Release 0.13

Specify host mount prefix with envvar.
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-## v0.10.0 [unreleased]
+## v0.13 [2016-05-09]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- **Breaking change** in jolokia plugin. See
+https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/jolokia/README.md
+for updated configuration. The plugin will now support proxy mode and will make
+POST requests.
+
+- New [agent] configuration option: `metric_batch_size`. This option tells
+telegraf the maximum batch size to allow to accumulate before sending a flush
+to the configured outputs. `metric_buffer_limit` now refers to the absolute
+maximum number of metrics that will accumulate before metrics are dropped.
+
+- There is no longer an option to
+`flush_buffer_when_full`, this is now the default and only behavior of telegraf.
+
+- **Breaking Change**: docker plugin tags. The cont_id tag no longer exists, it
+will now be a field, and be called container_id. Additionally, cont_image and
+cont_name are being renamed to container_image and container_name.
+
+- **Breaking Change**: docker plugin measurements. The `docker_cpu`, `docker_mem`,
+`docker_blkio` and `docker_net` measurements are being renamed to
+`docker_container_cpu`, `docker_container_mem`, `docker_container_blkio` and
+`docker_container_net`. Why? Because these metrics are
+specifically tracking per-container stats. The problem with per-container stats,
+in some use-cases, is that if containers are short-lived AND names are not
+kept consistent, then the series cardinality will balloon very quickly.
+So adding "container" to each metric will:
+(1) make it more clear that these metrics are per-container, and
+(2) allow users to easily drop per-container metrics if cardinality is an
+issue (`namedrop = ["docker_container_*"]`)
+
+- `tagexclude` and `taginclude` are now available, which can be used to remove
+tags from measurements on inputs and outputs. See
+[the configuration doc](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/CONFIGURATION.md)
+for more details.
+
+- **Measurement filtering:** All measurement filters now match based on glob
+only. Previously there was an undocumented behavior where filters would match
+based on _prefix_ in addition to globs. This means that a filter like
+`fielddrop = ["time_"]` will need to be changed to `fielddrop = ["time_*"]`
+
+- **datadog**: measurement and field names will no longer have `_` replaced by `.`
+
+- The following plugins have changed their tags to _not_ overwrite the host tag:
+  - cassandra: `host -> cassandra_host`
+  - disque: `host -> disque_host`
+  - rethinkdb: `host -> rethinkdb_host`
+
+- **Breaking Change**: The `win_perf_counters` input has been changed to sanitize field names, replacing `/Sec` and `/sec` with `_persec`, as well as spaces with underscores. This is needed because Graphite doesn't like slashes and spaces, and was failing to accept metrics that had them. The `/[sS]ec` -> `_persec` is just to make things clearer and uniform.
+- The `disk` input plugin can now be configured with the `HOST_MOUNT_PREFIX` environment variable.
+This value is prepended to any mountpaths discovered before retrieving stats.
+It is not included on the report path. This is necessary for reporting host disk stats when running from within a container.
+
+### Features
+
+- [#1031](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1031): Jolokia plugin proxy mode. Thanks @saiello!
+- [#1017](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1017): taginclude and tagexclude arguments.
+- [#1015](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1015): Docker plugin schema refactor.
+- [#889](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/889): Improved MySQL plugin. Thanks @maksadbek!
+- [#1060](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1060): TTL metrics added to MongoDB input plugin
+- [#1056](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1056): Don't allow inputs to overwrite host tags.
+- [#1035](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1035): Add `user`, `exe`, `pidfile` tags to procstat plugin.
+- [#1041](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1041): Add `n_cpus` field to the system plugin.
+- [#1072](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1072): New Input Plugin: filestat.
+- [#1066](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1066): Replication lag metrics for MongoDB input plugin
+- [#1086](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1086): Ability to specify AWS keys in config file. Thanks @johnrengleman!
+- [#1096](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1096): Performance refactor of running output buffers.
+- [#967](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/967): Buffer logging improvements.
+- [#1107](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1107): Support lustre2 job stats. Thanks @hanleyja!
+- [#1122](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1122): Support setting config path through env variable and default paths.
+- [#1128](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1128): MongoDB jumbo chunks metric for MongoDB input plugin
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#1050](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1050): jolokia plugin - do not overwrite host tag. Thanks @saiello!
+- [#921](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/921): mqtt_consumer stops gathering metrics. Thanks @chaton78!
+- [#1013](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1013): Close dead riemann output connections. Thanks @echupriyanov!
+- [#1012](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1012): Set default tags in test accumulator.
+- [#1024](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1024): Don't replace `.` with `_` in datadog output.
+- [#1058](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1058): Fix possible leaky TCP connections in influxdb output.
+- [#1044](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1044): Fix SNMP OID possible collisions. Thanks @relip
+- [#1022](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1022): Dont error deb/rpm install on systemd errors.
+- [#1078](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1078): Use default AWS credential chain.
+- [#1070](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1070): SQL Server input. Fix datatype conversion.
+- [#1089](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1089): Fix leaky TCP connections in phpfpm plugin.
+- [#914](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/914): Telegraf can drop metrics on full buffers.
+- [#1098](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1098): Sanitize invalid OpenTSDB characters.
+- [#1110](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1110): Sanitize * to - in graphite serializer. Thanks @goodeggs!
+- [#1118](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1118): Sanitize Counter names for `win_perf_counters` input.
+- [#1125](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1125): Wrap all exec command runners with a timeout, so hung os processes don't halt Telegraf.
+- [#1113](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1113): Set MaxRetry and RequiredAcks defaults in Kafka output.
+- [#1090](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1090): [agent] and [global_tags] config sometimes not getting applied.
+- [#1133](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1133): Use a timeout for docker list & stat cmds.
+- [#1052](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1052): Docker panic fix when decode fails.
+- [#1136](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1136): "DELAYED" Inserts were deprecated in MySQL 5.6.6. Thanks @PierreF
+
+## v0.12.1 [2016-04-14]
+
+### Release Notes
+- Breaking change in the dovecot input plugin. See Features section below.
+- Graphite output templates are now supported. See
+https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md#graphite
+- Possible breaking change for the librato and graphite outputs. Telegraf will
+no longer insert field names when the field is simply named `value`. This is
+because the `value` field is redundant in the graphite/librato context.
+
+### Features
+- [#1009](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1009): Cassandra input plugin. Thanks @subhachandrachandra!
+- [#976](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/976): Reduce allocations in the UDP and statsd inputs.
+- [#979](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/979): Reduce allocations in the TCP listener.
+- [#992](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/992): Refactor allocations in TCP/UDP listeners.
+- [#935](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/935): AWS Cloudwatch input plugin. Thanks @joshhardy & @ljosa!
+- [#943](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/943): http_response input plugin. Thanks @Lswith!
+- [#939](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/939): sysstat input plugin. Thanks @zbindenren!
+- [#998](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/998): **breaking change** enabled global, user and ip queries in dovecot plugin. Thanks @mikif70!
+- [#1001](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1001): Graphite serializer templates.
+- [#1008](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1008): Adding memstats metrics to the influxdb plugin.
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#968](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/968): Processes plugin gets unknown state when spaces are in (command name)
+- [#969](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/969): ipmi_sensors: allow : in password. Thanks @awaw!
+- [#972](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/972): dovecot: remove extra newline in dovecot command. Thanks @mrannanj!
+- [#645](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/645): docker plugin i/o error on closed pipe. Thanks @tripledes!
+
+## v0.12.0 [2016-04-05]
+
+### Features
+- [#951](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/951): Parse environment variables in the config file.
+- [#948](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/948): Cleanup config file and make default package version include all plugins (but commented).
+- [#927](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/927): Adds parsing of tags to the statsd input when using DataDog's dogstatsd extension
+- [#863](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/863): AMQP output: allow external auth. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#707](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/707): Improved prometheus plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#878](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/878): Added json serializer. Thanks @ch3lo!
+- [#880](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/880): Add the ability to specify the bearer token to the prometheus plugin. Thanks @jchauncey!
+- [#882](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/882): Fixed SQL Server Plugin issues
+- [#849](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/849): Adding ability to parse single values as an input data type.
+- [#844](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/844): postgres_extensible plugin added. Thanks @menardorama!
+- [#866](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/866): couchbase input plugin. Thanks @ljosa!
+- [#789](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/789): Support multiple field specification and `field*` in graphite templates. Thanks @chrusty!
+- [#762](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/762): Nagios parser for the exec plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#848](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/848): Provide option to omit host tag from telegraf agent.
+- [#928](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/928): Deprecating the statsd "convert_names" options, expose separator config.
+- [#919](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/919): ipmi_sensor input plugin. Thanks @ebookbug!
+- [#945](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/945): KAFKA output: codec, acks, and retry configuration. Thanks @framiere!
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#890](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/890): Create TLS config even if only ssl_ca is provided.
+- [#884](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/884): Do not call write method if there are 0 metrics to write.
+- [#898](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/898): Put database name in quotes, fixes special characters in the database name.
+- [#656](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/656): No longer run `lsof` on linux to get netstat data, fixes permissions issue.
+- [#907](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/907): Fix prometheus invalid label/measurement name key.
+- [#841](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/841): Fix memcached unix socket panic.
+- [#873](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/873): Fix SNMP plugin sometimes not returning metrics. Thanks @titiliambert!
+- [#934](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/934): phpfpm: Fix fcgi uri path. Thanks @rudenkovk!
+- [#805](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/805): Kafka consumer stops gathering after i/o timeout.
+- [#959](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/959): reduce mongodb & prometheus collection timeouts. Thanks @PierreF!
+
+## v0.11.1 [2016-03-17]
+
+### Release Notes
+- Primarily this release was cut to fix [#859](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/859)
+
+### Features
+- [#747](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/747): Start telegraf on install & remove on uninstall. Thanks @pierref!
+- [#794](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/794): Add service reload ability. Thanks @entertainyou!
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#852](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/852): Windows zip package fix
+- [#859](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/859): httpjson plugin panic
+
+## v0.11.0 [2016-03-15]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+### Features
