginName, pluginVal := range subTable.Fields {
+				switch pluginSubTable := pluginVal.(type) {
+				case []*ast.Table:
+					for _, t := range pluginSubTable {
+						if err = c.addProcessor(pluginName, t); err != nil {
+							return fmt.Errorf("Error parsing %s, %s", path, err)
+						}
+					}
+				default:
+					return fmt.Errorf("Unsupported config format: %s, file %s",
+						pluginName, path)
+				}
+			}
+		case "aggregators":
+			for pluginName, pluginVal := range subTable.Fields {
+				switch pluginSubTable := pluginVal.(type) {
+				case []*ast.Table:
+					for _, t := range pluginSubTable {
+						if err = c.addAggregator(pluginName, t); err != nil {
+							return fmt.Errorf("Error parsing %s, %s", path, err)
+						}
+					}
+				default:
+					return fmt.Errorf("Unsupported config format: %s, file %s",
+						pluginName, path)
+				}
+			}
 		// Assume it's an input input for legacy config file support if no other
 		// identifiers are present
 		default:
@@ -525,9 +680,25 @@ func (c *Config) LoadConfig(path string) error {
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+	if len(c.Processors) > 1 {
+		sort.Sort(c.Processors)
+	}
 	return nil
 }

+// trimBOM trims the Byte-Order-Marks from the beginning of the file.
+// this is for Windows compatibility only.
+// see https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1378
+func trimBOM(f []byte) []byte {
+	return bytes.TrimPrefix(f, []byte("\xef\xbb\xbf"))
+}
+
+// escapeEnv escapes a value for inserting into a TOML string.
+func escapeEnv(value string) string {
+	return envVarEscaper.Replace(value)
+}
+
 // parseFile loads a TOML configuration from a provided path and
 // returns the AST produced from the TOML parser. When loading the file, it
 // will find environment variables and replace them.
@@ -536,11 +707,14 @@ func parseFile(fpath string) (*ast.Table, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	// ugh windows why
+	contents = trimBOM(contents)

 	env_vars := envVarRe.FindAll(contents, -1)
 	for _, env_var := range env_vars {
-		env_val := os.Getenv(strings.TrimPrefix(string(env_var), "$"))
-		if env_val != "" {
+		env_val, ok := os.LookupEnv(strings.TrimPrefix(string(env_var), "$"))
+		if ok {
+			env_val = escapeEnv(env_val)
 			contents = bytes.Replace(contents, env_var, []byte(env_val), 1)
 		}
 	}
@@ -548,6 +722,52 @@ func parseFile(fpath string) (*ast.Table, error) {
 	return toml.Parse(contents)
 }

+func (c *Config) addAggregator(name string, table *ast.Table) error {
+	creator, ok := aggregators.Aggregators[name]
+	if !ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Undefined but requested aggregator: %s", name)
+	}
+	aggregator := creator()
+
+	conf, err := buildAggregator(name, table)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if err := toml.UnmarshalTable(table, aggregator); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	c.Aggregators = append(c.Aggregators, models.NewRunningAggregator(aggregator, conf))
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (c *Config) addProcessor(name string, table *ast.Table) error {
+	creator, ok := processors.Processors[name]
+	if !ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Undefined but requested processor: %s", name)
+	}
+	processor := creator()
+
+	processorConfig, err := buildProcessor(name, table)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if err := toml.UnmarshalTable(table, processor); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	rf := &models.RunningProcessor{
+		Name:      name,
+		Processor: processor,
+		Config:    processorConfig,
+	}
+
+	c.Processors = append(c.Processors, rf)
+	return nil
+}
+
 func (c *Config) addOutput(name string, table *ast.Table) error {
 	if len(c.OutputFilters) > 0 && !sliceContains(name, c.OutputFilters) {
 		return nil
@@ -574,11 +794,11 @@ func (c *Config) addOutput(name string, table *ast.Table) error {
 		return err
 	}

-	if err := config.UnmarshalTable(table, output); err != nil {
+	if err := toml.UnmarshalTable(table, output); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

-	ro := internal_models.NewRunningOutput(name, output, outputConfig,
+	ro := models.NewRunningOutput(name, output, outputConfig,
 		c.Agent.MetricBatchSize, c.Agent.MetricBufferLimit)
 	c.Outputs = append(c.Outputs, ro)
 	return nil
@@ -615,25 +835,159 @@ func (c *Config) addInput(name string, table *ast.Table) error {
 		return err
 	}

-	if err := config.UnmarshalTable(table, input); err != nil {
+	if err := toml.UnmarshalTable(table, input); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

-	rp := &internal_models.RunningInput{
-		Name:   name,
-		Input:  input,
-		Config: pluginConfig,
-	}
+	rp := models.NewRunningInput(input, pluginConfig)
 	c.Inputs = append(c.Inputs, rp)
 	return nil
 }

+// buildAggregator parses Aggregator specific items from the ast.Table,
+// builds the filter and returns a
+// models.AggregatorConfig to be inserted into models.RunningAggregator
+func buildAggregator(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (*models.AggregatorConfig, error) {
+	unsupportedFields := []string{"tagexclude", "taginclude"}
+	for _, field := range unsupportedFields {
+		if _, ok := tbl.Fields[field]; ok {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s is not supported for aggregator plugins (%s).",
+				field, name)
+		}
+	}
+
+	conf := &models.AggregatorConfig{
+		Name:   name,
+		Delay:  time.Millisecond * 100,
+		Period: time.Second * 30,
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["period"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				dur, err := time.ParseDuration(str.Value)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+
+				conf.Period = dur
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["delay"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				dur, err := time.ParseDuration(str.Value)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+
+				conf.Delay = dur
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["drop_original"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if b, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.Boolean); ok {
+				var err error
+				conf.DropOriginal, err = strconv.ParseBool(b.Value)
+				if err != nil {
+					log.Printf("Error parsing boolean value for %s: %s\n", name, err)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["name_prefix"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				conf.MeasurementPrefix = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["name_suffix"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				conf.MeasurementSuffix = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["name_override"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				conf.NameOverride = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	conf.Tags = make(map[string]string)
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["tags"]; ok {
+		if subtbl, ok := node.(*ast.Table); ok {
+			if err := toml.UnmarshalTable(subtbl, conf.Tags); err != nil {
+				log.Printf("Could not parse tags for input %s\n", name)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "period")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "delay")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "drop_original")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "name_prefix")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "name_suffix")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "name_override")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "tags")
+	var err error
+	conf.Filter, err = buildFilter(tbl)
+	if err != nil {
+		return conf, err
+	}
+	return conf, nil
+}
+
+// buildProcessor parses Processor specific items from the ast.Table,
+// builds the filter and returns a
+// models.ProcessorConfig to be inserted into models.RunningProcessor
+func buildProcessor(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (*models.ProcessorConfig, error) {
+	conf := &models.ProcessorConfig{Name: name}
+	unsupportedFields := []string{"tagexclude", "taginclude", "fielddrop", "fieldpass"}
+	for _, field := range unsupportedFields {
+		if _, ok := tbl.Fields[field]; ok {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s is not supported for processor plugins (%s).",
+				field, name)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["order"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if b, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.Integer); ok {
+				var err error
+				conf.Order, err = strconv.ParseInt(b.Value, 10, 64)
+				if err != nil {
+					log.Printf("Error parsing int value for %s: %s\n", name, err)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "order")
+	var err error
+	conf.Filter, err = buildFilter(tbl)
+	if err != nil {
+		return conf, err
+	}
+	return conf, nil
+}
+
 // buildFilter builds a Filter
 // (tagpass/tagdrop/namepass/namedrop/fieldpass/fielddrop) to
-// be inserted into the internal_models.OutputConfig/internal_models.InputConfig
+// be inserted into the models.OutputConfig/models.InputConfig
 // to be used for glob filtering on tags and measurements
-func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
-	f := internal_models.Filter{}
+func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (models.Filter, error) {
+	f := models.Filter{}

 	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["namepass"]; ok {
 		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
@@ -641,7 +995,6 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 				for _, elem := range ary.Value {
 					if str, ok := elem.(*ast.String); ok {
 						f.NamePass = append(f.NamePass, str.Value)
-						f.IsActive = true
 					}
 				}
 			}
@@ -654,7 +1007,6 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 				for _, elem := range ary.Value {
 					if str, ok := elem.(*ast.String); ok {
 						f.NameDrop = append(f.NameDrop, str.Value)
-						f.IsActive = true
 					}
 				}
 			}
@@ -669,7 +1021,6 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 					for _, elem := range ary.Value {
 						if str, ok := elem.(*ast.String); ok {
 							f.FieldPass = append(f.FieldPass, str.Value)
-							f.IsActive = true
 						}
 					}
 				}
@@ -685,7 +1036,6 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 					for _, elem := range ary.Value {
 						if str, ok := elem.(*ast.String); ok {
 							f.FieldDrop = append(f.FieldDrop, str.Value)
-							f.IsActive = true
 						}
 					}
 				}
@@ -697,7 +1047,7 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 		if subtbl, ok := node.(*ast.Table); ok {
 			for name, val := range subtbl.Fields {
 				if kv, ok := val.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
-					tagfilter := &internal_models.TagFilter{Name: name}
+					tagfilter := &models.TagFilter{Name: name}
 					if ary, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.Array); ok {
 						for _, elem := range ary.Value {
 							if str, ok := elem.(*ast.String); ok {
@@ -706,7 +1056,6 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 						}
 					}
 					f.TagPass = append(f.TagPass, *tagfilter)
-					f.IsActive = true
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -716,7 +1065,7 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 		if subtbl, ok := node.(*ast.Table); ok {
 			for name, val := range subtbl.Fields {
 				if kv, ok := val.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
-					tagfilter := &internal_models.TagFilter{Name: name}
+					tagfilter := &models.TagFilter{Name: name}
 					if ary, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.Array); ok {
 						for _, elem := range ary.Value {
 							if str, ok := elem.(*ast.String); ok {
@@ -725,7 +1074,6 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 						}
 					}
 					f.TagDrop = append(f.TagDrop, *tagfilter)
-					f.IsActive = true
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -754,7 +1102,7 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	if err := f.CompileFilter(); err != nil {
+	if err := f.Compile(); err != nil {
 		return f, err
 	}

@@ -773,9 +1121,9 @@ func buildFilter(tbl *ast.Table) (internal_models.Filter, error) {

 // buildInput parses input specific items from the ast.Table,
 // builds the filter and returns a
-// internal_models.InputConfig to be inserted into internal_models.RunningInput
-func buildInput(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (*internal_models.InputConfig, error) {
-	cp := &internal_models.InputConfig{Name: name}
+// models.InputConfig to be inserted into models.RunningInput
+func buildInput(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (*models.InputConfig, error) {
+	cp := &models.InputConfig{Name: name}
 	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["interval"]; ok {
 		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
 			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
@@ -816,8 +1164,8 @@ func buildInput(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (*internal_models.InputConfig, erro
 	cp.Tags = make(map[string]string)
 	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["tags"]; ok {
 		if subtbl, ok := node.(*ast.Table); ok {
-			if err := config.UnmarshalTable(subtbl, cp.Tags); err != nil {
-				log.Printf("Could not parse tags for input %s\n", name)
+			if err := toml.UnmarshalTable(subtbl, cp.Tags); err != nil {
+				log.Printf("E! Could not parse tags for input %s\n", name)
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -896,6 +1244,75 @@ func buildParser(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (parsers.Parser, error) {
 		}
 	}

+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["collectd_auth_file"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				c.CollectdAuthFile = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["collectd_security_level"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				c.CollectdSecurityLevel = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["collectd_typesdb"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if ary, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.Array); ok {
+				for _, elem := range ary.Value {
+					if str, ok := elem.(*ast.String); ok {
+						c.CollectdTypesDB = append(c.CollectdTypesDB, str.Value)
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["dropwizard_metric_registry_path"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				c.DropwizardMetricRegistryPath = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["dropwizard_time_path"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				c.DropwizardTimePath = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["dropwizard_time_format"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				c.DropwizardTimeFormat = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["dropwizard_tags_path"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				c.DropwizardTagsPath = str.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	c.DropwizardTagPathsMap = make(map[string]string)
+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["dropwizard_tag_paths"]; ok {
+		if subtbl, ok := node.(*ast.Table); ok {
+			for name, val := range subtbl.Fields {
+				if kv, ok := val.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+					if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+						c.DropwizardTagPathsMap[name] = str.Value
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	c.MetricName = name

 	delete(tbl.Fields, "data_format")
@@ -903,6 +1320,14 @@ func buildParser(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (parsers.Parser, error) {
 	delete(tbl.Fields, "templates")
 	delete(tbl.Fields, "tag_keys")
 	delete(tbl.Fields, "data_type")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "collectd_auth_file")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "collectd_security_level")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "collectd_typesdb")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "dropwizard_metric_registry_path")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "dropwizard_time_path")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "dropwizard_time_format")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "dropwizard_tags_path")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "dropwizard_tag_paths")

 	return parsers.NewParser(c)
 }
@@ -911,7 +1336,7 @@ func buildParser(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (parsers.Parser, error) {
 // a serializers.Serializer object, and creates it, which can then be added onto
 // an Output object.
 func buildSerializer(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (serializers.Serializer, error) {
-	c := &serializers.Config{}
+	c := &serializers.Config{TimestampUnits: time.Duration(1 * time.Second)}

 	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["data_format"]; ok {
 		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
@@ -941,22 +1366,39 @@ func buildSerializer(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (serializers.Serializer, error
 		}
 	}

+	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["json_timestamp_units"]; ok {
+		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
+			if str, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.String); ok {
+				timestampVal, err := time.ParseDuration(str.Value)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("Unable to parse json_timestamp_units as a duration, %s", err)
+				}
+				// now that we have a duration, truncate it to the nearest
+				// power of ten (just in case)
+				nearest_exponent := int64(math.Log10(float64(timestampVal.Nanoseconds())))
+				new_nanoseconds := int64(math.Pow(10.0, float64(nearest_exponent)))
+				c.TimestampUnits = time.Duration(new_nanoseconds)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	delete(tbl.Fields, "data_format")
 	delete(tbl.Fields, "prefix")
 	delete(tbl.Fields, "template")
+	delete(tbl.Fields, "json_timestamp_units")
 	return serializers.NewSerializer(c)
 }

 // buildOutput parses output specific items from the ast.Table,
 // builds the filter and returns an
-// internal_models.OutputConfig to be inserted into internal_models.RunningInput
+// models.OutputConfig to be inserted into models.RunningInput
 // Note: error exists in the return for future calls that might require error
-func buildOutput(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (*internal_models.OutputConfig, error) {
+func buildOutput(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (*models.OutputConfig, error) {
 	filter, err := buildFilter(tbl)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	oc := &internal_models.OutputConfig{
+	oc := &models.OutputConfig{
 		Name:   name,
 		Filter: filter,
 	}
--- a/internal/config/config_test.go
+++ b/internal/config/config_test.go
@@ -26,27 +26,26 @@ func TestConfig_LoadSingleInputWithEnvVars(t *testing.T) {
 	memcached := inputs.Inputs["memcached"]().(*memcached.Memcached)
 	memcached.Servers = []string{"192.168.1.1"}

-	filter := internal_models.Filter{
+	filter := models.Filter{
 		NameDrop:  []string{"metricname2"},
 		NamePass:  []string{"metricname1"},
 		FieldDrop: []string{"other", "stuff"},
 		FieldPass: []string{"some", "strings"},
-		TagDrop: []internal_models.TagFilter{
-			internal_models.TagFilter{
+		TagDrop: []models.TagFilter{
+			models.TagFilter{
 				Name:   "badtag",
 				Filter: []string{"othertag"},
 			},
 		},
-		TagPass: []internal_models.TagFilter{
-			internal_models.TagFilter{
+		TagPass: []models.TagFilter{
+			models.TagFilter{
 				Name:   "goodtag",
 				Filter: []string{"mytag"},
 			},
 		},
-		IsActive: true,
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, filter.CompileFilter())
-	mConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{
+	assert.NoError(t, filter.Compile())
+	mConfig := &models.InputConfig{
 		Name:     "memcached",
 		Filter:   filter,
 		Interval: 10 * time.Second,
@@ -66,27 +65,26 @@ func TestConfig_LoadSingleInput(t *testing.T) {
 	memcached := inputs.Inputs["memcached"]().(*memcached.Memcached)
 	memcached.Servers = []string{"localhost"}

-	filter := internal_models.Filter{
+	filter := models.Filter{
 		NameDrop:  []string{"metricname2"},
 		NamePass:  []string{"metricname1"},
 		FieldDrop: []string{"other", "stuff"},
 		FieldPass: []string{"some", "strings"},
-		TagDrop: []internal_models.TagFilter{
-			internal_models.TagFilter{
+		TagDrop: []models.TagFilter{
+			models.TagFilter{
 				Name:   "badtag",
 				Filter: []string{"othertag"},
 			},
 		},
-		TagPass: []internal_models.TagFilter{
-			internal_models.TagFilter{
+		TagPass: []models.TagFilter{
+			models.TagFilter{
 				Name:   "goodtag",
 				Filter: []string{"mytag"},
 			},
 		},
-		IsActive: true,
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, filter.CompileFilter())
-	mConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{
+	assert.NoError(t, filter.Compile())
+	mConfig := &models.InputConfig{
 		Name:     "memcached",
 		Filter:   filter,
 		Interval: 5 * time.Second,
@@ -113,27 +111,26 @@ func TestConfig_LoadDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 	memcached := inputs.Inputs["memcached"]().(*memcached.Memcached)
 	memcached.Servers = []string{"localhost"}

-	filter := internal_models.Filter{
+	filter := models.Filter{
 		NameDrop:  []string{"metricname2"},
 		NamePass:  []string{"metricname1"},
 		FieldDrop: []string{"other", "stuff"},
 		FieldPass: []string{"some", "strings"},
-		TagDrop: []internal_models.TagFilter{
-			internal_models.TagFilter{
+		TagDrop: []models.TagFilter{
+			models.TagFilter{
 				Name:   "badtag",
 				Filter: []string{"othertag"},
 			},
 		},
-		TagPass: []internal_models.TagFilter{
-			internal_models.TagFilter{
+		TagPass: []models.TagFilter{
+			models.TagFilter{
 				Name:   "goodtag",
 				Filter: []string{"mytag"},
 			},
 		},
-		IsActive: true,
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, filter.CompileFilter())
-	mConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{
+	assert.NoError(t, filter.Compile())
+	mConfig := &models.InputConfig{
 		Name:     "memcached",
 		Filter:   filter,
 		Interval: 5 * time.Second,
@@ -150,7 +147,7 @@ func TestConfig_LoadDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	ex.SetParser(p)
 	ex.Command = "/usr/bin/myothercollector --foo=bar"
-	eConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{
+	eConfig := &models.InputConfig{
 		Name:              "exec",
 		MeasurementSuffix: "_myothercollector",
 	}
@@ -169,7 +166,7 @@ func TestConfig_LoadDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 	pstat := inputs.Inputs["procstat"]().(*procstat.Procstat)
 	pstat.PidFile = "/var/run/grafana-server.pid"

-	pConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{Name: "procstat"}
+	pConfig := &models.InputConfig{Name: "procstat"}
 	pConfig.Tags = make(map[string]string)

 	assert.Equal(t, pstat, c.Inputs[3].Input,
--- a/internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml
+++ b/internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
  # Kafka topic for producer messages
  topic = "telegraf"
  # Telegraf tag to use as a routing key
-  #  ie, if this tag exists, it's value will be used as the routing key
+  #  ie, if this tag exists, its value will be used as the routing key
  routing_tag = "host"


@@ -143,19 +143,31 @@
 [[inputs.diskio]]
  # no configuration

-# read metrics from a Kafka topic
+# read metrics from a Kafka 0.9+ topic
 [[inputs.kafka_consumer]]
-  # topic(s) to consume
+  ## kafka brokers
+  brokers = ["localhost:9092"]
+  ## topic(s) to consume
+  topics = ["telegraf"]
+  ## the name of the consumer group
+  consumer_group = "telegraf_metrics_consumers"
+  ## Offset (must be either "oldest" or "newest")
+  offset = "oldest"
+
+# read metrics from a Kafka legacy topic
+[[inputs.kafka_consumer_legacy]]
+  ## topic(s) to consume
  topics = ["telegraf"]
  # an array of Zookeeper connection strings
  zookeeper_peers = ["localhost:2181"]
-  # the name of the consumer group
+  ## the name of the consumer group
  consumer_group = "telegraf_metrics_consumers"
  # Maximum number of points to buffer between collection intervals
  point_buffer = 100000
-  # Offset (must be either "oldest" or "newest")
+  ## Offset (must be either "oldest" or "newest")
  offset = "oldest"

+
 # Read metrics from a LeoFS Server via SNMP
 [[inputs.leofs]]
  # An array of URI to gather stats about LeoFS.
--- a/internal/globpath/globpath.go
+++ b/internal/globpath/globpath.go
@@ -12,21 +12,23 @@ import (
 var sepStr = fmt.Sprintf("%v", string(os.PathSeparator))

 type GlobPath struct {
-	path    string
-	hasMeta bool
-	g       glob.Glob
-	root    string
+	path         string
+	hasMeta      bool
+	hasSuperMeta bool
+	g            glob.Glob
+	root         string
 }

 func Compile(path string) (*GlobPath, error) {
 	out := GlobPath{
-		hasMeta: hasMeta(path),
-		path:    path,
+		hasMeta:      hasMeta(path),
+		hasSuperMeta: hasSuperMeta(path),
+		path:         path,
 	}

 	// if there are no glob meta characters in the path, don't bother compiling
 	// a glob object or finding the root directory. (see short-circuit in Match)
-	if !out.hasMeta {
+	if !out.hasMeta || !out.hasSuperMeta {
 		return &out, nil
 	}

@@ -43,11 +45,22 @@ func (g *GlobPath) Match() map[string]os.FileInfo {
 	if !g.hasMeta {
 		out := make(map[string]os.FileInfo)
 		info, err := os.Stat(g.path)
-		if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		if err == nil {
 			out[g.path] = info
 		}
 		return out
 	}
+	if !g.hasSuperMeta {
+		out := make(map[string]os.FileInfo)
+		files, _ := filepath.Glob(g.path)
+		for _, file := range files {
+			info, err := os.Stat(file)
+			if err == nil {
+				out[file] = info
+			}
+		}
+		return out
+	}
 	return walkFilePath(g.root, g.g)
 }

@@ -96,3 +109,8 @@ func findRootDir(path string) string {
 func hasMeta(path string) bool {
 	return strings.IndexAny(path, "*?[") >= 0
 }
+
+// hasSuperMeta reports whether path contains any super magic glob characters (**).
+func hasSuperMeta(path string) bool {
+	return strings.Index(path, "**") >= 0
+}
--- a/internal/globpath/globpath_test.go
+++ b/internal/globpath/globpath_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package globpath

 import (
+	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ func TestCompileAndMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)

 	matches := g1.Match()
-	assert.Len(t, matches, 3)
+	assert.Len(t, matches, 6)
 	matches = g2.Match()
 	assert.Len(t, matches, 2)
 	matches = g3.Match()
@@ -56,7 +57,34 @@ func TestFindRootDir(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+func TestFindNestedTextFile(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := getTestdataDir()
+	// test super asterisk
+	g1, err := Compile(dir + "/**.txt")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	matches := g1.Match()
+	assert.Len(t, matches, 1)
+}
+
 func getTestdataDir() string {
 	_, filename, _, _ := runtime.Caller(1)
 	return strings.Replace(filename, "globpath_test.go", "testdata", 1)
 }
+
+func TestMatch_ErrPermission(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		input    string
+		expected map[string]os.FileInfo
+	}{
+		{"/root/foo", map[string]os.FileInfo{}},
+		{"/root/f*", map[string]os.FileInfo{}},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		glob, err := Compile(test.input)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		actual := glob.Match()
+		require.Equal(t, test.expected, actual)
+	}
+}
--- a/internal/globpath/testdata/nested1/nested2/nested.txt
+++ b/internal/globpath/testdata/nested1/nested2/nested.txt
--- a/internal/internal.go
+++ b/internal/internal.go
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
+	"math/big"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 	"unicode"
@@ -32,12 +34,35 @@ type Duration struct {

 // UnmarshalTOML parses the duration from the TOML config file
 func (d *Duration) UnmarshalTOML(b []byte) error {
-	dur, err := time.ParseDuration(string(b[1 : len(b)-1]))
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
+	var err error
+	b = bytes.Trim(b, `'`)
+
+	// see if we can directly convert it
+	d.Duration, err = time.ParseDuration(string(b))
+	if err == nil {
+		return nil
 	}

-	d.Duration = dur
+	// Parse string duration, ie, "1s"
+	if uq, err := strconv.Unquote(string(b)); err == nil && len(uq) > 0 {
+		d.Duration, err = time.ParseDuration(uq)
+		if err == nil {
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	// First try parsing as integer seconds
+	sI, err := strconv.ParseInt(string(b), 10, 64)
+	if err == nil {
+		d.Duration = time.Second * time.Duration(sI)
+		return nil
+	}
+	// Second try parsing as float seconds
+	sF, err := strconv.ParseFloat(string(b), 64)
+	if err == nil {
+		d.Duration = time.Second * time.Duration(sF)
+		return nil
+	}

 	return nil
 }
@@ -118,8 +143,8 @@ func GetTLSConfig(
 		cert, err := tls.LoadX509KeyPair(SSLCert, SSLKey)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, errors.New(fmt.Sprintf(
-				"Could not load TLS client key/certificate: %s",
-				err))
+				"Could not load TLS client key/certificate from %s:%s: %s",
+				SSLKey, SSLCert, err))
 		}

 		t.Certificates = []tls.Certificate{cert}
@@ -183,7 +208,7 @@ func WaitTimeout(c *exec.Cmd, timeout time.Duration) error {
 		return err
 	case <-timer.C:
 		if err := c.Process.Kill(); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("FATAL error killing process: %s", err)
+			log.Printf("E! FATAL error killing process: %s", err)
 			return err
 		}
 		// wait for the command to return after killing it
@@ -191,3 +216,27 @@ func WaitTimeout(c *exec.Cmd, timeout time.Duration) error {
 		return TimeoutErr
 	}
 }
+
+// RandomSleep will sleep for a random amount of time up to max.
+// If the shutdown channel is closed, it will return before it has finished
+// sleeping.
+func RandomSleep(max time.Duration, shutdown chan struct{}) {
+	if max == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	maxSleep := big.NewInt(max.Nanoseconds())
+
+	var sleepns int64
+	if j, err := rand.Int(rand.Reader, maxSleep); err == nil {
+		sleepns = j.Int64()
+	}
+
+	t := time.NewTimer(time.Nanosecond * time.Duration(sleepns))
+	select {
+	case <-t.C:
+		return
+	case <-shutdown:
+		t.Stop()
+		return
+	}
+}
--- a/internal/internal_test.go
+++ b/internal/internal_test.go
@@ -40,9 +40,13 @@ func TestSnakeCase(t *testing.T) {
 var (
 	sleepbin, _ = exec.LookPath("sleep")
 	echobin, _  = exec.LookPath("echo")
+	shell, _    = exec.LookPath("sh")
 )

 func TestRunTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping test due to random failures.")
+	}
 	if sleepbin == "" {
 		t.Skip("'sleep' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
 	}
@@ -57,6 +61,8 @@ func TestRunTimeout(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestCombinedOutputTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	// TODO: Fix this test
+	t.Skip("Test failing too often, skip for now and revisit later.")
 	if sleepbin == "" {
 		t.Skip("'sleep' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
 	}
@@ -84,13 +90,13 @@ func TestCombinedOutput(t *testing.T) {
 // test that CombinedOutputTimeout and exec.Cmd.CombinedOutput return
 // the same output from a failed command.
 func TestCombinedOutputError(t *testing.T) {
-	if sleepbin == "" {
-		t.Skip("'sleep' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
+	if shell == "" {
+		t.Skip("'sh' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
 	}
-	cmd := exec.Command(sleepbin, "foo")
+	cmd := exec.Command(shell, "-c", "false")
 	expected, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()

-	cmd2 := exec.Command(sleepbin, "foo")
+	cmd2 := exec.Command(shell, "-c", "false")
 	actual, err := CombinedOutputTimeout(cmd2, time.Second)

 	assert.Error(t, err)
@@ -98,11 +104,61 @@ func TestCombinedOutputError(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestRunError(t *testing.T) {
-	if sleepbin == "" {
-		t.Skip("'sleep' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
+	if shell == "" {
+		t.Skip("'sh' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
 	}
-	cmd := exec.Command(sleepbin, "foo")
+	cmd := exec.Command(shell, "-c", "false")
 	err := RunTimeout(cmd, time.Second)

 	assert.Error(t, err)
 }
+
+func TestRandomSleep(t *testing.T) {
+	// TODO: Fix this test
+	t.Skip("Test failing too often, skip for now and revisit later.")
+	// test that zero max returns immediately
+	s := time.Now()
+	RandomSleep(time.Duration(0), make(chan struct{}))
+	elapsed := time.Since(s)
+	assert.True(t, elapsed < time.Millisecond)
+
+	// test that max sleep is respected
+	s = time.Now()
+	RandomSleep(time.Millisecond*50, make(chan struct{}))
+	elapsed = time.Since(s)
+	assert.True(t, elapsed < time.Millisecond*100)
+
+	// test that shutdown is respected
+	s = time.Now()
+	shutdown := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 100)
+		close(shutdown)
+	}()
+	RandomSleep(time.Second, shutdown)
+	elapsed = time.Since(s)
+	assert.True(t, elapsed < time.Millisecond*150)
+}
+
+func TestDuration(t *testing.T) {
+	var d Duration
+
+	d.UnmarshalTOML([]byte(`"1s"`))
+	assert.Equal(t, time.Second, d.Duration)
+
+	d = Duration{}
+	d.UnmarshalTOML([]byte(`1s`))
+	assert.Equal(t, time.Second, d.Duration)
+
+	d = Duration{}
+	d.UnmarshalTOML([]byte(`'1s'`))
+	assert.Equal(t, time.Second, d.Duration)
+
+	d = Duration{}
+	d.UnmarshalTOML([]byte(`10`))
+	assert.Equal(t, 10*time.Second, d.Duration)
+
+	d = Duration{}
+	d.UnmarshalTOML([]byte(`1.5`))
+	assert.Equal(t, time.Second, d.Duration)
+}
--- a/internal/limiter/limiter.go
+++ b/internal/limiter/limiter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package limiter
+
+import (
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// NewRateLimiter returns a rate limiter that will will emit from the C
+// channel only 'n' times every 'rate' seconds.
+func NewRateLimiter(n int, rate time.Duration) *rateLimiter {
+	r := &rateLimiter{
+		C:        make(chan bool),
+		rate:     rate,
+		n:        n,
+		shutdown: make(chan bool),
+	}
+	r.wg.Add(1)
+	go r.limiter()
+	return r
+}
+
+type rateLimiter struct {
+	C    chan bool
+	rate time.Duration
+	n    int
+
+	shutdown chan bool
+	wg       sync.WaitGroup
+}
+
+func (r *rateLimiter) Stop() {
+	close(r.shutdown)
+	r.wg.Wait()
+	close(r.C)
+}
+
+func (r *rateLimiter) limiter() {
+	defer r.wg.Done()
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(r.rate)
+	defer ticker.Stop()
+	counter := 0
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-r.shutdown:
+			return
+		case <-ticker.C:
+			counter = 0
+		default:
+			if counter < r.n {
+				select {
+				case r.C <- true:
+					counter++
+				case <-r.shutdown:
+					return
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
--- a/internal/limiter/limiter_test.go
+++ b/internal/limiter/limiter_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package limiter
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestRateLimiter(t *testing.T) {
+	r := NewRateLimiter(5, time.Second)
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Millisecond * 75)
+
+	// test that we can only get 5 receives from the rate limiter
+	counter := 0
+outer:
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-r.C:
+			counter++
+		case <-ticker.C:
+			break outer
+		}
+	}
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 5, counter)
+	r.Stop()
+	// verify that the Stop function closes the channel.
+	_, ok := <-r.C
+	assert.False(t, ok)
+}
+
+func TestRateLimiterMultipleIterations(t *testing.T) {
+	r := NewRateLimiter(5, time.Millisecond*50)
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Millisecond * 250)
+
+	// test that we can get 15 receives from the rate limiter
+	counter := 0
+outer:
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ticker.C:
+			break outer
+		case <-r.C:
+			counter++
+		}
+	}
+
+	assert.True(t, counter > 10)
+	r.Stop()
+	// verify that the Stop function closes the channel.
+	_, ok := <-r.C
+	assert.False(t, ok)
+}
--- a/internal/models/filter.go
+++ b/internal/models/filter.go
@@ -1,82 +1,91 @@
-package internal_models
+package models

 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"strings"

-	"github.com/gobwas/glob"
-
-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/filter"
 )

 // TagFilter is the name of a tag, and the values on which to filter
 type TagFilter struct {
 	Name   string
 	Filter []string
-	filter glob.Glob
+	filter filter.Filter
 }

 // Filter containing drop/pass and tagdrop/tagpass rules
 type Filter struct {
 	NameDrop []string
-	nameDrop glob.Glob
+	nameDrop filter.Filter
 	NamePass []string
-	namePass glob.Glob
+	namePass filter.Filter

 	FieldDrop []string
-	fieldDrop glob.Glob
+	fieldDrop filter.Filter
 	FieldPass []string
-	fieldPass glob.Glob
+	fieldPass filter.Filter

 	TagDrop []TagFilter
 	TagPass []TagFilter

 	TagExclude []string
-	tagExclude glob.Glob
+	tagExclude filter.Filter
 	TagInclude []string
-	tagInclude glob.Glob
+	tagInclude filter.Filter

-	IsActive bool
+	isActive bool
 }

-// Compile all Filter lists into glob.Glob objects.
-func (f *Filter) CompileFilter() error {
+// Compile all Filter lists into filter.Filter objects.
+func (f *Filter) Compile() error {
+	if len(f.NameDrop) == 0 &&
+		len(f.NamePass) == 0 &&
+		len(f.FieldDrop) == 0 &&
+		len(f.FieldPass) == 0 &&
+		len(f.TagInclude) == 0 &&
+		len(f.TagExclude) == 0 &&
+		len(f.TagPass) == 0 &&
+		len(f.TagDrop) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	f.isActive = true
 	var err error
-	f.nameDrop, err = compileFilter(f.NameDrop)
+	f.nameDrop, err = filter.Compile(f.NameDrop)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'namedrop', %s", err)
 	}
-	f.namePass, err = compileFilter(f.NamePass)
+	f.namePass, err = filter.Compile(f.NamePass)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'namepass', %s", err)
 	}

-	f.fieldDrop, err = compileFilter(f.FieldDrop)
+	f.fieldDrop, err = filter.Compile(f.FieldDrop)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'fielddrop', %s", err)
 	}
-	f.fieldPass, err = compileFilter(f.FieldPass)
+	f.fieldPass, err = filter.Compile(f.FieldPass)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'fieldpass', %s", err)
 	}

-	f.tagExclude, err = compileFilter(f.TagExclude)
+	f.tagExclude, err = filter.Compile(f.TagExclude)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'tagexclude', %s", err)
 	}
-	f.tagInclude, err = compileFilter(f.TagInclude)
+	f.tagInclude, err = filter.Compile(f.TagInclude)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'taginclude', %s", err)
 	}

 	for i, _ := range f.TagDrop {
-		f.TagDrop[i].filter, err = compileFilter(f.TagDrop[i].Filter)
+		f.TagDrop[i].filter, err = filter.Compile(f.TagDrop[i].Filter)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'tagdrop', %s", err)
 		}
 	}
 	for i, _ := range f.TagPass {
-		f.TagPass[i].filter, err = compileFilter(f.TagPass[i].Filter)
+		f.TagPass[i].filter, err = filter.Compile(f.TagPass[i].Filter)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'tagpass', %s", err)
 		}
@@ -84,67 +93,113 @@ func (f *Filter) CompileFilter() error {
 	return nil
 }