+- [#692](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/770): Support InfluxDB retention policies
+- [#771](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/771): Default timeouts for input plugns. Thanks @PierreF!
+- [#758](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/758): UDP Listener input plugin, thanks @whatyouhide!
+- [#769](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/769): httpjson plugin: allow specifying SSL configuration.
+- [#735](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/735): SNMP Table feature. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#754](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/754): docker plugin: adding `docker info` metrics to output. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#788](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/788): -input-list and -output-list command-line options. Thanks @ebookbug!
+- [#778](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/778): Adding a TCP input listener.
+- [#797](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/797): Provide option for persistent MQTT consumer client sessions.
+- [#799](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/799): Add number of threads for procstat input plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#776](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/776): Add Zookeeper chroot option to kafka_consumer. Thanks @prune998!
+- [#811](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/811): Add processes plugin for classifying total procs on system. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#235](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/235): Add number of users to the `system` input plugin.
+- [#826](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/826): "kernel" linux plugin for /proc/stat metrics (context switches, interrupts, etc.)
+- [#847](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/847): `ntpq`: Input plugin for running ntp query executable and gathering metrics.
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#748](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/748): Fix sensor plugin split on ":"
+- [#722](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/722): Librato output plugin fixes. Thanks @chrusty!
+- [#745](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/745): Fix Telegraf toml parse panic on large config files. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#781](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/781): Fix mqtt_consumer username not being set. Thanks @chaton78!
+- [#786](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/786): Fix mqtt output username not being set. Thanks @msangoi!
+- [#773](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/773): Fix duplicate measurements in snmp plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#708](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/708): packaging: build ARM package
+- [#713](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/713): packaging: insecure permissions error on log directory
+- [#816](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/816): Fix phpfpm panic if fcgi endpoint unreachable.
+- [#828](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/828): fix net_response plugin overwriting host tag.
+- [#821](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/821): Remove postgres password from server tag. Thanks @menardorama!
+
+## v0.10.4.1
+
+### Release Notes
+- Bug in the build script broke deb and rpm packages.
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#750](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/750): deb package broken
+- [#752](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/752): rpm package broken
+
+## v0.10.4 [2016-02-24]
+
+### Release Notes
+- The pass/drop parameters have been renamed to fielddrop/fieldpass parameters,
+to more accurately indicate their purpose.
+- There are also now namedrop/namepass parameters for passing/dropping based
+on the metric _name_.
+- Experimental windows builds now available.
+
+### Features
+- [#727](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/727): riak input, thanks @jcoene!
+- [#694](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/694): DNS Query input, thanks @mjasion!
+- [#724](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/724): username matching for procstat input, thanks @zorel!
+- [#736](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/736): Ignore dummy filesystems from disk plugin. Thanks @PierreF!
+- [#737](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/737): Support multiple fields for statsd input. Thanks @mattheath!
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#701](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/701): output write count shouldnt print in quiet mode.
+- [#746](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/746): httpjson plugin: Fix HTTP GET parameters.
+
+## v0.10.3 [2016-02-18]
+
+### Release Notes
+- Users of the `exec` and `kafka_consumer` (and the new `nats_consumer`
+and `mqtt_consumer` plugins) can now specify the incoming data
+format that they would like to parse. Currently supports: "json", "influx", and
+"graphite"
+- Users of message broker and file output plugins can now choose what data format
+they would like to output. Currently supports: "influx" and "graphite"
+- More info on parsing _incoming_ data formats can be found
+[here](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md)
+- More info on serializing _outgoing_ data formats can be found
+[here](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md)
+- Telegraf now has an option `flush_buffer_when_full` that will flush the
+metric buffer whenever it fills up for each output, rather than dropping
+points and only flushing on a set time interval. This will default to `true`
+and is in the `[agent]` config section.
+
+### Features
+- [#652](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/652): CouchDB Input Plugin. Thanks @codehate!
+- [#655](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/655): Support parsing arbitrary data formats. Currently limited to kafka_consumer and exec inputs.
+- [#671](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/671): Dovecot input plugin. Thanks @mikif70!
+- [#680](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/680): NATS consumer input plugin. Thanks @netixen!
+- [#676](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/676): MQTT consumer input plugin.
+- [#683](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/683): PostGRES input plugin: add pg_stat_bgwriter. Thanks @menardorama!
+- [#679](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/679): File/stdout output plugin.
+- [#679](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/679): Support for arbitrary output data formats.
+- [#695](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/695): raindrops input plugin. Thanks @burdandrei!
+- [#650](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/650): net_response input plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#699](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/699): Flush based on buffer size rather than time.
+- [#682](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/682): Mesos input plugin. Thanks @tripledes!
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#443](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/443): Fix Ping command timeout parameter on Linux.
+- [#662](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/667): Change `[tags]` to `[global_tags]` to fix multiple-plugin tags bug.
+- [#642](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/642): Riemann output plugin issues.
+- [#394](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/394): Support HTTP POST. Thanks @gabelev!
+- [#715](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/715): Fix influxdb precision config panic. Thanks @netixen!
+
+## v0.10.2 [2016-02-04]
+
+### Release Notes
+- Statsd timing measurements are now aggregated into a single measurement with
+fields.
+- Graphite output now inserts tags into the bucket in alphabetical order.
+- Normalized TLS/SSL support for output plugins: MQTT, AMQP, Kafka
+- `verify_ssl` config option was removed from Kafka because it was actually
+doing the opposite of what it claimed to do (yikes). It's been replaced by
+`insecure_skip_verify`
+
+### Features
+- [#575](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/575): Support for collecting Windows Performance Counters. Thanks @TheFlyingCorpse!
+- [#564](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/564): features for plugin writing simplification. Internal metric data type.
+- [#603](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/603): Aggregate statsd timing measurements into fields. Thanks @marcinbunsch!
+- [#601](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/601): Warn when overwriting cached metrics.
+- [#614](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/614): PowerDNS input plugin. Thanks @Kasen!
+- [#617](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/617): exec plugin: parse influx line protocol in addition to JSON.
+- [#628](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/628): Windows perf counters: pre-vista support
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#595](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/595): graphite output should include tags to separate duplicate measurements.
+- [#599](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/599): datadog plugin tags not working.
+- [#600](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/600): datadog measurement/field name parsing is wrong.
+- [#602](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/602): Fix statsd field name templating.
+- [#612](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/612): Docker input panic fix if stats received are nil.
+- [#634](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/634): Properly set host headers in httpjson. Thanks @reginaldosousa!
+
+## v0.10.1 [2016-01-27]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+- Telegraf now keeps a fixed-length buffer of metrics per-output. This buffer
+defaults to 10,000 metrics, and is adjustable. The buffer is cleared when a
+successful write to that output occurs.
+- The docker plugin has been significantly overhauled to add more metrics
+and allow for docker-machine (incl OSX) support.
+[See the readme](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/docker/README.md)
+for the latest measurements, fields, and tags. There is also now support for
+specifying a docker endpoint to get metrics from.
+
+### Features
+- [#509](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/509): Flatten JSON arrays with indices. Thanks @psilva261!
+- [#512](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/512): Python 3 build script, add lsof dep to package. Thanks @Ormod!
+- [#475](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/475): Add response time to httpjson plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#519](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/519): Added a sensors input based on lm-sensors. Thanks @md14454!
+- [#467](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/467): Add option to disable statsd measurement name conversion.
+- [#534](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/534): NSQ input plugin. Thanks @allingeek!
+- [#494](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/494): Graphite output plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- AMQP SSL support. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#539](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/539): Reload config on SIGHUP. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#522](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/522): Phusion passenger input plugin. Thanks @kureikain!
+- [#541](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/541): Kafka output TLS cert support. Thanks @Ormod!
+- [#551](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/551): Statsd UDP read packet size now defaults to 1500 bytes, and is configurable.
+- [#552](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/552): Support for collection interval jittering.
+- [#484](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/484): Include usage percent with procstat metrics.
+- [#553](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/553): Amazon CloudWatch output. thanks @skwong2!
+- [#503](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/503): Support docker endpoint configuration.
+- [#563](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/563): Docker plugin overhaul.
+- [#285](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/285): Fixed-size buffer of points.
+- [#546](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/546): SNMP Input plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#589](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/589): Microsoft SQL Server input plugin. Thanks @zensqlmonitor!
+- [#573](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/573): Github webhooks consumer input. Thanks @jackzampolin!
+- [#471](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/471): httpjson request headers. Thanks @asosso!
+
+### Bugfixes
+- [#506](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/506): Ping input doesn't return response time metric when timeout. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#508](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/508): Fix prometheus cardinality issue with the `net` plugin
+- [#499](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/499) & [#502](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/502): php fpm unix socket and other fixes, thanks @kureikain!
+- [#543](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/543): Statsd Packet size sometimes truncated.
+- [#440](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/440): Don't query filtered devices for disk stats.
+- [#463](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/463): Docker plugin not working on AWS Linux
+- [#568](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/568): Multiple output race condition.
+- [#585](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/585): Log stack trace and continue on Telegraf panic. Thanks @wutaizeng!
+
+## v0.10.0 [2016-01-12]

 ### Release Notes
 - Linux packages have been taken out of `opt`, the binary is now in `/usr/bin`
@@ -39,29 +388,29 @@ configurations overwritten by the upgrade. There is a backup stored at
 ## v0.2.5 [unreleased]

 ### Features
- [#427](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/427): zfs plugin: pool stats added. Thanks @allenpetersen!
- [#428](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/428): Amazon Kinesis output. Thanks @jimmystewpot!
- [#449](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/449): influxdb plugin, thanks @mark-rushakoff
+- [#427](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/427): zfs plugin: pool stats added. Thanks @allenpetersen!
+- [#428](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/428): Amazon Kinesis output. Thanks @jimmystewpot!
+- [#449](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/449): influxdb plugin, thanks @mark-rushakoff

 ### Bugfixes
- [#430](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/430): Network statistics removed in elasticsearch 2.1. Thanks @jipperinbham!
- [#452](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/452): Elasticsearch open file handles error. Thanks @jipperinbham!
+- [#430](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/430): Network statistics removed in elasticsearch 2.1. Thanks @jipperinbham!
+- [#452](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/452): Elasticsearch open file handles error. Thanks @jipperinbham!

 ## v0.2.4 [2015-12-08]

 ### Features
- [#412](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/412): Additional memcached stats. Thanks @mgresser!
- [#410](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/410): Additional redis metrics. Thanks @vlaadbrain!
- [#414](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/414): Jolokia plugin auth parameters
- [#415](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/415): memcached plugin: support unix sockets
- [#418](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/418): memcached plugin additional unit tests.
- [#408](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/408): MailChimp plugin.
- [#382](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/382): Add system wide network protocol stats to `net` plugin.
- [#401](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/401): Support pass/drop/tagpass/tagdrop for outputs. Thanks @oldmantaiter!
+- [#412](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/412): Additional memcached stats. Thanks @mgresser!
+- [#410](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/410): Additional redis metrics. Thanks @vlaadbrain!
+- [#414](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/414): Jolokia plugin auth parameters
+- [#415](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/415): memcached plugin: support unix sockets
+- [#418](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/418): memcached plugin additional unit tests.
+- [#408](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/408): MailChimp plugin.
+- [#382](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/382): Add system wide network protocol stats to `net` plugin.
+- [#401](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/401): Support pass/drop/tagpass/tagdrop for outputs. Thanks @oldmantaiter!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#405](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/405): Prometheus output cardinality issue
- [#388](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/388): Fix collection hangup when cpu times decrement.
+- [#405](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/405): Prometheus output cardinality issue
+- [#388](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/388): Fix collection hangup when cpu times decrement.