-func compileFilter(filter []string) (glob.Glob, error) {
-	if len(filter) == 0 {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	var g glob.Glob
-	var err error
-	if len(filter) == 1 {
-		g, err = glob.Compile(filter[0])
-	} else {
-		g, err = glob.Compile("{" + strings.Join(filter, ",") + "}")
-	}
-	return g, err
-}
-
-func (f *Filter) ShouldMetricPass(metric telegraf.Metric) bool {
-	if f.ShouldNamePass(metric.Name()) && f.ShouldTagsPass(metric.Tags()) {
+// Apply applies the filter to the given measurement name, fields map, and
+// tags map. It will return false if the metric should be "filtered out", and
+// true if the metric should "pass".
+// It will modify tags & fields in-place if they need to be deleted.
+func (f *Filter) Apply(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+) bool {
+	if !f.isActive {
 		return true
 	}
-	return false
+
+	// check if the measurement name should pass
+	if !f.shouldNamePass(measurement) {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	// check if the tags should pass
+	if !f.shouldTagsPass(tags) {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	// filter fields
+	for fieldkey, _ := range fields {
+		if !f.shouldFieldPass(fieldkey) {
+			delete(fields, fieldkey)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(fields) == 0 {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	// filter tags
+	f.filterTags(tags)
+
+	return true
 }

-// ShouldFieldsPass returns true if the metric should pass, false if should drop
+// IsActive checking if filter is active
+func (f *Filter) IsActive() bool {
+	return f.isActive
+}
+
+// shouldNamePass returns true if the metric should pass, false if should drop
 // based on the drop/pass filter parameters
-func (f *Filter) ShouldNamePass(key string) bool {
-	if f.namePass != nil {
+func (f *Filter) shouldNamePass(key string) bool {
+
+	pass := func(f *Filter) bool {
 		if f.namePass.Match(key) {
 			return true
 		}
 		return false
 	}

-	if f.nameDrop != nil {
+	drop := func(f *Filter) bool {
 		if f.nameDrop.Match(key) {
 			return false
 		}
+		return true
 	}
+
+	if f.namePass != nil && f.nameDrop != nil {
+		return pass(f) && drop(f)
+	} else if f.namePass != nil {
+		return pass(f)
+	} else if f.nameDrop != nil {
+		return drop(f)
+	}
+
 	return true
 }

-// ShouldFieldsPass returns true if the metric should pass, false if should drop
+// shouldFieldPass returns true if the metric should pass, false if should drop
 // based on the drop/pass filter parameters
-func (f *Filter) ShouldFieldsPass(key string) bool {
-	if f.fieldPass != nil {
+func (f *Filter) shouldFieldPass(key string) bool {
+
+	pass := func(f *Filter) bool {
 		if f.fieldPass.Match(key) {
 			return true
 		}
 		return false
 	}

-	if f.fieldDrop != nil {
+	drop := func(f *Filter) bool {
 		if f.fieldDrop.Match(key) {
 			return false
 		}
+		return true
 	}
+
+	if f.fieldPass != nil && f.fieldDrop != nil {
+		return pass(f) && drop(f)
+	} else if f.fieldPass != nil {
+		return pass(f)
+	} else if f.fieldDrop != nil {
+		return drop(f)
+	}
+
 	return true
 }

-// ShouldTagsPass returns true if the metric should pass, false if should drop
+// shouldTagsPass returns true if the metric should pass, false if should drop
 // based on the tagdrop/tagpass filter parameters
-func (f *Filter) ShouldTagsPass(tags map[string]string) bool {
-	if f.TagPass != nil {
+func (f *Filter) shouldTagsPass(tags map[string]string) bool {
+
+	pass := func(f *Filter) bool {
 		for _, pat := range f.TagPass {
 			if pat.filter == nil {
 				continue
@@ -158,7 +213,7 @@ func (f *Filter) ShouldTagsPass(tags map[string]string) bool {
 		return false
 	}

-	if f.TagDrop != nil {
+	drop := func(f *Filter) bool {
 		for _, pat := range f.TagDrop {
 			if pat.filter == nil {
 				continue
@@ -172,12 +227,24 @@ func (f *Filter) ShouldTagsPass(tags map[string]string) bool {
 		return true
 	}

+	// Add additional logic in case where both parameters are set.
+	// see: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2860
+	if f.TagPass != nil && f.TagDrop != nil {
+		// return true only in case when tag pass and won't be dropped (true, true).
+		// in case when the same tag should be passed and dropped it will be dropped (true, false).
+		return pass(f) && drop(f)
+	} else if f.TagPass != nil {
+		return pass(f)
+	} else if f.TagDrop != nil {
+		return drop(f)
+	}
+
 	return true
 }

 // Apply TagInclude and TagExclude filters.
 // modifies the tags map in-place.
-func (f *Filter) FilterTags(tags map[string]string) {
+func (f *Filter) filterTags(tags map[string]string) {
 	if f.tagInclude != nil {
 		for k, _ := range tags {
 			if !f.tagInclude.Match(k) {
--- a/internal/models/filter_test.go
+++ b/internal/models/filter_test.go
@@ -1,14 +1,64 @@
-package internal_models
+package models

 import (
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
-
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )

+func TestFilter_ApplyEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	f := Filter{}
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+	assert.False(t, f.IsActive())
+
+	assert.True(t, f.Apply("m", map[string]interface{}{"value": int64(1)}, map[string]string{}))
+}
+
+func TestFilter_ApplyTagsDontPass(t *testing.T) {
+	filters := []TagFilter{
+		TagFilter{
+			Name:   "cpu",
+			Filter: []string{"cpu-*"},
+		},
+	}
+	f := Filter{
+		TagDrop: filters,
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+	assert.True(t, f.IsActive())
+
+	assert.False(t, f.Apply("m",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int64(1)},
+		map[string]string{"cpu": "cpu-total"}))
+}
+
+func TestFilter_ApplyDeleteFields(t *testing.T) {
+	f := Filter{
+		FieldDrop: []string{"value"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+	assert.True(t, f.IsActive())
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{"value": int64(1), "value2": int64(2)}
+	assert.True(t, f.Apply("m", fields, nil))
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]interface{}{"value2": int64(2)}, fields)
+}
+
+func TestFilter_ApplyDeleteAllFields(t *testing.T) {
+	f := Filter{
+		FieldDrop: []string{"value*"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+	assert.True(t, f.IsActive())
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{"value": int64(1), "value2": int64(2)}
+	assert.False(t, f.Apply("m", fields, nil))
+}
+
 func TestFilter_Empty(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{}

@@ -23,7 +73,7 @@ func TestFilter_Empty(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range measurements {
-		if !f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+		if !f.shouldFieldPass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
 		}
 	}
@@ -33,7 +83,7 @@ func TestFilter_NamePass(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{
 		NamePass: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

 	passes := []string{
 		"foo",
@@ -51,13 +101,13 @@ func TestFilter_NamePass(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
+		if !f.shouldNamePass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
 		}
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
+		if f.shouldNamePass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
 		}
 	}
@@ -67,7 +117,7 @@ func TestFilter_NameDrop(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{
 		NameDrop: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

 	drops := []string{
 		"foo",
@@ -85,13 +135,13 @@ func TestFilter_NameDrop(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
+		if !f.shouldNamePass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
 		}
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
+		if f.shouldNamePass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
 		}
 	}
@@ -101,7 +151,7 @@ func TestFilter_FieldPass(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{
 		FieldPass: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

 	passes := []string{
 		"foo",
@@ -119,13 +169,13 @@ func TestFilter_FieldPass(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+		if !f.shouldFieldPass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
 		}
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+		if f.shouldFieldPass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
 		}
 	}
@@ -135,7 +185,7 @@ func TestFilter_FieldDrop(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{
 		FieldDrop: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

 	drops := []string{
 		"foo",
@@ -153,13 +203,13 @@ func TestFilter_FieldDrop(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+		if !f.shouldFieldPass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
 		}
 	}

 	for _, measurement := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+		if f.shouldFieldPass(measurement) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
 		}
 	}
@@ -178,7 +228,7 @@ func TestFilter_TagPass(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{
 		TagPass: filters,
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

 	passes := []map[string]string{
 		{"cpu": "cpu-total"},
@@ -197,13 +247,13 @@ func TestFilter_TagPass(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	for _, tags := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
+		if !f.shouldTagsPass(tags) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to pass", tags)
 		}
 	}

 	for _, tags := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
+		if f.shouldTagsPass(tags) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to drop", tags)
 		}
 	}
@@ -222,7 +272,7 @@ func TestFilter_TagDrop(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{
 		TagDrop: filters,
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

 	drops := []map[string]string{
 		{"cpu": "cpu-total"},
@@ -241,75 +291,18 @@ func TestFilter_TagDrop(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	for _, tags := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
+		if !f.shouldTagsPass(tags) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to pass", tags)
 		}
 	}

 	for _, tags := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
+		if f.shouldTagsPass(tags) {
 			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to drop", tags)
 		}
 	}
 }

-func TestFilter_CompileFilterError(t *testing.T) {
-	f := Filter{
-		NameDrop: []string{"", ""},
-	}
-	assert.Error(t, f.CompileFilter())
-	f = Filter{
-		NamePass: []string{"", ""},
-	}
-	assert.Error(t, f.CompileFilter())
-	f = Filter{
-		FieldDrop: []string{"", ""},
-	}
-	assert.Error(t, f.CompileFilter())
-	f = Filter{
-		FieldPass: []string{"", ""},
-	}
-	assert.Error(t, f.CompileFilter())
-	f = Filter{
-		TagExclude: []string{"", ""},
-	}
-	assert.Error(t, f.CompileFilter())
-	f = Filter{
-		TagInclude: []string{"", ""},
-	}
-	assert.Error(t, f.CompileFilter())
-	filters := []TagFilter{
-		TagFilter{
-			Name:   "cpu",
-			Filter: []string{"{foobar}"},
-		}}
-	f = Filter{
-		TagDrop: filters,
-	}
-	require.Error(t, f.CompileFilter())
-	filters = []TagFilter{
-		TagFilter{
-			Name:   "cpu",
-			Filter: []string{"{foobar}"},
-		}}
-	f = Filter{
-		TagPass: filters,
-	}
-	require.Error(t, f.CompileFilter())
-}
-
-func TestFilter_ShouldMetricsPass(t *testing.T) {
-	m := testutil.TestMetric(1, "testmetric")
-	f := Filter{
-		NameDrop: []string{"foobar"},
-	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
-	require.True(t, f.ShouldMetricPass(m))
-
-	m = testutil.TestMetric(1, "foobar")
-	require.False(t, f.ShouldMetricPass(m))
-}
-
 func TestFilter_FilterTagsNoMatches(t *testing.T) {
 	pretags := map[string]string{
 		"host":  "localhost",
@@ -318,9 +311,9 @@ func TestFilter_FilterTagsNoMatches(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{
 		TagExclude: []string{"nomatch"},
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

-	f.FilterTags(pretags)
+	f.filterTags(pretags)
 	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{
 		"host":  "localhost",
 		"mytag": "foobar",
@@ -329,9 +322,9 @@ func TestFilter_FilterTagsNoMatches(t *testing.T) {
 	f = Filter{
 		TagInclude: []string{"nomatch"},
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

-	f.FilterTags(pretags)
+	f.filterTags(pretags)
 	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{}, pretags)
 }

@@ -343,9 +336,9 @@ func TestFilter_FilterTagsMatches(t *testing.T) {
 	f := Filter{
 		TagExclude: []string{"ho*"},
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

-	f.FilterTags(pretags)
+	f.filterTags(pretags)
 	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{
 		"mytag": "foobar",
 	}, pretags)
@@ -357,10 +350,95 @@ func TestFilter_FilterTagsMatches(t *testing.T) {
 	f = Filter{
 		TagInclude: []string{"my*"},
 	}
-	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())

-	f.FilterTags(pretags)
+	f.filterTags(pretags)
 	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{
 		"mytag": "foobar",
 	}, pretags)
 }
+
+// TestFilter_FilterNamePassAndDrop used for check case when
+// both parameters were defined
+// see: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2860
+func TestFilter_FilterNamePassAndDrop(t *testing.T) {
+
+	inputData := []string{"name1", "name2", "name3", "name4"}
+	expectedResult := []bool{false, true, false, false}
+
+	f := Filter{
+		NamePass: []string{"name1", "name2"},
+		NameDrop: []string{"name1", "name3"},
+	}
+
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+
+	for i, name := range inputData {
+		assert.Equal(t, f.shouldNamePass(name), expectedResult[i])
+	}
+}
+
+// TestFilter_FilterFieldPassAndDrop used for check case when
+// both parameters were defined
+// see: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2860
+func TestFilter_FilterFieldPassAndDrop(t *testing.T) {
+
+	inputData := []string{"field1", "field2", "field3", "field4"}
+	expectedResult := []bool{false, true, false, false}
+
+	f := Filter{
+		FieldPass: []string{"field1", "field2"},
+		FieldDrop: []string{"field1", "field3"},
+	}
+
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+
+	for i, field := range inputData {
+		assert.Equal(t, f.shouldFieldPass(field), expectedResult[i])
+	}
+}
+
+// TestFilter_FilterTagsPassAndDrop used for check case when
+// both parameters were defined
+// see: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2860
+func TestFilter_FilterTagsPassAndDrop(t *testing.T) {
+
+	inputData := []map[string]string{
+		{"tag1": "1", "tag2": "3"},
+		{"tag1": "1", "tag2": "2"},
+		{"tag1": "2", "tag2": "1"},
+		{"tag1": "4", "tag2": "1"},
+	}
+
+	expectedResult := []bool{false, true, false, false}
+
+	filterPass := []TagFilter{
+		TagFilter{
+			Name:   "tag1",
+			Filter: []string{"1", "4"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	filterDrop := []TagFilter{
+		TagFilter{
+			Name:   "tag1",
+			Filter: []string{"4"},
+		},
+		TagFilter{
+			Name:   "tag2",
+			Filter: []string{"3"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	f := Filter{
+		TagDrop: filterDrop,
+		TagPass: filterPass,
+	}
+
+	require.NoError(t, f.Compile())
+
+	for i, tag := range inputData {
+		assert.Equal(t, f.shouldTagsPass(tag), expectedResult[i])
+	}
+
+}
--- a/internal/models/makemetric.go
+++ b/internal/models/makemetric.go
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+package models
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"math"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
+)
+
+// makemetric is used by both RunningAggregator & RunningInput
+// to make metrics.
+//   nameOverride: override the name of the measurement being made.
+//   namePrefix:   add this prefix to each measurement name.
+//   nameSuffix:   add this suffix to each measurement name.
+//   pluginTags:   these are tags that are specific to this plugin.
+//   daemonTags:   these are daemon-wide global tags, and get applied after pluginTags.
+//   filter:       this is a filter to apply to each metric being made.
+//   applyFilter:  if false, the above filter is not applied to each metric.
+//                 This is used by Aggregators, because aggregators use filters
+//                 on incoming metrics instead of on created metrics.
+// TODO refactor this to not have such a huge func signature.
+func makemetric(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	nameOverride string,
+	namePrefix string,
+	nameSuffix string,
+	pluginTags map[string]string,
+	daemonTags map[string]string,
+	filter Filter,
+	applyFilter bool,
+	mType telegraf.ValueType,
+	t time.Time,
+) telegraf.Metric {
+	if len(fields) == 0 || len(measurement) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if tags == nil {
+		tags = make(map[string]string)
+	}
+
+	// Override measurement name if set
+	if len(nameOverride) != 0 {
+		measurement = nameOverride
+	}
+	// Apply measurement prefix and suffix if set
+	if len(namePrefix) != 0 {
+		measurement = namePrefix + measurement
+	}
+	if len(nameSuffix) != 0 {
+		measurement = measurement + nameSuffix
+	}
+
+	// Apply plugin-wide tags if set
+	for k, v := range pluginTags {
+		if _, ok := tags[k]; !ok {
+			tags[k] = v
+		}
+	}
+	// Apply daemon-wide tags if set
+	for k, v := range daemonTags {
+		if _, ok := tags[k]; !ok {
+			tags[k] = v
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Apply the metric filter(s)
+	// for aggregators, the filter does not get applied when the metric is made.
+	// instead, the filter is applied to metric incoming into the plugin.
+	//   ie, it gets applied in the RunningAggregator.Apply function.
+	if applyFilter {
+		if ok := filter.Apply(measurement, fields, tags); !ok {
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	for k, v := range tags {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(k, `\`) {
+			log.Printf("D! Measurement [%s] tag [%s] "+
+				"ends with a backslash, skipping", measurement, k)
+			delete(tags, k)
+			continue
+		} else if strings.HasSuffix(v, `\`) {
+			log.Printf("D! Measurement [%s] tag [%s] has a value "+
+				"ending with a backslash, skipping", measurement, k)
+			delete(tags, k)
+			continue
+		}
+	}
+
+	for k, v := range fields {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(k, `\`) {
+			log.Printf("D! Measurement [%s] field [%s] "+
+				"ends with a backslash, skipping", measurement, k)
+			delete(fields, k)
+			continue
+		}
+		// Validate uint64 and float64 fields
+		// convert all int & uint types to int64
+		switch val := v.(type) {
+		case nil:
+			// delete nil fields
+			delete(fields, k)
+		case uint:
+			fields[k] = int64(val)
+			continue
+		case uint8:
+			fields[k] = int64(val)
+			continue
+		case uint16:
+			fields[k] = int64(val)
+			continue
+		case uint32:
+			fields[k] = int64(val)
+			continue
+		case int:
+			fields[k] = int64(val)
+			continue
+		case int8:
+			fields[k] = int64(val)
+			continue
+		case int16:
+			fields[k] = int64(val)
+			continue
+		case int32:
+			fields[k] = int64(val)
+			continue
+		case uint64:
+			// InfluxDB does not support writing uint64
+			if val < uint64(9223372036854775808) {
+				fields[k] = int64(val)
+			} else {
+				fields[k] = int64(9223372036854775807)
+			}
+			continue
+		case float32:
+			fields[k] = float64(val)
+			continue
+		case float64:
+			// NaNs are invalid values in influxdb, skip measurement
+			if math.IsNaN(val) || math.IsInf(val, 0) {
+				log.Printf("D! Measurement [%s] field [%s] has a NaN or Inf "+
+					"field, skipping",
+					measurement, k)
+				delete(fields, k)
+				continue
+			}
+		case string:
+			fields[k] = v
+		default:
+			fields[k] = v
+		}
+	}
+
+	m, err := metric.New(measurement, tags, fields, t, mType)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("Error adding point [%s]: %s\n", measurement, err.Error())
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	return m
+}
--- a/internal/models/running_aggregator.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_aggregator.go
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+package models
+
+import (
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
+)
+
+type RunningAggregator struct {
+	a      telegraf.Aggregator
+	Config *AggregatorConfig
+
+	metrics chan telegraf.Metric
+
+	periodStart time.Time
+	periodEnd   time.Time
+}
+
+func NewRunningAggregator(
+	a telegraf.Aggregator,
+	conf *AggregatorConfig,
+) *RunningAggregator {
+	return &RunningAggregator{
+		a:       a,
+		Config:  conf,
+		metrics: make(chan telegraf.Metric, 100),
+	}
+}
+
+// AggregatorConfig containing configuration parameters for the running
+// aggregator plugin.
+type AggregatorConfig struct {
+	Name string
+
+	DropOriginal      bool
+	NameOverride      string
+	MeasurementPrefix string
+	MeasurementSuffix string
+	Tags              map[string]string
+	Filter            Filter
+
+	Period time.Duration
+	Delay  time.Duration
+}
+
+func (r *RunningAggregator) Name() string {
+	return "aggregators." + r.Config.Name
+}
+
+func (r *RunningAggregator) MakeMetric(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	mType telegraf.ValueType,
+	t time.Time,
+) telegraf.Metric {
+	m := makemetric(
+		measurement,
+		fields,
+		tags,
+		r.Config.NameOverride,
+		r.Config.MeasurementPrefix,
+		r.Config.MeasurementSuffix,
+		r.Config.Tags,
+		nil,
+		r.Config.Filter,
+		false,
+		mType,
+		t,
+	)
+
+	if m != nil {
+		m.SetAggregate(true)
+	}
+
+	return m
+}
+
+// Add applies the given metric to the aggregator.
+// Before applying to the plugin, it will run any defined filters on the metric.
+// Apply returns true if the original metric should be dropped.
+func (r *RunningAggregator) Add(in telegraf.Metric) bool {
+	if r.Config.Filter.IsActive() {
+		// check if the aggregator should apply this metric
+		name := in.Name()
+		fields := in.Fields()
+		tags := in.Tags()
+		t := in.Time()
+		if ok := r.Config.Filter.Apply(name, fields, tags); !ok {
+			// aggregator should not apply this metric
+			return false
+		}
+
+		in, _ = metric.New(name, tags, fields, t)
+	}
+
+	r.metrics <- in
+	return r.Config.DropOriginal
+}
+func (r *RunningAggregator) add(in telegraf.Metric) {
+	r.a.Add(in)
+}
+
+func (r *RunningAggregator) push(acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+	r.a.Push(acc)
+}
+
+func (r *RunningAggregator) reset() {
+	r.a.Reset()
+}
+
+// Run runs the running aggregator, listens for incoming metrics, and waits
+// for period ticks to tell it when to push and reset the aggregator.
+func (r *RunningAggregator) Run(
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
+	shutdown chan struct{},
+) {
+	// The start of the period is truncated to the nearest second.
+	//
+	// Every metric then gets it's timestamp checked and is dropped if it
+	// is not within:
+	//
+	//   start < t < end + truncation + delay
+	//
+	// So if we start at now = 00:00.2 with a 10s period and 0.3s delay:
+	//   now = 00:00.2
+	//   start = 00:00
+	//   truncation = 00:00.2
+	//   end = 00:10
+	// 1st interval: 00:00 - 00:10.5
+	// 2nd interval: 00:10 - 00:20.5
+	// etc.
+	//
+	now := time.Now()
+	r.periodStart = now.Truncate(time.Second)
+	truncation := now.Sub(r.periodStart)
+	r.periodEnd = r.periodStart.Add(r.Config.Period)
+	time.Sleep(r.Config.Delay)
+	periodT := time.NewTicker(r.Config.Period)
+	defer periodT.Stop()
+
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-shutdown:
+			if len(r.metrics) > 0 {
+				// wait until metrics are flushed before exiting
+				continue
+			}
+			return
+		case m := <-r.metrics:
+			if m.Time().Before(r.periodStart) ||
+				m.Time().After(r.periodEnd.Add(truncation).Add(r.Config.Delay)) {
+				// the metric is outside the current aggregation period, so
+				// skip it.
+				continue
+			}
+			r.add(m)
+		case <-periodT.C:
+			r.periodStart = r.periodEnd
+			r.periodEnd = r.periodStart.Add(r.Config.Period)
+			r.push(acc)
+			r.reset()
+		}
+	}
+}
--- a/internal/models/running_aggregator_test.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_aggregator_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,256 @@
+package models
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestAdd(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &TestAggregator{}
+	ra := NewRunningAggregator(a, &AggregatorConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningAggregator",
+		Filter: Filter{
+			NamePass: []string{"*"},
+		},
+		Period: time.Millisecond * 500,
+	})
+	assert.NoError(t, ra.Config.Filter.Compile())
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	go ra.Run(&acc, make(chan struct{}))
+
+	m := ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		time.Now().Add(time.Millisecond*150),
+	)
+	assert.False(t, ra.Add(m))
+
+	for {
+		time.Sleep(time.Millisecond)
+		if atomic.LoadInt64(&a.sum) > 0 {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(101), atomic.LoadInt64(&a.sum))
+}
+
+func TestAddMetricsOutsideCurrentPeriod(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &TestAggregator{}
+	ra := NewRunningAggregator(a, &AggregatorConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningAggregator",
+		Filter: Filter{
+			NamePass: []string{"*"},
+		},
+		Period: time.Millisecond * 500,
+	})
+	assert.NoError(t, ra.Config.Filter.Compile())
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	go ra.Run(&acc, make(chan struct{}))
+
+	// metric before current period
+	m := ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		time.Now().Add(-time.Hour),
+	)
+	assert.False(t, ra.Add(m))
+
+	// metric after current period
+	m = ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		time.Now().Add(time.Hour),
+	)
+	assert.False(t, ra.Add(m))
+
+	// "now" metric
+	m = ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		time.Now().Add(time.Millisecond*50),
+	)
+	assert.False(t, ra.Add(m))
+
+	for {
+		time.Sleep(time.Millisecond)
+		if atomic.LoadInt64(&a.sum) > 0 {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(101), atomic.LoadInt64(&a.sum))
+}
+
+func TestAddAndPushOnePeriod(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &TestAggregator{}
+	ra := NewRunningAggregator(a, &AggregatorConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningAggregator",
+		Filter: Filter{
+			NamePass: []string{"*"},
+		},
+		Period: time.Millisecond * 500,
+	})
+	assert.NoError(t, ra.Config.Filter.Compile())
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	shutdown := make(chan struct{})
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(1)
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		ra.Run(&acc, shutdown)
+	}()
+
+	m := ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		time.Now().Add(time.Millisecond*100),
+	)
+	assert.False(t, ra.Add(m))
+
+	for {
+		time.Sleep(time.Millisecond)
+		if acc.NMetrics() > 0 {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsFields(t, "TestMetric", map[string]interface{}{"sum": int64(101)})
+
+	close(shutdown)
+	wg.Wait()
+}
+
+func TestAddDropOriginal(t *testing.T) {
+	ra := NewRunningAggregator(&TestAggregator{}, &AggregatorConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningAggregator",
+		Filter: Filter{
+			NamePass: []string{"RI*"},
+		},
+		DropOriginal: true,
+	})
+	assert.NoError(t, ra.Config.Filter.Compile())
+
+	m := ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		time.Now(),
+	)
+	assert.True(t, ra.Add(m))
+
+	// this metric name doesn't match the filter, so Add will return false
+	m2 := ra.MakeMetric(
+		"foobar",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		time.Now(),
+	)
+	assert.False(t, ra.Add(m2))
+}
+
+// make an untyped, counter, & gauge metric
+func TestMakeMetricA(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ra := NewRunningAggregator(&TestAggregator{}, &AggregatorConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningAggregator",
+	})
+	assert.Equal(t, "aggregators.TestRunningAggregator", ra.Name())
+
+	m := ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		m.Type(),
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+	)
+
+	m = ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Counter,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		m.Type(),
+		telegraf.Counter,
+	)
+
+	m = ra.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Gauge,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		m.Type(),
+		telegraf.Gauge,
+	)
+}
+
+type TestAggregator struct {
+	sum int64
+}
+
+func (t *TestAggregator) Description() string  { return "" }
+func (t *TestAggregator) SampleConfig() string { return "" }
+func (t *TestAggregator) Reset() {
+	atomic.StoreInt64(&t.sum, 0)
+}
+
+func (t *TestAggregator) Push(acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+	acc.AddFields("TestMetric",
+		map[string]interface{}{"sum": t.sum},
+		map[string]string{},
+	)
+}
+
+func (t *TestAggregator) Add(in telegraf.Metric) {
+	for _, v := range in.Fields() {
+		if vi, ok := v.(int64); ok {
+			atomic.AddInt64(&t.sum, vi)
+		}
+	}
+}
--- a/internal/models/running_input.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_input.go
@@ -1,15 +1,38 @@
-package internal_models
+package models

 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/selfstat"
 )

+var GlobalMetricsGathered = selfstat.Register("agent", "metrics_gathered", map[string]string{})
+
 type RunningInput struct {
-	Name   string
 	Input  telegraf.Input
 	Config *InputConfig
+
+	trace       bool
+	defaultTags map[string]string
+
+	MetricsGathered selfstat.Stat
+}
+
+func NewRunningInput(
+	input telegraf.Input,
+	config *InputConfig,
+) *RunningInput {
+	return &RunningInput{
+		Input:  input,
+		Config: config,
+		MetricsGathered: selfstat.Register(
+			"gather",
+			"metrics_gathered",
+			map[string]string{"input": config.Name},
+		),
+	}
 }

 // InputConfig containing a name, interval, and filter
@@ -22,3 +45,52 @@ type InputConfig struct {
 	Filter            Filter
 	Interval          time.Duration
 }
+
+func (r *RunningInput) Name() string {
+	return "inputs." + r.Config.Name
+}
+
+// MakeMetric either returns a metric, or returns nil if the metric doesn't
+// need to be created (because of filtering, an error, etc.)
+func (r *RunningInput) MakeMetric(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	mType telegraf.ValueType,
+	t time.Time,
+) telegraf.Metric {
+	m := makemetric(
+		measurement,
+		fields,
+		tags,
+		r.Config.NameOverride,
+		r.Config.MeasurementPrefix,
+		r.Config.MeasurementSuffix,
+		r.Config.Tags,
+		r.defaultTags,
+		r.Config.Filter,
+		true,
+		mType,
+		t,
+	)
+
+	if r.trace && m != nil {
+		fmt.Print("> " + m.String())
+	}
+
+	r.MetricsGathered.Incr(1)
+	GlobalMetricsGathered.Incr(1)
+	return m
+}
+
+func (r *RunningInput) Trace() bool {
+	return r.trace
+}
+
+func (r *RunningInput) SetTrace(trace bool) {
+	r.trace = trace
+}
+
+func (r *RunningInput) SetDefaultTags(tags map[string]string) {
+	r.defaultTags = tags
+}
--- a/internal/models/running_input_test.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_input_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,463 @@
+package models
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestMakeMetricNoFields(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+	})
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Nil(t, m)
+}
+
+// nil fields should get dropped
+func TestMakeMetricNilFields(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+	})
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value": int(101),
+			"nil":   nil,
+		},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+}
+
+// make an untyped, counter, & gauge metric
+func TestMakeMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+	})
+
+	ri.SetTrace(true)
+	assert.Equal(t, true, ri.Trace())
+	assert.Equal(t, "inputs.TestRunningInput", ri.Name())
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		m.Type(),
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+	)
+
+	m = ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Counter,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		m.Type(),
+		telegraf.Counter,
+	)
+
+	m = ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Gauge,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		m.Type(),
+		telegraf.Gauge,
+	)
+}
+
+func TestMakeMetricWithPluginTags(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+		Tags: map[string]string{
+			"foo": "bar",
+		},
+	})
+
+	ri.SetTrace(true)
+	assert.Equal(t, true, ri.Trace())
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		nil,
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest,foo=bar value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+}
+
+func TestMakeMetricFilteredOut(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+		Tags: map[string]string{
+			"foo": "bar",
+		},
+		Filter: Filter{NamePass: []string{"foobar"}},
+	})
+
+	ri.SetTrace(true)
+	assert.Equal(t, true, ri.Trace())
+	assert.NoError(t, ri.Config.Filter.Compile())
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		nil,
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Nil(t, m)
+}
+
+func TestMakeMetricWithDaemonTags(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+	})
+	ri.SetDefaultTags(map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	})
+
+	ri.SetTrace(true)
+	assert.Equal(t, true, ri.Trace())
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest,foo=bar value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+}
+
+// make an untyped, counter, & gauge metric
+func TestMakeMetricInfFields(t *testing.T) {
+	inf := math.Inf(1)
+	ninf := math.Inf(-1)
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+	})
+
+	ri.SetTrace(true)
+	assert.Equal(t, true, ri.Trace())
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value": int(101),
+			"inf":   inf,
+			"ninf":  ninf,
+		},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+}
+
+func TestMakeMetricAllFieldTypes(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+	})
+
+	ri.SetTrace(true)
+	assert.Equal(t, true, ri.Trace())
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"a": int(10),
+			"b": int8(10),
+			"c": int16(10),
+			"d": int32(10),
+			"e": uint(10),
+			"f": uint8(10),
+			"g": uint16(10),
+			"h": uint32(10),
+			"i": uint64(10),
+			"j": float32(10),
+			"k": uint64(9223372036854775810),
+			"l": "foobar",
+			"m": true,
+		},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "a=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "b=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "c=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "d=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "e=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "f=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "g=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "h=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "i=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "j=10")
+	assert.NotContains(t, m.String(), "j=10i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "k=9223372036854775807i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "l=\"foobar\"")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "m=true")
+}
+
+func TestMakeMetricNameOverride(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name:         "TestRunningInput",
+		NameOverride: "foobar",
+	})
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("foobar value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+}
+
+func TestMakeMetricNamePrefix(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name:              "TestRunningInput",
+		MeasurementPrefix: "foobar_",
+	})
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("foobar_RITest value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+}
+
+func TestMakeMetricNameSuffix(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name:              "TestRunningInput",
+		MeasurementSuffix: "_foobar",
+	})
+
+	m := ri.MakeMetric(
+		"RITest",
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int(101)},
+		map[string]string{},
+		telegraf.Untyped,
+		now,
+	)
+	assert.Equal(
+		t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("RITest_foobar value=101i %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String(),
+	)
+}
+
+func TestMakeMetric_TrailingSlash(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name                string
+		measurement         string
+		fields              map[string]interface{}
+		tags                map[string]string
+		expectedNil         bool
+		expectedMeasurement string
+		expectedFields      map[string]interface{}
+		expectedTags        map[string]string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:        "Measurement cannot have trailing slash",
+			measurement: `cpu\`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+			tags:        map[string]string{},
+			expectedNil: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "Field key with trailing slash dropped",
+			measurement: `cpu`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+				`bad\`:  `xyzzy`,
+			},
+			tags:                map[string]string{},
+			expectedMeasurement: `cpu`,
+			expectedFields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+			expectedTags: map[string]string{},
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "Field value with trailing slash okay",
+			measurement: `cpu`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+				"ok":    `xyzzy\`,
+			},
+			tags:                map[string]string{},
+			expectedMeasurement: `cpu`,
+			expectedFields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+				"ok":    `xyzzy\`,
+			},
+			expectedTags: map[string]string{},
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "Must have one field after dropped",
+			measurement: `cpu`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"bad": math.NaN(),
+			},
+			tags:        map[string]string{},
+			expectedNil: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "Tag key with trailing slash dropped",
+			measurement: `cpu`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+			tags: map[string]string{
+				`host\`: "localhost",
+				"a":     "x",
+			},
+			expectedMeasurement: `cpu`,
+			expectedFields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+			expectedTags: map[string]string{
+				"a": "x",
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "Tag value with trailing slash dropped",
+			measurement: `cpu`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+			tags: map[string]string{
+				`host`: `localhost\`,
+				"a":    "x",
+			},
+			expectedMeasurement: `cpu`,
+			expectedFields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+			expectedTags: map[string]string{
+				"a": "x",
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	ri := NewRunningInput(&testInput{}, &InputConfig{
+		Name: "TestRunningInput",
+	})
+
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			m := ri.MakeMetric(
+				tc.measurement,
+				tc.fields,
+				tc.tags,
+				telegraf.Untyped,
+				now)
+
+			if tc.expectedNil {
+				require.Nil(t, m)
+			} else {
+				require.NotNil(t, m)
+				require.Equal(t, tc.expectedMeasurement, m.Name())
+				require.Equal(t, tc.expectedFields, m.Fields())
+				require.Equal(t, tc.expectedTags, m.Tags())
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+type testInput struct{}
+
+func (t *testInput) Description() string                   { return "" }
+func (t *testInput) SampleConfig() string                  { return "" }
+func (t *testInput) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error { return nil }
--- a/internal/models/running_output.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_output.go
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
-package internal_models
+package models

 import (
 	"log"
+	"sync"
 	"time"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/buffer"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/selfstat"
 )

 const (
@@ -21,12 +24,20 @@ type RunningOutput struct {
 	Name              string
 	Output            telegraf.Output
 	Config            *OutputConfig
-	Quiet             bool
 	MetricBufferLimit int
 	MetricBatchSize   int