 ## v0.2.3 [2015-11-30]

@@ -90,15 +439,15 @@ same type can be specified, like this:
 - Aerospike plugin: tag changed from `host` -> `aerospike_host`

 ### Features
- [#379](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/379): Riemann output, thanks @allenj!
- [#375](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/375): kafka_consumer service plugin.
- [#392](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/392): Procstat plugin can now accept pgrep -f pattern, thanks @ecarreras!
- [#383](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/383): Specify plugins as a list.
- [#354](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/354): Add ability to specify multiple metrics in one statsd line. Thanks @MerlinDMC!
+- [#379](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/379): Riemann output, thanks @allenj!
+- [#375](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/375): kafka_consumer service plugin.
+- [#392](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/392): Procstat plugin can now accept pgrep -f pattern, thanks @ecarreras!
+- [#383](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/383): Specify plugins as a list.
+- [#354](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/354): Add ability to specify multiple metrics in one statsd line. Thanks @MerlinDMC!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#371](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/371): Kafka consumer plugin not functioning.
- [#389](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/389): NaN value panic
+- [#371](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/371): Kafka consumer plugin not functioning.
+- [#389](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/389): NaN value panic

 ## v0.2.2 [2015-11-18]

@@ -107,7 +456,7 @@ same type can be specified, like this:
 lists of servers/URLs. 0.2.2 is being released solely to fix that bug

 ### Bugfixes
- [#377](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/377): Fix for duplicate slices in inputs.
+- [#377](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/377): Fix for duplicate slices in inputs.

 ## v0.2.1 [2015-11-16]

@@ -124,22 +473,22 @@ changed to just run docker commands in the Makefile. See `make docker-run` and
 same type.

 ### Features
- [#325](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/325): NSQ output. Thanks @jrxFive!
- [#318](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/318): Prometheus output. Thanks @oldmantaiter!
- [#338](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/338): Restart Telegraf on package upgrade. Thanks @linsomniac!
- [#337](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/337): Jolokia plugin, thanks @saiello!
- [#350](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/350): Amon output.
- [#365](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/365): Twemproxy plugin by @codeb2cc
- [#317](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/317): ZFS plugin, thanks @cornerot!
- [#364](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/364): Support InfluxDB UDP output.
- [#370](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/370): Support specifying multiple outputs, as lists.
- [#372](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/372): Remove gosigar and update go-dockerclient for FreeBSD support. Thanks @MerlinDMC!
+- [#325](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/325): NSQ output. Thanks @jrxFive!
+- [#318](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/318): Prometheus output. Thanks @oldmantaiter!
+- [#338](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/338): Restart Telegraf on package upgrade. Thanks @linsomniac!
+- [#337](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/337): Jolokia plugin, thanks @saiello!
+- [#350](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/350): Amon output.
+- [#365](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/365): Twemproxy plugin by @codeb2cc
+- [#317](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/317): ZFS plugin, thanks @cornerot!
+- [#364](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/364): Support InfluxDB UDP output.
+- [#370](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/370): Support specifying multiple outputs, as lists.
+- [#372](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/372): Remove gosigar and update go-dockerclient for FreeBSD support. Thanks @MerlinDMC!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#331](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/331): Dont overwrite host tag in redis plugin.
- [#336](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/336): Mongodb plugin should take 2 measurements.
- [#351](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/317): Fix continual "CREATE DATABASE" in writes
- [#360](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/360): Apply prefix before ShouldPass check. Thanks @sotfo!
+- [#331](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/331): Dont overwrite host tag in redis plugin.
+- [#336](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/336): Mongodb plugin should take 2 measurements.
+- [#351](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/317): Fix continual "CREATE DATABASE" in writes
+- [#360](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/360): Apply prefix before ShouldPass check. Thanks @sotfo!

 ## v0.2.0 [2015-10-27]

@@ -160,38 +509,38 @@ be controlled via the `round_interval` and `flush_jitter` config options.
 - Telegraf will now retry metric flushes twice

 ### Features
- [#205](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/205): Include per-db redis keyspace info
- [#226](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/226): Add timestamps to points in Kafka/AMQP outputs. Thanks @ekini
- [#90](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/90): Add Docker labels to tags in docker plugin
- [#223](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/223): Add port tag to nginx plugin. Thanks @neezgee!
- [#227](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/227): Add command intervals to exec plugin. Thanks @jpalay!
- [#241](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/241): MQTT Output. Thanks @shirou!
+- [#205](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/205): Include per-db redis keyspace info
+- [#226](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/226): Add timestamps to points in Kafka/AMQP outputs. Thanks @ekini
+- [#90](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/90): Add Docker labels to tags in docker plugin
+- [#223](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/223): Add port tag to nginx plugin. Thanks @neezgee!
+- [#227](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/227): Add command intervals to exec plugin. Thanks @jpalay!
+- [#241](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/241): MQTT Output. Thanks @shirou!
 - Memory plugin: cached and buffered measurements re-added
 - Logging: additional logging for each collection interval, track the number
 of metrics collected and from how many inputs.
- [#240](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/240): procstat plugin, thanks @ranjib!
- [#244](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/244): netstat plugin, thanks @shirou!
- [#262](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/262): zookeeper plugin, thanks @jrxFive!
- [#237](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/237): statsd service plugin, thanks @sparrc
- [#273](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/273): puppet agent plugin, thats @jrxFive!
- [#280](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/280): Use InfluxDB client v2.
- [#281](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/281): Eliminate need to deep copy Batch Points.
- [#286](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/286): bcache plugin, thanks @cornerot!
- [#287](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/287): Batch AMQP output, thanks @ekini!
- [#301](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/301): Collect on even intervals
- [#298](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/298): Support retrying output writes
- [#300](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/300): aerospike plugin. Thanks @oldmantaiter!
- [#322](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/322): Librato output. Thanks @jipperinbham!
+- [#240](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/240): procstat plugin, thanks @ranjib!
+- [#244](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/244): netstat plugin, thanks @shirou!
+- [#262](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/262): zookeeper plugin, thanks @jrxFive!
+- [#237](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/237): statsd service plugin, thanks @sparrc
+- [#273](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/273): puppet agent plugin, thats @jrxFive!
+- [#280](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/280): Use InfluxDB client v2.
+- [#281](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/281): Eliminate need to deep copy Batch Points.
+- [#286](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/286): bcache plugin, thanks @cornerot!
+- [#287](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/287): Batch AMQP output, thanks @ekini!
+- [#301](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/301): Collect on even intervals
+- [#298](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/298): Support retrying output writes
+- [#300](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/300): aerospike plugin. Thanks @oldmantaiter!
+- [#322](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/322): Librato output. Thanks @jipperinbham!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#228](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/228): New version of package will replace old one. Thanks @ekini!
- [#232](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/232): Fix bashism run during deb package installation. Thanks @yankcrime!
- [#261](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/260): RabbitMQ panics if wrong credentials given. Thanks @ekini!
- [#245](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/245): Document Exec plugin example. Thanks @ekini!
- [#264](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/264): logrotate config file fixes. Thanks @linsomniac!
- [#290](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/290): Fix some plugins sending their values as strings.
- [#289](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/289): Fix accumulator panic on nil tags.
- [#302](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/302): Fix `[tags]` getting applied, thanks @gotyaoi!
+- [#228](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/228): New version of package will replace old one. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#232](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/232): Fix bashism run during deb package installation. Thanks @yankcrime!
+- [#261](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/260): RabbitMQ panics if wrong credentials given. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#245](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/245): Document Exec plugin example. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#264](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/264): logrotate config file fixes. Thanks @linsomniac!
+- [#290](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/290): Fix some plugins sending their values as strings.
+- [#289](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/289): Fix accumulator panic on nil tags.
+- [#302](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/302): Fix `[tags]` getting applied, thanks @gotyaoi!

 ## v0.1.9 [2015-09-22]

@@ -217,27 +566,27 @@ have been renamed for consistency. Some measurements have also been removed from
 re-added in a "verbose" mode if there is demand for it.

 ### Features
- [#143](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/143): InfluxDB clustering support
- [#181](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/181): Makefile GOBIN support. Thanks @Vye!
- [#203](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/200): AMQP output. Thanks @ekini!
- [#182](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/182): OpenTSDB output. Thanks @rplessl!
- [#187](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/187): Retry output sink connections on startup.
- [#220](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/220): Add port tag to apache plugin. Thanks @neezgee!
- [#217](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/217): Add filtering for output sinks
+- [#143](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/143): InfluxDB clustering support
+- [#181](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/181): Makefile GOBIN support. Thanks @Vye!
+- [#203](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/200): AMQP output. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#182](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/182): OpenTSDB output. Thanks @rplessl!
+- [#187](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/187): Retry output sink connections on startup.
+- [#220](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/220): Add port tag to apache plugin. Thanks @neezgee!
+- [#217](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/217): Add filtering for output sinks
 and filtering when specifying a config file.

 ### Bugfixes
- [#170](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/170): Systemd support
- [#175](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/175): Set write precision before gathering metrics
- [#178](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/178): redis plugin, multiple server thread hang bug
+- [#170](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/170): Systemd support
+- [#175](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/175): Set write precision before gathering metrics
+- [#178](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/178): redis plugin, multiple server thread hang bug
 - Fix net plugin on darwin
- [#84](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/84): Fix docker plugin on CentOS. Thanks @neezgee!
- [#189](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/189): Fix mem_used_perc. Thanks @mced!
- [#192](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/192): Increase compatibility of postgresql plugin. Now supports versions 8.1+
- [#203](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/203): EL5 rpm support. Thanks @ekini!
- [#206](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/206): CPU steal/guest values wrong on linux.
- [#212](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/212): Add hashbang to postinstall script. Thanks @ekini!
- [#212](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/212): Fix makefile warning. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#84](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/84): Fix docker plugin on CentOS. Thanks @neezgee!
+- [#189](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/189): Fix mem_used_perc. Thanks @mced!
+- [#192](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/192): Increase compatibility of postgresql plugin. Now supports versions 8.1+
+- [#203](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/203): EL5 rpm support. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#206](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/206): CPU steal/guest values wrong on linux.
+- [#212](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/212): Add hashbang to postinstall script. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#212](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/212): Fix makefile warning. Thanks @ekini!

 ## v0.1.8 [2015-09-04]

@@ -246,106 +595,106 @@ and filtering when specifying a config file.
 - Now using Go 1.5 to build telegraf

 ### Features
- [#150](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/150): Add Host Uptime metric to system plugin
- [#158](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/158): Apache Plugin. Thanks @KPACHbIuLLIAnO4
- [#159](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/159): Use second precision for InfluxDB writes
- [#165](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/165): Add additional metrics to mysql plugin. Thanks @nickscript0
- [#162](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/162): Write UTC by default, provide option
- [#166](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/166): Upload binaries to S3
- [#169](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/169): Ping plugin
+- [#150](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/150): Add Host Uptime metric to system plugin
+- [#158](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/158): Apache Plugin. Thanks @KPACHbIuLLIAnO4
+- [#159](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/159): Use second precision for InfluxDB writes
+- [#165](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/165): Add additional metrics to mysql plugin. Thanks @nickscript0
+- [#162](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/162): Write UTC by default, provide option
+- [#166](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/166): Upload binaries to S3
+- [#169](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/169): Ping plugin

 ### Bugfixes

 ## v0.1.7 [2015-08-28]

 ### Features
- [#38](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/38): Kafka output producer.
- [#133](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/133): Add plugin.Gather error logging. Thanks @nickscript0!
- [#136](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/136): Add a -usage flag for printing usage of a single plugin.
- [#137](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/137): Memcached: fix when a value contains a space
- [#138](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/138): MySQL server address tag.
- [#142](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/142): Add Description and SampleConfig funcs to output interface
+- [#38](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/38): Kafka output producer.
+- [#133](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/133): Add plugin.Gather error logging. Thanks @nickscript0!
+- [#136](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/136): Add a -usage flag for printing usage of a single plugin.
+- [#137](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/137): Memcached: fix when a value contains a space
+- [#138](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/138): MySQL server address tag.
+- [#142](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/142): Add Description and SampleConfig funcs to output interface
 - Indent the toml config file for readability

 ### Bugfixes
- [#128](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/128): system_load measurement missing.
- [#129](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/129): Latest pkg url fix.
- [#131](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/131): Fix memory reporting on linux & darwin. Thanks @subhachandrachandra!
- [#140](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/140): Memory plugin prec->perc typo fix. Thanks @brunoqc!
+- [#128](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/128): system_load measurement missing.
+- [#129](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/129): Latest pkg url fix.
+- [#131](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/131): Fix memory reporting on linux & darwin. Thanks @subhachandrachandra!
+- [#140](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/140): Memory plugin prec->perc typo fix. Thanks @brunoqc!

 ## v0.1.6 [2015-08-20]

 ### Features
- [#112](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/112): Datadog output. Thanks @jipperinbham!
- [#116](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/116): Use godep to vendor all dependencies
- [#120](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/120): Httpjson plugin. Thanks @jpalay & @alvaromorales!
+- [#112](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/112): Datadog output. Thanks @jipperinbham!
+- [#116](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/116): Use godep to vendor all dependencies
+- [#120](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/120): Httpjson plugin. Thanks @jpalay & @alvaromorales!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#113](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/113): Update README with Telegraf/InfluxDB compatibility
- [#118](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/118): Fix for disk usage stats in Windows. Thanks @srfraser!
- [#122](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/122): Fix for DiskUsage segv fault. Thanks @srfraser!
- [#126](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/126): Nginx plugin not catching net.SplitHostPort error
+- [#113](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/113): Update README with Telegraf/InfluxDB compatibility
+- [#118](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/118): Fix for disk usage stats in Windows. Thanks @srfraser!
+- [#122](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/122): Fix for DiskUsage segv fault. Thanks @srfraser!
+- [#126](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/126): Nginx plugin not catching net.SplitHostPort error