+	MetricsFiltered selfstat.Stat
+	MetricsWritten  selfstat.Stat
+	BufferSize      selfstat.Stat
+	BufferLimit     selfstat.Stat
+	WriteTime       selfstat.Stat
+
 	metrics     *buffer.Buffer
 	failMetrics *buffer.Buffer
+
+	// Guards against concurrent calls to the Output as described in #3009
+	sync.Mutex
 }

 func NewRunningOutput(
@@ -50,33 +61,59 @@ func NewRunningOutput(
 		Config:            conf,
 		MetricBufferLimit: bufferLimit,
 		MetricBatchSize:   batchSize,
+		MetricsWritten: selfstat.Register(
+			"write",
+			"metrics_written",
+			map[string]string{"output": name},
+		),
+		MetricsFiltered: selfstat.Register(
+			"write",
+			"metrics_filtered",
+			map[string]string{"output": name},
+		),
+		BufferSize: selfstat.Register(
+			"write",
+			"buffer_size",
+			map[string]string{"output": name},
+		),
+		BufferLimit: selfstat.Register(
+			"write",
+			"buffer_limit",
+			map[string]string{"output": name},
+		),
+		WriteTime: selfstat.RegisterTiming(
+			"write",
+			"write_time_ns",
+			map[string]string{"output": name},
+		),
 	}
+	ro.BufferLimit.Incr(int64(ro.MetricBufferLimit))
 	return ro
 }

 // AddMetric adds a metric to the output. This function can also write cached
 // points if FlushBufferWhenFull is true.
-func (ro *RunningOutput) AddMetric(metric telegraf.Metric) {
-	if ro.Config.Filter.IsActive {
-		if !ro.Config.Filter.ShouldMetricPass(metric) {
-			return
-		}
+func (ro *RunningOutput) AddMetric(m telegraf.Metric) {
+	if m == nil {
+		return
 	}
-
 	// Filter any tagexclude/taginclude parameters before adding metric
-	if len(ro.Config.Filter.TagExclude) != 0 || len(ro.Config.Filter.TagInclude) != 0 {
+	if ro.Config.Filter.IsActive() {
 		// In order to filter out tags, we need to create a new metric, since
 		// metrics are immutable once created.
-		tags := metric.Tags()
-		fields := metric.Fields()
-		t := metric.Time()
-		name := metric.Name()
-		ro.Config.Filter.FilterTags(tags)
+		name := m.Name()
+		tags := m.Tags()
+		fields := m.Fields()
+		t := m.Time()
+		if ok := ro.Config.Filter.Apply(name, fields, tags); !ok {
+			ro.MetricsFiltered.Incr(1)
+			return
+		}
 		// error is not possible if creating from another metric, so ignore.
-		metric, _ = telegraf.NewMetric(name, tags, fields, t)
+		m, _ = metric.New(name, tags, fields, t)
 	}

-	ro.metrics.Add(metric)
+	ro.metrics.Add(m)
 	if ro.metrics.Len() == ro.MetricBatchSize {
 		batch := ro.metrics.Batch(ro.MetricBatchSize)
 		err := ro.write(batch)
@@ -88,28 +125,21 @@ func (ro *RunningOutput) AddMetric(metric telegraf.Metric) {

 // Write writes all cached points to this output.
 func (ro *RunningOutput) Write() error {
-	if !ro.Quiet {
-		log.Printf("Output [%s] buffer fullness: %d / %d metrics. "+
-			"Total gathered metrics: %d. Total dropped metrics: %d.",
-			ro.Name,
-			ro.failMetrics.Len()+ro.metrics.Len(),
-			ro.MetricBufferLimit,
-			ro.metrics.Total(),
-			ro.metrics.Drops()+ro.failMetrics.Drops())
-	}
-
+	nFails, nMetrics := ro.failMetrics.Len(), ro.metrics.Len()
+	ro.BufferSize.Set(int64(nFails + nMetrics))
+	log.Printf("D! Output [%s] buffer fullness: %d / %d metrics. ",
+		ro.Name, nFails+nMetrics, ro.MetricBufferLimit)
 	var err error
 	if !ro.failMetrics.IsEmpty() {
-		bufLen := ro.failMetrics.Len()
 		// how many batches of failed writes we need to write.
-		nBatches := bufLen/ro.MetricBatchSize + 1
+		nBatches := nFails/ro.MetricBatchSize + 1
 		batchSize := ro.MetricBatchSize

 		for i := 0; i < nBatches; i++ {
 			// If it's the last batch, only grab the metrics that have not had
 			// a write attempt already (this is primarily to preserve order).
 			if i == nBatches-1 {
-				batchSize = bufLen % ro.MetricBatchSize
+				batchSize = nFails % ro.MetricBatchSize
 			}
 			batch := ro.failMetrics.Batch(batchSize)
 			// If we've already failed previous writes, don't bother trying to
@@ -130,6 +160,7 @@ func (ro *RunningOutput) Write() error {
 	if err == nil {
 		err = ro.write(batch)
 	}
+
 	if err != nil {
 		ro.failMetrics.Add(batch...)
 		return err
@@ -138,17 +169,20 @@ func (ro *RunningOutput) Write() error {
 }

 func (ro *RunningOutput) write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
-	if len(metrics) == 0 {
+	nMetrics := len(metrics)
+	if nMetrics == 0 {
 		return nil
 	}
+	ro.Lock()
+	defer ro.Unlock()
 	start := time.Now()
 	err := ro.Output.Write(metrics)
 	elapsed := time.Since(start)
 	if err == nil {
-		if !ro.Quiet {
-			log.Printf("Output [%s] wrote batch of %d metrics in %s\n",
-				ro.Name, len(metrics), elapsed)
-		}
+		log.Printf("D! Output [%s] wrote batch of %d metrics in %s\n",
+			ro.Name, nMetrics, elapsed)
+		ro.MetricsWritten.Incr(int64(nMetrics))
+		ro.WriteTime.Incr(elapsed.Nanoseconds())
 	}
 	return err
 }
--- a/internal/models/running_output_test.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_output_test.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package internal_models
+package models

 import (
 	"fmt"
@@ -31,17 +31,14 @@ var next5 = []telegraf.Metric{
 // Benchmark adding metrics.
 func BenchmarkRunningOutputAddWrite(b *testing.B) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &perfOutput{}
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
-	ro.Quiet = true

 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
-		ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+		ro.AddMetric(testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric1"))
 		ro.Write()
 	}
 }
@@ -49,17 +46,14 @@ func BenchmarkRunningOutputAddWrite(b *testing.B) {
 // Benchmark adding metrics.
 func BenchmarkRunningOutputAddWriteEvery100(b *testing.B) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &perfOutput{}
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
-	ro.Quiet = true

 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
-		ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+		ro.AddMetric(testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric1"))
 		if n%100 == 0 {
 			ro.Write()
 		}
@@ -69,30 +63,43 @@ func BenchmarkRunningOutputAddWriteEvery100(b *testing.B) {
 // Benchmark adding metrics.
 func BenchmarkRunningOutputAddFailWrites(b *testing.B) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &perfOutput{}
 	m.failWrite = true
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
-	ro.Quiet = true

 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
-		ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+		ro.AddMetric(testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric1"))
 	}
 }

+func TestAddingNilMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{},
+	}
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+
+	ro.AddMetric(nil)
+	ro.AddMetric(nil)
+	ro.AddMetric(nil)
+
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+}
+
 // Test that NameDrop filters ger properly applied.
 func TestRunningOutput_DropFilter(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
 		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: true,
 			NameDrop: []string{"metric1", "metric2"},
 		},
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.Compile())

 	m := &mockOutput{}
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
@@ -114,11 +121,10 @@ func TestRunningOutput_DropFilter(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRunningOutput_PassFilter(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
 		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: true,
 			NameDrop: []string{"metric1000", "foo*"},
 		},
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.Compile())

 	m := &mockOutput{}
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
@@ -140,16 +146,15 @@ func TestRunningOutput_PassFilter(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRunningOutput_TagIncludeNoMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
 		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive:   true,
 			TagInclude: []string{"nothing*"},
 		},
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.Compile())

 	m := &mockOutput{}
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)

-	ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+	ro.AddMetric(testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric1"))
 	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)

 	err := ro.Write()
@@ -162,16 +167,15 @@ func TestRunningOutput_TagIncludeNoMatch(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRunningOutput_TagExcludeMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
 		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive:   true,
 			TagExclude: []string{"tag*"},
 		},
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.Compile())

 	m := &mockOutput{}
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)

-	ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+	ro.AddMetric(testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric1"))
 	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)

 	err := ro.Write()
@@ -184,16 +188,15 @@ func TestRunningOutput_TagExcludeMatch(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRunningOutput_TagExcludeNoMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
 		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive:   true,
 			TagExclude: []string{"nothing*"},
 		},
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.Compile())

 	m := &mockOutput{}
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)

-	ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+	ro.AddMetric(testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric1"))
 	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)

 	err := ro.Write()
@@ -206,16 +209,15 @@ func TestRunningOutput_TagExcludeNoMatch(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRunningOutput_TagIncludeMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
 		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive:   true,
 			TagInclude: []string{"tag*"},
 		},
 	}
-	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.Compile())

 	m := &mockOutput{}
 	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)

-	ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+	ro.AddMetric(testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric1"))
 	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)

 	err := ro.Write()
@@ -227,9 +229,7 @@ func TestRunningOutput_TagIncludeMatch(t *testing.T) {
 // Test that we can write metrics with simple default setup.
 func TestRunningOutputDefault(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &mockOutput{}
@@ -252,9 +252,7 @@ func TestRunningOutputDefault(t *testing.T) {
 // FlushBufferWhenFull is set.
 func TestRunningOutputFlushWhenFull(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &mockOutput{}
@@ -283,9 +281,7 @@ func TestRunningOutputFlushWhenFull(t *testing.T) {
 // FlushBufferWhenFull is set, twice.
 func TestRunningOutputMultiFlushWhenFull(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &mockOutput{}
@@ -304,9 +300,7 @@ func TestRunningOutputMultiFlushWhenFull(t *testing.T) {

 func TestRunningOutputWriteFail(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &mockOutput{}
@@ -339,9 +333,7 @@ func TestRunningOutputWriteFail(t *testing.T) {
 // Verify that the order of points is preserved during a write failure.
 func TestRunningOutputWriteFailOrder(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &mockOutput{}
@@ -379,9 +371,7 @@ func TestRunningOutputWriteFailOrder(t *testing.T) {
 // Verify that the order of points is preserved during many write failures.
 func TestRunningOutputWriteFailOrder2(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &mockOutput{}
@@ -452,9 +442,7 @@ func TestRunningOutputWriteFailOrder2(t *testing.T) {
 //
 func TestRunningOutputWriteFailOrder3(t *testing.T) {
 	conf := &OutputConfig{
-		Filter: Filter{
-			IsActive: false,
-		},
+		Filter: Filter{},
 	}

 	m := &mockOutput{}
--- a/internal/models/running_processor.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_processor.go
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package models
+
+import (
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+type RunningProcessor struct {
+	Name string
+
+	sync.Mutex
+	Processor telegraf.Processor
+	Config    *ProcessorConfig
+}
+
+type RunningProcessors []*RunningProcessor
+
+func (rp RunningProcessors) Len() int           { return len(rp) }
+func (rp RunningProcessors) Swap(i, j int)      { rp[i], rp[j] = rp[j], rp[i] }
+func (rp RunningProcessors) Less(i, j int) bool { return rp[i].Config.Order < rp[j].Config.Order }
+
+// FilterConfig containing a name and filter
+type ProcessorConfig struct {
+	Name   string
+	Order  int64
+	Filter Filter
+}
+
+func (rp *RunningProcessor) Apply(in ...telegraf.Metric) []telegraf.Metric {
+	rp.Lock()
+	defer rp.Unlock()
+
+	ret := []telegraf.Metric{}
+
+	for _, metric := range in {
+		if rp.Config.Filter.IsActive() {
+			// check if the filter should be applied to this metric
+			if ok := rp.Config.Filter.Apply(metric.Name(), metric.Fields(), metric.Tags()); !ok {
+				// this means filter should not be applied
+				ret = append(ret, metric)
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+		// This metric should pass through the filter, so call the filter Apply
+		// function and append results to the output slice.
+		ret = append(ret, rp.Processor.Apply(metric)...)
+	}
+
+	return ret
+}
--- a/internal/models/running_processor_test.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_processor_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+package models
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+type TestProcessor struct {
+}
+
+func (f *TestProcessor) SampleConfig() string { return "" }
+func (f *TestProcessor) Description() string  { return "" }
+
+// Apply renames:
+//   "foo" to "fuz"
+//   "bar" to "baz"
+// And it also drops measurements named "dropme"
+func (f *TestProcessor) Apply(in ...telegraf.Metric) []telegraf.Metric {
+	out := make([]telegraf.Metric, 0)
+	for _, m := range in {
+		switch m.Name() {
+		case "foo":
+			out = append(out, testutil.TestMetric(1, "fuz"))
+		case "bar":
+			out = append(out, testutil.TestMetric(1, "baz"))
+		case "dropme":
+			// drop the metric!
+		default:
+			out = append(out, m)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func NewTestRunningProcessor() *RunningProcessor {
+	out := &RunningProcessor{
+		Name:      "test",
+		Processor: &TestProcessor{},
+		Config:    &ProcessorConfig{Filter: Filter{}},
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func TestRunningProcessor(t *testing.T) {
+	inmetrics := []telegraf.Metric{
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "foo"),
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "bar"),
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "baz"),
+	}
+
+	expectedNames := []string{
+		"fuz",
+		"baz",
+		"baz",
+	}
+	rfp := NewTestRunningProcessor()
+	filteredMetrics := rfp.Apply(inmetrics...)
+
+	actualNames := []string{
+		filteredMetrics[0].Name(),
+		filteredMetrics[1].Name(),
+		filteredMetrics[2].Name(),
+	}
+	assert.Equal(t, expectedNames, actualNames)
+}
+
+func TestRunningProcessor_WithNameDrop(t *testing.T) {
+	inmetrics := []telegraf.Metric{
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "foo"),
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "bar"),
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "baz"),
+	}
+
+	expectedNames := []string{
+		"foo",
+		"baz",
+		"baz",
+	}
+	rfp := NewTestRunningProcessor()
+
+	rfp.Config.Filter.NameDrop = []string{"foo"}
+	assert.NoError(t, rfp.Config.Filter.Compile())
+
+	filteredMetrics := rfp.Apply(inmetrics...)
+
+	actualNames := []string{
+		filteredMetrics[0].Name(),
+		filteredMetrics[1].Name(),
+		filteredMetrics[2].Name(),
+	}
+	assert.Equal(t, expectedNames, actualNames)
+}
+
+func TestRunningProcessor_DroppedMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	inmetrics := []telegraf.Metric{
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "dropme"),
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "foo"),
+		testutil.TestMetric(1, "bar"),
+	}
+
+	expectedNames := []string{
+		"fuz",
+		"baz",
+	}
+	rfp := NewTestRunningProcessor()
+	filteredMetrics := rfp.Apply(inmetrics...)
+
+	actualNames := []string{
+		filteredMetrics[0].Name(),
+		filteredMetrics[1].Name(),
+	}
+	assert.Equal(t, expectedNames, actualNames)
+}
--- a/internal/templating/engine.go
+++ b/internal/templating/engine.go
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package templating
+
+import (
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+const (
+	// DefaultSeparator is the default separation character to use when separating template parts.
+	DefaultSeparator = "."
+)
+
+// Engine uses a Matcher to retrieve the appropriate template and applies the template
+// to the input string
+type Engine struct {
+	joiner  string
+	matcher *matcher
+}
+
+// Apply extracts the template fields from the given line and returns the measurement
+// name, tags and field name
+func (e *Engine) Apply(line string) (string, map[string]string, string, error) {
+	return e.matcher.match(line).Apply(line, e.joiner)
+}
+
+// NewEngine creates a new templating engine
+func NewEngine(joiner string, defaultTemplate *Template, templates []string) (*Engine, error) {
+	engine := Engine{
+		joiner:  joiner,
+		matcher: newMatcher(defaultTemplate),
+	}
+	templateSpecs := parseTemplateSpecs(templates)
+
+	for _, templateSpec := range templateSpecs {
+		if err := engine.matcher.addSpec(templateSpec); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return &engine, nil
+}
+
+func parseTemplateSpecs(templates []string) templateSpecs {
+	tmplts := templateSpecs{}
+	for _, pattern := range templates {
+		tmplt := templateSpec{
+			separator: DefaultSeparator,
+		}
+
+		// Format is [separator] [filter] <template> [tag1=value1,tag2=value2]
+		parts := strings.Fields(pattern)
+		partsLength := len(parts)
+		if partsLength < 1 {
+			// ignore
+			continue
+		}
+		if partsLength == 1 {
+			tmplt.template = pattern
+		} else if partsLength == 4 {
+			tmplt.separator = parts[0]
+			tmplt.filter = parts[1]
+			tmplt.template = parts[2]
+			tmplt.tagstring = parts[3]
+		} else {
+			hasTagstring := strings.Contains(parts[partsLength-1], "=")
+			if hasTagstring {
+				tmplt.tagstring = parts[partsLength-1]
+				tmplt.template = parts[partsLength-2]
+				if partsLength == 3 {
+					tmplt.filter = parts[0]
+				}
+			} else {
+				tmplt.template = parts[partsLength-1]
+				if partsLength == 2 {
+					tmplt.filter = parts[0]
+				} else { // length == 3
+					tmplt.separator = parts[0]
+					tmplt.filter = parts[1]
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		tmplts = append(tmplts, tmplt)
+	}
+	sort.Sort(tmplts)
+	return tmplts
+}
--- a/internal/templating/matcher.go
+++ b/internal/templating/matcher.go
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package templating
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// matcher determines which template should be applied to a given metric
+// based on a filter tree.
+type matcher struct {
+	root            *node
+	defaultTemplate *Template
+}
+
+// newMatcher creates a new matcher.
+func newMatcher(defaultTemplate *Template) *matcher {
+	return &matcher{
+		root:            &node{},
+		defaultTemplate: defaultTemplate,
+	}
+}
+
+func (m *matcher) addSpec(tmplt templateSpec) error {
+	// Parse out the default tags specific to this template
+	tags := map[string]string{}
+	if tmplt.tagstring != "" {
+		for _, kv := range strings.Split(tmplt.tagstring, ",") {
+			parts := strings.Split(kv, "=")
+			tags[parts[0]] = parts[1]
+		}
+	}
+
+	tmpl, err := NewTemplate(tmplt.separator, tmplt.template, tags)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	m.add(tmplt.filter, tmpl)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// add inserts the template in the filter tree based the given filter
+func (m *matcher) add(filter string, template *Template) {
+	if filter == "" {
+		m.defaultTemplate = template
+		m.root.separator = template.separator
+		return
+	}
+	m.root.insert(filter, template)
+}
+
+// match returns the template that matches the given measurement line.
+// If no template matches, the default template is returned.
+func (m *matcher) match(line string) *Template {
+	tmpl := m.root.search(line)
+	if tmpl != nil {
+		return tmpl
+	}
+	return m.defaultTemplate
+}
--- a/internal/templating/node.go
+++ b/internal/templating/node.go
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+package templating
+
+import (
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// node is an item in a sorted k-ary tree of filter parts. Each child is sorted by its part value.
+// The special value of "*", is always sorted last.
+type node struct {
+	separator string
+	value     string
+	children  nodes
+	template  *Template
+}
+
+// insert inserts the given string template into the tree.  The filter string is separated
+// on the template separator and each part is used as the path in the tree.
+func (n *node) insert(filter string, template *Template) {
+	n.separator = template.separator
+	n.recursiveInsert(strings.Split(filter, n.separator), template)
+}
+
+// recursiveInsert does the actual recursive insertion
+func (n *node) recursiveInsert(values []string, template *Template) {
+	// Add the end, set the template
+	if len(values) == 0 {
+		n.template = template
+		return
+	}
+
+	// See if the the current element already exists in the tree. If so, insert the
+	// into that sub-tree
+	for _, v := range n.children {
+		if v.value == values[0] {
+			v.recursiveInsert(values[1:], template)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	// New element, add it to the tree and sort the children
+	newNode := &node{value: values[0]}
+	n.children = append(n.children, newNode)
+	sort.Sort(&n.children)
+
+	// Now insert the rest of the tree into the new element
+	newNode.recursiveInsert(values[1:], template)
+}
+
+// search searches for a template matching the input string
+func (n *node) search(line string) *Template {
+	separator := n.separator
+	return n.recursiveSearch(strings.Split(line, separator))
+}
+
+// recursiveSearch performs the actual recursive search
+func (n *node) recursiveSearch(lineParts []string) *Template {
+	// Nothing to search
+	if len(lineParts) == 0 || len(n.children) == 0 {
+		return n.template
+	}
+
+	// If last element is a wildcard, don't include it in this search since it's sorted
+	// to the end but lexicographically it would not always be and sort.Search assumes
+	// the slice is sorted.
+	length := len(n.children)
+	if n.children[length-1].value == "*" {
+		length--
+	}
+
+	// Find the index of child with an exact match
+	i := sort.Search(length, func(i int) bool {
+		return n.children[i].value >= lineParts[0]
+	})
+
+	// Found an exact match, so search that child sub-tree
+	if i < len(n.children) && n.children[i].value == lineParts[0] {
+		return n.children[i].recursiveSearch(lineParts[1:])
+	}
+	// Not an exact match, see if we have a wildcard child to search
+	if n.children[len(n.children)-1].value == "*" {
+		return n.children[len(n.children)-1].recursiveSearch(lineParts[1:])
+	}
+	return n.template
+}
+
+// nodes is simply an array of nodes implementing the sorting interface.
+type nodes []*node
+
+// Less returns a boolean indicating whether the filter at position j
+// is less than the filter at position k. Filters are order by string
+// comparison of each component parts.  A wildcard value "*" is never
+// less than a non-wildcard value.
+//
+// For example, the filters:
+//             "*.*"
+//             "servers.*"
+//             "servers.localhost"
+//             "*.localhost"
+//
+// Would be sorted as:
+//             "servers.localhost"
+//             "servers.*"
+//             "*.localhost"
+//             "*.*"
+func (n *nodes) Less(j, k int) bool {
+	if (*n)[j].value == "*" && (*n)[k].value != "*" {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if (*n)[j].value != "*" && (*n)[k].value == "*" {
+		return true
+	}
+
+	return (*n)[j].value < (*n)[k].value
+}
+
+// Swap swaps two elements of the array
+func (n *nodes) Swap(i, j int) { (*n)[i], (*n)[j] = (*n)[j], (*n)[i] }
+
+// Len returns the length of the array
+func (n *nodes) Len() int { return len(*n) }
--- a/internal/templating/template.go
+++ b/internal/templating/template.go
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+package templating
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Template represents a pattern and tags to map a metric string to a influxdb Point
+type Template struct {
+	separator         string
+	parts             []string
+	defaultTags       map[string]string
+	greedyField       bool
+	greedyMeasurement bool
+}
+
+// apply extracts the template fields from the given line and returns the measurement
+// name, tags and field name
+func (t *Template) Apply(line string, joiner string) (string, map[string]string, string, error) {
+	fields := strings.Split(line, t.separator)
+	var (
+		measurement []string
+		tags        = make(map[string][]string)
+		field       []string
+	)
+
+	// Set any default tags
+	for k, v := range t.defaultTags {
+		tags[k] = append(tags[k], v)
+	}
+
+	// See if an invalid combination has been specified in the template:
+	for _, tag := range t.parts {
+		if tag == "measurement*" {
+			t.greedyMeasurement = true
+		} else if tag == "field*" {
+			t.greedyField = true
+		}
+	}
+	if t.greedyField && t.greedyMeasurement {
+		return "", nil, "",
+			fmt.Errorf("either 'field*' or 'measurement*' can be used in each "+
+				"template (but not both together): %q",
+				strings.Join(t.parts, joiner))
+	}
+
+	for i, tag := range t.parts {
+		if i >= len(fields) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if tag == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		switch tag {
+		case "measurement":
+			measurement = append(measurement, fields[i])
+		case "field":
+			field = append(field, fields[i])
+		case "field*":
+			field = append(field, fields[i:]...)
+			break
+		case "measurement*":
+			measurement = append(measurement, fields[i:]...)
+			break
+		default:
+			tags[tag] = append(tags[tag], fields[i])
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Convert to map of strings.
+	outtags := make(map[string]string)
+	for k, values := range tags {
+		outtags[k] = strings.Join(values, joiner)
+	}
+
+	return strings.Join(measurement, joiner), outtags, strings.Join(field, joiner), nil
+}
+
+func NewDefaultTemplateWithPattern(pattern string) (*Template, error) {
+	return NewTemplate(DefaultSeparator, pattern, nil)
+}
+
+// NewTemplate returns a new template ensuring it has a measurement
+// specified.
+func NewTemplate(separator string, pattern string, defaultTags map[string]string) (*Template, error) {
+	parts := strings.Split(pattern, separator)
+	hasMeasurement := false
+	template := &Template{
+		separator:   separator,
+		parts:       parts,
+		defaultTags: defaultTags,
+	}
+
+	for _, part := range parts {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(part, "measurement") {
+			hasMeasurement = true
+		}
+		if part == "measurement*" {
+			template.greedyMeasurement = true
+		} else if part == "field*" {
+			template.greedyField = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	if !hasMeasurement {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no measurement specified for template. %q", pattern)
+	}
+
+	return template, nil
+}
+
+// templateSpec is a template string split in its constituent parts
+type templateSpec struct {
+	separator string
+	filter    string
+	template  string
+	tagstring string
+}
+
+// templateSpecs is simply an array of template specs implementing the sorting interface
+type templateSpecs []templateSpec
+
+// Less reports whether the element with
+// index j should sort before the element with index k.
+func (e templateSpecs) Less(j, k int) bool {
+	if len(e[j].filter) == 0 && len(e[k].filter) == 0 {
+		jlength := len(strings.Split(e[j].template, e[j].separator))
+		klength := len(strings.Split(e[k].template, e[k].separator))
+		return jlength < klength
+	}
+	if len(e[j].filter) == 0 {
+		return true
+	}
+	if len(e[k].filter) == 0 {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	jlength := len(strings.Split(e[j].template, e[j].separator))
+	klength := len(strings.Split(e[k].template, e[k].separator))
+	return jlength < klength
+}
+
+// Swap swaps the elements with indexes i and j.
+func (e templateSpecs) Swap(i, j int) { e[i], e[j] = e[j], e[i] }
+
+// Len is the number of elements in the collection.
+func (e templateSpecs) Len() int { return len(e) }
--- a/logger/logger.go
+++ b/logger/logger.go
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+package logger
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/wlog"
+)
+
+var prefixRegex = regexp.MustCompile("^[DIWE]!")
+
+// newTelegrafWriter returns a logging-wrapped writer.
+func newTelegrafWriter(w io.Writer) io.Writer {
+	return &telegrafLog{
+		writer: wlog.NewWriter(w),
+	}
+}
+
+type telegrafLog struct {
+	writer io.Writer
+}
+
+func (t *telegrafLog) Write(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	var line []byte
+	if !prefixRegex.Match(b) {
+		line = append([]byte(time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)+" I! "), b...)
+	} else {
+		line = append([]byte(time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)+" "), b...)
+	}
+	return t.writer.Write(line)
+}
+
+// SetupLogging configures the logging output.
+//   debug   will set the log level to DEBUG
+//   quiet   will set the log level to ERROR
+//   logfile will direct the logging output to a file. Empty string is
+//           interpreted as stderr. If there is an error opening the file the
+//           logger will fallback to stderr.
+func SetupLogging(debug, quiet bool, logfile string) {
+	log.SetFlags(0)
+	if debug {
+		wlog.SetLevel(wlog.DEBUG)
+	}
+	if quiet {
+		wlog.SetLevel(wlog.ERROR)
+	}
+
+	var oFile *os.File
+	if logfile != "" {
+		if _, err := os.Stat(logfile); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			if oFile, err = os.Create(logfile); err != nil {
+				log.Printf("E! Unable to create %s (%s), using stderr", logfile, err)
+				oFile = os.Stderr
+			}
+		} else {
+			if oFile, err = os.OpenFile(logfile, os.O_APPEND|os.O_WRONLY, os.ModeAppend); err != nil {
+				log.Printf("E! Unable to append to %s (%s), using stderr", logfile, err)
+				oFile = os.Stderr
+			}
+		}
+	} else {
+		oFile = os.Stderr
+	}
+
+	log.SetOutput(newTelegrafWriter(oFile))
+}
--- a/logger/logger_test.go
+++ b/logger/logger_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+package logger
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestWriteLogToFile(t *testing.T) {
+	tmpfile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { os.Remove(tmpfile.Name()) }()
+
+	SetupLogging(false, false, tmpfile.Name())
+	log.Printf("I! TEST")
+	log.Printf("D! TEST") // <- should be ignored
+
+	f, err := ioutil.ReadFile(tmpfile.Name())
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, f[19:], []byte("Z I! TEST\n"))
+}
+
+func TestDebugWriteLogToFile(t *testing.T) {
+	tmpfile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { os.Remove(tmpfile.Name()) }()
+
+	SetupLogging(true, false, tmpfile.Name())
+	log.Printf("D! TEST")
+
+	f, err := ioutil.ReadFile(tmpfile.Name())
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, f[19:], []byte("Z D! TEST\n"))
+}
+
+func TestErrorWriteLogToFile(t *testing.T) {
+	tmpfile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { os.Remove(tmpfile.Name()) }()
+
+	SetupLogging(false, true, tmpfile.Name())
+	log.Printf("E! TEST")
+	log.Printf("I! TEST") // <- should be ignored
+
+	f, err := ioutil.ReadFile(tmpfile.Name())
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, f[19:], []byte("Z E! TEST\n"))
+}
+
+func TestAddDefaultLogLevel(t *testing.T) {
+	tmpfile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	defer func() { os.Remove(tmpfile.Name()) }()
+
+	SetupLogging(true, false, tmpfile.Name())
+	log.Printf("TEST")
+
+	f, err := ioutil.ReadFile(tmpfile.Name())
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, f[19:], []byte("Z I! TEST\n"))
+}
+
+func BenchmarkTelegrafLogWrite(b *testing.B) {
+	var msg = []byte("test")
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	w := newTelegrafWriter(&buf)
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		buf.Reset()
+		w.Write(msg)
+	}
+}
--- a/metric.go
+++ b/metric.go
@@ -2,93 +2,63 @@ package telegraf

 import (
 	"time"
+)

-	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/client/v2"
+// ValueType is an enumeration of metric types that represent a simple value.
+type ValueType int
+
+// Possible values for the ValueType enum.
+const (
+	_ ValueType = iota
+	Counter
+	Gauge
+	Untyped
+	Summary
+	Histogram
 )

 type Metric interface {
-	// Name returns the measurement name of the metric
-	Name() string
-
-	// Name returns the tags associated with the metric
-	Tags() map[string]string
-
-	// Time return the timestamp for the metric
-	Time() time.Time
-
-	// UnixNano returns the unix nano time of the metric
-	UnixNano() int64
-
-	// Fields returns the fields for the metric
-	Fields() map[string]interface{}
-
-	// String returns a line-protocol string of the metric
+	// Serialize serializes the metric into a line-protocol byte buffer,
+	// including a newline at the end.
+	Serialize() []byte
+	// same as Serialize, but avoids an allocation.
+	// returns number of bytes copied into dst.
+	SerializeTo(dst []byte) int
+	// String is the same as Serialize, but returns a string.
 	String() string
+	// Copy deep-copies the metric.
+	Copy() Metric
+	// Split will attempt to return multiple metrics with the same timestamp
+	// whose string representations are no longer than maxSize.
+	// Metrics with a single field may exceed the requested size.
+	Split(maxSize int) []Metric

-	// PrecisionString returns a line-protocol string of the metric, at precision
-	PrecisionString(precison string) string
+	// Tag functions
+	HasTag(key string) bool
+	AddTag(key, value string)
+	RemoveTag(key string)