 ## v0.1.5 [2015-08-13]

 ### Features
- [#54](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/54): MongoDB plugin. Thanks @jipperinbham!
- [#55](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/55): Elasticsearch plugin. Thanks @brocaar!
- [#71](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/71): HAProxy plugin. Thanks @kureikain!
- [#72](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/72): Adding TokuDB metrics to MySQL. Thanks vadimtk!
- [#73](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/73): RabbitMQ plugin. Thanks @ianunruh!
- [#77](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/77): Automatically create database.
- [#79](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/56): Nginx plugin. Thanks @codeb2cc!
- [#86](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/86): Lustre2 plugin. Thanks srfraser!
- [#91](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/91): Unit testing
- [#92](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/92): Exec plugin. Thanks @alvaromorales!
- [#98](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/98): LeoFS plugin. Thanks @mocchira!
- [#103](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/103): Filter by metric tags. Thanks @srfraser!
- [#106](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/106): Options to filter plugins on startup. Thanks @zepouet!
- [#107](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/107): Multiple outputs beyong influxdb. Thanks @jipperinbham!
- [#108](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/108): Support setting per-CPU and total-CPU gathering.
- [#111](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/111): Report CPU Usage in cpu plugin. Thanks @jpalay!
+- [#54](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/54): MongoDB plugin. Thanks @jipperinbham!
+- [#55](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/55): Elasticsearch plugin. Thanks @brocaar!
+- [#71](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/71): HAProxy plugin. Thanks @kureikain!
+- [#72](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/72): Adding TokuDB metrics to MySQL. Thanks vadimtk!
+- [#73](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/73): RabbitMQ plugin. Thanks @ianunruh!
+- [#77](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/77): Automatically create database.
+- [#79](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/56): Nginx plugin. Thanks @codeb2cc!
+- [#86](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/86): Lustre2 plugin. Thanks srfraser!
+- [#91](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/91): Unit testing
+- [#92](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/92): Exec plugin. Thanks @alvaromorales!
+- [#98](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/98): LeoFS plugin. Thanks @mocchira!
+- [#103](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/103): Filter by metric tags. Thanks @srfraser!
+- [#106](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/106): Options to filter plugins on startup. Thanks @zepouet!
+- [#107](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/107): Multiple outputs beyong influxdb. Thanks @jipperinbham!
+- [#108](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/108): Support setting per-CPU and total-CPU gathering.
+- [#111](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/111): Report CPU Usage in cpu plugin. Thanks @jpalay!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#85](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/85): Fix GetLocalHost testutil function for mac users
- [#89](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/89): go fmt fixes
- [#94](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/94): Fix for issue #93, explicitly call sarama.v1 -> sarama
- [#101](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/101): switch back from master branch if building locally
- [#99](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/99): update integer output to new InfluxDB line protocol format
+- [#85](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/85): Fix GetLocalHost testutil function for mac users
+- [#89](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/89): go fmt fixes
+- [#94](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/94): Fix for issue #93, explicitly call sarama.v1 -> sarama
+- [#101](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/101): switch back from master branch if building locally
+- [#99](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/99): update integer output to new InfluxDB line protocol format

 ## v0.1.4 [2015-07-09]

 ### Features
- [#56](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/56): Update README for Kafka plugin. Thanks @EmilS!
+- [#56](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/56): Update README for Kafka plugin. Thanks @EmilS!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#50](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/50): Fix init.sh script to use telegraf directory. Thanks @jseriff!
- [#52](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/52): Update CHANGELOG to reference updated directory. Thanks @benfb!
+- [#50](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/50): Fix init.sh script to use telegraf directory. Thanks @jseriff!
+- [#52](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/52): Update CHANGELOG to reference updated directory. Thanks @benfb!

 ## v0.1.3 [2015-07-05]

 ### Features
- [#35](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/35): Add Kafka plugin. Thanks @EmilS!
- [#47](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/47): Add RethinkDB plugin. Thanks @jipperinbham!
+- [#35](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/35): Add Kafka plugin. Thanks @EmilS!
+- [#47](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/47): Add RethinkDB plugin. Thanks @jipperinbham!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#45](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/45): Skip disk tags that don't have a value. Thanks @jhofeditz!
- [#43](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/43): Fix bug in MySQL plugin. Thanks @marcosnils!
+- [#45](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/45): Skip disk tags that don't have a value. Thanks @jhofeditz!
+- [#43](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/43): Fix bug in MySQL plugin. Thanks @marcosnils!

 ## v0.1.2 [2015-07-01]

 ### Features
- [#12](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/12): Add Linux/ARM to the list of built binaries. Thanks @voxxit!
- [#14](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/14): Clarify the S3 buckets that Telegraf is pushed to.
- [#16](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/16): Convert Redis to use URI, support Redis AUTH. Thanks @jipperinbham!
- [#21](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/21): Add memcached plugin. Thanks @Yukki!
+- [#12](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/12): Add Linux/ARM to the list of built binaries. Thanks @voxxit!
+- [#14](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/14): Clarify the S3 buckets that Telegraf is pushed to.
+- [#16](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/16): Convert Redis to use URI, support Redis AUTH. Thanks @jipperinbham!
+- [#21](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/21): Add memcached plugin. Thanks @Yukki!

 ### Bugfixes
- [#13](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/13): Fix the packaging script.
- [#19](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/19): Add host name to metric tags. Thanks @sherifzain!
- [#20](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/20): Fix race condition with accumulator mutex. Thanks @nkatsaros!
- [#23](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/23): Change name of folder for packages. Thanks @colinrymer!
- [#32](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/32): Fix spelling of memoory -> memory. Thanks @tylernisonoff!
+- [#13](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/13): Fix the packaging script.
+- [#19](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/19): Add host name to metric tags. Thanks @sherifzain!
+- [#20](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/20): Fix race condition with accumulator mutex. Thanks @nkatsaros!
+- [#23](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/23): Change name of folder for packages. Thanks @colinrymer!
+- [#32](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/32): Fix spelling of memoory -> memory. Thanks @tylernisonoff!