-	// Point returns a influxdb client.Point object
-	Point() *client.Point
-}
-
-// metric is a wrapper of the influxdb client.Point struct
-type metric struct {
-	pt *client.Point
-}
-
-// NewMetric returns a metric with the given timestamp. If a timestamp is not
-// given, then data is sent to the database without a timestamp, in which case
-// the server will assign local time upon reception. NOTE: it is recommended to
-// send data with a timestamp.
-func NewMetric(
-	name string,
-	tags map[string]string,
-	fields map[string]interface{},
-	t ...time.Time,
-) (Metric, error) {
-	var T time.Time
-	if len(t) > 0 {
-		T = t[0]
-	}
-
-	pt, err := client.NewPoint(name, tags, fields, T)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	return &metric{
-		pt: pt,
-	}, nil
-}
-
-func (m *metric) Name() string {
-	return m.pt.Name()
-}
-
-func (m *metric) Tags() map[string]string {
-	return m.pt.Tags()
-}
-
-func (m *metric) Time() time.Time {
-	return m.pt.Time()
-}
-
-func (m *metric) UnixNano() int64 {
-	return m.pt.UnixNano()
-}
-
-func (m *metric) Fields() map[string]interface{} {
-	return m.pt.Fields()
-}
-
-func (m *metric) String() string {
-	return m.pt.String()
-}
-
-func (m *metric) PrecisionString(precison string) string {
-	return m.pt.PrecisionString(precison)
-}
-
-func (m *metric) Point() *client.Point {
-	return m.pt
+	// Field functions
+	HasField(key string) bool
+	AddField(key string, value interface{})
+	RemoveField(key string) error
+
+	// Name functions
+	SetName(name string)
+	SetPrefix(prefix string)
+	SetSuffix(suffix string)
+
+	// Getting data structure functions
+	Name() string
+	Tags() map[string]string
+	Fields() map[string]interface{}
+	Time() time.Time
+	UnixNano() int64
+	Type() ValueType
+	Len() int // returns the length of the serialized metric, including newline
+	HashID() uint64
+
+	// aggregator things:
+	SetAggregate(bool)
+	IsAggregate() bool
 }
--- a/metric/escape.go
+++ b/metric/escape.go
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+)
+
+var (
+	// escaper is for escaping:
+	//   - tag keys
+	//   - tag values
+	//   - field keys
+	// see https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.0/write_protocols/line_protocol_tutorial/#special-characters-and-keywords
+	escaper   = strings.NewReplacer(`,`, `\,`, `"`, `\"`, ` `, `\ `, `=`, `\=`)
+	unEscaper = strings.NewReplacer(`\,`, `,`, `\"`, `"`, `\ `, ` `, `\=`, `=`)
+
+	// nameEscaper is for escaping measurement names only.
+	// see https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.0/write_protocols/line_protocol_tutorial/#special-characters-and-keywords
+	nameEscaper   = strings.NewReplacer(`,`, `\,`, ` `, `\ `)
+	nameUnEscaper = strings.NewReplacer(`\,`, `,`, `\ `, ` `)
+
+	// stringFieldEscaper is for escaping string field values only.
+	// see https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.0/write_protocols/line_protocol_tutorial/#special-characters-and-keywords
+	stringFieldEscaper = strings.NewReplacer(
+		`"`, `\"`,
+		`\`, `\\`,
+	)
+	stringFieldUnEscaper = strings.NewReplacer(
+		`\"`, `"`,
+		`\\`, `\`,
+	)
+)
+
+func escape(s string, t string) string {
+	switch t {
+	case "fieldkey", "tagkey", "tagval":
+		return escaper.Replace(s)
+	case "name":
+		return nameEscaper.Replace(s)
+	case "fieldval":
+		return stringFieldEscaper.Replace(s)
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
+func unescape(s string, t string) string {
+	switch t {
+	case "fieldkey", "tagkey", "tagval":
+		return unEscaper.Replace(s)
+	case "name":
+		return nameUnEscaper.Replace(s)
+	case "fieldval":
+		return stringFieldUnEscaper.Replace(s)
+	}
+	return s
+}
--- a/metric/inline_strconv_parse.go
+++ b/metric/inline_strconv_parse.go
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"strconv"
+	"unsafe"
+)
+
+// parseIntBytes is a zero-alloc wrapper around strconv.ParseInt.
+func parseIntBytes(b []byte, base int, bitSize int) (i int64, err error) {
+	s := unsafeBytesToString(b)
+	return strconv.ParseInt(s, base, bitSize)
+}
+
+// parseFloatBytes is a zero-alloc wrapper around strconv.ParseFloat.
+func parseFloatBytes(b []byte, bitSize int) (float64, error) {
+	s := unsafeBytesToString(b)
+	return strconv.ParseFloat(s, bitSize)
+}
+
+// parseBoolBytes is a zero-alloc wrapper around strconv.ParseBool.
+func parseBoolBytes(b []byte) (bool, error) {
+	return strconv.ParseBool(unsafeBytesToString(b))
+}
+
+// unsafeBytesToString converts a []byte to a string without a heap allocation.
+//
+// It is unsafe, and is intended to prepare input to short-lived functions
+// that require strings.
+func unsafeBytesToString(in []byte) string {
+	src := *(*reflect.SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&in))
+	dst := reflect.StringHeader{
+		Data: src.Data,
+		Len:  src.Len,
+	}
+	s := *(*string)(unsafe.Pointer(&dst))
+	return s
+}
--- a/metric/inline_strconv_parse_test.go
+++ b/metric/inline_strconv_parse_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"testing"
+	"testing/quick"
+)
+
+func TestParseIntBytesEquivalenceFuzz(t *testing.T) {
+	f := func(b []byte, base int, bitSize int) bool {
+		exp, expErr := strconv.ParseInt(string(b), base, bitSize)
+		got, gotErr := parseIntBytes(b, base, bitSize)
+
+		return exp == got && checkErrs(expErr, gotErr)
+	}
+
+	cfg := &quick.Config{
+		MaxCount: 10000,
+	}
+
+	if err := quick.Check(f, cfg); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseIntBytesValid64bitBase10EquivalenceFuzz(t *testing.T) {
+	buf := []byte{}
+	f := func(n int64) bool {
+		buf = strconv.AppendInt(buf[:0], n, 10)
+
+		exp, expErr := strconv.ParseInt(string(buf), 10, 64)
+		got, gotErr := parseIntBytes(buf, 10, 64)
+
+		return exp == got && checkErrs(expErr, gotErr)
+	}
+
+	cfg := &quick.Config{
+		MaxCount: 10000,
+	}
+
+	if err := quick.Check(f, cfg); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseFloatBytesEquivalenceFuzz(t *testing.T) {
+	f := func(b []byte, bitSize int) bool {
+		exp, expErr := strconv.ParseFloat(string(b), bitSize)
+		got, gotErr := parseFloatBytes(b, bitSize)
+
+		return exp == got && checkErrs(expErr, gotErr)
+	}
+
+	cfg := &quick.Config{
+		MaxCount: 10000,
+	}
+
+	if err := quick.Check(f, cfg); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseFloatBytesValid64bitEquivalenceFuzz(t *testing.T) {
+	buf := []byte{}
+	f := func(n float64) bool {
+		buf = strconv.AppendFloat(buf[:0], n, 'f', -1, 64)
+
+		exp, expErr := strconv.ParseFloat(string(buf), 64)
+		got, gotErr := parseFloatBytes(buf, 64)
+
+		return exp == got && checkErrs(expErr, gotErr)
+	}
+
+	cfg := &quick.Config{
+		MaxCount: 10000,
+	}
+
+	if err := quick.Check(f, cfg); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseBoolBytesEquivalence(t *testing.T) {
+	var buf []byte
+	for _, s := range []string{"1", "t", "T", "TRUE", "true", "True", "0", "f", "F", "FALSE", "false", "False", "fail", "TrUe", "FAlSE", "numbers", ""} {
+		buf = append(buf[:0], s...)
+
+		exp, expErr := strconv.ParseBool(s)
+		got, gotErr := parseBoolBytes(buf)
+
+		if got != exp || !checkErrs(expErr, gotErr) {
+			t.Errorf("Failed to parse boolean value %q correctly: wanted (%t, %v), got (%t, %v)", s, exp, expErr, got, gotErr)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func checkErrs(a, b error) bool {
+	if (a == nil) != (b == nil) {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	return a == nil || a.Error() == b.Error()
+}
--- a/metric/metric.go
+++ b/metric/metric.go
@@ -0,0 +1,623 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"hash/fnv"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+const MaxInt = int(^uint(0) >> 1)
+
+func New(
+	name string,
+	tags map[string]string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	t time.Time,
+	mType ...telegraf.ValueType,
+) (telegraf.Metric, error) {
+	if len(name) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing measurement name")
+	}
+	if len(fields) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: must have one or more fields", name)
+	}
+	if strings.HasSuffix(name, `\`) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: measurement name cannot end with a backslash", name)
+	}
+
+	var thisType telegraf.ValueType
+	if len(mType) > 0 {
+		thisType = mType[0]
+	} else {
+		thisType = telegraf.Untyped
+	}
+
+	m := &metric{
+		name:  []byte(escape(name, "name")),
+		t:     []byte(fmt.Sprint(t.UnixNano())),
+		nsec:  t.UnixNano(),
+		mType: thisType,
+	}
+
+	// pre-allocate exact size of the tags slice
+	taglen := 0
+	for k, v := range tags {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(k, `\`) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: tag key cannot end with a backslash: %s", name, k)
+		}
+		if strings.HasSuffix(v, `\`) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: tag value cannot end with a backslash: %s", name, v)
+		}
+
+		if len(k) == 0 || len(v) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		taglen += 2 + len(escape(k, "tagkey")) + len(escape(v, "tagval"))
+	}
+	m.tags = make([]byte, taglen)
+
+	i := 0
+	for k, v := range tags {
+		if len(k) == 0 || len(v) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		m.tags[i] = ','
+		i++
+		i += copy(m.tags[i:], escape(k, "tagkey"))
+		m.tags[i] = '='
+		i++
+		i += copy(m.tags[i:], escape(v, "tagval"))
+	}
+
+	// pre-allocate capacity of the fields slice
+	fieldlen := 0
+	for k, _ := range fields {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(k, `\`) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: field key cannot end with a backslash: %s", name, k)
+		}
+
+		// 10 bytes is completely arbitrary, but will at least prevent some
+		// amount of allocations. There's a small possibility this will create
+		// slightly more allocations for a metric that has many short fields.
+		fieldlen += len(k) + 10
+	}
+	m.fields = make([]byte, 0, fieldlen)
+
+	i = 0
+	for k, v := range fields {
+		if i != 0 {
+			m.fields = append(m.fields, ',')
+		}
+		m.fields = appendField(m.fields, k, v)
+		i++
+	}
+
+	return m, nil
+}
+
+// indexUnescapedByte finds the index of the first byte equal to b in buf that
+// is not escaped.  Does not allow the escape char to be escaped. Returns -1 if
+// not found.
+func indexUnescapedByte(buf []byte, b byte) int {
+	var keyi int
+	for {
+		i := bytes.IndexByte(buf[keyi:], b)
+		if i == -1 {
+			return -1
+		} else if i == 0 {
+			break
+		}
+		keyi += i
+		if buf[keyi-1] != '\\' {
+			break
+		} else {
+			keyi++
+		}
+	}
+	return keyi
+}
+
+// indexUnescapedByteBackslashEscaping finds the index of the first byte equal
+// to b in buf that is not escaped.  Allows for the escape char `\` to be
+// escaped.  Returns -1 if not found.
+func indexUnescapedByteBackslashEscaping(buf []byte, b byte) int {
+	var keyi int
+	for {
+		i := bytes.IndexByte(buf[keyi:], b)
+		if i == -1 {
+			return -1
+		} else if i == 0 {
+			break
+		}
+		keyi += i
+		if countBackslashes(buf, keyi-1)%2 == 0 {
+			break
+		} else {
+			keyi++
+		}
+	}
+	return keyi
+}
+
+// countBackslashes counts the number of preceding backslashes starting at
+// the 'start' index.
+func countBackslashes(buf []byte, index int) int {
+	var count int
+	for {
+		if index < 0 {
+			return count
+		}
+		if buf[index] == '\\' {
+			count++
+			index--
+		} else {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return count
+}
+
+type metric struct {
+	name   []byte
+	tags   []byte
+	fields []byte
+	t      []byte
+
+	mType     telegraf.ValueType
+	aggregate bool
+
+	// cached values for reuse in "get" functions
+	hashID uint64
+	nsec   int64
+}
+
+func (m *metric) String() string {
+	return string(m.name) + string(m.tags) + " " + string(m.fields) + " " + string(m.t) + "\n"
+}
+
+func (m *metric) SetAggregate(b bool) {
+	m.aggregate = b
+}
+
+func (m *metric) IsAggregate() bool {
+	return m.aggregate
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Type() telegraf.ValueType {
+	return m.mType
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Len() int {
+	// 3 is for 2 spaces surrounding the fields array + newline at the end.
+	return len(m.name) + len(m.tags) + len(m.fields) + len(m.t) + 3
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Serialize() []byte {
+	tmp := make([]byte, m.Len())
+	i := 0
+	i += copy(tmp[i:], m.name)
+	i += copy(tmp[i:], m.tags)
+	tmp[i] = ' '
+	i++
+	i += copy(tmp[i:], m.fields)
+	tmp[i] = ' '
+	i++
+	i += copy(tmp[i:], m.t)
+	tmp[i] = '\n'
+	return tmp
+}
+
+func (m *metric) SerializeTo(dst []byte) int {
+	i := 0
+	if i >= len(dst) {
+		return i
+	}
+
+	i += copy(dst[i:], m.name)
+	if i >= len(dst) {
+		return i
+	}
+
+	i += copy(dst[i:], m.tags)
+	if i >= len(dst) {
+		return i
+	}
+
+	dst[i] = ' '
+	i++
+	if i >= len(dst) {
+		return i
+	}
+
+	i += copy(dst[i:], m.fields)
+	if i >= len(dst) {
+		return i
+	}
+
+	dst[i] = ' '
+	i++
+	if i >= len(dst) {
+		return i
+	}
+
+	i += copy(dst[i:], m.t)
+	if i >= len(dst) {
+		return i
+	}
+	dst[i] = '\n'
+
+	return i + 1
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Split(maxSize int) []telegraf.Metric {
+	if m.Len() <= maxSize {
+		return []telegraf.Metric{m}
+	}
+	var out []telegraf.Metric
+
+	// constant number of bytes for each metric (in addition to field bytes)
+	constant := len(m.name) + len(m.tags) + len(m.t) + 3
+	// currently selected fields
+	fields := make([]byte, 0, maxSize)
+
+	i := 0
+	for {
+		if i >= len(m.fields) {
+			// hit the end of the field byte slice
+			if len(fields) > 0 {
+				out = append(out, copyWith(m.name, m.tags, fields, m.t))
+			}
+			break
+		}
+
+		// find the end of the next field
+		j := indexUnescapedByte(m.fields[i:], ',')
+		if j == -1 {
+			j = len(m.fields)
+		} else {
+			j += i
+		}
+
+		// if true, then we need to create a metric _not_ including the currently
+		// selected field
+		if len(m.fields[i:j])+len(fields)+constant >= maxSize {
+			// if false, then we'll create a metric including the currently
+			// selected field anyways. This means that the given maxSize is too
+			// small for a single field to fit.
+			if len(fields) > 0 {
+				out = append(out, copyWith(m.name, m.tags, fields, m.t))
+			}
+
+			fields = make([]byte, 0, maxSize)
+		}
+		if len(fields) > 0 {
+			fields = append(fields, ',')
+		}
+		fields = append(fields, m.fields[i:j]...)
+
+		i = j + 1
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Fields() map[string]interface{} {
+	fieldMap := map[string]interface{}{}
+	i := 0
+	for {
+		if i >= len(m.fields) {
+			break
+		}
+		// end index of field key
+		i1 := indexUnescapedByte(m.fields[i:], '=')
+		if i1 == -1 {
+			break
+		}
+		// start index of field value
+		i2 := i1 + 1
+
+		// end index of field value
+		var i3 int
+		if m.fields[i:][i2] == '"' {
+			i3 = indexUnescapedByteBackslashEscaping(m.fields[i:][i2+1:], '"')
+			if i3 == -1 {
+				i3 = len(m.fields[i:])
+			}
+			i3 += i2 + 2 // increment index to the comma
+		} else {
+			i3 = indexUnescapedByte(m.fields[i:], ',')
+			if i3 == -1 {
+				i3 = len(m.fields[i:])
+			}
+		}
+
+		switch m.fields[i:][i2] {
+		case '"':
+			// string field
+			fieldMap[unescape(string(m.fields[i:][0:i1]), "fieldkey")] = unescape(string(m.fields[i:][i2+1:i3-1]), "fieldval")
+		case '-', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9':
+			// number field
+			switch m.fields[i:][i3-1] {
+			case 'i':
+				// integer field
+				n, err := parseIntBytes(m.fields[i:][i2:i3-1], 10, 64)
+				if err == nil {
+					fieldMap[unescape(string(m.fields[i:][0:i1]), "fieldkey")] = n
+				} else {
+					// TODO handle error or just ignore field silently?
+				}
+			default:
+				// float field
+				n, err := parseFloatBytes(m.fields[i:][i2:i3], 64)
+				if err == nil {
+					fieldMap[unescape(string(m.fields[i:][0:i1]), "fieldkey")] = n
+				} else {
+					// TODO handle error or just ignore field silently?
+				}
+			}
+		case 'T', 't':
+			fieldMap[unescape(string(m.fields[i:][0:i1]), "fieldkey")] = true
+		case 'F', 'f':
+			fieldMap[unescape(string(m.fields[i:][0:i1]), "fieldkey")] = false
+		default:
+			// TODO handle unsupported field type
+		}
+
+		i += i3 + 1
+	}
+
+	return fieldMap
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Tags() map[string]string {
+	tagMap := map[string]string{}
+	if len(m.tags) == 0 {
+		return tagMap
+	}
+
+	i := 0
+	for {
+		// start index of tag key
+		i0 := indexUnescapedByte(m.tags[i:], ',') + 1
+		if i0 == 0 {
+			// didn't find a tag start
+			break
+		}
+		// end index of tag key
+		i1 := indexUnescapedByte(m.tags[i:], '=')
+		// start index of tag value
+		i2 := i1 + 1
+		// end index of tag value (starting from i2)
+		i3 := indexUnescapedByte(m.tags[i+i2:], ',')
+		if i3 == -1 {
+			tagMap[unescape(string(m.tags[i:][i0:i1]), "tagkey")] = unescape(string(m.tags[i:][i2:]), "tagval")
+			break
+		}
+		tagMap[unescape(string(m.tags[i:][i0:i1]), "tagkey")] = unescape(string(m.tags[i:][i2:i2+i3]), "tagval")
+		// increment start index for the next tag
+		i += i2 + i3
+	}
+
+	return tagMap
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Name() string {
+	return unescape(string(m.name), "name")
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Time() time.Time {
+	// assume metric has been verified already and ignore error:
+	if m.nsec == 0 {
+		m.nsec, _ = parseIntBytes(m.t, 10, 64)
+	}
+	return time.Unix(0, m.nsec)
+}
+
+func (m *metric) UnixNano() int64 {
+	// assume metric has been verified already and ignore error:
+	if m.nsec == 0 {
+		m.nsec, _ = parseIntBytes(m.t, 10, 64)
+	}
+	return m.nsec
+}
+
+func (m *metric) SetName(name string) {
+	m.hashID = 0
+	m.name = []byte(nameEscaper.Replace(name))
+}
+
+func (m *metric) SetPrefix(prefix string) {
+	m.hashID = 0
+	m.name = append([]byte(nameEscaper.Replace(prefix)), m.name...)
+}
+
+func (m *metric) SetSuffix(suffix string) {
+	m.hashID = 0
+	m.name = append(m.name, []byte(nameEscaper.Replace(suffix))...)
+}
+
+func (m *metric) AddTag(key, value string) {
+	m.RemoveTag(key)
+	m.tags = append(m.tags, []byte(","+escape(key, "tagkey")+"="+escape(value, "tagval"))...)
+}
+
+func (m *metric) HasTag(key string) bool {
+	i := bytes.Index(m.tags, []byte(escape(key, "tagkey")+"="))
+	if i == -1 {
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+func (m *metric) RemoveTag(key string) {
+	m.hashID = 0
+
+	i := bytes.Index(m.tags, []byte(escape(key, "tagkey")+"="))
+	if i == -1 {
+		return
+	}
+
+	tmp := m.tags[0 : i-1]
+	j := indexUnescapedByte(m.tags[i:], ',')
+	if j != -1 {
+		tmp = append(tmp, m.tags[i+j:]...)
+	}
+	m.tags = tmp
+	return
+}
+
+func (m *metric) AddField(key string, value interface{}) {
+	m.fields = append(m.fields, ',')
+	m.fields = appendField(m.fields, key, value)
+}
+
+func (m *metric) HasField(key string) bool {
+	i := bytes.Index(m.fields, []byte(escape(key, "tagkey")+"="))
+	if i == -1 {
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+func (m *metric) RemoveField(key string) error {
+	i := bytes.Index(m.fields, []byte(escape(key, "tagkey")+"="))
+	if i == -1 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	var tmp []byte
+	if i != 0 {
+		tmp = m.fields[0 : i-1]
+	}
+	j := indexUnescapedByte(m.fields[i:], ',')
+	if j != -1 {
+		tmp = append(tmp, m.fields[i+j:]...)
+	}
+
+	if len(tmp) == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Metric cannot remove final field: %s", m.fields)
+	}
+
+	m.fields = tmp
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m *metric) Copy() telegraf.Metric {
+	return copyWith(m.name, m.tags, m.fields, m.t)
+}
+
+func copyWith(name, tags, fields, t []byte) telegraf.Metric {
+	out := metric{
+		name:   make([]byte, len(name)),
+		tags:   make([]byte, len(tags)),
+		fields: make([]byte, len(fields)),
+		t:      make([]byte, len(t)),
+	}
+	copy(out.name, name)
+	copy(out.tags, tags)
+	copy(out.fields, fields)
+	copy(out.t, t)
+	return &out
+}
+
+func (m *metric) HashID() uint64 {
+	if m.hashID == 0 {
+		h := fnv.New64a()
+		h.Write(m.name)
+
+		tags := m.Tags()
+		tmp := make([]string, len(tags))
+		i := 0
+		for k, v := range tags {
+			tmp[i] = k + v
+			i++
+		}
+		sort.Strings(tmp)
+
+		for _, s := range tmp {
+			h.Write([]byte(s))
+		}
+
+		m.hashID = h.Sum64()
+	}
+	return m.hashID
+}
+
+func appendField(b []byte, k string, v interface{}) []byte {
+	if v == nil {
+		return b
+	}
+	b = append(b, []byte(escape(k, "tagkey")+"=")...)
+
+	// check popular types first
+	switch v := v.(type) {
+	case float64:
+		b = strconv.AppendFloat(b, v, 'f', -1, 64)
+	case int64:
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, v, 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case string:
+		b = append(b, '"')
+		b = append(b, []byte(escape(v, "fieldval"))...)
+		b = append(b, '"')
+	case bool:
+		b = strconv.AppendBool(b, v)
+	case int32:
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(v), 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case int16:
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(v), 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case int8:
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(v), 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case int:
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(v), 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case uint64:
+		// Cap uints above the maximum int value
+		var intv int64
+		if v <= uint64(MaxInt) {
+			intv = int64(v)
+		} else {
+			intv = int64(MaxInt)
+		}
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, intv, 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case uint32:
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(v), 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case uint16:
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(v), 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case uint8:
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(v), 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case uint:
+		// Cap uints above the maximum int value
+		var intv int64
+		if v <= uint(MaxInt) {
+			intv = int64(v)
+		} else {
+			intv = int64(MaxInt)
+		}
+		b = strconv.AppendInt(b, intv, 10)
+		b = append(b, 'i')
+	case float32:
+		b = strconv.AppendFloat(b, float64(v), 'f', -1, 32)
+	case []byte:
+		b = append(b, v...)
+	default:
+		// Can't determine the type, so convert to string
+		b = append(b, '"')
+		b = append(b, []byte(escape(fmt.Sprintf("%v", v), "fieldval"))...)
+		b = append(b, '"')
+	}
+
+	return b
+}
--- a/metric/metric_benchmark_test.go
+++ b/metric/metric_benchmark_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+// vars for making sure that the compiler doesnt optimize out the benchmarks:
+var (
+	s      string
+	I      interface{}
+	tags   map[string]string
+	fields map[string]interface{}
+)
+
+func BenchmarkNewMetric(b *testing.B) {
+	var mt telegraf.Metric
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		mt, _ = New("test_metric",
+			map[string]string{
+				"test_tag_1": "tag_value_1",
+				"test_tag_2": "tag_value_2",
+				"test_tag_3": "tag_value_3",
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"string_field": "string",
+				"int_field":    int64(1000),
+				"float_field":  float64(2.1),
+			},
+			time.Now(),
+		)
+	}
+	s = string(mt.String())
+}
+
+func BenchmarkAddTag(b *testing.B) {
+	var mt telegraf.Metric
+	mt = &metric{
+		name:   []byte("cpu"),
+		tags:   []byte(",host=localhost"),
+		fields: []byte("a=101"),
+		t:      []byte("1480614053000000000"),
+	}
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		mt.AddTag("foo", "bar")
+	}
+	s = string(mt.String())
+}
+
+func BenchmarkSplit(b *testing.B) {
+	var mt telegraf.Metric
+	mt = &metric{
+		name:   []byte("cpu"),
+		tags:   []byte(",host=localhost"),
+		fields: []byte("a=101,b=10i,c=10101,d=101010,e=42"),
+		t:      []byte("1480614053000000000"),
+	}
+	var metrics []telegraf.Metric
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		metrics = mt.Split(60)
+	}
+	s = string(metrics[0].String())
+}
+
+func BenchmarkTags(b *testing.B) {
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		var mt, _ = New("test_metric",
+			map[string]string{
+				"test_tag_1": "tag_value_1",
+				"test_tag_2": "tag_value_2",
+				"test_tag_3": "tag_value_3",
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"string_field": "string",
+				"int_field":    int64(1000),
+				"float_field":  float64(2.1),
+			},
+			time.Now(),
+		)
+		tags = mt.Tags()
+	}
+	s = fmt.Sprint(tags)
+}
+
+func BenchmarkFields(b *testing.B) {
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		var mt, _ = New("test_metric",
+			map[string]string{
+				"test_tag_1": "tag_value_1",
+				"test_tag_2": "tag_value_2",
+				"test_tag_3": "tag_value_3",
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"string_field": "string",
+				"int_field":    int64(1000),
+				"float_field":  float64(2.1),
+			},
+			time.Now(),
+		)
+		fields = mt.Fields()
+	}
+	s = fmt.Sprint(fields)
+}
+
+func BenchmarkString(b *testing.B) {
+	mt, _ := New("test_metric",
+		map[string]string{
+			"test_tag_1": "tag_value_1",
+			"test_tag_2": "tag_value_2",
+			"test_tag_3": "tag_value_3",
+		},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"string_field": "string",
+			"int_field":    int64(1000),
+			"float_field":  float64(2.1),
+		},
+		time.Now(),
+	)
+	var S string
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		S = mt.String()
+	}
+	s = S
+}
+
+func BenchmarkSerialize(b *testing.B) {
+	mt, _ := New("test_metric",
+		map[string]string{
+			"test_tag_1": "tag_value_1",
+			"test_tag_2": "tag_value_2",
+			"test_tag_3": "tag_value_3",
+		},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"string_field": "string",
+			"int_field":    int64(1000),
+			"float_field":  float64(2.1),
+		},
+		time.Now(),
+	)
+	var B []byte
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		B = mt.Serialize()
+	}
+	s = string(B)
+}
--- a/metric/metric_test.go
+++ b/metric/metric_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,737 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"regexp"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestNewMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host":       "localhost",
+		"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": float64(99),
+		"usage_busy": float64(1),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, telegraf.Untyped, m.Type())
+	assert.Equal(t, tags, m.Tags())
+	assert.Equal(t, fields, m.Fields())
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu", m.Name())
+	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m.Time().UnixNano())
+	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m.UnixNano())
+}
+
+func TestNewErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	// creating a metric with an empty name produces an error:
+	m, err := New(
+		"",
+		map[string]string{
+			"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+			"mytag":      "foo",
+			"another":    "tag",
+		},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value": float64(1),
+		},
+		time.Now(),
+	)
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Nil(t, m)
+
+	// creating a metric with empty fields produces an error:
+	m, err = New(
+		"foobar",
+		map[string]string{
+			"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+			"mytag":      "foo",
+			"another":    "tag",
+		},
+		map[string]interface{}{},
+		time.Now(),
+	)
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Nil(t, m)
+}
+
+func TestNewMetric_Tags(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host":       "localhost",
+		"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"value": float64(1),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.True(t, m.HasTag("host"))
+	assert.True(t, m.HasTag("datacenter"))
+
+	m.AddTag("newtag", "foo")
+	assert.True(t, m.HasTag("newtag"))
+
+	m.RemoveTag("host")
+	assert.False(t, m.HasTag("host"))
+	assert.True(t, m.HasTag("newtag"))
+	assert.True(t, m.HasTag("datacenter"))
+
+	m.RemoveTag("datacenter")
+	assert.False(t, m.HasTag("datacenter"))
+	assert.True(t, m.HasTag("newtag"))
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"newtag": "foo"}, m.Tags())
+
+	m.RemoveTag("newtag")
+	assert.False(t, m.HasTag("newtag"))
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{}, m.Tags())
+
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu value=1 "+fmt.Sprint(now.UnixNano())+"\n", m.String())
+}
+
+func TestSerialize(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"value": float64(1),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		[]byte("cpu,datacenter=us-east-1 value=1 "+fmt.Sprint(now.UnixNano())+"\n"),
+		m.Serialize())
+
+	m.RemoveTag("datacenter")
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		[]byte("cpu value=1 "+fmt.Sprint(now.UnixNano())+"\n"),
+		m.Serialize())
+}
+
+func TestHashID(t *testing.T) {
+	m, _ := New(
+		"cpu",
+		map[string]string{
+			"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+			"mytag":      "foo",
+			"another":    "tag",
+		},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value": float64(1),
+		},
+		time.Now(),
+	)
+	hash := m.HashID()
+
+	// adding a field doesn't change the hash:
+	m.AddField("foo", int64(100))
+	assert.Equal(t, hash, m.HashID())
+
+	// removing a non-existent tag doesn't change the hash:
+	m.RemoveTag("no-op")
+	assert.Equal(t, hash, m.HashID())
+
+	// adding a tag does change it:
+	m.AddTag("foo", "bar")
+	assert.NotEqual(t, hash, m.HashID())
+	hash = m.HashID()
+
+	// removing a tag also changes it:
+	m.RemoveTag("mytag")
+	assert.NotEqual(t, hash, m.HashID())
+}
+
+func TestHashID_Consistency(t *testing.T) {
+	m, _ := New(
+		"cpu",
+		map[string]string{
+			"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+			"mytag":      "foo",
+			"another":    "tag",
+		},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value": float64(1),
+		},
+		time.Now(),
+	)
+	hash := m.HashID()
+
+	for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
+		m2, _ := New(
+			"cpu",
+			map[string]string{
+				"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+				"mytag":      "foo",
+				"another":    "tag",
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": float64(1),
+			},
+			time.Now(),
+		)
+		assert.Equal(t, hash, m2.HashID())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNewMetric_NameModifiers(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	tags := map[string]string{}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"value": float64(1),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	hash := m.HashID()
+	suffix := fmt.Sprintf(" value=1 %d\n", now.UnixNano())
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu"+suffix, m.String())
+
+	m.SetPrefix("pre_")
+	assert.NotEqual(t, hash, m.HashID())
+	hash = m.HashID()
+	assert.Equal(t, "pre_cpu"+suffix, m.String())
+
+	m.SetSuffix("_post")
+	assert.NotEqual(t, hash, m.HashID())
+	hash = m.HashID()
+	assert.Equal(t, "pre_cpu_post"+suffix, m.String())
+
+	m.SetName("mem")
+	assert.NotEqual(t, hash, m.HashID())
+	assert.Equal(t, "mem"+suffix, m.String())
+}
+
+func TestNewMetric_FieldModifiers(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"value": float64(1),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.True(t, m.HasField("value"))
+	assert.False(t, m.HasField("foo"))
+
+	m.AddField("newfield", "foo")
+	assert.True(t, m.HasField("newfield"))
+
+	assert.NoError(t, m.RemoveField("newfield"))
+	assert.False(t, m.HasField("newfield"))
+
+	// don't allow user to remove all fields:
+	assert.Error(t, m.RemoveField("value"))
+
+	m.AddField("value2", int64(101))
+	assert.NoError(t, m.RemoveField("value"))
+	assert.False(t, m.HasField("value"))
+}
+
+func TestNewMetric_Fields(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float":                  float64(1),
+		"int":                    int64(1),
+		"bool":                   true,
+		"false":                  false,
+		"string":                 "test",
+		"quote_string":           `x"y`,
+		"backslash_quote_string": `x\"y`,
+		"backslash":              `x\y`,
+		"ends_with_backslash":    `x\`,
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, fields, m.Fields())
+}
+
+func TestNewMetric_Time(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float":  float64(1),
+		"int":    int64(1),
+		"bool":   true,
+		"false":  false,
+		"string": "test",
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	m = m.Copy()
+	m2 := m.Copy()
+
+	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m.Time().UnixNano())
+	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m2.UnixNano())
+}
+
+func TestNewMetric_Copy(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	tags := map[string]string{}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float": float64(1),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	m2 := m.Copy()
+
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("cpu float=1 %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String())
+	m.AddTag("host", "localhost")
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("cpu,host=localhost float=1 %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String())
+
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("cpu float=1 %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m2.String())
+}
+
+func TestNewMetric_AllTypes(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+	tags := map[string]string{}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float64":     float64(1),
+		"float32":     float32(1),
+		"int64":       int64(1),
+		"int32":       int32(1),
+		"int16":       int16(1),
+		"int8":        int8(1),
+		"int":         int(1),
+		"uint64":      uint64(1),
+		"uint32":      uint32(1),
+		"uint16":      uint16(1),
+		"uint8":       uint8(1),
+		"uint":        uint(1),
+		"bytes":       []byte("foo"),
+		"nil":         nil,
+		"maxuint64":   uint64(MaxInt) + 10,
+		"maxuint":     uint(MaxInt) + 10,
+		"unsupported": []int{1, 2},
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "float64=1")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "float32=1")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "int64=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "int32=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "int16=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "int8=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "int=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "uint64=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "uint32=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "uint16=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "uint8=1i")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), "uint=1i")
+	assert.NotContains(t, m.String(), "nil")
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), fmt.Sprintf("maxuint64=%di", MaxInt))
+	assert.Contains(t, m.String(), fmt.Sprintf("maxuint=%di", MaxInt))
+}
+
+func TestIndexUnescapedByte(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		in       []byte
+		b        byte
+		expected int
+	}{
+		{
+			in:       []byte(`foobar`),
+			b:        'b',
+			expected: 3,
+		},
+		{
+			in:       []byte(`foo\bar`),
+			b:        'b',
+			expected: -1,
+		},
+		{
+			in:       []byte(`foo\\bar`),
+			b:        'b',
+			expected: -1,
+		},
+		{
+			in:       []byte(`foobar`),
+			b:        'f',
+			expected: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			in:       []byte(`foobar`),
+			b:        'r',
+			expected: 5,
+		},
+		{
+			in:       []byte(`\foobar`),
+			b:        'f',
+			expected: -1,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		got := indexUnescapedByte(test.in, test.b)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.expected, got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNewGaugeMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host":       "localhost",
+		"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": float64(99),
+		"usage_busy": float64(1),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now, telegraf.Gauge)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, telegraf.Gauge, m.Type())
+	assert.Equal(t, tags, m.Tags())
+	assert.Equal(t, fields, m.Fields())
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu", m.Name())
+	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m.Time().UnixNano())
+	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m.UnixNano())
+}
+
+func TestNewCounterMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host":       "localhost",
+		"datacenter": "us-east-1",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": float64(99),
+		"usage_busy": float64(1),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now, telegraf.Counter)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, telegraf.Counter, m.Type())
+	assert.Equal(t, tags, m.Tags())
+	assert.Equal(t, fields, m.Fields())
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu", m.Name())
+	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m.Time().UnixNano())
+	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m.UnixNano())
+}
+
+// test splitting metric into various max lengths
+func TestSplitMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Unix(0, 1480940990034083306)
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float":  float64(100001),
+		"int":    int64(100001),
+		"bool":   true,
+		"false":  false,
+		"string": "test",
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	split80 := m.Split(80)
+	assert.Len(t, split80, 2)
+
+	split70 := m.Split(70)
+	assert.Len(t, split70, 3)
+
+	split60 := m.Split(60)
+	assert.Len(t, split60, 5)
+}
+
+// test splitting metric into various max lengths
+// use a simple regex check to verify that the split metrics are valid
+func TestSplitMetric_RegexVerify(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Unix(0, 1480940990034083306)
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"foo":     float64(98934259085),
+		"bar":     float64(19385292),
+		"number":  float64(19385292),
+		"another": float64(19385292),
+		"n":       float64(19385292),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// verification regex
+	re := regexp.MustCompile(`cpu,host=localhost \w+=\d+(,\w+=\d+)* 1480940990034083306`)
+
+	split90 := m.Split(90)
+	assert.Len(t, split90, 2)
+	for _, splitM := range split90 {
+		assert.True(t, re.Match(splitM.Serialize()), splitM.String())
+	}
+
+	split70 := m.Split(70)
+	assert.Len(t, split70, 3)
+	for _, splitM := range split70 {
+		assert.True(t, re.Match(splitM.Serialize()), splitM.String())
+	}
+
+	split20 := m.Split(20)
+	assert.Len(t, split20, 5)
+	for _, splitM := range split20 {
+		assert.True(t, re.Match(splitM.Serialize()), splitM.String())
+	}
+}
+
+// test splitting metric even when given length is shorter than
+// shortest possible length
+// Split should split metric as short as possible, ie, 1 field per metric
+func TestSplitMetric_TooShort(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Unix(0, 1480940990034083306)
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float":  float64(100001),
+		"int":    int64(100001),
+		"bool":   true,
+		"false":  false,
+		"string": "test",
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	split := m.Split(10)
+	assert.Len(t, split, 5)
+	strings := make([]string, 5)
+	for i, splitM := range split {
+		strings[i] = splitM.String()
+	}
+
+	assert.Contains(t, strings, "cpu,host=localhost float=100001 1480940990034083306\n")
+	assert.Contains(t, strings, "cpu,host=localhost int=100001i 1480940990034083306\n")
+	assert.Contains(t, strings, "cpu,host=localhost bool=true 1480940990034083306\n")
+	assert.Contains(t, strings, "cpu,host=localhost false=false 1480940990034083306\n")
+	assert.Contains(t, strings, "cpu,host=localhost string=\"test\" 1480940990034083306\n")
+}
+
+func TestSplitMetric_NoOp(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Unix(0, 1480940990034083306)
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float":  float64(100001),
+		"int":    int64(100001),
+		"bool":   true,
+		"false":  false,
+		"string": "test",
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	split := m.Split(1000)
+	assert.Len(t, split, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, m, split[0])
+}
+
+func TestSplitMetric_OneField(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Unix(0, 1480940990034083306)
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float": float64(100001),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu,host=localhost float=100001 1480940990034083306\n", m.String())
+
+	split := m.Split(1000)
+	assert.Len(t, split, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu,host=localhost float=100001 1480940990034083306\n", split[0].String())
+
+	split = m.Split(1)
+	assert.Len(t, split, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu,host=localhost float=100001 1480940990034083306\n", split[0].String())
+
+	split = m.Split(40)
+	assert.Len(t, split, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, "cpu,host=localhost float=100001 1480940990034083306\n", split[0].String())
+}
+
+func TestSplitMetric_ExactSize(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Unix(0, 1480940990034083306)
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float":  float64(100001),
+		"int":    int64(100001),
+		"bool":   true,
+		"false":  false,
+		"string": "test",
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	actual := m.Split(m.Len())
+	// check that no copy was made
+	require.Equal(t, &m, &actual[0])
+}
+
+func TestSplitMetric_NoRoomForNewline(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Unix(0, 1480940990034083306)
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"float": float64(100001),
+		"int":   int64(100001),
+		"bool":  true,
+		"false": false,
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	actual := m.Split(m.Len() - 1)
+	require.Equal(t, 2, len(actual))
+}
+
+func TestNewMetricAggregate(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": float64(99),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.False(t, m.IsAggregate())
+	m.SetAggregate(true)
+	assert.True(t, m.IsAggregate())
+}
+
+func TestNewMetricString(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": float64(99),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	lineProto := fmt.Sprintf("cpu,host=localhost usage_idle=99 %d\n",
+		now.UnixNano())
+	assert.Equal(t, lineProto, m.String())
+}
+
+func TestNewMetricFailNaN(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host": "localhost",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": math.NaN(),
+	}
+
+	_, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+}
+
+func TestEmptyTagValueOrKey(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host":     "localhost",
+		"emptytag": "",
+		"":         "valuewithoutkey",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": float64(99),
+	}
+	m, err := New("cpu", tags, fields, now)
+
+	assert.True(t, m.HasTag("host"))
+	assert.False(t, m.HasTag("emptytag"))
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("cpu,host=localhost usage_idle=99 %d\n", now.UnixNano()),
+		m.String())
+
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+}
+
+func TestNewMetric_TrailingSlash(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name   string
+		tags   map[string]string
+		fields map[string]interface{}
+	}{
+		{
+			name: `cpu\`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "cpu",
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				`value\`: "x",
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "cpu",
+			tags: map[string]string{
+				`host\`: "localhost",
+			},
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "cpu",
+			tags: map[string]string{
+				"host": `localhost\`,
+			},
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": int64(42),
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		_, err := New(tc.name, tc.tags, tc.fields, now)
+		assert.Error(t, err)
+	}
+}
--- a/metric/parse.go
+++ b/metric/parse.go
@@ -0,0 +1,680 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+var (
+	ErrInvalidNumber = errors.New("invalid number")
+)
+
+const (
+	// the number of characters for the largest possible int64 (9223372036854775807)
+	maxInt64Digits = 19
+
+	// the number of characters for the smallest possible int64 (-9223372036854775808)
+	minInt64Digits = 20
+
+	// the number of characters required for the largest float64 before a range check
+	// would occur during parsing
+	maxFloat64Digits = 25
+
+	// the number of characters required for smallest float64 before a range check occur
+	// would occur during parsing
+	minFloat64Digits = 27
+
+	MaxKeyLength = 65535
+)
+
+// The following constants allow us to specify which state to move to
+// next, when scanning sections of a Point.
+const (
+	tagKeyState = iota
+	tagValueState
+	fieldsState
+)
+
+func Parse(buf []byte) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
+	return ParseWithDefaultTimePrecision(buf, time.Now(), "")
+}
+
+func ParseWithDefaultTime(buf []byte, t time.Time) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
+	return ParseWithDefaultTimePrecision(buf, t, "")
+}
+
+func ParseWithDefaultTimePrecision(
+	buf []byte,
+	t time.Time,
+	precision string,
+) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
+	if len(buf) == 0 {
+		return []telegraf.Metric{}, nil
+	}
+	if len(buf) <= 6 {
+		return []telegraf.Metric{}, makeError("buffer too short", buf, 0)
+	}
+	metrics := make([]telegraf.Metric, 0, bytes.Count(buf, []byte("\n"))+1)
+	var errStr string
+	i := 0
+	for {
+		j := bytes.IndexByte(buf[i:], '\n')
+		if j == -1 {
+			break
+		}
+		if len(buf[i:i+j]) < 2 {
+			i += j + 1 // increment i past the previous newline
+			continue
+		}
+
+		m, err := parseMetric(buf[i:i+j], t, precision)
+		if err != nil {
+			i += j + 1 // increment i past the previous newline
+			errStr += " " + err.Error()
+			continue
+		}
+		i += j + 1 // increment i past the previous newline
+
+		metrics = append(metrics, m)
+	}
+
+	if len(errStr) > 0 {
+		return metrics, fmt.Errorf(errStr)
+	}
+	return metrics, nil
+}
+
+func parseMetric(buf []byte,
+	defaultTime time.Time,
+	precision string,
+) (telegraf.Metric, error) {
+	var dTime string
+	// scan the first block which is measurement[,tag1=value1,tag2=value=2...]
+	pos, key, err := scanKey(buf, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// measurement name is required
+	if len(key) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing measurement")
+	}
+
+	if len(key) > MaxKeyLength {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("max key length exceeded: %v > %v", len(key), MaxKeyLength)
+	}
+
+	// scan the second block is which is field1=value1[,field2=value2,...]
+	pos, fields, err := scanFields(buf, pos)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// at least one field is required
+	if len(fields) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing fields")
+	}
+
+	// scan the last block which is an optional integer timestamp
+	pos, ts, err := scanTime(buf, pos)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// apply precision multiplier
+	var nsec int64
+	multiplier := getPrecisionMultiplier(precision)
+	if len(ts) > 0 && multiplier > 1 {
+		tsint, err := parseIntBytes(ts, 10, 64)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		nsec := multiplier * tsint
+		ts = []byte(strconv.FormatInt(nsec, 10))
+	}
+
+	m := &metric{
+		fields: fields,
+		t:      ts,
+		nsec:   nsec,
+	}
+
+	// parse out the measurement name
+	// namei is the index at which the "name" ends
+	namei := indexUnescapedByte(key, ',')
+	if namei < 1 {
+		// no tags
+		m.name = key
+	} else {
+		m.name = key[0:namei]
+		m.tags = key[namei:]
+	}
+
+	if len(m.t) == 0 {
+		if len(dTime) == 0 {
+			dTime = fmt.Sprint(defaultTime.UnixNano())
+		}
+		// use default time
+		m.t = []byte(dTime)
+	}
+
+	// here we copy on return because this allows us to later call
+	// AddTag, AddField, RemoveTag, RemoveField, etc. without worrying about
+	// modifying 'tag' bytes having an affect on 'field' bytes, for example.
+	return m.Copy(), nil
+}
+
+// scanKey scans buf starting at i for the measurement and tag portion of the point.
+// It returns the ending position and the byte slice of key within buf.  If there
+// are tags, they will be sorted if they are not already.
+func scanKey(buf []byte, i int) (int, []byte, error) {
+	start := skipWhitespace(buf, i)
+	i = start
+
+	// First scan the Point's measurement.
+	state, i, err := scanMeasurement(buf, i)
+	if err != nil {
+		return i, buf[start:i], err
+	}
+
+	// Optionally scan tags if needed.
+	if state == tagKeyState {
+		i, err = scanTags(buf, i)
+		if err != nil {
+			return i, buf[start:i], err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return i, buf[start:i], nil
+}
+
+// scanMeasurement examines the measurement part of a Point, returning
+// the next state to move to, and the current location in the buffer.
+func scanMeasurement(buf []byte, i int) (int, int, error) {
+	// Check first byte of measurement, anything except a comma is fine.
+	// It can't be a space, since whitespace is stripped prior to this
+	// function call.
+	if i >= len(buf) || buf[i] == ',' {
+		return -1, i, makeError("missing measurement", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	for {
+		i++
+		if i >= len(buf) {
+			// cpu
+			return -1, i, makeError("missing fields", buf, i)
+		}
+
+		if buf[i-1] == '\\' {
+			// Skip character (it's escaped).
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Unescaped comma; move onto scanning the tags.
+		if buf[i] == ',' {
+			return tagKeyState, i + 1, nil
+		}
+
+		// Unescaped space; move onto scanning the fields.
+		if buf[i] == ' ' {
+			// cpu value=1.0
+			return fieldsState, i, nil
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// scanTags examines all the tags in a Point, keeping track of and
+// returning the updated indices slice, number of commas and location
+// in buf where to start examining the Point fields.
+func scanTags(buf []byte, i int) (int, error) {
+	var (
+		err   error
+		state = tagKeyState
+	)
+
+	for {
+		switch state {
+		case tagKeyState:
+			i, err = scanTagsKey(buf, i)
+			state = tagValueState // tag value always follows a tag key
+		case tagValueState:
+			state, i, err = scanTagsValue(buf, i)
+		case fieldsState:
+			return i, nil
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return i, err
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// scanTagsKey scans each character in a tag key.
+func scanTagsKey(buf []byte, i int) (int, error) {
+	// First character of the key.
+	if i >= len(buf) || buf[i] == ' ' || buf[i] == ',' || buf[i] == '=' {
+		// cpu,{'', ' ', ',', '='}
+		return i, makeError("missing tag key", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	// Examine each character in the tag key until we hit an unescaped
+	// equals (the tag value), or we hit an error (i.e., unescaped
+	// space or comma).
+	for {
+		i++
+
+		// Either we reached the end of the buffer or we hit an
+		// unescaped comma or space.
+		if i >= len(buf) ||
+			((buf[i] == ' ' || buf[i] == ',') && buf[i-1] != '\\') {
+			// cpu,tag{'', ' ', ','}
+			return i, makeError("missing tag value", buf, i)
+		}
+
+		if buf[i] == '=' && buf[i-1] != '\\' {
+			// cpu,tag=
+			return i + 1, nil
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// scanTagsValue scans each character in a tag value.
+func scanTagsValue(buf []byte, i int) (int, int, error) {
+	// Tag value cannot be empty.
+	if i >= len(buf) || buf[i] == ',' || buf[i] == ' ' {
+		// cpu,tag={',', ' '}
+		return -1, i, makeError("missing tag value", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	// Examine each character in the tag value until we hit an unescaped
+	// comma (move onto next tag key), an unescaped space (move onto
+	// fields), or we error out.
+	for {
+		i++
+		if i >= len(buf) {
+			// cpu,tag=value
+			return -1, i, makeError("missing fields", buf, i)
+		}
+
+		// An unescaped equals sign is an invalid tag value.
+		if buf[i] == '=' && buf[i-1] != '\\' {
+			// cpu,tag={'=', 'fo=o'}
+			return -1, i, makeError("invalid tag format", buf, i)
+		}
+
+		if buf[i] == ',' && buf[i-1] != '\\' {
+			// cpu,tag=foo,
+			return tagKeyState, i + 1, nil
+		}
+
+		// cpu,tag=foo value=1.0
+		// cpu, tag=foo\= value=1.0
+		if buf[i] == ' ' && buf[i-1] != '\\' {
+			return fieldsState, i, nil
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// scanFields scans buf, starting at i for the fields section of a point.  It returns
+// the ending position and the byte slice of the fields within buf
+func scanFields(buf []byte, i int) (int, []byte, error) {
+	start := skipWhitespace(buf, i)
+	i = start
+
+	// track how many '"" we've seen since last '='
+	quotes := 0
+
+	// tracks how many '=' we've seen
+	equals := 0
+
+	// tracks how many commas we've seen
+	commas := 0
+
+	for {
+		// reached the end of buf?
+		if i >= len(buf) {
+			break
+		}
+
+		// escaped characters?
+		if buf[i] == '\\' && i+1 < len(buf) {
+			i += 2
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// If the value is quoted, scan until we get to the end quote
+		// Only quote values in the field value since quotes are not significant
+		// in the field key
+		if buf[i] == '"' && equals > commas {
+			i++
+			quotes++
+			if quotes > 2 {
+				break
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// If we see an =, ensure that there is at least on char before and after it
+		if buf[i] == '=' && quotes != 1 {
+			quotes = 0
+			equals++
+
+			// check for "... =123" but allow "a\ =123"
+			if buf[i-1] == ' ' && buf[i-2] != '\\' {
+				return i, buf[start:i], makeError("missing field key", buf, i)
+			}
+
+			// check for "...a=123,=456" but allow "a=123,a\,=456"
+			if buf[i-1] == ',' && buf[i-2] != '\\' {
+				return i, buf[start:i], makeError("missing field key", buf, i)
+			}
+
+			// check for "... value="
+			if i+1 >= len(buf) {
+				return i, buf[start:i], makeError("missing field value", buf, i)
+			}
+
+			// check for "... value=,value2=..."
+			if buf[i+1] == ',' || buf[i+1] == ' ' {
+				return i, buf[start:i], makeError("missing field value", buf, i)
+			}
+
+			if isNumeric(buf[i+1]) || buf[i+1] == '-' || buf[i+1] == 'N' || buf[i+1] == 'n' {
+				var err error
+				i, err = scanNumber(buf, i+1)
+				if err != nil {
+					return i, buf[start:i], err
+				}
+				continue
+			}
+			// If next byte is not a double-quote, the value must be a boolean
+			if buf[i+1] != '"' {
+				var err error
+				i, _, err = scanBoolean(buf, i+1)
+				if err != nil {
+					return i, buf[start:i], err
+				}
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+
+		if buf[i] == ',' && quotes != 1 {
+			commas++
+		}
+
+		// reached end of block?
+		if buf[i] == ' ' && quotes != 1 {
+			break
+		}
+		i++
+	}
+
+	if quotes != 0 && quotes != 2 {
+		return i, buf[start:i], makeError("unbalanced quotes", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	// check that all field sections had key and values (e.g. prevent "a=1,b"
+	if equals == 0 || commas != equals-1 {
+		return i, buf[start:i], makeError("invalid field format", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	return i, buf[start:i], nil
+}
+
+// scanTime scans buf, starting at i for the time section of a point. It
+// returns the ending position and the byte slice of the timestamp within buf
+// and and error if the timestamp is not in the correct numeric format.
+func scanTime(buf []byte, i int) (int, []byte, error) {
+	start := skipWhitespace(buf, i)
+	i = start
+
+	for {
+		// reached the end of buf?
+		if i >= len(buf) {
+			break
+		}
+
+		// Reached end of block or trailing whitespace?
+		if buf[i] == '\n' || buf[i] == ' ' {
+			break
+		}
+
+		// Handle negative timestamps
+		if i == start && buf[i] == '-' {
+			i++
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Timestamps should be integers, make sure they are so we don't need
+		// to actually  parse the timestamp until needed.
+		if buf[i] < '0' || buf[i] > '9' {
+			return i, buf[start:i], makeError("invalid timestamp", buf, i)
+		}
+		i++
+	}
+	return i, buf[start:i], nil
+}
+
+func isNumeric(b byte) bool {
+	return (b >= '0' && b <= '9') || b == '.'
+}
+
+// scanNumber returns the end position within buf, start at i after
+// scanning over buf for an integer, or float.  It returns an
+// error if a invalid number is scanned.
+func scanNumber(buf []byte, i int) (int, error) {
+	start := i
+	var isInt bool
+
+	// Is negative number?
+	if i < len(buf) && buf[i] == '-' {
+		i++
+		// There must be more characters now, as just '-' is illegal.
+		if i == len(buf) {
+			return i, ErrInvalidNumber
+		}
+	}
+
+	// how many decimal points we've see
+	decimal := false
+
+	// indicates the number is float in scientific notation
+	scientific := false
+
+	for {
+		if i >= len(buf) {
+			break
+		}
+
+		if buf[i] == ',' || buf[i] == ' ' {
+			break
+		}
+
+		if buf[i] == 'i' && i > start && !isInt {
+			isInt = true
+			i++
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if buf[i] == '.' {
+			// Can't have more than 1 decimal (e.g. 1.1.1 should fail)
+			if decimal {
+				return i, ErrInvalidNumber
+			}
+			decimal = true
+		}
+
+		// `e` is valid for floats but not as the first char
+		if i > start && (buf[i] == 'e' || buf[i] == 'E') {
+			scientific = true
+			i++
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// + and - are only valid at this point if they follow an e (scientific notation)
+		if (buf[i] == '+' || buf[i] == '-') && (buf[i-1] == 'e' || buf[i-1] == 'E') {
+			i++
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// NaN is an unsupported value
+		if i+2 < len(buf) && (buf[i] == 'N' || buf[i] == 'n') {
+			return i, ErrInvalidNumber
+		}
+
+		if !isNumeric(buf[i]) {
+			return i, ErrInvalidNumber
+		}
+		i++
+	}
+
+	if isInt && (decimal || scientific) {
+		return i, ErrInvalidNumber
+	}
+
+	numericDigits := i - start
+	if isInt {
+		numericDigits--
+	}
+	if decimal {
+		numericDigits--
+	}
+	if buf[start] == '-' {
+		numericDigits--
+	}
+
+	if numericDigits == 0 {
+		return i, ErrInvalidNumber
+	}
+
+	// It's more common that numbers will be within min/max range for their type but we need to prevent
+	// out or range numbers from being parsed successfully.  This uses some simple heuristics to decide
+	// if we should parse the number to the actual type.  It does not do it all the time because it incurs
+	// extra allocations and we end up converting the type again when writing points to disk.
+	if isInt {
+		// Make sure the last char is an 'i' for integers (e.g. 9i10 is not valid)
+		if buf[i-1] != 'i' {
+			return i, ErrInvalidNumber
+		}
+		// Parse the int to check bounds the number of digits could be larger than the max range
+		// We subtract 1 from the index to remove the `i` from our tests
+		if len(buf[start:i-1]) >= maxInt64Digits || len(buf[start:i-1]) >= minInt64Digits {
+			if _, err := parseIntBytes(buf[start:i-1], 10, 64); err != nil {
+				return i, makeError(fmt.Sprintf("unable to parse integer %s: %s", buf[start:i-1], err), buf, i)
+			}
+		}
+	} else {
+		// Parse the float to check bounds if it's scientific or the number of digits could be larger than the max range
+		if scientific || len(buf[start:i]) >= maxFloat64Digits || len(buf[start:i]) >= minFloat64Digits {
+			if _, err := parseFloatBytes(buf[start:i], 10); err != nil {
+				return i, makeError("invalid float", buf, i)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return i, nil
+}
+
+// scanBoolean returns the end position within buf, start at i after
+// scanning over buf for boolean. Valid values for a boolean are
+// t, T, true, TRUE, f, F, false, FALSE. It returns an error if a invalid boolean
+// is scanned.
+func scanBoolean(buf []byte, i int) (int, []byte, error) {
+	start := i
+
+	if i < len(buf) && (buf[i] != 't' && buf[i] != 'f' && buf[i] != 'T' && buf[i] != 'F') {
+		return i, buf[start:i], makeError("invalid value", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	i++
+	for {
+		if i >= len(buf) {
+			break
+		}
+
+		if buf[i] == ',' || buf[i] == ' ' {
+			break
+		}
+		i++
+	}
+
+	// Single char bool (t, T, f, F) is ok
+	if i-start == 1 {
+		return i, buf[start:i], nil
+	}
+
+	// length must be 4 for true or TRUE
+	if (buf[start] == 't' || buf[start] == 'T') && i-start != 4 {
+		return i, buf[start:i], makeError("invalid boolean", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	// length must be 5 for false or FALSE
+	if (buf[start] == 'f' || buf[start] == 'F') && i-start != 5 {
+		return i, buf[start:i], makeError("invalid boolean", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	// Otherwise
+	valid := false
+	switch buf[start] {
+	case 't':
+		valid = bytes.Equal(buf[start:i], []byte("true"))
+	case 'f':
+		valid = bytes.Equal(buf[start:i], []byte("false"))
+	case 'T':
+		valid = bytes.Equal(buf[start:i], []byte("TRUE")) || bytes.Equal(buf[start:i], []byte("True"))
+	case 'F':
+		valid = bytes.Equal(buf[start:i], []byte("FALSE")) || bytes.Equal(buf[start:i], []byte("False"))
+	}
+
+	if !valid {
+		return i, buf[start:i], makeError("invalid boolean", buf, i)
+	}
+
+	return i, buf[start:i], nil
+
+}
+
+// skipWhitespace returns the end position within buf, starting at i after
+// scanning over spaces in tags
+func skipWhitespace(buf []byte, i int) int {
+	for i < len(buf) {
+		if buf[i] != ' ' && buf[i] != '\t' && buf[i] != 0 {
+			break
+		}
+		i++
+	}
+	return i
+}
+
+// makeError is a helper function for making a metric parsing error.
+//   reason is the reason why the error occurred.
+//   buf should be the current buffer we are parsing.
+//   i is the current index, to give some context on where in the buffer we are.
+func makeError(reason string, buf []byte, i int) error {
+	return fmt.Errorf("metric parsing error, reason: [%s], buffer: [%s], index: [%d]",
+		reason, buf, i)
+}
+
+// getPrecisionMultiplier will return a multiplier for the precision specified.
+func getPrecisionMultiplier(precision string) int64 {
+	d := time.Nanosecond
+	switch precision {
+	case "u":
+		d = time.Microsecond
+	case "ms":
+		d = time.Millisecond
+	case "s":
+		d = time.Second
+	case "m":
+		d = time.Minute
+	case "h":
+		d = time.Hour
+	}
+	return int64(d)
+}
--- a/metric/parse_test.go
+++ b/metric/parse_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,413 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+const trues = `booltest b=T
+booltest b=t
+booltest b=True
+booltest b=TRUE
+booltest b=true
+`
+
+const falses = `booltest b=F
+booltest b=f
+booltest b=False
+booltest b=FALSE
+booltest b=false
+`
+
+const withEscapes = `w\,\ eather,host=local temp=99 1465839830100400200
+w\,eather,host=local temp=99 1465839830100400200
+weather,location=us\,midwest temperature=82 1465839830100400200
+weather,location=us-midwest temp\=rature=82 1465839830100400200
+weather,location\ place=us-midwest temperature=82 1465839830100400200
+weather,location=us-midwest temperature="too\"hot\"" 1465839830100400200
+`
+
+const withTimestamps = `cpu usage=99 1480595849000000000
+cpu usage=99 1480595850000000000
+cpu usage=99 1480595851700030000
+cpu usage=99 1480595852000000300
+`
+
+const sevenMetrics = `cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east idle=99,busy=1i,b=true,s="string"
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east idle=99,busy=1i,b=true,s="string"
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east idle=99,busy=1i,b=true,s="string"
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east idle=99,busy=1i,b=true,s="string"
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east idle=99,busy=1i,b=true,s="string"
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east idle=99,busy=1i,b=true,s="string"
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east idle=99,busy=1i,b=true,s="string"
+`
+
+const negMetrics = `weather,host=local temp=-99i,temp_float=-99.4 1465839830100400200
+`
+
+// some metrics are invalid
+const someInvalid = `cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu3, host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu4 , usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu 1480595852000000300
+cpu usage=99 1480595852foobar300
+cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+`
+
+func TestParse(t *testing.T) {
+	start := time.Now()
+	metrics, err := Parse([]byte(sevenMetrics))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, metrics, 7)
+
+	// all metrics parsed together w/o a timestamp should have the same time.
+	firstTime := metrics[0].Time()
+	for _, m := range metrics {
+		assert.Equal(t,
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"idle": float64(99),
+				"busy": int64(1),
+				"b":    true,
+				"s":    "string",
+			},
+			m.Fields(),
+		)
+		assert.Equal(t,
+			map[string]string{
+				"host":       "foo",
+				"datacenter": "us-east",
+			},
+			m.Tags(),
+		)
+		assert.True(t, m.Time().After(start))
+		assert.True(t, m.Time().Equal(firstTime))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseNegNumbers(t *testing.T) {
+	metrics, err := Parse([]byte(negMetrics))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, metrics, 1)
+
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"temp":       int64(-99),
+			"temp_float": float64(-99.4),
+		},
+		metrics[0].Fields(),
+	)
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		map[string]string{
+			"host": "local",
+		},
+		metrics[0].Tags(),
+	)
+}
+
+func TestParseErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	start := time.Now()
+	metrics, err := Parse([]byte(someInvalid))
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, metrics, 4)
+
+	// all metrics parsed together w/o a timestamp should have the same time.
+	firstTime := metrics[0].Time()
+	for _, m := range metrics {
+		assert.Equal(t,
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"usage_idle": float64(99),
+				"usage_busy": float64(1),
+			},
+			m.Fields(),
+		)
+		assert.Equal(t,
+			map[string]string{
+				"host":       "foo",
+				"datacenter": "us-east",
+			},
+			m.Tags(),
+		)
+		assert.True(t, m.Time().After(start))
+		assert.True(t, m.Time().Equal(firstTime))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseWithTimestamps(t *testing.T) {
+	metrics, err := Parse([]byte(withTimestamps))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, metrics, 4)
+
+	expectedTimestamps := []time.Time{
+		time.Unix(0, 1480595849000000000),
+		time.Unix(0, 1480595850000000000),
+		time.Unix(0, 1480595851700030000),
+		time.Unix(0, 1480595852000000300),
+	}
+
+	// all metrics parsed together w/o a timestamp should have the same time.
+	for i, m := range metrics {
+		assert.Equal(t,
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"usage": float64(99),
+			},
+			m.Fields(),
+		)
+		assert.True(t, m.Time().Equal(expectedTimestamps[i]))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseEscapes(t *testing.T) {
+	metrics, err := Parse([]byte(withEscapes))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, metrics, 6)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name   string
+		fields map[string]interface{}
+		tags   map[string]string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:   `w, eather`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{"temp": float64(99)},
+			tags:   map[string]string{"host": "local"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:   `w,eather`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{"temp": float64(99)},
+			tags:   map[string]string{"host": "local"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:   `weather`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{"temperature": float64(82)},
+			tags:   map[string]string{"location": `us,midwest`},
+		},
+		{
+			name:   `weather`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{`temp=rature`: float64(82)},
+			tags:   map[string]string{"location": `us-midwest`},
+		},
+		{
+			name:   `weather`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{"temperature": float64(82)},
+			tags:   map[string]string{`location place`: `us-midwest`},
+		},
+		{
+			name:   `weather`,
+			fields: map[string]interface{}{`temperature`: `too"hot"`},
+			tags:   map[string]string{"location": `us-midwest`},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for i, test := range tests {
+		assert.Equal(t, test.name, metrics[i].Name())
+		assert.Equal(t, test.fields, metrics[i].Fields())
+		assert.Equal(t, test.tags, metrics[i].Tags())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseTrueBooleans(t *testing.T) {
+	metrics, err := Parse([]byte(trues))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, metrics, 5)
+
+	for _, metric := range metrics {
+		assert.Equal(t, "booltest", metric.Name())
+		assert.Equal(t, true, metric.Fields()["b"])
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseFalseBooleans(t *testing.T) {
+	metrics, err := Parse([]byte(falses))
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, metrics, 5)
+
+	for _, metric := range metrics {
+		assert.Equal(t, "booltest", metric.Name())
+		assert.Equal(t, false, metric.Fields()["b"])
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParsePointBadNumber(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		"cpu v=- ",
+		"cpu v=-i ",
+		"cpu v=-. ",
+		"cpu v=. ",
+		"cpu v=1.0i ",
+		"cpu v=1ii ",
+		"cpu v=1a ",
+		"cpu v=-e-e-e ",
+		"cpu v=42+3 ",
+		"cpu v= ",
+	} {
+		_, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.Error(t, err, tt)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseTagsMissingParts(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		`cpu,host`,
+		`cpu,host,`,
+		`cpu,host=`,
+		`cpu,f=oo=bar value=1`,
+		`cpu,host value=1i`,
+		`cpu,host=serverA,region value=1i`,
+		`cpu,host=serverA,region= value=1i`,
+		`cpu,host=serverA,region=,zone=us-west value=1i`,
+		`cpu, value=1`,
+		`cpu, ,,`,
+		`cpu,,,`,
+		`cpu,host=serverA,=us-east value=1i`,
+		`cpu,host=serverAa\,,=us-east value=1i`,
+		`cpu,host=serverA\,,=us-east value=1i`,
+		`cpu, =serverA value=1i`,
+	} {
+		_, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.Error(t, err, tt)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParsePointWhitespace(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		`cpu    value=1.0 1257894000000000000`,
+		`cpu value=1.0     1257894000000000000`,
+		`cpu      value=1.0     1257894000000000000`,
+		`cpu value=1.0 1257894000000000000   `,
+	} {
+		m, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.NoError(t, err, tt)
+		assert.Equal(t, "cpu", m[0].Name())
+		assert.Equal(t, map[string]interface{}{"value": float64(1)}, m[0].Fields())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParsePointInvalidFields(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		"test,foo=bar a=101,=value",
+		"test,foo=bar =value",
+		"test,foo=bar a=101,key=",
+		"test,foo=bar key=",
+		`test,foo=bar a=101,b="foo`,
+	} {
+		_, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.Error(t, err, tt)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParsePointNoFields(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		"cpu_load_short,host=server01,region=us-west",
+		"very_long_measurement_name",
+		"cpu,host==",
+		"============",
+		"cpu",
+		"cpu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
+		"                ",
+	} {
+		_, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.Error(t, err, tt)
+	}
+}
+
+// a b=1 << this is the shortest possible metric
+// any shorter is just ignored
+func TestParseBufTooShort(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		"",
+		"a",
+		"a ",
+		"a b=",
+	} {
+		_, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.Error(t, err, tt)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseInvalidBooleans(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		"test b=tru",
+		"test b=fals",
+		"test b=faLse",
+		"test q=foo",
+		"test b=lambchops",
+	} {
+		_, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.Error(t, err, tt)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseInvalidNumbers(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		"test b=-",
+		"test b=1.1.1",
+		"test b=nan",
+		"test b=9i10",
+		"test b=9999999999999999999i",
+	} {
+		_, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.Error(t, err, tt)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseNegativeTimestamps(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []string{
+		"test foo=101 -1257894000000000000",
+	} {
+		metrics, err := Parse([]byte(tt + "\n"))
+		assert.NoError(t, err, tt)
+		assert.True(t, metrics[0].Time().Equal(time.Unix(0, -1257894000000000000)))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParsePrecision(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []struct {
+		line      string
+		precision string
+		expected  int64
+	}{
+		{"test v=42 1491847420", "s", 1491847420000000000},
+		{"test v=42 1491847420123", "ms", 1491847420123000000},
+		{"test v=42 1491847420123456", "u", 1491847420123456000},
+		{"test v=42 1491847420123456789", "ns", 1491847420123456789},
+
+		{"test v=42 1491847420123456789", "1s", 1491847420123456789},
+		{"test v=42 1491847420123456789", "asdf", 1491847420123456789},
+	} {
+		metrics, err := ParseWithDefaultTimePrecision(
+			[]byte(tt.line+"\n"), time.Now(), tt.precision)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+		assert.Equal(t, tt.expected, metrics[0].UnixNano())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParsePrecisionUnsetTime(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tt := range []struct {
+		line      string
+		precision string
+	}{
+		{"test v=42", "s"},
+		{"test v=42", "ns"},
+	} {
+		_, err := ParseWithDefaultTimePrecision(
+			[]byte(tt.line+"\n"), time.Now(), tt.precision)
+		assert.NoError(t, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseMaxKeyLength(t *testing.T) {
+	key := ""
+	for {
+		if len(key) > MaxKeyLength {
+			break
+		}
+		key += "test"
+	}
+
+	_, err := Parse([]byte(key + " value=1\n"))
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+}
--- a/metric/reader.go
+++ b/metric/reader.go
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"io"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+type state int
+
+const (
+	_ state = iota
+	// normal state copies whole metrics into the given buffer until we can't
+	// fit the next metric.
+	normal
+	// split state means that we have a metric that we were able to split, so
+	// that we can fit it into multiple metrics (and calls to Read)
+	split
+	// overflow state means that we have a metric that didn't fit into a single
+	// buffer, and needs to be split across multiple calls to Read.
+	overflow
+	// splitOverflow state means that a split metric didn't fit into a single
+	// buffer, and needs to be split across multiple calls to Read.
+	splitOverflow
+	// done means we're done reading metrics, and now always return (0, io.EOF)
+	done
+)
+
+type reader struct {
+	metrics      []telegraf.Metric
+	splitMetrics []telegraf.Metric
+	buf          []byte
+	state        state
+
+	// metric index
+	iM int
+	// split metric index
+	iSM int
+	// buffer index
+	iB int
+}
+
+func NewReader(metrics []telegraf.Metric) io.Reader {
+	return &reader{
+		metrics: metrics,
+		state:   normal,
+	}
+}
+
+func (r *reader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	var i int
+	switch r.state {
+	case done:
+		return 0, io.EOF
+	case normal:
+		for {
+			// this for-loop is the sunny-day scenario, where we are given a
+			// buffer that is large enough to hold at least a single metric.
+			// all of the cases below it are edge-cases.
+			if r.metrics[r.iM].Len() <= len(p[i:]) {
+				i += r.metrics[r.iM].SerializeTo(p[i:])
+			} else {
+				break
+			}
+			r.iM++
+			if r.iM == len(r.metrics) {
+				r.state = done
+				return i, io.EOF
+			}
+		}
+
+		// if we haven't written any bytes, check if we can split the current
+		// metric into multiple full metrics at a smaller size.
+		if i == 0 {
+			tmp := r.metrics[r.iM].Split(len(p))
+			if len(tmp) > 1 {
+				r.splitMetrics = tmp
+				r.state = split
+				if r.splitMetrics[0].Len() <= len(p) {
+					i += r.splitMetrics[0].SerializeTo(p)
+					r.iSM = 1
+				} else {
+					// splitting didn't quite work, so we'll drop down and
+					// overflow the metric.
+					r.state = normal
+					r.iSM = 0
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		// if we haven't written any bytes and we're not at the end of the metrics
+		// slice, then it means we have a single metric that is larger than the
+		// provided buffer.
+		if i == 0 {
+			r.buf = r.metrics[r.iM].Serialize()
+			i += copy(p, r.buf[r.iB:])
+			r.iB += i
+			r.state = overflow
+		}
+
+	case split:
+		if r.splitMetrics[r.iSM].Len() <= len(p) {
+			// write the current split metric
+			i += r.splitMetrics[r.iSM].SerializeTo(p)
+			r.iSM++
+			if r.iSM >= len(r.splitMetrics) {
+				// done writing the current split metrics
+				r.iSM = 0
+				r.iM++
+				if r.iM == len(r.metrics) {
+					r.state = done
+					return i, io.EOF
+				}
+				r.state = normal
+			}
+		} else {
+			// This would only happen if we split the metric, and then a
+			// subsequent buffer was smaller than the initial one given,
+			// so that our split metric no longer fits.
+			r.buf = r.splitMetrics[r.iSM].Serialize()
+			i += copy(p, r.buf[r.iB:])
+			r.iB += i
+			r.state = splitOverflow
+		}
+
+	case splitOverflow:
+		i = copy(p, r.buf[r.iB:])
+		r.iB += i
+		if r.iB >= len(r.buf) {
+			r.iB = 0
+			r.iSM++
+			if r.iSM == len(r.splitMetrics) {
+				r.iM++
+				if r.iM == len(r.metrics) {
+					r.state = done
+					return i, io.EOF
+				}
+				r.state = normal
+			} else {
+				r.state = split
+			}
+		}
+
+	case overflow:
+		i = copy(p, r.buf[r.iB:])
+		r.iB += i
+		if r.iB >= len(r.buf) {
+			r.iB = 0
+			r.iM++
+			if r.iM == len(r.metrics) {
+				r.state = done
+				return i, io.EOF
+			}
+			r.state = normal
+		}
+	}
+
+	return i, nil
+}
--- a/metric/reader_test.go
+++ b/metric/reader_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,713 @@
+package metric
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func BenchmarkMetricReader(b *testing.B) {
+	metrics := make([]telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		metrics[i], _ = New("foo", map[string]string{},
+			map[string]interface{}{"value": int64(1)}, time.Now())
+	}
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		r := NewReader(metrics)
+		io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, r)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMetricReader(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	metrics := make([]telegraf.Metric, 10)
+	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		metrics[i], _ = New("foo", map[string]string{},
+			map[string]interface{}{"value": int64(1)}, ts)
+	}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+
+	buf := make([]byte, 35)
+	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		if err != nil {
+			assert.True(t, err == io.EOF, err.Error())
+		}
+		assert.Equal(t, 33, n)
+		assert.Equal(t, "foo value=1i 1481032190000000000\n", string(buf[0:n]))
+	}
+
+	// reader should now be done, and always return 0, io.EOF
+	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		assert.True(t, err == io.EOF, err.Error())
+		assert.Equal(t, 0, n)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMetricReader_OverflowMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int64(10)}, ts)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 5)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		exp string
+		err error
+		n   int
+	}{
+		{
+			"foo v",
+			nil,
+			5,
+		},
+		{
+			"alue=",
+			nil,
+			5,
+		},
+		{
+			"10i 1",
+			nil,
+			5,
+		},
+		{
+			"48103",
+			nil,
+			5,
+		},
+		{
+			"21900",
+			nil,
+			5,
+		},
+		{
+			"00000",
+			nil,
+			5,
+		},
+		{
+			"000\n",
+			io.EOF,
+			4,
+		},
+		{
+			"",
+			io.EOF,
+			0,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.n, n)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.exp, string(buf[0:n]))
+		assert.Equal(t, test.err, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Regression test for when a metric is the same size as the buffer.
+//
+// Previously EOF would not be set until the next call to Read.
+func TestMetricReader_MetricSizeEqualsBufferSize(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{"a": int64(1)}, ts)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, m1.Len())
+
+	for {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		// Should never read 0 bytes unless at EOF, unless input buffer is 0 length
+		if n == 0 {
+			require.Equal(t, io.EOF, err)
+			break
+		}
+		// Lines should be terminated with a LF
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			require.Equal(t, uint8('\n'), buf[n-1])
+			break
+		}
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Regression test for when a metric requires to be split and one of the
+// split metrics is exactly the size of the buffer.
+//
+// Previously an empty string would be returned on the next Read without error,
+// and then next Read call would panic.
+func TestMetricReader_SplitWithExactLengthSplit(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{"a": int64(1), "bb": int64(2)}, ts)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 30)
+
+	//  foo a=1i,bb=2i 1481032190000000000\n // len 35
+	//
+	// Requires this specific split order:
+	//  foo a=1i 1481032190000000000\n  // len 29
+	//  foo bb=2i 1481032190000000000\n // len 30
+
+	for {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		// Should never read 0 bytes unless at EOF, unless input buffer is 0 length
+		if n == 0 {
+			require.Equal(t, io.EOF, err)
+			break
+		}
+		// Lines should be terminated with a LF
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			require.Equal(t, uint8('\n'), buf[n-1])
+			break
+		}
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Regression test for when a metric requires to be split and one of the
+// split metrics is larger than the buffer.
+//
+// Previously the metric index would be set incorrectly causing a panic.
+func TestMetricReader_SplitOverflowOversized(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"a":   int64(1),
+			"bbb": int64(2),
+		}, ts)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 30)
+
+	// foo a=1i,bbb=2i 1481032190000000000\n // len 36
+	//
+	// foo a=1i 1481032190000000000\n  // len 29
+	// foo bbb=2i 1481032190000000000\n // len 31
+
+	for {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		// Should never read 0 bytes unless at EOF, unless input buffer is 0 length
+		if n == 0 {
+			require.Equal(t, io.EOF, err)
+			break
+		}
+		// Lines should be terminated with a LF
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			require.Equal(t, uint8('\n'), buf[n-1])
+			break
+		}
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Regression test for when a split metric exactly fits in the buffer.
+//
+// Previously the metric would be overflow split when not required.
+func TestMetricReader_SplitOverflowUneeded(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{"a": int64(1), "b": int64(2)}, ts)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 29)
+
+	// foo a=1i,b=2i 1481032190000000000\n // len 34
+	//
+	// foo a=1i 1481032190000000000\n  // len 29
+	// foo b=2i 1481032190000000000\n // len 29
+
+	for {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		// Should never read 0 bytes unless at EOF, unless input buffer is 0 length
+		if n == 0 {
+			require.Equal(t, io.EOF, err)
+			break
+		}
+		// Lines should be terminated with a LF
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			require.Equal(t, uint8('\n'), buf[n-1])
+			break
+		}
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMetricReader_OverflowMultipleMetrics(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{"value": int64(10)}, ts)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m, m.Copy()}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 10)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		exp string
+		err error
+		n   int
+	}{
+		{
+			"foo value=",
+			nil,
+			10,
+		},
+		{
+			"10i 148103",
+			nil,
+			10,
+		},
+		{
+			"2190000000",
+			nil,
+			10,
+		},
+		{
+			"000\n",
+			nil,
+			4,
+		},
+		{
+			"foo value=",
+			nil,
+			10,
+		},
+		{
+			"10i 148103",
+			nil,
+			10,
+		},
+		{
+			"2190000000",
+			nil,
+			10,
+		},
+		{
+			"000\n",
+			io.EOF,
+			4,
+		},
+		{
+			"",
+			io.EOF,
+			0,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.n, n)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.exp, string(buf[0:n]))
+		assert.Equal(t, test.err, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// test splitting a metric
+func TestMetricReader_SplitMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value1": int64(10),
+			"value2": int64(10),
+			"value3": int64(10),
+			"value4": int64(10),
+			"value5": int64(10),
+			"value6": int64(10),
+		},
+		ts,
+	)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 60)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		expRegex string
+		err      error
+		n        int
+	}{
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i,value\d=10i,value\d=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			nil,
+			57,
+		},
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i,value\d=10i,value\d=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			io.EOF,
+			57,
+		},
+		{
+			"",
+			io.EOF,
+			0,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.n, n)
+		re := regexp.MustCompile(test.expRegex)
+		assert.True(t, re.MatchString(string(buf[0:n])), string(buf[0:n]))
+		assert.Equal(t, test.err, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// test an array with one split metric and one unsplit
+func TestMetricReader_SplitMetric2(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value1": int64(10),
+			"value2": int64(10),
+			"value3": int64(10),
+			"value4": int64(10),
+			"value5": int64(10),
+			"value6": int64(10),
+		},
+		ts,
+	)
+	m2, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value1": int64(10),
+		},
+		ts,
+	)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1, m2}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 60)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		expRegex string
+		err      error
+		n        int
+	}{
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i,value\d=10i,value\d=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			nil,
+			57,
+		},
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i,value\d=10i,value\d=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			nil,
+			57,
+		},
+		{
+			`foo value1=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			io.EOF,
+			35,
+		},
+		{
+			"",
+			io.EOF,
+			0,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.n, n)
+		re := regexp.MustCompile(test.expRegex)
+		assert.True(t, re.MatchString(string(buf[0:n])), string(buf[0:n]))
+		assert.Equal(t, test.err, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// test split that results in metrics that are still too long, which results in
+// the reader falling back to regular overflow.
+func TestMetricReader_SplitMetricTooLong(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value1": int64(10),
+			"value2": int64(10),
+		},
+		ts,
+	)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 30)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		expRegex string
+		err      error
+		n        int
+	}{
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i,value\d=10i 1481`,
+			nil,
+			30,
+		},
+		{
+			`032190000000000\n`,
+			io.EOF,
+			16,
+		},
+		{
+			"",
+			io.EOF,
+			0,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.n, n)
+		re := regexp.MustCompile(test.expRegex)
+		assert.True(t, re.MatchString(string(buf[0:n])), string(buf[0:n]))
+		assert.Equal(t, test.err, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// test split with a changing buffer size in the middle of subsequent calls
+// to Read
+func TestMetricReader_SplitMetricChangingBuffer(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value1": int64(10),
+			"value2": int64(10),
+			"value3": int64(10),
+		},
+		ts,
+	)
+	m2, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value1": int64(10),
+		},
+		ts,
+	)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1, m2}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		expRegex string
+		err      error
+		n        int
+		buf      []byte
+	}{
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			nil,
+			35,
+			make([]byte, 36),
+		},
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i 148103219000000`,
+			nil,
+			30,
+			make([]byte, 30),
+		},
+		{
+			`0000\n`,
+			nil,
+			5,
+			make([]byte, 30),
+		},
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			nil,
+			35,
+			make([]byte, 36),
+		},
+		{
+			`foo value1=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			io.EOF,
+			35,
+			make([]byte, 36),
+		},
+		{
+			"",
+			io.EOF,
+			0,
+			make([]byte, 36),
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		n, err := r.Read(test.buf)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.n, n, test.expRegex)
+		re := regexp.MustCompile(test.expRegex)
+		assert.True(t, re.MatchString(string(test.buf[0:n])), string(test.buf[0:n]))
+		assert.Equal(t, test.err, err, test.expRegex)
+	}
+}
+
+// test split with a changing buffer size in the middle of subsequent calls
+// to Read
+func TestMetricReader_SplitMetricChangingBuffer2(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Unix(1481032190, 0)
+	m1, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value1": int64(10),
+			"value2": int64(10),
+		},
+		ts,
+	)
+	m2, _ := New("foo", map[string]string{},
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"value1": int64(10),
+		},
+		ts,
+	)
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{m1, m2}
+
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		expRegex string
+		err      error
+		n        int
+		buf      []byte
+	}{
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			nil,
+			35,
+			make([]byte, 36),
+		},
+		{
+			`foo value\d=10i 148103219000000`,
+			nil,
+			30,
+			make([]byte, 30),
+		},
+		{
+			`0000\n`,
+			nil,
+			5,
+			make([]byte, 30),
+		},
+		{
+			`foo value1=10i 1481032190000000000\n`,
+			io.EOF,
+			35,
+			make([]byte, 36),
+		},
+		{
+			"",
+			io.EOF,
+			0,
+			make([]byte, 36),
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		n, err := r.Read(test.buf)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.n, n, test.expRegex)
+		re := regexp.MustCompile(test.expRegex)
+		assert.True(t, re.MatchString(string(test.buf[0:n])), string(test.buf[0:n]))
+		assert.Equal(t, test.err, err, test.expRegex)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReader_Read(t *testing.T) {
+	epoch := time.Unix(0, 0)
+
+	type args struct {
+		name   string
+		tags   map[string]string
+		fields map[string]interface{}
+		t      time.Time
+		mType  []telegraf.ValueType
+	}
+	tests := []struct {
+		name     string
+		args     args
+		expected []byte
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "escape backslashes in string field",
+			args: args{
+				name:   "cpu",
+				tags:   map[string]string{},
+				fields: map[string]interface{}{"value": `test\`},
+				t:      epoch,
+			},
+			expected: []byte(`cpu value="test\\" 0`),
+		},
+		{
+			name: "escape quote in string field",
+			args: args{
+				name:   "cpu",
+				tags:   map[string]string{},
+				fields: map[string]interface{}{"value": `test"`},
+				t:      epoch,
+			},
+			expected: []byte(`cpu value="test\"" 0`),
+		},
+		{
+			name: "escape quote and backslash in string field",
+			args: args{
+				name:   "cpu",
+				tags:   map[string]string{},
+				fields: map[string]interface{}{"value": `test\"`},
+				t:      epoch,
+			},
+			expected: []byte(`cpu value="test\\\"" 0`),
+		},
+		{
+			name: "escape multiple backslash in string field",
+			args: args{
+				name:   "cpu",
+				tags:   map[string]string{},
+				fields: map[string]interface{}{"value": `test\\`},
+				t:      epoch,
+			},
+			expected: []byte(`cpu value="test\\\\" 0`),
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			buf := make([]byte, 512)
+			m, err := New(tt.args.name, tt.args.tags, tt.args.fields, tt.args.t, tt.args.mType...)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+
+			r := NewReader([]telegraf.Metric{m})
+			num, err := r.Read(buf)
+			if err != io.EOF {
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+			}
+			line := string(buf[:num])
+			// This is done so that we can use raw strings in the test spec
+			noeol := strings.TrimRight(line, "\n")
+			require.Equal(t, string(tt.expected), noeol)
+			require.Equal(t, len(tt.expected)+1, num)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMetricRoundtrip(t *testing.T) {
+	const lp = `nstat,bu=linux,cls=server,dc=cer,env=production,host=hostname,name=netstat,sr=database IpExtInBcastOctets=12570626154i,IpExtInBcastPkts=95541226i,IpExtInCEPkts=0i,IpExtInCsumErrors=0i,IpExtInECT0Pkts=55674i,IpExtInECT1Pkts=0i,IpExtInMcastOctets=5928296i,IpExtInMcastPkts=174365i,IpExtInNoECTPkts=17965863529i,IpExtInNoRoutes=20i,IpExtInOctets=3334866321815i,IpExtInTruncatedPkts=0i,IpExtOutBcastOctets=0i,IpExtOutBcastPkts=0i,IpExtOutMcastOctets=0i,IpExtOutMcastPkts=0i,IpExtOutOctets=31397892391399i,TcpExtArpFilter=0i,TcpExtBusyPollRxPackets=0i,TcpExtDelayedACKLocked=14094i,TcpExtDelayedACKLost=302083i,TcpExtDelayedACKs=55486507i,TcpExtEmbryonicRsts=11879i,TcpExtIPReversePathFilter=0i,TcpExtListenDrops=1736i,TcpExtListenOverflows=0i,TcpExtLockDroppedIcmps=0i,TcpExtOfoPruned=0i,TcpExtOutOfWindowIcmps=8i,TcpExtPAWSActive=0i,TcpExtPAWSEstab=974i,TcpExtPAWSPassive=0i,TcpExtPruneCalled=0i,TcpExtRcvPruned=0i,TcpExtSyncookiesFailed=12593i,TcpExtSyncookiesRecv=0i,TcpExtSyncookiesSent=0i,TcpExtTCPACKSkippedChallenge=0i,TcpExtTCPACKSkippedFinWait2=0i,TcpExtTCPACKSkippedPAWS=806i,TcpExtTCPACKSkippedSeq=519i,TcpExtTCPACKSkippedSynRecv=0i,TcpExtTCPACKSkippedTimeWait=0i,TcpExtTCPAbortFailed=0i,TcpExtTCPAbortOnClose=22i,TcpExtTCPAbortOnData=36593i,TcpExtTCPAbortOnLinger=0i,TcpExtTCPAbortOnMemory=0i,TcpExtTCPAbortOnTimeout=674i,TcpExtTCPAutoCorking=494253233i,TcpExtTCPBacklogDrop=0i,TcpExtTCPChallengeACK=281i,TcpExtTCPDSACKIgnoredNoUndo=93354i,TcpExtTCPDSACKIgnoredOld=336i,TcpExtTCPDSACKOfoRecv=0i,TcpExtTCPDSACKOfoSent=7i,TcpExtTCPDSACKOldSent=302073i,TcpExtTCPDSACKRecv=215884i,TcpExtTCPDSACKUndo=7633i,TcpExtTCPDeferAcceptDrop=0i,TcpExtTCPDirectCopyFromBacklog=0i,TcpExtTCPDirectCopyFromPrequeue=0i,TcpExtTCPFACKReorder=1320i,TcpExtTCPFastOpenActive=0i,TcpExtTCPFastOpenActiveFail=0i,TcpExtTCPFastOpenCookieReqd=0i,TcpExtTCPFastOpenListenOverflow=0i,TcpExtTCPFastOpenPassive=0i,TcpExtTCPFastOpenPassiveFail=0i,TcpExtTCPFastRetrans=350681i,TcpExtTCPForwardRetrans=142168i,TcpExtTCPFromZeroWindowAdv=4317i,TcpExtTCPFullUndo=29502i,TcpExtTCPHPAcks=10267073000i,TcpExtTCPHPHits=5629837098i,TcpExtTCPHPHitsToUser=0i,TcpExtTCPHystartDelayCwnd=285127i,TcpExtTCPHystartDelayDetect=12318i,TcpExtTCPHystartTrainCwnd=69160570i,TcpExtTCPHystartTrainDetect=3315799i,TcpExtTCPLossFailures=109i,TcpExtTCPLossProbeRecovery=110819i,TcpExtTCPLossProbes=233995i,TcpExtTCPLossUndo=5276i,TcpExtTCPLostRetransmit=397i,TcpExtTCPMD5NotFound=0i,TcpExtTCPMD5Unexpected=0i,TcpExtTCPMemoryPressures=0i,TcpExtTCPMinTTLDrop=0i,TcpExtTCPOFODrop=0i,TcpExtTCPOFOMerge=7i,TcpExtTCPOFOQueue=15196i,TcpExtTCPOrigDataSent=29055119435i,TcpExtTCPPartialUndo=21320i,TcpExtTCPPrequeueDropped=0i,TcpExtTCPPrequeued=0i,TcpExtTCPPureAcks=1236441827i,TcpExtTCPRcvCoalesce=225590473i,TcpExtTCPRcvCollapsed=0i,TcpExtTCPRenoFailures=0i,TcpExtTCPRenoRecovery=0i,TcpExtTCPRenoRecoveryFail=0i,TcpExtTCPRenoReorder=0i,TcpExtTCPReqQFullDoCookies=0i,TcpExtTCPReqQFullDrop=0i,TcpExtTCPRetransFail=41i,TcpExtTCPSACKDiscard=0i,TcpExtTCPSACKReneging=0i,TcpExtTCPSACKReorder=4307i,TcpExtTCPSYNChallenge=244i,TcpExtTCPSackFailures=1698i,TcpExtTCPSackMerged=184668i,TcpExtTCPSackRecovery=97369i,TcpExtTCPSackRecoveryFail=381i,TcpExtTCPSackShiftFallback=2697079i,TcpExtTCPSackShifted=760299i,TcpExtTCPSchedulerFailed=0i,TcpExtTCPSlowStartRetrans=9276i,TcpExtTCPSpuriousRTOs=959i,TcpExtTCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues=2973i,TcpExtTCPSynRetrans=200970i,TcpExtTCPTSReorder=15221i,TcpExtTCPTimeWaitOverflow=0i,TcpExtTCPTimeouts=70127i,TcpExtTCPToZeroWindowAdv=4317i,TcpExtTCPWantZeroWindowAdv=2133i,TcpExtTW=24809813i,TcpExtTWKilled=0i,TcpExtTWRecycled=0i 1496460785000000000