 ## v0.1.1 [2015-06-19]

--- a/CONFIGURATION.md
+++ b/CONFIGURATION.md
@@ -1,199 +0,0 @@
-# Telegraf Configuration
-
-## Generating a Configuration File
-
-A default Telegraf config file can be generated using the `-sample-config` flag,
-like this: `telegraf -sample-config`
-
-To generate a file with specific inputs and outputs, you can use the
-`-input-filter` and `-output-filter` flags, like this:
-`telegraf -sample-config -input-filter cpu:mem:net:swap -output-filter influxdb:kafka`
-
-## Telegraf Agent Configuration
-
-Telegraf has a few options you can configure under the `agent` section of the
-config.
-
-* **hostname**: The hostname is passed as a tag. By default this will be
-the value returned by `hostname` on the machine running Telegraf.
-You can override that value here.
-* **interval**: How often to gather metrics. Uses a simple number +
-unit parser, e.g. "10s" for 10 seconds or "5m" for 5 minutes.
-* **debug**: Set to true to gather and send metrics to STDOUT as well as
-InfluxDB.
-
-## Input Configuration
-
-There are some configuration options that are configurable per input:
-
-* **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.
-
-### Input Filters
-
-There are also filters that can be configured per input:
-
-* **pass**: 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.
-* **drop**: The inverse of pass, if a field name matches, it is not emitted.
-* **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.
-
-### Input Configuration Examples
-
-This is a full working config that will output CPU data to an InfluxDB instance
-at 192.168.59.103:8086, tagging measurements with dc="denver-1". It will output
-measurements at a 10s interval and will collect per-cpu data, dropping any
-fields which begin with `time_`.
-
-```toml
-[tags]
-  dc = "denver-1"
-
-[agent]
-  interval = "10s"
-
-# OUTPUTS
-[[outputs.influxdb]]
-  url = "http://192.168.59.103:8086" # required.
-  database = "telegraf" # required.
-  precision = "s"
-
-# INPUTS
-[[inputs.cpu]]
-  percpu = true
-  totalcpu = false
-  # filter all fields beginning with 'time_'
-  drop = ["time_*"]
-```
-
-### Input Config: tagpass and tagdrop
-
-```toml
-[[inputs.cpu]]
-  percpu = true
-  totalcpu = false
-  drop = ["cpu_time"]
-  # Don't collect CPU data for cpu6 & cpu7
-  [inputs.cpu.tagdrop]
-    cpu = [ "cpu6", "cpu7" ]
-
-[[inputs.disk]]
-  [inputs.disk.tagpass]
-    # tagpass conditions are OR, not AND.
-    # If the (filesystem is ext4 or xfs) OR (the path is /opt or /home)
-    # then the metric passes
-    fstype = [ "ext4", "xfs" ]
-    # Globs can also be used on the tag values
-    path = [ "/opt", "/home*" ]
-```
-
-### Input Config: pass and drop
-
-```toml
-# Drop all metrics for guest & steal CPU usage
-[[inputs.cpu]]
-  percpu = false
-  totalcpu = true
-  drop = ["usage_guest", "usage_steal"]
-
-# Only store inode related metrics for disks
-[[inputs.disk]]
-  pass = ["inodes*"]
-```
-
-### Input config: prefix, suffix, and override
-
-This plugin will emit measurements with the name `cpu_total`
-
-```toml
-[[inputs.cpu]]
-  name_suffix = "_total"
-  percpu = false
-  totalcpu = true
-```
-
-This will emit measurements with the name `foobar`
-
-```toml
-[[inputs.cpu]]
-  name_override = "foobar"
-  percpu = false
-  totalcpu = true
-```
-
-### Input config: tags
-
-This plugin will emit measurements with two additional tags: `tag1=foo` and
-`tag2=bar`
-
-```toml
-[[inputs.cpu]]
-  percpu = false
-  totalcpu = true
-  [inputs.cpu.tags]
-    tag1 = "foo"
-    tag2 = "bar"
-```
-
-### Multiple inputs of the same type
-
-Additional inputs (or outputs) of the same type can be specified,
-just define more instances in the config file. It is highly recommended that
-you utilize `name_override`, `name_prefix`, or `name_suffix` config options
-to avoid measurement collisions:
-
-```toml
-[[inputs.cpu]]
-  percpu = false
-  totalcpu = true
-
-[[inputs.cpu]]
-  percpu = true
-  totalcpu = false
-  name_override = "percpu_usage"
-  drop = ["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`.
-
-Outputs also support the same configurable options as inputs
-(pass, drop, tagpass, tagdrop)
-
-```toml
-[[outputs.influxdb]]
-  urls = [ "http://localhost:8086" ]
-  database = "telegraf"
-  precision = "s"
-  # Drop all measurements that start with "aerospike"
-  drop = ["aerospike*"]
-
-[[outputs.influxdb]]
-  urls = [ "http://localhost:8086" ]
-  database = "telegraf-aerospike-data"
-  precision = "s"
-  # Only accept aerospike data:
-  pass = ["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"]
-```
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,13 +1,42 @@
+## Steps for Contributing:
+
+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. 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
+like the [input example here](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/EXAMPLE_README.md).
+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.
+
+## GoDoc
+
+Public interfaces for inputs, outputs, 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)
+
 ## Sign the CLA

 Before we can merge a pull request, you will need to sign the CLA,
 which can be found [on our website](http://influxdb.com/community/cla.html)

+## Adding a dependency
+
+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`
+
 ## Input Plugins

 This section is for developers who want to create new collection inputs.
 Telegraf is entirely plugin driven. This interface allows for operators to
-pick and chose what is gathered as well as makes it easy for developers
+pick and chose what is gathered and makes it easy for developers
 to create new ways of generating metrics.

 Plugin authorship is kept as simple as possible to promote people to develop
@@ -15,58 +44,17 @@ and submit new inputs.

 ### Input Plugin Guidelines

-* A plugin must conform to the `inputs.Input` interface.
+* A plugin must conform to the `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/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/all/all.go` file.
+`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`.
 * The `Description` function should say in one line what this plugin does.

-### Input interface
-
-```go
-type Input interface {
-    SampleConfig() string
-    Description() string
-    Gather(Accumulator) error
-}
-
-type Accumulator interface {
-    Add(measurement string,
-        value interface{},
-        tags map[string]string,
-        timestamp ...time.Time)
-    AddFields(measurement string,
-        fields map[string]interface{},
-        tags map[string]string,
-        timestamp ...time.Time)
-}
-```
-
-### Accumulator
-
-The way that a plugin emits metrics is by interacting with the Accumulator.
-
-The `Add` function takes 3 arguments:
-* **measurement**: A string description of the metric. For instance `bytes_read` or `
-faults`.
-* **value**: A value for the metric. This accepts 5 different types of value:
-  * **int**: The most common type. All int types are accepted but favor using `int64`
-  Useful for counters, etc.
-  * **float**: Favor `float64`, useful for gauges, percentages, etc.
-  * **bool**: `true` or `false`, useful to indicate the presence of a state. `light_on`,
-  etc.
-  * **string**: Typically used to indicate a message, or some kind of freeform
-  information.
-  * **time.Time**: Useful for indicating when a state last occurred, for instance `
-  light_on_since`.
-* **tags**: This is a map of strings to strings to describe the where or who
-about the metric. For instance, the `net` plugin adds a tag named `"interface"`
-set to the name of the network interface, like `"eth0"`.
-
-Let's say you've written a plugin that emits metrics about processes on the current host.
+Let's say you've written a plugin that emits metrics about processes on the
+current host.

 ### Input Plugin Example

@@ -75,7 +63,10 @@ package simple

 // simple.go

-import "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+import (
+    "github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+    "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+)

 type Simple struct {
    Ok bool
@@ -89,7 +80,7 @@ func (s *Simple) SampleConfig() string {
    return "ok = true # indicate if everything is fine"
 }