+nstat,bu=linux,cls=server,dc=cer,env=production,host=hostname,name=snmp,sr=database IcmpInAddrMaskReps=0i,IcmpInAddrMasks=90i,IcmpInCsumErrors=0i,IcmpInDestUnreachs=284401i,IcmpInEchoReps=9i,IcmpInEchos=1761912i,IcmpInErrors=407i,IcmpInMsgs=2047767i,IcmpInParmProbs=0i,IcmpInRedirects=0i,IcmpInSrcQuenchs=0i,IcmpInTimeExcds=46i,IcmpInTimestampReps=0i,IcmpInTimestamps=1309i,IcmpMsgInType0=9i,IcmpMsgInType11=46i,IcmpMsgInType13=1309i,IcmpMsgInType17=90i,IcmpMsgInType3=284401i,IcmpMsgInType8=1761912i,IcmpMsgOutType0=1761912i,IcmpMsgOutType14=1248i,IcmpMsgOutType3=108709i,IcmpMsgOutType8=9i,IcmpOutAddrMaskReps=0i,IcmpOutAddrMasks=0i,IcmpOutDestUnreachs=108709i,IcmpOutEchoReps=1761912i,IcmpOutEchos=9i,IcmpOutErrors=0i,IcmpOutMsgs=1871878i,IcmpOutParmProbs=0i,IcmpOutRedirects=0i,IcmpOutSrcQuenchs=0i,IcmpOutTimeExcds=0i,IcmpOutTimestampReps=1248i,IcmpOutTimestamps=0i,IpDefaultTTL=64i,IpForwDatagrams=0i,IpForwarding=2i,IpFragCreates=0i,IpFragFails=0i,IpFragOKs=0i,IpInAddrErrors=0i,IpInDelivers=17658795773i,IpInDiscards=0i,IpInHdrErrors=0i,IpInReceives=17659269339i,IpInUnknownProtos=0i,IpOutDiscards=236976i,IpOutNoRoutes=1009i,IpOutRequests=23466783734i,IpReasmFails=0i,IpReasmOKs=0i,IpReasmReqds=0i,IpReasmTimeout=0i,TcpActiveOpens=23308977i,TcpAttemptFails=3757543i,TcpCurrEstab=280i,TcpEstabResets=184792i,TcpInCsumErrors=0i,TcpInErrs=232i,TcpInSegs=17536573089i,TcpMaxConn=-1i,TcpOutRsts=4051451i,TcpOutSegs=29836254873i,TcpPassiveOpens=176546974i,TcpRetransSegs=878085i,TcpRtoAlgorithm=1i,TcpRtoMax=120000i,TcpRtoMin=200i,UdpInCsumErrors=0i,UdpInDatagrams=24441661i,UdpInErrors=0i,UdpLiteInCsumErrors=0i,UdpLiteInDatagrams=0i,UdpLiteInErrors=0i,UdpLiteNoPorts=0i,UdpLiteOutDatagrams=0i,UdpLiteRcvbufErrors=0i,UdpLiteSndbufErrors=0i,UdpNoPorts=17660i,UdpOutDatagrams=51807896i,UdpRcvbufErrors=0i,UdpSndbufErrors=236922i 1496460785000000000
+`
+	metrics, err := Parse([]byte(lp))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	r := NewReader(metrics)
+	buf := make([]byte, 128)
+	_, err = r.Read(buf)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	metrics, err = Parse(buf)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}
--- a/metric_test.go
+++ b/metric_test.go
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-package telegraf
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"math"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-)
-
-func TestNewMetric(t *testing.T) {
-	now := time.Now()
-
-	tags := map[string]string{
-		"host":       "localhost",
-		"datacenter": "us-east-1",
-	}
-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"usage_idle": float64(99),
-		"usage_busy": float64(1),
-	}
-	m, err := NewMetric("cpu", tags, fields, now)
-	assert.NoError(t, err)
-
-	assert.Equal(t, tags, m.Tags())
-	assert.Equal(t, fields, m.Fields())
-	assert.Equal(t, "cpu", m.Name())
-	assert.Equal(t, now, m.Time())
-	assert.Equal(t, now.UnixNano(), m.UnixNano())
-}
-
-func TestNewMetricString(t *testing.T) {
-	now := time.Now()
-
-	tags := map[string]string{
-		"host": "localhost",
-	}
-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"usage_idle": float64(99),
-	}
-	m, err := NewMetric("cpu", tags, fields, now)
-	assert.NoError(t, err)
-
-	lineProto := fmt.Sprintf("cpu,host=localhost usage_idle=99 %d",
-		now.UnixNano())
-	assert.Equal(t, lineProto, m.String())
-
-	lineProtoPrecision := fmt.Sprintf("cpu,host=localhost usage_idle=99 %d",
-		now.Unix())
-	assert.Equal(t, lineProtoPrecision, m.PrecisionString("s"))
-}
-
-func TestNewMetricStringNoTime(t *testing.T) {
-	tags := map[string]string{
-		"host": "localhost",
-	}
-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"usage_idle": float64(99),
-	}
-	m, err := NewMetric("cpu", tags, fields)
-	assert.NoError(t, err)
-
-	lineProto := fmt.Sprintf("cpu,host=localhost usage_idle=99")
-	assert.Equal(t, lineProto, m.String())
-
-	lineProtoPrecision := fmt.Sprintf("cpu,host=localhost usage_idle=99")
-	assert.Equal(t, lineProtoPrecision, m.PrecisionString("s"))
-}
-
-func TestNewMetricFailNaN(t *testing.T) {
-	now := time.Now()
-
-	tags := map[string]string{
-		"host": "localhost",
-	}
-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"usage_idle": math.NaN(),
-	}
-
-	_, err := NewMetric("cpu", tags, fields, now)
-	assert.Error(t, err)
-}
--- a/plugins/aggregators/all/all.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/all/all.go
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package all
+
+import (
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators/basicstats"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators/histogram"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators/minmax"
+)
--- a/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/README.md
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# BasicStats Aggregator Plugin
+
+The BasicStats aggregator plugin give us count,max,min,mean,s2(variance), stdev for a set of values,
+emitting the aggregate every `period` seconds.
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```toml
+# Keep the aggregate basicstats of each metric passing through.
+[[aggregators.basicstats]]
+
+  ## General Aggregator Arguments:
+
+  ## The period on which to flush & clear the aggregator.
+  period = "30s"
+
+  ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
+  ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
+  drop_original = false
+
+  ## BasicStats Arguments:
+
+  ## Configures which basic stats to push as fields
+  stats = ["count","min","max","mean","stdev","s2"]
+```
+
+- stats
+    - If not specified, all stats are aggregated and pushed as fields
+    - If empty array, no stats are aggregated
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+- measurement1
+    - field1_count
+    - field1_max
+    - field1_min
+    - field1_mean
+    - field1_s2 (variance)
+    - field1_stdev (standard deviation)
+
+### Tags:
+
+No tags are applied by this aggregator.
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+$ telegraf --config telegraf.conf --quiet
+system,host=tars load1=1 1475583980000000000
+system,host=tars load1=1 1475583990000000000
+system,host=tars load1_count=2,load1_max=1,load1_min=1,load1_mean=1,load1_s2=0,load1_stdev=0 1475584010000000000
+system,host=tars load1=1 1475584020000000000
+system,host=tars load1=3 1475584030000000000
+system,host=tars load1_count=2,load1_max=3,load1_min=1,load1_mean=2,load1_s2=2,load1_stdev=1.414162 1475584010000000000
+```
--- a/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/basicstats.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/basicstats.go
@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
+package basicstats
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"math"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators"
+)
+
+type BasicStats struct {
+	Stats []string `toml:"stats"`
+
+	cache       map[uint64]aggregate
+	statsConfig *configuredStats
+}
+
+type configuredStats struct {
+	count    bool
+	min      bool
+	max      bool
+	mean     bool
+	variance bool
+	stdev    bool
+}
+
+func NewBasicStats() *BasicStats {
+	mm := &BasicStats{}
+	mm.Reset()
+	return mm
+}
+
+type aggregate struct {
+	fields map[string]basicstats
+	name   string
+	tags   map[string]string
+}
+
+type basicstats struct {
+	count float64
+	min   float64
+	max   float64
+	mean  float64
+	M2    float64 //intermedia value for variance/stdev
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## General Aggregator Arguments:
+  ## The period on which to flush & clear the aggregator.
+  period = "30s"
+  ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
+  ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
+  drop_original = false
+`
+
+func (m *BasicStats) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (m *BasicStats) Description() string {
+	return "Keep the aggregate basicstats of each metric passing through."
+}
+
+func (m *BasicStats) Add(in telegraf.Metric) {
+	id := in.HashID()
+	if _, ok := m.cache[id]; !ok {
+		// hit an uncached metric, create caches for first time:
+		a := aggregate{
+			name:   in.Name(),
+			tags:   in.Tags(),
+			fields: make(map[string]basicstats),
+		}
+		for k, v := range in.Fields() {
+			if fv, ok := convert(v); ok {
+				a.fields[k] = basicstats{
+					count: 1,
+					min:   fv,
+					max:   fv,
+					mean:  fv,
+					M2:    0.0,
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		m.cache[id] = a
+	} else {
+		for k, v := range in.Fields() {
+			if fv, ok := convert(v); ok {
+				if _, ok := m.cache[id].fields[k]; !ok {
+					// hit an uncached field of a cached metric
+					m.cache[id].fields[k] = basicstats{
+						count: 1,
+						min:   fv,
+						max:   fv,
+						mean:  fv,
+						M2:    0.0,
+					}
+					continue
+				}
+
+				tmp := m.cache[id].fields[k]
+				//https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance
+				//variable initialization
+				x := fv
+				mean := tmp.mean
+				M2 := tmp.M2
+				//counter compute
+				n := tmp.count + 1
+				tmp.count = n
+				//mean compute
+				delta := x - mean
+				mean = mean + delta/n
+				tmp.mean = mean
+				//variance/stdev compute
+				M2 = M2 + delta*(x-mean)
+				tmp.M2 = M2
+				//max/min compute
+				if fv < tmp.min {
+					tmp.min = fv
+				} else if fv > tmp.max {
+					tmp.max = fv
+				}
+				//store final data
+				m.cache[id].fields[k] = tmp
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (m *BasicStats) Push(acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+
+	config := getConfiguredStats(m)
+
+	for _, aggregate := range m.cache {
+		fields := map[string]interface{}{}
+		for k, v := range aggregate.fields {
+
+			if config.count {
+				fields[k+"_count"] = v.count
+			}
+			if config.min {
+				fields[k+"_min"] = v.min
+			}
+			if config.max {
+				fields[k+"_max"] = v.max
+			}
+			if config.mean {
+				fields[k+"_mean"] = v.mean
+			}
+
+			//v.count always >=1
+			if v.count > 1 {
+				variance := v.M2 / (v.count - 1)
+
+				if config.variance {
+					fields[k+"_s2"] = variance
+				}
+				if config.stdev {
+					fields[k+"_stdev"] = math.Sqrt(variance)
+				}
+			}
+			//if count == 1 StdDev = infinite => so I won't send data
+		}
+
+		if len(fields) > 0 {
+			acc.AddFields(aggregate.name, fields, aggregate.tags)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func parseStats(names []string) *configuredStats {
+
+	parsed := &configuredStats{}
+
+	for _, name := range names {
+
+		switch name {
+
+		case "count":
+			parsed.count = true
+		case "min":
+			parsed.min = true
+		case "max":
+			parsed.max = true
+		case "mean":
+			parsed.mean = true
+		case "s2":
+			parsed.variance = true
+		case "stdev":
+			parsed.stdev = true
+
+		default:
+			log.Printf("W! Unrecognized basic stat '%s', ignoring", name)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return parsed
+}
+
+func defaultStats() *configuredStats {
+
+	defaults := &configuredStats{}
+
+	defaults.count = true
+	defaults.min = true
+	defaults.max = true
+	defaults.mean = true
+	defaults.variance = true
+	defaults.stdev = true
+
+	return defaults
+}
+
+func getConfiguredStats(m *BasicStats) *configuredStats {
+
+	if m.statsConfig == nil {
+
+		if m.Stats == nil {
+			m.statsConfig = defaultStats()
+		} else {
+			m.statsConfig = parseStats(m.Stats)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return m.statsConfig
+}
+
+func (m *BasicStats) Reset() {
+	m.cache = make(map[uint64]aggregate)
+}
+
+func convert(in interface{}) (float64, bool) {
+	switch v := in.(type) {
+	case float64:
+		return v, true
+	case int64:
+		return float64(v), true
+	default:
+		return 0, false
+	}
+}
+
+func init() {
+	aggregators.Add("basicstats", func() telegraf.Aggregator {
+		return NewBasicStats()
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/basicstats_test.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/basicstats/basicstats_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,359 @@
+package basicstats
+
+import (
+	"math"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+)
+
+var m1, _ = metric.New("m1",
+	map[string]string{"foo": "bar"},
+	map[string]interface{}{
+		"a": int64(1),
+		"b": int64(1),
+		"c": float64(2),
+		"d": float64(2),
+	},
+	time.Now(),
+)
+var m2, _ = metric.New("m1",
+	map[string]string{"foo": "bar"},
+	map[string]interface{}{
+		"a":        int64(1),
+		"b":        int64(3),
+		"c":        float64(4),
+		"d":        float64(6),
+		"e":        float64(200),
+		"ignoreme": "string",
+		"andme":    true,
+	},
+	time.Now(),
+)
+
+func BenchmarkApply(b *testing.B) {
+	minmax := NewBasicStats()
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		minmax.Add(m1)
+		minmax.Add(m2)
+	}
+}
+
+// Test two metrics getting added.
+func TestBasicStatsWithPeriod(t *testing.T) {
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	minmax := NewBasicStats()
+
+	minmax.Add(m1)
+	minmax.Add(m2)
+	minmax.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_count": float64(2), //a
+		"a_max":   float64(1),
+		"a_min":   float64(1),
+		"a_mean":  float64(1),
+		"a_stdev": float64(0),
+		"a_s2":    float64(0),
+		"b_count": float64(2), //b
+		"b_max":   float64(3),
+		"b_min":   float64(1),
+		"b_mean":  float64(2),
+		"b_s2":    float64(2),
+		"b_stdev": math.Sqrt(2),
+		"c_count": float64(2), //c
+		"c_max":   float64(4),
+		"c_min":   float64(2),
+		"c_mean":  float64(3),
+		"c_s2":    float64(2),
+		"c_stdev": math.Sqrt(2),
+		"d_count": float64(2), //d
+		"d_max":   float64(6),
+		"d_min":   float64(2),
+		"d_mean":  float64(4),
+		"d_s2":    float64(8),
+		"d_stdev": math.Sqrt(8),
+		"e_count": float64(1), //e
+		"e_max":   float64(200),
+		"e_min":   float64(200),
+		"e_mean":  float64(200),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test two metrics getting added with a push/reset in between (simulates
+// getting added in different periods.)
+func TestBasicStatsDifferentPeriods(t *testing.T) {
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	minmax := NewBasicStats()
+
+	minmax.Add(m1)
+	minmax.Push(&acc)
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_count": float64(1), //a
+		"a_max":   float64(1),
+		"a_min":   float64(1),
+		"a_mean":  float64(1),
+		"b_count": float64(1), //b
+		"b_max":   float64(1),
+		"b_min":   float64(1),
+		"b_mean":  float64(1),
+		"c_count": float64(1), //c
+		"c_max":   float64(2),
+		"c_min":   float64(2),
+		"c_mean":  float64(2),
+		"d_count": float64(1), //d
+		"d_max":   float64(2),
+		"d_min":   float64(2),
+		"d_mean":  float64(2),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+
+	acc.ClearMetrics()
+	minmax.Reset()
+	minmax.Add(m2)
+	minmax.Push(&acc)
+	expectedFields = map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_count": float64(1), //a
+		"a_max":   float64(1),
+		"a_min":   float64(1),
+		"a_mean":  float64(1),
+		"b_count": float64(1), //b
+		"b_max":   float64(3),
+		"b_min":   float64(3),
+		"b_mean":  float64(3),
+		"c_count": float64(1), //c
+		"c_max":   float64(4),
+		"c_min":   float64(4),
+		"c_mean":  float64(4),
+		"d_count": float64(1), //d
+		"d_max":   float64(6),
+		"d_min":   float64(6),
+		"d_mean":  float64(6),
+		"e_count": float64(1), //e
+		"e_max":   float64(200),
+		"e_min":   float64(200),
+		"e_mean":  float64(200),
+	}
+	expectedTags = map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test only aggregating count
+func TestBasicStatsWithOnlyCount(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{"count"}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_count": float64(2),
+		"b_count": float64(2),
+		"c_count": float64(2),
+		"d_count": float64(2),
+		"e_count": float64(1),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test only aggregating minimum
+func TestBasicStatsWithOnlyMin(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{"min"}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_min": float64(1),
+		"b_min": float64(1),
+		"c_min": float64(2),
+		"d_min": float64(2),
+		"e_min": float64(200),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test only aggregating maximum
+func TestBasicStatsWithOnlyMax(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{"max"}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_max": float64(1),
+		"b_max": float64(3),
+		"c_max": float64(4),
+		"d_max": float64(6),
+		"e_max": float64(200),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test only aggregating mean
+func TestBasicStatsWithOnlyMean(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{"mean"}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_mean": float64(1),
+		"b_mean": float64(2),
+		"c_mean": float64(3),
+		"d_mean": float64(4),
+		"e_mean": float64(200),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test only aggregating variance
+func TestBasicStatsWithOnlyVariance(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{"s2"}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_s2": float64(0),
+		"b_s2": float64(2),
+		"c_s2": float64(2),
+		"d_s2": float64(8),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test only aggregating standard deviation
+func TestBasicStatsWithOnlyStandardDeviation(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{"stdev"}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_stdev": float64(0),
+		"b_stdev": math.Sqrt(2),
+		"c_stdev": math.Sqrt(2),
+		"d_stdev": math.Sqrt(8),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test only aggregating minimum and maximum
+func TestBasicStatsWithMinAndMax(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{"min", "max"}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_max": float64(1), //a
+		"a_min": float64(1),
+		"b_max": float64(3), //b
+		"b_min": float64(1),
+		"c_max": float64(4), //c
+		"c_min": float64(2),
+		"d_max": float64(6), //d
+		"d_min": float64(2),
+		"e_max": float64(200), //e
+		"e_min": float64(200),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test that if an empty array is passed, no points are pushed
+func TestBasicStatsWithNoStats(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	acc.AssertDoesNotContainMeasurement(t, "m1")
+}
+
+// Test that if an unknown stat is configured, it doesn't explode
+func TestBasicStatsWithUnknownStat(t *testing.T) {
+
+	aggregator := NewBasicStats()
+	aggregator.Stats = []string{"crazy"}
+
+	aggregator.Add(m1)
+	aggregator.Add(m2)
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	aggregator.Push(&acc)
+
+	acc.AssertDoesNotContainMeasurement(t, "m1")
+}
--- a/plugins/aggregators/histogram/README.md
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/histogram/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+# Histogram Aggregator Plugin
+
+The histogram aggregator plugin creates histograms containing the counts of
+field values within a range.
+
+Values added to a bucket are also added to the larger buckets in the
+distribution.  This creates a [cumulative histogram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram#/media/File:Cumulative_vs_normal_histogram.svg).
+
+Like other Telegraf aggregators, the metric is emitted every `period` seconds.
+Bucket counts however are not reset between periods and will be non-strictly
+increasing while Telegraf is running.
+
+#### Design
+
+Each metric is passed to the aggregator and this aggregator searches
+histogram buckets for those fields, which have been specified in the
+config. If buckets are found, the aggregator will increment +1 to the appropriate
+bucket otherwise it will be added to the `+Inf` bucket.  Every `period`
+seconds this data will be forwarded to the outputs.
+
+The algorithm of hit counting to buckets was implemented on the base
+of the algorithm which is implemented in the Prometheus
+[client](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/blob/master/prometheus/histogram.go).
+
+### Configuration
+
+```toml
+# Configuration for aggregate histogram metrics
+[[aggregators.histogram]]
+  ## The period in which to flush the aggregator.
+  period = "30s"
+
+  ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
+  ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
+  drop_original = false
+
+  ## Example config that aggregates all fields of the metric.
+  # [[aggregators.histogram.config]]
+  #   ## The set of buckets.
+  #   buckets = [0.0, 15.6, 34.5, 49.1, 71.5, 80.5, 94.5, 100.0]
+  #   ## The name of metric.
+  #   measurement_name = "cpu"
+
+  ## Example config that aggregates only specific fields of the metric.
+  # [[aggregators.histogram.config]]
+  #   ## The set of buckets.
+  #   buckets = [0.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0, 40.0, 50.0, 60.0, 70.0, 80.0, 90.0, 100.0]
+  #   ## The name of metric.
+  #   measurement_name = "diskio"
+  #   ## The concrete fields of metric
+  #   fields = ["io_time", "read_time", "write_time"]
+```
+
+The user is responsible for defining the bounds of the histogram bucket as
+well as the measurement name and fields to aggregate.
+
+Each histogram config section must contain a `buckets` and `measurement_name`
+option.  Optionally, if `fields` is set only the fields listed will be
+aggregated.  If `fields` is not set all fields are aggregated.
+
+The `buckets` option contains a list of floats which specify the bucket
+boundaries.  Each float value defines the inclusive upper bound of the bucket.
+The `+Inf` bucket is added automatically and does not need to be defined.
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+The postfix `bucket` will be added to each field key.
+
+- measurement1
+    - field1_bucket
+    - field2_bucket
+
+### Tags:
+
+All measurements are given the tag `le`. This tag has the border value of
+bucket. It means that the metric value is less than or equal to the value of
+this tag.  For example, let assume that we have the metric value 10 and the
+following buckets: [5, 10, 30, 70, 100]. Then the tag `le` will have the value
+10, because the metrics value is passed into bucket with right border value
+`10`.
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=0.0 usage_idle_bucket=0i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=10.0 usage_idle_bucket=0i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=20.0 usage_idle_bucket=1i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=30.0 usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=40.0 usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=50.0 usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=60.0 usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=70.0 usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=80.0 usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=90.0 usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=100.0 usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=localhost,le=+Inf usage_idle_bucket=2i 1486998330000000000
+```
--- a/plugins/aggregators/histogram/histogram.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/histogram/histogram.go
@@ -0,0 +1,315 @@
+package histogram
+
+import (
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators"
+)
+
+// bucketTag is the tag, which contains right bucket border
+const bucketTag = "le"
+
+// bucketInf is the right bucket border for infinite values
+const bucketInf = "+Inf"
+
+// HistogramAggregator is aggregator with histogram configs and particular histograms for defined metrics
+type HistogramAggregator struct {
+	Configs []config `toml:"config"`
+
+	buckets bucketsByMetrics
+	cache   map[uint64]metricHistogramCollection
+}
+
+// config is the config, which contains name, field of metric and histogram buckets.
+type config struct {
+	Metric  string   `toml:"measurement_name"`
+	Fields  []string `toml:"fields"`
+	Buckets buckets  `toml:"buckets"`
+}
+
+// bucketsByMetrics contains the buckets grouped by metric and field name
+type bucketsByMetrics map[string]bucketsByFields
+
+// bucketsByFields contains the buckets grouped by field name
+type bucketsByFields map[string]buckets
+
+// buckets contains the right borders buckets
+type buckets []float64
+
+// metricHistogramCollection aggregates the histogram data
+type metricHistogramCollection struct {
+	histogramCollection map[string]counts
+	name                string
+	tags                map[string]string
+}
+
+// counts is the number of hits in the bucket
+type counts []int64
+
+// groupedByCountFields contains grouped fields by their count and fields values
+type groupedByCountFields struct {
+	name            string
+	tags            map[string]string
+	fieldsWithCount map[string]int64
+}
+
+// NewHistogramAggregator creates new histogram aggregator
+func NewHistogramAggregator() telegraf.Aggregator {
+	h := &HistogramAggregator{}
+	h.buckets = make(bucketsByMetrics)
+	h.resetCache()
+
+	return h
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## The period in which to flush the aggregator.
+  period = "30s"
+
+  ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
+  ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
+  drop_original = false
+
+  ## Example config that aggregates all fields of the metric.
+  # [[aggregators.histogram.config]]
+  #   ## The set of buckets.
+  #   buckets = [0.0, 15.6, 34.5, 49.1, 71.5, 80.5, 94.5, 100.0]
+  #   ## The name of metric.
+  #   measurement_name = "cpu"
+
+  ## Example config that aggregates only specific fields of the metric.
+  # [[aggregators.histogram.config]]
+  #   ## The set of buckets.
+  #   buckets = [0.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0, 40.0, 50.0, 60.0, 70.0, 80.0, 90.0, 100.0]
+  #   ## The name of metric.
+  #   measurement_name = "diskio"
+  #   ## The concrete fields of metric
+  #   fields = ["io_time", "read_time", "write_time"]
+`
+
+// SampleConfig returns sample of config
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+// Description returns description of aggregator plugin
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) Description() string {
+	return "Create aggregate histograms."
+}
+
+// Add adds new hit to the buckets
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) Add(in telegraf.Metric) {
+	bucketsByField := make(map[string][]float64)
+	for field := range in.Fields() {
+		buckets := h.getBuckets(in.Name(), field)
+		if buckets != nil {
+			bucketsByField[field] = buckets
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(bucketsByField) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+
+	id := in.HashID()
+	agr, ok := h.cache[id]
+	if !ok {
+		agr = metricHistogramCollection{
+			name:                in.Name(),
+			tags:                in.Tags(),
+			histogramCollection: make(map[string]counts),
+		}
+	}
+
+	for field, value := range in.Fields() {
+		if buckets, ok := bucketsByField[field]; ok {
+			if agr.histogramCollection[field] == nil {
+				agr.histogramCollection[field] = make(counts, len(buckets)+1)
+			}
+
+			if value, ok := convert(value); ok {
+				index := sort.SearchFloat64s(buckets, value)
+				agr.histogramCollection[field][index]++
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	h.cache[id] = agr
+}
+
+// Push returns histogram values for metrics
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) Push(acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+	metricsWithGroupedFields := []groupedByCountFields{}
+
+	for _, aggregate := range h.cache {
+		for field, counts := range aggregate.histogramCollection {
+			h.groupFieldsByBuckets(&metricsWithGroupedFields, aggregate.name, field, copyTags(aggregate.tags), counts)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range metricsWithGroupedFields {
+		acc.AddFields(metric.name, makeFieldsWithCount(metric.fieldsWithCount), metric.tags)
+	}
+}
+
+// groupFieldsByBuckets groups fields by metric buckets which are represented as tags
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) groupFieldsByBuckets(
+	metricsWithGroupedFields *[]groupedByCountFields,
+	name string,
+	field string,
+	tags map[string]string,
+	counts []int64,
+) {
+	count := int64(0)
+	for index, bucket := range h.getBuckets(name, field) {
+		count += counts[index]
+
+		tags[bucketTag] = strconv.FormatFloat(bucket, 'f', -1, 64)
+		h.groupField(metricsWithGroupedFields, name, field, count, copyTags(tags))
+	}
+
+	count += counts[len(counts)-1]
+	tags[bucketTag] = bucketInf
+
+	h.groupField(metricsWithGroupedFields, name, field, count, tags)
+}
+
+// groupField groups field by count value
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) groupField(
+	metricsWithGroupedFields *[]groupedByCountFields,
+	name string,
+	field string,
+	count int64,
+	tags map[string]string,
+) {
+	for key, metric := range *metricsWithGroupedFields {
+		if name == metric.name && isTagsIdentical(tags, metric.tags) {
+			(*metricsWithGroupedFields)[key].fieldsWithCount[field] = count
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	fieldsWithCount := map[string]int64{
+		field: count,
+	}
+
+	*metricsWithGroupedFields = append(
+		*metricsWithGroupedFields,
+		groupedByCountFields{name: name, tags: tags, fieldsWithCount: fieldsWithCount},
+	)
+}
+
+// Reset does nothing, because we need to collect counts for a long time, otherwise if config parameter 'reset' has
+// small value, we will get a histogram with a small amount of the distribution.
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) Reset() {}
+
+// resetCache resets cached counts(hits) in the buckets
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) resetCache() {
+	h.cache = make(map[uint64]metricHistogramCollection)
+}
+
+// getBuckets finds buckets and returns them
+func (h *HistogramAggregator) getBuckets(metric string, field string) []float64 {
+	if buckets, ok := h.buckets[metric][field]; ok {
+		return buckets
+	}
+
+	for _, config := range h.Configs {
+		if config.Metric == metric {
+			if !isBucketExists(field, config) {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			if _, ok := h.buckets[metric]; !ok {
+				h.buckets[metric] = make(bucketsByFields)
+			}
+
+			h.buckets[metric][field] = sortBuckets(config.Buckets)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return h.buckets[metric][field]
+}
+
+// isBucketExists checks if buckets exists for the passed field
+func isBucketExists(field string, cfg config) bool {
+	if len(cfg.Fields) == 0 {
+		return true
+	}
+
+	for _, fl := range cfg.Fields {
+		if fl == field {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
+// sortBuckets sorts the buckets if it is needed
+func sortBuckets(buckets []float64) []float64 {
+	for i, bucket := range buckets {
+		if i < len(buckets)-1 && bucket >= buckets[i+1] {
+			sort.Float64s(buckets)
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
+	return buckets
+}
+
+// convert converts interface to concrete type
+func convert(in interface{}) (float64, bool) {
+	switch v := in.(type) {
+	case float64:
+		return v, true
+	case int64:
+		return float64(v), true
+	default:
+		return 0, false
+	}
+}
+
+// copyTags copies tags
+func copyTags(tags map[string]string) map[string]string {
+	copiedTags := map[string]string{}
+	for key, val := range tags {
+		copiedTags[key] = val
+	}
+
+	return copiedTags
+}
+
+// isTagsIdentical checks the identity of two list of tags
+func isTagsIdentical(originalTags, checkedTags map[string]string) bool {
+	if len(originalTags) != len(checkedTags) {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	for tagName, tagValue := range originalTags {
+		if tagValue != checkedTags[tagName] {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+
+	return true
+}
+
+// makeFieldsWithCount assigns count value to all metric fields
+func makeFieldsWithCount(fieldsWithCountIn map[string]int64) map[string]interface{} {
+	fieldsWithCountOut := map[string]interface{}{}
+	for field, count := range fieldsWithCountIn {
+		fieldsWithCountOut[field+"_bucket"] = count
+	}
+
+	return fieldsWithCountOut
+}
+
+// init initializes histogram aggregator plugin
+func init() {
+	aggregators.Add("histogram", func() telegraf.Aggregator {
+		return NewHistogramAggregator()
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/aggregators/histogram/histogram_test.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/histogram/histogram_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+package histogram
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+// NewTestHistogram creates new test histogram aggregation with specified config
+func NewTestHistogram(cfg []config) telegraf.Aggregator {
+	htm := &HistogramAggregator{Configs: cfg}
+	htm.buckets = make(bucketsByMetrics)
+	htm.resetCache()
+
+	return htm
+}
+
+// firstMetric1 is the first test metric
+var firstMetric1, _ = metric.New(
+	"first_metric_name",
+	map[string]string{"tag_name": "tag_value"},
+	map[string]interface{}{
+		"a": float64(15.3),
+		"b": float64(40),
+	},
+	time.Now(),
+)
+
+// firstMetric1 is the first test metric with other value
+var firstMetric2, _ = metric.New(
+	"first_metric_name",
+	map[string]string{"tag_name": "tag_value"},
+	map[string]interface{}{
+		"a": float64(15.9),
+		"c": float64(40),
+	},
+	time.Now(),
+)
+
+// secondMetric is the second metric
+var secondMetric, _ = metric.New(
+	"second_metric_name",
+	map[string]string{"tag_name": "tag_value"},
+	map[string]interface{}{
+		"a":        float64(105),
+		"ignoreme": "string",
+		"andme":    true,
+	},
+	time.Now(),
+)
+
+// BenchmarkApply runs benchmarks
+func BenchmarkApply(b *testing.B) {
+	histogram := NewHistogramAggregator()
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		histogram.Add(firstMetric1)
+		histogram.Add(firstMetric2)
+		histogram.Add(secondMetric)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestHistogramWithPeriodAndOneField tests metrics for one period and for one field
+func TestHistogramWithPeriodAndOneField(t *testing.T) {
+	var cfg []config
+	cfg = append(cfg, config{Metric: "first_metric_name", Fields: []string{"a"}, Buckets: []float64{0.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0, 40.0}})
+	histogram := NewTestHistogram(cfg)
+
+	acc := &testutil.Accumulator{}
+
+	histogram.Add(firstMetric1)
+	histogram.Add(firstMetric2)
+	histogram.Push(acc)
+
+	if len(acc.Metrics) != 6 {
+		assert.Fail(t, "Incorrect number of metrics")
+	}
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0)}, "0")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0)}, "10")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2)}, "20")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2)}, "30")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2)}, "40")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2)}, bucketInf)
+}
+
+// TestHistogramWithPeriodAndAllFields tests two metrics for one period and for all fields
+func TestHistogramWithPeriodAndAllFields(t *testing.T) {
+	var cfg []config
+	cfg = append(cfg, config{Metric: "first_metric_name", Buckets: []float64{0.0, 15.5, 20.0, 30.0, 40.0}})
+	cfg = append(cfg, config{Metric: "second_metric_name", Buckets: []float64{0.0, 4.0, 10.0, 23.0, 30.0}})
+	histogram := NewTestHistogram(cfg)
+
+	acc := &testutil.Accumulator{}
+
+	histogram.Add(firstMetric1)
+	histogram.Add(firstMetric2)
+	histogram.Add(secondMetric)
+	histogram.Push(acc)
+
+	if len(acc.Metrics) != 12 {
+		assert.Fail(t, "Incorrect number of metrics")
+	}
+
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "b_bucket": int64(0), "c_bucket": int64(0)}, "0")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(1), "b_bucket": int64(0), "c_bucket": int64(0)}, "15.5")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2), "b_bucket": int64(0), "c_bucket": int64(0)}, "20")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2), "b_bucket": int64(0), "c_bucket": int64(0)}, "30")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2), "b_bucket": int64(1), "c_bucket": int64(1)}, "40")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2), "b_bucket": int64(1), "c_bucket": int64(1)}, bucketInf)
+
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "second_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "ignoreme_bucket": int64(0), "andme_bucket": int64(0)}, "0")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "second_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "ignoreme_bucket": int64(0), "andme_bucket": int64(0)}, "4")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "second_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "ignoreme_bucket": int64(0), "andme_bucket": int64(0)}, "10")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "second_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "ignoreme_bucket": int64(0), "andme_bucket": int64(0)}, "23")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "second_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "ignoreme_bucket": int64(0), "andme_bucket": int64(0)}, "30")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "second_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(1), "ignoreme_bucket": int64(0), "andme_bucket": int64(0)}, bucketInf)
+}
+
+// TestHistogramDifferentPeriodsAndAllFields tests two metrics getting added with a push/reset in between (simulates
+// getting added in different periods) for all fields
+func TestHistogramDifferentPeriodsAndAllFields(t *testing.T) {
+
+	var cfg []config
+	cfg = append(cfg, config{Metric: "first_metric_name", Buckets: []float64{0.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0, 40.0}})
+	histogram := NewTestHistogram(cfg)
+
+	acc := &testutil.Accumulator{}
+	histogram.Add(firstMetric1)
+	histogram.Push(acc)
+
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "b_bucket": int64(0)}, "0")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "b_bucket": int64(0)}, "10")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(1), "b_bucket": int64(0)}, "20")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(1), "b_bucket": int64(0)}, "30")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(1), "b_bucket": int64(1)}, "40")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(1), "b_bucket": int64(1)}, bucketInf)
+
+	acc.ClearMetrics()
+	histogram.Add(firstMetric2)
+	histogram.Push(acc)
+
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "b_bucket": int64(0), "c_bucket": int64(0)}, "0")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(0), "b_bucket": int64(0), "c_bucket": int64(0)}, "10")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2), "b_bucket": int64(0), "c_bucket": int64(0)}, "20")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2), "b_bucket": int64(0), "c_bucket": int64(0)}, "30")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2), "b_bucket": int64(1), "c_bucket": int64(1)}, "40")
+	assertContainsTaggedField(t, acc, "first_metric_name", map[string]interface{}{"a_bucket": int64(2), "b_bucket": int64(1), "c_bucket": int64(1)}, bucketInf)
+}
+
+// TestWrongBucketsOrder tests the calling panic with incorrect order of buckets
+func TestWrongBucketsOrder(t *testing.T) {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			assert.Equal(
+				t,
+				"histogram buckets must be in increasing order: 90.00 >= 20.00, metrics: first_metric_name, field: a",
+				fmt.Sprint(r),
+			)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	var cfg []config
+	cfg = append(cfg, config{Metric: "first_metric_name", Buckets: []float64{0.0, 90.0, 20.0, 30.0, 40.0}})
+	histogram := NewTestHistogram(cfg)
+	histogram.Add(firstMetric2)
+}
+
+// assertContainsTaggedField is help functions to test histogram data
+func assertContainsTaggedField(t *testing.T, acc *testutil.Accumulator, metricName string, fields map[string]interface{}, le string) {
+	acc.Lock()
+	defer acc.Unlock()
+
+	for _, checkedMetric := range acc.Metrics {
+		// check metric name
+		if checkedMetric.Measurement != metricName {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// check "le" tag
+		if checkedMetric.Tags[bucketTag] != le {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// check fields
+		isFieldsIdentical := true
+		for field := range fields {
+			if _, ok := checkedMetric.Fields[field]; !ok {
+				isFieldsIdentical = false
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		if !isFieldsIdentical {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// check fields with their counts
+		if assert.Equal(t, fields, checkedMetric.Fields) {
+			return
+		}
+
+		assert.Fail(t, fmt.Sprintf("incorrect fields %v of metric %s", fields, metricName))
+	}
+
+	assert.Fail(t, fmt.Sprintf("unknown measurement '%s' with tags: %v, fields: %v", metricName, map[string]string{"le": le}, fields))
+}
--- a/plugins/aggregators/minmax/README.md
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/minmax/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# MinMax Aggregator Plugin
+
+The minmax aggregator plugin aggregates min & max values of each field it sees,
+emitting the aggrate every `period` seconds.
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```toml
+# Keep the aggregate min/max of each metric passing through.
+[[aggregators.minmax]]
+  ## General Aggregator Arguments:
+  ## The period on which to flush & clear the aggregator.
+  period = "30s"
+  ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
+  ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
+  drop_original = false
+```
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+- measurement1
+    - field1_max
+    - field1_min
+
+### Tags:
+
+No tags are applied by this aggregator.
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+$ telegraf --config telegraf.conf --quiet
+system,host=tars load1=1.72 1475583980000000000
+system,host=tars load1=1.6 1475583990000000000
+system,host=tars load1=1.66 1475584000000000000
+system,host=tars load1=1.63 1475584010000000000
+system,host=tars load1_max=1.72,load1_min=1.6 1475584010000000000
+system,host=tars load1=1.46 1475584020000000000
+system,host=tars load1=1.39 1475584030000000000
+system,host=tars load1=1.41 1475584040000000000
+system,host=tars load1_max=1.46,load1_min=1.39 1475584040000000000
+```
--- a/plugins/aggregators/minmax/minmax.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/minmax/minmax.go
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+package minmax
+
+import (
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/aggregators"
+)
+
+type MinMax struct {
+	cache map[uint64]aggregate
+}
+
+func NewMinMax() telegraf.Aggregator {
+	mm := &MinMax{}
+	mm.Reset()
+	return mm
+}
+
+type aggregate struct {
+	fields map[string]minmax
+	name   string
+	tags   map[string]string
+}
+
+type minmax struct {
+	min float64
+	max float64
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## General Aggregator Arguments:
+  ## The period on which to flush & clear the aggregator.
+  period = "30s"
+  ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
+  ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
+  drop_original = false
+`
+
+func (m *MinMax) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (m *MinMax) Description() string {
+	return "Keep the aggregate min/max of each metric passing through."
+}
+
+func (m *MinMax) Add(in telegraf.Metric) {
+	id := in.HashID()
+	if _, ok := m.cache[id]; !ok {
+		// hit an uncached metric, create caches for first time:
+		a := aggregate{
+			name:   in.Name(),
+			tags:   in.Tags(),
+			fields: make(map[string]minmax),
+		}
+		for k, v := range in.Fields() {
+			if fv, ok := convert(v); ok {
+				a.fields[k] = minmax{
+					min: fv,
+					max: fv,
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		m.cache[id] = a
+	} else {
+		for k, v := range in.Fields() {
+			if fv, ok := convert(v); ok {
+				if _, ok := m.cache[id].fields[k]; !ok {
+					// hit an uncached field of a cached metric
+					m.cache[id].fields[k] = minmax{
+						min: fv,
+						max: fv,
+					}
+					continue
+				}
+				if fv < m.cache[id].fields[k].min {
+					tmp := m.cache[id].fields[k]
+					tmp.min = fv
+					m.cache[id].fields[k] = tmp
+				} else if fv > m.cache[id].fields[k].max {
+					tmp := m.cache[id].fields[k]
+					tmp.max = fv
+					m.cache[id].fields[k] = tmp
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (m *MinMax) Push(acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+	for _, aggregate := range m.cache {
+		fields := map[string]interface{}{}
+		for k, v := range aggregate.fields {
+			fields[k+"_min"] = v.min
+			fields[k+"_max"] = v.max
+		}
+		acc.AddFields(aggregate.name, fields, aggregate.tags)
+	}
+}
+
+func (m *MinMax) Reset() {
+	m.cache = make(map[uint64]aggregate)
+}
+
+func convert(in interface{}) (float64, bool) {
+	switch v := in.(type) {
+	case float64:
+		return v, true
+	case int64:
+		return float64(v), true
+	default:
+		return 0, false
+	}
+}
+
+func init() {
+	aggregators.Add("minmax", func() telegraf.Aggregator {
+		return NewMinMax()
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/aggregators/minmax/minmax_test.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/minmax/minmax_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+package minmax
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+)
+
+var m1, _ = metric.New("m1",
+	map[string]string{"foo": "bar"},
+	map[string]interface{}{
+		"a": int64(1),
+		"b": int64(1),
+		"c": int64(1),
+		"d": int64(1),
+		"e": int64(1),
+		"f": float64(2),
+		"g": float64(2),
+		"h": float64(2),
+		"i": float64(2),
+		"j": float64(3),
+	},
+	time.Now(),
+)
+var m2, _ = metric.New("m1",
+	map[string]string{"foo": "bar"},
+	map[string]interface{}{
+		"a":        int64(1),
+		"b":        int64(3),
+		"c":        int64(3),
+		"d":        int64(3),
+		"e":        int64(3),
+		"f":        float64(1),
+		"g":        float64(1),
+		"h":        float64(1),
+		"i":        float64(1),
+		"j":        float64(1),
+		"k":        float64(200),
+		"ignoreme": "string",
+		"andme":    true,
+	},
+	time.Now(),
+)
+
+func BenchmarkApply(b *testing.B) {
+	minmax := NewMinMax()
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		minmax.Add(m1)
+		minmax.Add(m2)
+	}
+}
+
+// Test two metrics getting added.
+func TestMinMaxWithPeriod(t *testing.T) {
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	minmax := NewMinMax()
+
+	minmax.Add(m1)
+	minmax.Add(m2)
+	minmax.Push(&acc)
+
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_max": float64(1),
+		"a_min": float64(1),
+		"b_max": float64(3),
+		"b_min": float64(1),
+		"c_max": float64(3),
+		"c_min": float64(1),
+		"d_max": float64(3),
+		"d_min": float64(1),
+		"e_max": float64(3),
+		"e_min": float64(1),
+		"f_max": float64(2),
+		"f_min": float64(1),
+		"g_max": float64(2),
+		"g_min": float64(1),
+		"h_max": float64(2),
+		"h_min": float64(1),
+		"i_max": float64(2),
+		"i_min": float64(1),
+		"j_max": float64(3),
+		"j_min": float64(1),
+		"k_max": float64(200),
+		"k_min": float64(200),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
+
+// Test two metrics getting added with a push/reset in between (simulates
+// getting added in different periods.)
+func TestMinMaxDifferentPeriods(t *testing.T) {
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	minmax := NewMinMax()
+
+	minmax.Add(m1)
+	minmax.Push(&acc)
+	expectedFields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_max": float64(1),
+		"a_min": float64(1),
+		"b_max": float64(1),
+		"b_min": float64(1),
+		"c_max": float64(1),
+		"c_min": float64(1),
+		"d_max": float64(1),
+		"d_min": float64(1),
+		"e_max": float64(1),
+		"e_min": float64(1),
+		"f_max": float64(2),
+		"f_min": float64(2),
+		"g_max": float64(2),
+		"g_min": float64(2),
+		"h_max": float64(2),
+		"h_min": float64(2),
+		"i_max": float64(2),
+		"i_min": float64(2),
+		"j_max": float64(3),
+		"j_min": float64(3),
+	}
+	expectedTags := map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+
+	acc.ClearMetrics()
+	minmax.Reset()
+	minmax.Add(m2)
+	minmax.Push(&acc)
+	expectedFields = map[string]interface{}{
+		"a_max": float64(1),
+		"a_min": float64(1),
+		"b_max": float64(3),
+		"b_min": float64(3),
+		"c_max": float64(3),
+		"c_min": float64(3),
+		"d_max": float64(3),
+		"d_min": float64(3),
+		"e_max": float64(3),
+		"e_min": float64(3),
+		"f_max": float64(1),
+		"f_min": float64(1),
+		"g_max": float64(1),
+		"g_min": float64(1),
+		"h_max": float64(1),
+		"h_min": float64(1),
+		"i_max": float64(1),
+		"i_min": float64(1),
+		"j_max": float64(1),
+		"j_min": float64(1),
+		"k_max": float64(200),
+		"k_min": float64(200),
+	}
+	expectedTags = map[string]string{
+		"foo": "bar",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "m1", expectedFields, expectedTags)
+}
--- a/plugins/aggregators/registry.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/registry.go
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package aggregators
+
+import "github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+
+type Creator func() telegraf.Aggregator
+
+var Aggregators = map[string]Creator{}
+
+func Add(name string, creator Creator) {
+	Aggregators[name] = creator
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/EXAMPLE_README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/EXAMPLE_README.md
@@ -1,37 +1,61 @@
 # Example Input Plugin

-The example plugin gathers metrics about example things
+The example plugin gathers metrics about example things.  This description
+explains at a high level what the plugin does and provides links to where
+additional information can be found.

 ### Configuration:

+This section contains the default TOML to configure the plugin.  You can
+generate it using `telegraf --usage <plugin-name>`.
+
 ```toml
 # Description
 [[inputs.example]]
-  # SampleConfig
+  example_option = "example_value"
 ```

-### Measurements & Fields:
+### Metrics:

-<optional description>
+Here you should add an optional description and links to where the user can
+get more information about the measurements.
+
+If the output is determined dynamically based on the input source, or there
+are more metrics than can reasonably be listed, describe how the input is
+mapped to the output.

 - measurement1
-    - field1 (type, unit)
-    - field2 (float, percent)
- measurement2
-    - field3 (integer, bytes)
-
-### Tags:
-
- All measurements have the following tags:
+  - tags:
    - tag1 (optional description)
    - tag2
- measurement2 has the following tags:
+  - fields:
+    - field1 (type, unit)
+    - field2 (float, percent)
+
+- measurement2
+  - tags:
    - tag3
+  - fields:
+    - field3 (integer, bytes)
+
+### Sample Queries:
+
+This section should contain some useful InfluxDB queries that can be used to
+get started with the plugin or to generate dashboards.  For each query listed,
+describe at a high level what data is returned.
+
+Get the max, mean, and min for the measurement in the last hour:
+```
+SELECT max(field1), mean(field1), min(field1) FROM measurement1 WHERE tag1=bar AND time > now() - 1h GROUP BY tag
+```

 ### Example Output:

+This section shows example output in Line Protocol format.  You can often use
+`telegraf --input-filter <plugin-name> --test` or use the `file` output to get
+this information.
+
 ```
-$ ./telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter example -test
 measurement1,tag1=foo,tag2=bar field1=1i,field2=2.1 1453831884664956455
 measurement2,tag1=foo,tag2=bar,tag3=baz field3=1i 1453831884664956455
 ```
--- a/plugins/inputs/aerospike/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/aerospike/README.md
--- a/plugins/inputs/aerospike/aerospike.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/aerospike/aerospike.go
@@ -1,104 +1,20 @@
 package aerospike

 import (
-	"bytes"
-	"encoding/binary"
-	"fmt"
-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"errors"
+	"log"
 	"net"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+
+	as "github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go"
 )

-const (
-	MSG_HEADER_SIZE = 8
-	MSG_TYPE        = 1 // Info is 1
-	MSG_VERSION     = 2
-)
-
-var (
-	STATISTICS_COMMAND = []byte("statistics\n")
-	NAMESPACES_COMMAND = []byte("namespaces\n")
-)
-
-type aerospikeMessageHeader struct {
-	Version uint8
-	Type    uint8
-	DataLen [6]byte
-}
-
-type aerospikeMessage struct {
-	aerospikeMessageHeader
-	Data []byte
-}
-
-// Taken from aerospike-client-go/types/message.go
-func (msg *aerospikeMessage) Serialize() []byte {
-	msg.DataLen = msgLenToBytes(int64(len(msg.Data)))
-	buf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
-	binary.Write(buf, binary.BigEndian, msg.aerospikeMessageHeader)
-	binary.Write(buf, binary.BigEndian, msg.Data[:])
-	return buf.Bytes()
-}
-
-type aerospikeInfoCommand struct {
-	msg *aerospikeMessage
-}
-
-// Taken from aerospike-client-go/info.go
-func (nfo *aerospikeInfoCommand) parseMultiResponse() (map[string]string, error) {
-	responses := make(map[string]string)
-	offset := int64(0)
-	begin := int64(0)
-
-	dataLen := int64(len(nfo.msg.Data))
-
-	// Create reusable StringBuilder for performance.
-	for offset < dataLen {
-		b := nfo.msg.Data[offset]
-
-		if b == '\t' {
-			name := nfo.msg.Data[begin:offset]
-			offset++
-			begin = offset
-
-			// Parse field value.
-			for offset < dataLen {
-				if nfo.msg.Data[offset] == '\n' {
-					break
-				}
-				offset++
-			}
-
-			if offset > begin {
-				value := nfo.msg.Data[begin:offset]
-				responses[string(name)] = string(value)
-			} else {
-				responses[string(name)] = ""
-			}
-			offset++
-			begin = offset
-		} else if b == '\n' {
-			if offset > begin {
-				name := nfo.msg.Data[begin:offset]
-				responses[string(name)] = ""
-			}
-			offset++
-			begin = offset
-		} else {
-			offset++
-		}
-	}
-
-	if offset > begin {
-		name := nfo.msg.Data[begin:offset]
-		responses[string(name)] = ""
-	}
-	return responses, nil
-}
-
 type Aerospike struct {
 	Servers []string
 }
@@ -115,7 +31,7 @@ func (a *Aerospike) SampleConfig() string {
 }

 func (a *Aerospike) Description() string {
-	return "Read stats from an aerospike server"
+	return "Read stats from aerospike server(s)"
 }

 func (a *Aerospike) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
@@ -124,214 +40,111 @@ func (a *Aerospike) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	}

 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-
-	var outerr error
-
+	wg.Add(len(a.Servers))
 	for _, server := range a.Servers {
-		wg.Add(1)
-		go func(server string) {
+		go func(serv string) {
 			defer wg.Done()
-			outerr = a.gatherServer(server, acc)
+			acc.AddError(a.gatherServer(serv, acc))
 		}(server)
 	}

 	wg.Wait()
-	return outerr
+	return nil
 }

-func (a *Aerospike) gatherServer(host string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
-	aerospikeInfo, err := getMap(STATISTICS_COMMAND, host)
+func (a *Aerospike) gatherServer(hostport string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	host, port, err := net.SplitHostPort(hostport)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Aerospike info failed: %s", err)
+		return err
 	}
-	readAerospikeStats(aerospikeInfo, acc, host, "")
-	namespaces, err := getList(NAMESPACES_COMMAND, host)
+
+	iport, err := strconv.Atoi(port)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Aerospike namespace list failed: %s", err)
+		iport = 3000
 	}
-	for ix := range namespaces {
-		nsInfo, err := getMap([]byte("namespace/"+namespaces[ix]+"\n"), host)
-		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("Aerospike namespace '%s' query failed: %s", namespaces[ix], err)
+
+	c, err := as.NewClient(host, iport)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer c.Close()
+
+	nodes := c.GetNodes()
+	for _, n := range nodes {
+		tags := map[string]string{
+			"aerospike_host": hostport,
+			"node_name":      n.GetName(),
+		}
+		fields := make(map[string]interface{})
+		stats, err := as.RequestNodeStats(n)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		for k, v := range stats {
+			val, err := parseValue(v)
+			if err == nil {
+				fields[strings.Replace(k, "-", "_", -1)] = val
+			} else {
+				log.Printf("I! skipping aerospike field %v with int64 overflow: %q", k, v)
+			}
+		}
+		acc.AddFields("aerospike_node", fields, tags, time.Now())
+
+		info, err := as.RequestNodeInfo(n, "namespaces")
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		namespaces := strings.Split(info["namespaces"], ";")
+
+		for _, namespace := range namespaces {
+			nTags := map[string]string{
+				"aerospike_host": hostport,
+				"node_name":      n.GetName(),
+			}
+			nTags["namespace"] = namespace
+			nFields := make(map[string]interface{})
+			info, err := as.RequestNodeInfo(n, "namespace/"+namespace)
+			if err != nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			stats := strings.Split(info["namespace/"+namespace], ";")
+			for _, stat := range stats {
+				parts := strings.Split(stat, "=")
+				if len(parts) < 2 {
+					continue
+				}
+				val, err := parseValue(parts[1])
+				if err == nil {
+					nFields[strings.Replace(parts[0], "-", "_", -1)] = val
+				} else {
+					log.Printf("I! skipping aerospike field %v with int64 overflow: %q", parts[0], parts[1])
+				}
+			}
+			acc.AddFields("aerospike_namespace", nFields, nTags, time.Now())
 		}
-		readAerospikeStats(nsInfo, acc, host, namespaces[ix])
 	}
 	return nil
 }

-func getMap(key []byte, host string) (map[string]string, error) {
-	data, err := get(key, host)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to get data: %s", err)
+func parseValue(v string) (interface{}, error) {
+	if parsed, err := strconv.ParseInt(v, 10, 64); err == nil {
+		return parsed, nil
+	} else if _, err := strconv.ParseUint(v, 10, 64); err == nil {
+		// int64 overflow, yet valid uint64
+		return nil, errors.New("Number is too large")
+	} else if parsed, err := strconv.ParseBool(v); err == nil {
+		return parsed, nil
+	} else {
+		return v, nil
 	}
-	parsed, err := unmarshalMapInfo(data, string(key))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to unmarshal data: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	return parsed, nil
 }

-func getList(key []byte, host string) ([]string, error) {
-	data, err := get(key, host)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to get data: %s", err)
+func copyTags(m map[string]string) map[string]string {
+	out := make(map[string]string)
+	for k, v := range m {
+		out[k] = v
 	}
-	parsed, err := unmarshalListInfo(data, string(key))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to unmarshal data: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	return parsed, nil
-}
-
-func get(key []byte, host string) (map[string]string, error) {
-	var err error
-	var data map[string]string
-
-	asInfo := &aerospikeInfoCommand{
-		msg: &aerospikeMessage{
-			aerospikeMessageHeader: aerospikeMessageHeader{
-				Version: uint8(MSG_VERSION),
-				Type:    uint8(MSG_TYPE),
-				DataLen: msgLenToBytes(int64(len(key))),
-			},
-			Data: key,
-		},
-	}
-
-	cmd := asInfo.msg.Serialize()
-	addr, err := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp", host)
-	if err != nil {
-		return data, fmt.Errorf("Lookup failed for '%s': %s", host, err)
-	}
-
-	conn, err := net.DialTCP("tcp", nil, addr)
-	if err != nil {
-		return data, fmt.Errorf("Connection failed for '%s': %s", host, err)
-	}
-	defer conn.Close()
-
-	_, err = conn.Write(cmd)
-	if err != nil {
-		return data, fmt.Errorf("Failed to send to '%s': %s", host, err)
-	}
-
-	msgHeader := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, MSG_HEADER_SIZE))
-	_, err = readLenFromConn(conn, msgHeader.Bytes(), MSG_HEADER_SIZE)
-	if err != nil {
-		return data, fmt.Errorf("Failed to read header: %s", err)
-	}
-	err = binary.Read(msgHeader, binary.BigEndian, &asInfo.msg.aerospikeMessageHeader)
-	if err != nil {
-		return data, fmt.Errorf("Failed to unmarshal header: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	msgLen := msgLenFromBytes(asInfo.msg.aerospikeMessageHeader.DataLen)
-
-	if int64(len(asInfo.msg.Data)) != msgLen {
-		asInfo.msg.Data = make([]byte, msgLen)
-	}
-
-	_, err = readLenFromConn(conn, asInfo.msg.Data, len(asInfo.msg.Data))
-	if err != nil {
-		return data, fmt.Errorf("Failed to read from connection to '%s': %s", host, err)
-	}
-
-	data, err = asInfo.parseMultiResponse()
-	if err != nil {
-		return data, fmt.Errorf("Failed to parse response from '%s': %s", host, err)
-	}
-
-	return data, err
-}
-
-func readAerospikeStats(
-	stats map[string]string,
-	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
-	host string,
-	namespace string,
-) {
-	fields := make(map[string]interface{})
-	tags := map[string]string{
-		"aerospike_host": host,
-		"namespace":      "_service",
-	}
-
-	if namespace != "" {
-		tags["namespace"] = namespace
-	}
-	for key, value := range stats {
-		// We are going to ignore all string based keys
-		val, err := strconv.ParseInt(value, 10, 64)
-		if err == nil {
-			if strings.Contains(key, "-") {
-				key = strings.Replace(key, "-", "_", -1)
-			}
-			fields[key] = val
-		}
-	}
-	acc.AddFields("aerospike", fields, tags)
-}
-
-func unmarshalMapInfo(infoMap map[string]string, key string) (map[string]string, error) {
-	key = strings.TrimSuffix(key, "\n")
-	res := map[string]string{}
-
-	v, exists := infoMap[key]
-	if !exists {
-		return res, fmt.Errorf("Key '%s' missing from info", key)
-	}
-
-	values := strings.Split(v, ";")
-	for i := range values {
-		kv := strings.Split(values[i], "=")
-		if len(kv) > 1 {
-			res[kv[0]] = kv[1]
-		}
-	}
-
-	return res, nil
-}
-
-func unmarshalListInfo(infoMap map[string]string, key string) ([]string, error) {
-	key = strings.TrimSuffix(key, "\n")
-
-	v, exists := infoMap[key]
-	if !exists {
-		return []string{}, fmt.Errorf("Key '%s' missing from info", key)
-	}
-
-	values := strings.Split(v, ";")
-	return values, nil
-}
-
-func readLenFromConn(c net.Conn, buffer []byte, length int) (total int, err error) {
-	var r int
-	for total < length {
-		r, err = c.Read(buffer[total:length])
-		total += r
-		if err != nil {
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	return
-}
-
-// Taken from aerospike-client-go/types/message.go
-func msgLenToBytes(DataLen int64) [6]byte {
-	b := make([]byte, 8)
-	binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(b, uint64(DataLen))
-	res := [6]byte{}
-	copy(res[:], b[2:])
-	return res
-}
-
-// Taken from aerospike-client-go/types/message.go
-func msgLenFromBytes(buf [6]byte) int64 {
-	nbytes := append([]byte{0, 0}, buf[:]...)
-	DataLen := binary.BigEndian.Uint64(nbytes)
-	return int64(DataLen)
+	return out
 }

 func init() {
--- a/plugins/inputs/aerospike/aerospike_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/aerospike/aerospike_test.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package aerospike

 import (
-	"reflect"
 	"testing"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@ import (

 func TestAerospikeStatistics(t *testing.T) {
 	if testing.Short() {
-		t.Skip("Skipping integration test in short mode")
+		t.Skip("Skipping aerospike integration tests.")
 	}

 	a := &Aerospike{
@@ -20,99 +19,50 @@ func TestAerospikeStatistics(t *testing.T) {

 	var acc testutil.Accumulator

-	err := a.Gather(&acc)
+	err := acc.GatherError(a.Gather)
 	require.NoError(t, err)

-	// Only use a few of the metrics
-	asMetrics := []string{
-		"transactions",
-		"stat_write_errs",
-		"stat_read_reqs",
-		"stat_write_reqs",
-	}
-
-	for _, metric := range asMetrics {
-		assert.True(t, acc.HasIntField("aerospike", metric), metric)
-	}
-
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasMeasurement("aerospike_node"))
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasTag("aerospike_node", "node_name"))
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasMeasurement("aerospike_namespace"))
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasTag("aerospike_namespace", "node_name"))
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasInt64Field("aerospike_node", "batch_error"))
 }

-func TestAerospikeMsgLenFromToBytes(t *testing.T) {
-	var i int64 = 8
-	assert.True(t, i == msgLenFromBytes(msgLenToBytes(i)))
-}
+func TestAerospikeStatisticsPartialErr(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping aerospike integration tests.")
+	}
+
+	a := &Aerospike{
+		Servers: []string{
+			testutil.GetLocalHost() + ":3000",
+			testutil.GetLocalHost() + ":9999",
+		},
+	}

-func TestReadAerospikeStatsNoNamespace(t *testing.T) {
-	// Also test for re-writing
 	var acc testutil.Accumulator
-	stats := map[string]string{
-		"stat-write-errs": "12345",
-		"stat_read_reqs":  "12345",
-	}
-	readAerospikeStats(stats, &acc, "host1", "")

-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"stat_write_errs": int64(12345),
-		"stat_read_reqs":  int64(12345),
-	}
-	tags := map[string]string{
-		"aerospike_host": "host1",
-		"namespace":      "_service",
-	}
-	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "aerospike", fields, tags)
+	require.Error(t, acc.GatherError(a.Gather))
+
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasMeasurement("aerospike_node"))
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasMeasurement("aerospike_namespace"))
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasInt64Field("aerospike_node", "batch_error"))
 }

-func TestReadAerospikeStatsNamespace(t *testing.T) {
-	var acc testutil.Accumulator
-	stats := map[string]string{
-		"stat_write_errs": "12345",
-		"stat_read_reqs":  "12345",
-	}
-	readAerospikeStats(stats, &acc, "host1", "test")
+func TestAerospikeParseValue(t *testing.T) {
+	// uint64 with value bigger than int64 max
+	val, err := parseValue("18446744041841121751")
+	assert.Nil(t, val)
+	assert.Error(t, err)

-	fields := map[string]interface{}{
-		"stat_write_errs": int64(12345),
-		"stat_read_reqs":  int64(12345),
-	}
-	tags := map[string]string{
-		"aerospike_host": "host1",
-		"namespace":      "test",
-	}
-	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "aerospike", fields, tags)
-}
-
-func TestAerospikeUnmarshalList(t *testing.T) {
-	i := map[string]string{
-		"test": "one;two;three",
-	}
-
-	expected := []string{"one", "two", "three"}
-
-	list, err := unmarshalListInfo(i, "test2")
-	assert.True(t, err != nil)
-
-	list, err = unmarshalListInfo(i, "test")
-	assert.True(t, err == nil)
-	equal := true
-	for ix := range expected {
-		if list[ix] != expected[ix] {
-			equal = false
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	assert.True(t, equal)
-}
-
-func TestAerospikeUnmarshalMap(t *testing.T) {
-	i := map[string]string{
-		"test": "key1=value1;key2=value2",
-	}
-
-	expected := map[string]string{
-		"key1": "value1",
-		"key2": "value2",
-	}
-	m, err := unmarshalMapInfo(i, "test")
-	assert.True(t, err == nil)
-	assert.True(t, reflect.DeepEqual(m, expected))
+	// int values
+	val, err = parseValue("42")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, val, int64(42), "must be parsed as int")
+
+	// string values
+	val, err = parseValue("BB977942A2CA502")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, val, `BB977942A2CA502`, "must be left as string")
 }
--- a/plugins/inputs/all/all.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/all/all.go
@@ -2,43 +2,74 @@ package all

 import (
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/aerospike"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/amqp_consumer"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/apache"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/bcache"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/bond"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/cassandra"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/ceph"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/cgroup"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/chrony"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/conntrack"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/consul"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/couchbase"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/couchdb"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/dcos"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/disque"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/dmcache"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/dns_query"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/docker"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/dovecot"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/exec"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/fail2ban"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/filestat"
-	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/fluentd"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/graylog"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/haproxy"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/hddtemp"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/http_listener"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/http_response"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/httpjson"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/influxdb"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/internal"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/interrupts"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/ipmi_sensor"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/ipset"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/iptables"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/jolokia"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/jolokia2"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer_legacy"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/kapacitor"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/kubernetes"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/leofs"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/logparser"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/lustre2"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mailchimp"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/memcached"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mesos"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/minecraft"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mongodb"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mysql"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/nats"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/nats_consumer"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/net_response"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/nginx"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/nginx_plus"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/nsq"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/nsq_consumer"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/nstat"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/ntpq"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/openldap"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/opensmtpd"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/passenger"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/pf"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/phpfpm"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/ping"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/postfix"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/postgresql"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/postgresql_extensible"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/powerdns"
@@ -50,18 +81,30 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/redis"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/rethinkdb"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/riak"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/salesforce"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/sensors"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/smart"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/snmp"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/snmp_legacy"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/socket_listener"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/solr"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/sqlserver"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/statsd"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/sysstat"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/system"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/tail"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/tcp_listener"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/teamspeak"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/tomcat"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/trig"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/twemproxy"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/udp_listener"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/unbound"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/varnish"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/webhooks"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/win_services"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/zfs"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/zipkin"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/zookeeper"
 )
--- a/plugins/inputs/amqp_consumer/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/amqp_consumer/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# AMQP Consumer Input Plugin
+
+This plugin provides a consumer for use with AMQP 0-9-1, a promenent implementation of this protocol being [RabbitMQ](https://www.rabbitmq.com/).
+
+Metrics are read from a topic exchange using the configured queue and binding_key.
+
+Message payload should be formatted in one of the [Telegraf Data Formats](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md).
+
+For an introduction to AMQP see:
+- https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/amqp-concepts.html
+- https://www.rabbitmq.com/getstarted.html
+
+The following defaults are known to work with RabbitMQ:
+
+```toml
+# AMQP consumer plugin
+[[inputs.amqp_consumer]]
+  ## AMQP url
+  url = "amqp://localhost:5672/influxdb"
+  ## AMQP exchange
+  exchange = "telegraf"
+  ## AMQP queue name
+  queue = "telegraf"
+  ## Binding Key
+  binding_key = "#"
+
+  ## Controls how many messages the server will try to keep on the network
+  ## for consumers before receiving delivery acks.
+  #prefetch_count = 50
+
+  ## Auth method. PLAIN and EXTERNAL are supported.
+  ## Using EXTERNAL requires enabling the rabbitmq_auth_mechanism_ssl plugin as
+  ## described here: https://www.rabbitmq.com/plugins.html
+  # auth_method = "PLAIN"
+  ## Optional SSL Config
+  # ssl_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
+  # ssl_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
+  # ssl_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
+  ## Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
+  # insecure_skip_verify = false
+
+  ## Data format to consume.
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "influx"
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/amqp_consumer/amqp_consumer.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/amqp_consumer/amqp_consumer.go
@@ -0,0 +1,280 @@
+package amqp_consumer
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/streadway/amqp"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers"
+)
+
+// AMQPConsumer is the top level struct for this plugin
+type AMQPConsumer struct {
+	URL string
+	// AMQP exchange
+	Exchange string
+	// Queue Name
+	Queue string
+	// Binding Key
+	BindingKey string `toml:"binding_key"`
+
+	// Controls how many messages the server will try to keep on the network
+	// for consumers before receiving delivery acks.
+	PrefetchCount int
+
+	// AMQP Auth method
+	AuthMethod string
+	// Path to CA file
+	SSLCA string `toml:"ssl_ca"`
+	// Path to host cert file
+	SSLCert string `toml:"ssl_cert"`
+	// Path to cert key file
+	SSLKey string `toml:"ssl_key"`
+	// Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
+	InsecureSkipVerify bool
+
+	parser parsers.Parser
+	conn   *amqp.Connection
+	wg     *sync.WaitGroup
+}
+
+type externalAuth struct{}
+
+func (a *externalAuth) Mechanism() string {
+	return "EXTERNAL"
+}
+func (a *externalAuth) Response() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("\000")
+}
+
+const (
+	DefaultAuthMethod    = "PLAIN"
+	DefaultPrefetchCount = 50
+)
+
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) SampleConfig() string {
+	return `
+  ## AMQP url
+  url = "amqp://localhost:5672/influxdb"
+  ## AMQP exchange
+  exchange = "telegraf"
+  ## AMQP queue name
+  queue = "telegraf"
+  ## Binding Key
+  binding_key = "#"
+
+  ## Maximum number of messages server should give to the worker.
+  prefetch_count = 50
+
+  ## Auth method. PLAIN and EXTERNAL are supported
+  ## Using EXTERNAL requires enabling the rabbitmq_auth_mechanism_ssl plugin as
+  ## described here: https://www.rabbitmq.com/plugins.html
+  # auth_method = "PLAIN"
+
+  ## Optional SSL Config
+  # ssl_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
+  # ssl_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
+  # ssl_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
+  ## Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
+  # insecure_skip_verify = false
+
+  ## Data format to consume.
+  ## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "influx"
+`
+}
+
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) Description() string {
+	return "AMQP consumer plugin"
+}
+
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) SetParser(parser parsers.Parser) {
+	a.parser = parser
+}
+
+// All gathering is done in the Start function
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) Gather(_ telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) createConfig() (*amqp.Config, error) {
+	// make new tls config
+	tls, err := internal.GetTLSConfig(
+		a.SSLCert, a.SSLKey, a.SSLCA, a.InsecureSkipVerify)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// parse auth method
+	var sasl []amqp.Authentication // nil by default
+
+	if strings.ToUpper(a.AuthMethod) == "EXTERNAL" {
+		sasl = []amqp.Authentication{&externalAuth{}}
+	}
+
+	config := amqp.Config{
+		TLSClientConfig: tls,
+		SASL:            sasl, // if nil, it will be PLAIN
+	}
+	return &config, nil
+}
+
+// Start satisfies the telegraf.ServiceInput interface
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) Start(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	amqpConf, err := a.createConfig()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	msgs, err := a.connect(amqpConf)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	a.wg = &sync.WaitGroup{}
+	a.wg.Add(1)
+	go a.process(msgs, acc)
+
+	go func() {
+		err := <-a.conn.NotifyClose(make(chan *amqp.Error))
+		if err == nil {
+			return
+		}
+
+		log.Printf("I! AMQP consumer connection closed: %s; trying to reconnect", err)
+		for {
+			msgs, err := a.connect(amqpConf)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Printf("E! AMQP connection failed: %s", err)
+				time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
+				continue
+			}
+
+			a.wg.Add(1)
+			go a.process(msgs, acc)
+			break
+		}
+	}()
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) connect(amqpConf *amqp.Config) (<-chan amqp.Delivery, error) {
+	conn, err := amqp.DialConfig(a.URL, *amqpConf)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	a.conn = conn
+
+	ch, err := conn.Channel()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to open a channel: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	err = ch.ExchangeDeclare(
+		a.Exchange, // name
+		"topic",    // type
+		true,       // durable
+		false,      // auto-deleted
+		false,      // internal
+		false,      // no-wait
+		nil,        // arguments
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to declare an exchange: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	q, err := ch.QueueDeclare(
+		a.Queue, // queue
+		true,    // durable
+		false,   // delete when unused
+		false,   // exclusive
+		false,   // no-wait
+		nil,     // arguments
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to declare a queue: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	err = ch.QueueBind(
+		q.Name,       // queue
+		a.BindingKey, // binding-key
+		a.Exchange,   // exchange
+		false,
+		nil,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to bind a queue: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	err = ch.Qos(
+		a.PrefetchCount,
+		0,     // prefetch-size
+		false, // global
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to set QoS: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	msgs, err := ch.Consume(
+		q.Name, // queue
+		"",     // consumer
+		false,  // auto-ack
+		false,  // exclusive
+		false,  // no-local
+		false,  // no-wait
+		nil,    // arguments
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed establishing connection to queue: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	log.Println("I! Started AMQP consumer")
+	return msgs, err
+}
+
+// Read messages from queue and add them to the Accumulator
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) process(msgs <-chan amqp.Delivery, acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+	defer a.wg.Done()
+	for d := range msgs {
+		metrics, err := a.parser.Parse(d.Body)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("E! %v: error parsing metric - %v", err, string(d.Body))
+		} else {
+			for _, m := range metrics {
+				acc.AddFields(m.Name(), m.Fields(), m.Tags(), m.Time())
+			}
+		}
+
+		d.Ack(false)
+	}
+	log.Printf("I! AMQP consumer queue closed")
+}
+
+func (a *AMQPConsumer) Stop() {
+	err := a.conn.Close()
+	if err != nil && err != amqp.ErrClosed {
+		log.Printf("E! Error closing AMQP connection: %s", err)
+		return
+	}
+	a.wg.Wait()
+	log.Println("I! Stopped AMQP service")
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("amqp_consumer", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &AMQPConsumer{
+			AuthMethod:    DefaultAuthMethod,
+			PrefetchCount: DefaultPrefetchCount,
+		}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/apache/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/apache/README.md
@@ -1,45 +1,84 @@
-# Telegraf plugin: Apache
+# Apache Input Plugin

-#### Plugin arguments:
- **urls** []string: List of apache-status URLs to collect from.
+The Apache plugin collects server performance information using the [`mod_status`](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_status.html) module of the [Apache HTTP Server](https://httpd.apache.org/).

-#### Description
+Typically, the `mod_status` module is configured to expose a page at the `/server-status?auto` location of the Apache server.  The [ExtendedStatus](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#extendedstatus) option must be enabled in order to collect all available fields.  For information about how to configure your server reference the [module documentation](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_status.html#enable).

-The Apache plugin collects from the /server-status?auto URL. See
-[apache.org/server-status?auto](http://www.apache.org/server-status?auto) for an
-example. And
-[here](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_status.html) for the apache
-mod_status documentation.
+### Configuration:

-# Measurements:
+```toml
+# Read Apache status information (mod_status)
+[[inputs.apache]]
+  ## An array of URLs to gather from, must be directed at the machine
+  ## readable version of the mod_status page including the auto query string.
+  ## Default is "http://localhost/server-status?auto".
+  urls = ["http://localhost/server-status?auto"]

-Meta:
- tags: `port=<port>`, `server=url`
+  ## Credentials for basic HTTP authentication.
+  # username = "myuser"
+  # password = "mypassword"

- apache_TotalAccesses
- apache_TotalkBytes
- apache_CPULoad
- apache_Uptime
- apache_ReqPerSec
- apache_BytesPerSec
- apache_BytesPerReq
- apache_BusyWorkers
- apache_IdleWorkers
- apache_ConnsTotal
- apache_ConnsAsyncWriting
- apache_ConnsAsyncKeepAlive
- apache_ConnsAsyncClosing
+  ## Maximum time to receive response.
+  # response_timeout = "5s"

-### Scoreboard measurements
+  ## Optional SSL Config
+  # ssl_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
+  # ssl_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
+  # ssl_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
+  ## Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
+  # insecure_skip_verify = false
+```

- apache_scboard_waiting
- apache_scboard_starting
- apache_scboard_reading
- apache_scboard_sending
- apache_scboard_keepalive
- apache_scboard_dnslookup
- apache_scboard_closing
- apache_scboard_logging
- apache_scboard_finishing
- apache_scboard_idle_cleanup
- apache_scboard_open
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+- apache
+  - BusyWorkers (float)
+  - BytesPerReq (float)
+  - BytesPerSec (float)
+  - ConnsAsyncClosing (float)
+  - ConnsAsyncKeepAlive (float)
+  - ConnsAsyncWriting (float)
+  - ConnsTotal (float)
+  - CPUChildrenSystem (float)
+  - CPUChildrenUser (float)
+  - CPULoad (float)
+  - CPUSystem (float)
+  - CPUUser (float)
+  - IdleWorkers (float)
+  - Load1 (float)
+  - Load5 (float)
+  - Load15 (float)
+  - ParentServerConfigGeneration (float)
+  - ParentServerMPMGeneration (float)
+  - ReqPerSec (float)
+  - ServerUptimeSeconds (float)
+  - TotalAccesses (float)
+  - TotalkBytes (float)
+  - Uptime (float)
+
+The following fields are collected from the `Scoreboard`, and represent the number of requests in the given state:
+
+- apache
+  - scboard_closing (float)
+  - scboard_dnslookup (float)
+  - scboard_finishing (float)
+  - scboard_idle_cleanup (float)
+  - scboard_keepalive (float)
+  - scboard_logging (float)
+  - scboard_open (float)
+  - scboard_reading (float)
+  - scboard_sending (float)
+  - scboard_starting (float)
+  - scboard_waiting (float)
+
+### Tags:
+
+- All measurements have the following tags:
+    - port
+    - server
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+apache,port=80,server=debian-stretch-apache BusyWorkers=1,BytesPerReq=0,BytesPerSec=0,CPUChildrenSystem=0,CPUChildrenUser=0,CPULoad=0.00995025,CPUSystem=0.01,CPUUser=0.01,ConnsAsyncClosing=0,ConnsAsyncKeepAlive=0,ConnsAsyncWriting=0,ConnsTotal=0,IdleWorkers=49,Load1=0.01,Load15=0,Load5=0,ParentServerConfigGeneration=3,ParentServerMPMGeneration=2,ReqPerSec=0.00497512,ServerUptimeSeconds=201,TotalAccesses=1,TotalkBytes=0,Uptime=201,scboard_closing=0,scboard_dnslookup=0,scboard_finishing=0,scboard_idle_cleanup=0,scboard_keepalive=0,scboard_logging=0,scboard_open=100,scboard_reading=0,scboard_sending=1,scboard_starting=0,scboard_waiting=49 1502489900000000000
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/apache/apache.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/apache/apache.go
@@ -12,16 +12,46 @@ import (
 	"time"

 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 )

 type Apache struct {
-	Urls []string
+	Urls            []string
+	Username        string
+	Password        string
+	ResponseTimeout internal.Duration
+	// Path to CA file
+	SSLCA string `toml:"ssl_ca"`
+	// Path to host cert file
+	SSLCert string `toml:"ssl_cert"`
+	// Path to cert key file
+	SSLKey string `toml:"ssl_key"`
+	// Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
+	InsecureSkipVerify bool
+
+	client *http.Client
 }

 var sampleConfig = `
-  ## An array of Apache status URI to gather stats.
+  ## An array of URLs to gather from, must be directed at the machine
+  ## readable version of the mod_status page including the auto query string.
+  ## Default is "http://localhost/server-status?auto".
  urls = ["http://localhost/server-status?auto"]
+
+  ## Credentials for basic HTTP authentication.
+  # username = "myuser"
+  # password = "mypassword"
+
+  ## Maximum time to receive response.
+  # response_timeout = "5s"
+
+  ## Optional SSL Config
+  # ssl_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
+  # ssl_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
+  # ssl_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
+  ## Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
+  # insecure_skip_verify = false
 `

 func (n *Apache) SampleConfig() string {
@@ -33,42 +63,73 @@ func (n *Apache) Description() string {
 }

 func (n *Apache) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
-	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	var outerr error
+	if len(n.Urls) == 0 {
+		n.Urls = []string{"http://localhost/server-status?auto"}
+	}
+	if n.ResponseTimeout.Duration < time.Second {
+		n.ResponseTimeout.Duration = time.Second * 5
+	}

+	if n.client == nil {
+		client, err := n.createHttpClient()
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		n.client = client
+	}
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(len(n.Urls))
 	for _, u := range n.Urls {
 		addr, err := url.Parse(u)
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("Unable to parse address '%s': %s", u, err)
+			acc.AddError(fmt.Errorf("Unable to parse address '%s': %s", u, err))
+			continue
 		}

-		wg.Add(1)
 		go func(addr *url.URL) {
 			defer wg.Done()
-			outerr = n.gatherUrl(addr, acc)
+			acc.AddError(n.gatherUrl(addr, acc))
 		}(addr)
 	}

 	wg.Wait()
-
-	return outerr
+	return nil
 }

-var tr = &http.Transport{
-	ResponseHeaderTimeout: time.Duration(3 * time.Second),
-}
+func (n *Apache) createHttpClient() (*http.Client, error) {
+	tlsCfg, err := internal.GetTLSConfig(
+		n.SSLCert, n.SSLKey, n.SSLCA, n.InsecureSkipVerify)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}

-var client = &http.Client{
-	Transport: tr,
-	Timeout:   time.Duration(4 * time.Second),
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Transport: &http.Transport{
+			TLSClientConfig: tlsCfg,
+		},
+		Timeout: n.ResponseTimeout.Duration,
+	}
+
+	return client, nil
 }

 func (n *Apache) gatherUrl(addr *url.URL, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
-	resp, err := client.Get(addr.String())
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", addr.String(), nil)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("error making HTTP request to %s: %s", addr.String(), err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("error on new request to %s : %s\n", addr.String(), err)
+	}
+
+	if len(n.Username) != 0 && len(n.Password) != 0 {
+		req.SetBasicAuth(n.Username, n.Password)
+	}
+
+	resp, err := n.client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("error on request to %s : %s\n", addr.String(), err)
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
 	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
 		return fmt.Errorf("%s returned HTTP status %s", addr.String(), resp.Status)
 	}
--- a/plugins/inputs/apache/apache_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/apache/apache_test.go
@@ -36,11 +36,12 @@ func TestHTTPApache(t *testing.T) {
 	defer ts.Close()

 	a := Apache{
-		Urls: []string{ts.URL},
+		// Fetch it 2 times to catch possible data races.
+		Urls: []string{ts.URL, ts.URL},
 	}

 	var acc testutil.Accumulator
-	err := a.Gather(&acc)
+	err := acc.GatherError(a.Gather)
 	require.NoError(t, err)

 	fields := map[string]interface{}{
--- a/plugins/inputs/bcache/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/bcache/README.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Using this configuration:
 When run with:

 ```
-./telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter bcache -test
+./telegraf --config telegraf.conf --input-filter bcache --test
 ```

 It produces:
--- a/plugins/inputs/bond/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/bond/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# Bond Input Plugin
+
+The Bond input plugin collects network bond interface status for both the
+network bond interface as well as slave interfaces.
+The plugin collects these metrics from `/proc/net/bonding/*` files.
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.bond]]
+  ## Sets 'proc' directory path
+  ## If not specified, then default is /proc
+  # host_proc = "/proc"
+
+  ## By default, telegraf gather stats for all bond interfaces
+  ## Setting interfaces will restrict the stats to the specified
+  ## bond interfaces.
+  # bond_interfaces = ["bond0"]
+```
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+- bond
+  - active_slave (for active-backup mode)
+  - status
+
+- bond_slave
+  - failures
+  - status
+
+### Description:
+
+```
+active_slave
+  Currently active slave interface for active-backup mode.
+
+status
+  Status of bond interface or bonds's slave interface (down = 0, up = 1).
+
+failures
+  Amount of failures for bond's slave interface.
+```
+
+### Tags:
+
+- bond
+  - bond
+
+- bond_slave
+  - bond
+  - interface
+
+### Example output:
+
+Configuration:
+
+```
+[[inputs.bond]]
+  ## Sets 'proc' directory path
+  ## If not specified, then default is /proc
+  host_proc = "/proc"
+
+  ## By default, telegraf gather stats for all bond interfaces
+  ## Setting interfaces will restrict the stats to the specified
+  ## bond interfaces.
+  bond_interfaces = ["bond0", "bond1"]
+```
+
+Run:
+
+```
+telegraf --config telegraf.conf --input-filter bond --test
+```
+
+Output:
+
+```
+* Plugin: inputs.bond, Collection 1
+> bond,bond=bond1,host=local active_slave="eth0",status=1i 1509704525000000000
+> bond_slave,bond=bond1,interface=eth0,host=local status=1i,failures=0i 1509704525000000000
+> bond_slave,host=local,bond=bond1,interface=eth1 status=1i,failures=0i 1509704525000000000
+> bond,bond=bond0,host=isvetlov-mac.local status=1i 1509704525000000000
+> bond_slave,bond=bond0,interface=eth1,host=local status=1i,failures=0i 1509704525000000000
+> bond_slave,bond=bond0,interface=eth2,host=local status=1i,failures=0i 1509704525000000000
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/bond/bond.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/bond/bond.go
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+package bond
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+)
+
+// default host proc path
+const defaultHostProc = "/proc"
+
+// env host proc variable name
+const envProc = "HOST_PROC"
+
+type Bond struct {
+	HostProc       string   `toml:"host_proc"`
+	BondInterfaces []string `toml:"bond_interfaces"`
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## Sets 'proc' directory path
+  ## If not specified, then default is /proc
+  # host_proc = "/proc"
+
+  ## By default, telegraf gather stats for all bond interfaces
+  ## Setting interfaces will restrict the stats to the specified
+  ## bond interfaces.
+  # bond_interfaces = ["bond0"]
+`
+
+func (bond *Bond) Description() string {
+	return "Collect bond interface status, slaves statuses and failures count"
+}
+
+func (bond *Bond) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (bond *Bond) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	// load proc path, get default value if config value and env variable are empty
+	bond.loadPath()
+	// list bond interfaces from bonding directory or gather all interfaces.
+	bondNames, err := bond.listInterfaces()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	for _, bondName := range bondNames {
+		bondAbsPath := bond.HostProc + "/net/bonding/" + bondName
+		file, err := ioutil.ReadFile(bondAbsPath)
+		if err != nil {
+			acc.AddError(fmt.Errorf("error inspecting '%s' interface: %v", bondAbsPath, err))
+			continue
+		}
+		rawFile := strings.TrimSpace(string(file))
+		err = bond.gatherBondInterface(bondName, rawFile, acc)
+		if err != nil {
+			acc.AddError(fmt.Errorf("error inspecting '%s' interface: %v", bondName, err))
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (bond *Bond) gatherBondInterface(bondName string, rawFile string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	splitIndex := strings.Index(rawFile, "Slave Interface:")
+	if splitIndex == -1 {
+		splitIndex = len(rawFile)
+	}
+	bondPart := rawFile[:splitIndex]
+	slavePart := rawFile[splitIndex:]
+
+	err := bond.gatherBondPart(bondName, bondPart, acc)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	err = bond.gatherSlavePart(bondName, slavePart, acc)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (bond *Bond) gatherBondPart(bondName string, rawFile string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	fields := make(map[string]interface{})
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"bond": bondName,
+	}
+
+	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(rawFile))
+	for scanner.Scan() {
+		line := scanner.Text()
+		stats := strings.Split(line, ":")
+		if len(stats) < 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		name := strings.TrimSpace(stats[0])
+		value := strings.TrimSpace(stats[1])
+		if strings.Contains(name, "Currently Active Slave") {
+			fields["active_slave"] = value
+		}
+		if strings.Contains(name, "MII Status") {
+			fields["status"] = 0
+			if value == "up" {
+				fields["status"] = 1
+			}
+			acc.AddFields("bond", fields, tags)
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+	if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return fmt.Errorf("Couldn't find status info for '%s' ", bondName)
+}
+
+func (bond *Bond) gatherSlavePart(bondName string, rawFile string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	var slave string
+	var status int
+
+	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(rawFile))
+	for scanner.Scan() {
+		line := scanner.Text()
+		stats := strings.Split(line, ":")
+		if len(stats) < 2 {
+			continue
+		}
+		name := strings.TrimSpace(stats[0])
+		value := strings.TrimSpace(stats[1])
+		if strings.Contains(name, "Slave Interface") {
+			slave = value
+		}
+		if strings.Contains(name, "MII Status") {
+			status = 0
+			if value == "up" {
+				status = 1
+			}
+		}
+		if strings.Contains(name, "Link Failure Count") {
+			count, err := strconv.Atoi(value)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			fields := map[string]interface{}{
+				"status":   status,
+				"failures": count,
+			}
+			tags := map[string]string{
+				"bond":      bondName,
+				"interface": slave,
+			}
+			acc.AddFields("bond_slave", fields, tags)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// loadPath can be used to read path firstly from config
+// if it is empty then try read from env variable
+func (bond *Bond) loadPath() {
+	if bond.HostProc == "" {
+		bond.HostProc = proc(envProc, defaultHostProc)
+	}
+}
+
+// proc can be used to read file paths from env
+func proc(env, path string) string {
+	// try to read full file path
+	if p := os.Getenv(env); p != "" {
+		return p
+	}
+	// return default path
+	return path
+}
+
+func (bond *Bond) listInterfaces() ([]string, error) {
+	var interfaces []string
+	if len(bond.BondInterfaces) > 0 {
+		interfaces = bond.BondInterfaces
+	} else {
+		paths, err := filepath.Glob(bond.HostProc + "/net/bonding/*")
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		for _, p := range paths {
+			interfaces = append(interfaces, filepath.Base(p))
+		}
+	}
+	return interfaces, nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("bond", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &Bond{}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/bond/bond_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/bond/bond_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package bond
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+)
+
+var sampleTest802 = `
+Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.5.0 (November 4, 2008)
+
+Bonding Mode: IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
+Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
+MII Status: up
+MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
+Up Delay (ms): 0
+Down Delay (ms): 0
+
+802.3ad info
+LACP rate: fast
+Aggregator selection policy (ad_select): stable
+bond bond0 has no active aggregator
+
+Slave Interface: eth1
+MII Status: up
+Link Failure Count: 0
+Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:f5:b7:11
+Aggregator ID: N/A
+
+Slave Interface: eth2
+MII Status: up
+Link Failure Count: 3
+Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:f5:b7:1b
+Aggregator ID: N/A
+`
+
+var sampleTestAB = `
+Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)
+
+Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
+Primary Slave: eth2 (primary_reselect always)
+Currently Active Slave: eth2
+MII Status: up
+MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
+Up Delay (ms): 0
+Down Delay (ms): 0
+
+Slave Interface: eth3
+MII Status: down
+Speed: 1000 Mbps
+Duplex: full
+Link Failure Count: 2
+Permanent HW addr:
+Slave queue ID: 0
+
+Slave Interface: eth2
+MII Status: up
+Speed: 100 Mbps
+Duplex: full
+Link Failure Count: 0
+Permanent HW addr:
+`
+
+func TestGatherBondInterface(t *testing.T) {
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	bond := &Bond{}
+
+	bond.gatherBondInterface("bond802", sampleTest802, &acc)
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "bond", map[string]interface{}{"status": 1}, map[string]string{"bond": "bond802"})
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "bond_slave", map[string]interface{}{"failures": 0, "status": 1}, map[string]string{"bond": "bond802", "interface": "eth1"})
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "bond_slave", map[string]interface{}{"failures": 3, "status": 1}, map[string]string{"bond": "bond802", "interface": "eth2"})
+
+	bond.gatherBondInterface("bondAB", sampleTestAB, &acc)
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "bond", map[string]interface{}{"active_slave": "eth2", "status": 1}, map[string]string{"bond": "bondAB"})
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "bond_slave", map[string]interface{}{"failures": 2, "status": 0}, map[string]string{"bond": "bondAB", "interface": "eth3"})
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "bond_slave", map[string]interface{}{"failures": 0, "status": 1}, map[string]string{"bond": "bondAB", "interface": "eth2"})
+}
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More