-func (s *Simple) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (s *Simple) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
    if s.Ok {
        acc.Add("state", "pretty good", nil)
    } else {
@@ -100,10 +91,56 @@ func (s *Simple) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 }

 func init() {
-    inputs.Add("simple", func() inputs.Input { return &Simple{} })
+    inputs.Add("simple", func() telegraf.Input { return &Simple{} })
 }
 ```

+## Input Plugins Accepting Arbitrary Data Formats
+
+Some input plugins (such as
+[exec](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/exec))
+accept arbitrary input data formats. An overview of these data formats can
+be found
+[here](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md).
+
+In order to enable this, you must specify a `SetParser(parser parsers.Parser)`
+function on the plugin object (see the exec plugin for an example), as well as
+defining `parser` as a field of the object.
+
+You can then utilize the parser internally in your plugin, parsing data as you
+see fit. Telegraf's configuration layer will take care of instantiating and
+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
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "influx"
+```
+
+Below is the `Parser` interface.
+
+```go
+// Parser is an interface defining functions that a parser plugin must satisfy.
+type Parser interface {
+    // Parse takes a byte buffer separated by newlines
+    // ie, `cpu.usage.idle 90\ncpu.usage.busy 10`
+    // and parses it into telegraf metrics
+    Parse(buf []byte) ([]telegraf.Metric, error)
+
+    // ParseLine takes a single string metric
+    // ie, "cpu.usage.idle 90"
+    // and parses it into a telegraf metric.
+    ParseLine(line string) (telegraf.Metric, error)
+}
+```
+
+And you can view the code
+[here.](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/henrypfhu-master/plugins/parsers/registry.go)
+
 ## Service Input Plugins

 This section is for developers who want to create new "service" collection
@@ -123,18 +160,6 @@ and `Stop()` methods.
 * Same as the `Plugin` guidelines, except that they must conform to the
 `inputs.ServiceInput` interface.

-### Service Plugin interface
-
-```go
-type ServicePlugin interface {
-    SampleConfig() string
-    Description() string
-    Gather(Accumulator) error
-    Start() error
-    Stop()
-}
-```
-
 ## Output Plugins

 This section is for developers who want to create a new output sink. Outputs
@@ -147,23 +172,11 @@ similar constructs.
 * 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/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/outputs/all/all.go` file.
+`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`.
 * The `Description` function should say in one line what this output does.

-### Output interface
-
-```go
-type Output interface {
-    Connect() error
-    Close() error
-    Description() string
-    SampleConfig() string
-    Write(points []*client.Point) error
-}
-```
-
 ### Output Example

 ```go
@@ -171,7 +184,10 @@ package simpleoutput

 // simpleoutput.go

-import "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/outputs"
+import (
+    "github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+    "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs"
+)

 type Simple struct {
    Ok bool
@@ -195,7 +211,7 @@ func (s *Simple) Close() error {
    return nil
 }

-func (s *Simple) Write(points []*client.Point) error {
+func (s *Simple) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
    for _, pt := range points {
        // write `pt` to the output sink here
    }
@@ -203,11 +219,38 @@ func (s *Simple) Write(points []*client.Point) error {
 }

 func init() {
-    outputs.Add("simpleoutput", func() outputs.Output { return &Simple{} })
+    outputs.Add("simpleoutput", func() telegraf.Output { return &Simple{} })
 }

 ```

+## Output Plugins Writing Arbitrary Data Formats
+
+Some output plugins (such as
+[file](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/outputs/file))
+can write arbitrary output data formats. An overview of these data formats can
+be found
+[here](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md).
+
+In order to enable this, you must specify a
+`SetSerializer(serializer serializers.Serializer)`
+function on the plugin object (see the file plugin for an example), as well as
+defining `serializer` as a field of the object.
+
+You can then utilize the serializer internally in your plugin, serializing data
+before it's written. Telegraf's configuration layer will take care of
+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
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
+  data_format = "influx"
+```
+
 ## Service Output Plugins

 This section is for developers who want to create new "service" output. A
@@ -223,20 +266,6 @@ and `Stop()` methods.
 * Same as the `Output` guidelines, except that they must conform to the
 `output.ServiceOutput` interface.

-### Service Output interface
-
-```go
-type ServiceOutput interface {
-    Connect() error
-    Close() error
-    Description() string
-    SampleConfig() string
-    Write(points []*client.Point) error
-    Start() error
-    Stop()
-}
-```
-
 ## Unit Tests

 ### Execute short tests
@@ -252,7 +281,7 @@ which would take some time to replicate.
 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/influxdb/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/redis/redis_test.go)
+(i.e: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/redis/redis_test.go)
 a simple mock will suffice.

 To execute Telegraf tests follow these simple steps:
--- a/82
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+++ b/59
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
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--- a/52
+++ b/52
@@ -9,36 +9,41 @@ endif
 # Standard Telegraf build
 default: prepare build

+# Windows build
+windows: prepare-windows build-windows
+
 # Only run the build (no dependency grabbing)
 build:
-	go build -o telegraf -ldflags \
+	go install -ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" ./...
+
+build-windows:
+	go build -o telegraf.exe -ldflags \
 		"-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" \
 		./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go

+build-for-docker:
+	CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -installsuffix cgo -o telegraf -ldflags \
+					"-s -X main.Version=$(VERSION)" \
+					./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
+
 # Build with race detector
 dev: prepare
-	go build -race -o telegraf -ldflags \
-		"-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" \
-		./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
+	go build -race -ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" ./...

-# Build linux 64-bit, 32-bit and arm architectures
-build-linux-bins: prepare
-	GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=linux go build -o telegraf_linux_amd64 \
-								-ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" \
-								./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
-	GOARCH=386 GOOS=linux go build -o telegraf_linux_386 \
-								-ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" \
-								./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
-	GOARCH=arm GOOS=linux go build -o telegraf_linux_arm \
-								-ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" \
-								./cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
+# run package script
+package:
+	./scripts/build.py --package --version="$(VERSION)" --platform=linux --arch=all --upload

 # Get dependencies and use gdm to checkout changesets
 prepare:
-	go get ./...
 	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
+
 # Run all docker containers necessary for unit tests
 docker-run:
 ifeq ($(UNAME), Darwin)
@@ -65,6 +70,7 @@ endif
 	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

 # Run docker containers necessary for CircleCI unit tests
 docker-run-circle:
@@ -78,21 +84,25 @@ docker-run-circle:
 	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

 # Kill all docker containers, ignore errors
 docker-kill:
-	-docker kill nsq aerospike redis opentsdb rabbitmq postgres memcached mysql kafka mqtt riemann
-	-docker rm nsq aerospike redis opentsdb rabbitmq postgres memcached mysql kafka mqtt riemann
+	-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: docker-kill docker-run
+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:
+test-short: vet
 	go test -short ./...

-.PHONY: test
+vet:
+	go vet ./...
+
+.PHONY: test test-short vet build default
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,23 +17,17 @@ new plugins.

 ## Installation:

-NOTE: Telegraf 0.10.x is **not** backwards-compatible with previous versions of
-telegraf, both in the database layout and the configuration file. 0.2.x will
-continue to be supported, see below for download links.
-
-TODO: link to blog post about 0.10.x changes.
-
-### Linux deb and rpm packages:
+### Linux deb and rpm Packages:

 Latest:
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_0.10.0_amd64.deb
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.10.0-1.x86_64.rpm
+* 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

-0.2.x:
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_0.2.4_amd64.deb
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.2.4-1.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:
+##### Package Instructions:

 * Telegraf binary is installed in `/usr/bin/telegraf`
 * Telegraf daemon configuration file is in `/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf`
@@ -42,24 +36,46 @@ Latest:
 * On systemd systems (such as Ubuntu 15+), the telegraf daemon can be
 controlled via `systemctl [action] telegraf`

-### Linux binaries:
+### 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:
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_linux_amd64_0.10.0.tar.gz
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_linux_386_0.10.0.tar.gz
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_linux_arm_0.10.0.tar.gz
+* 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

-0.2.x:
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_linux_amd64_0.2.4.tar.gz
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_linux_386_0.2.4.tar.gz
-* http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_linux_arm_0.2.4.tar.gz
+##### tarball Instructions:

-##### Binary instructions:
+To install the full directory structure with config file, run:

-These are standalone binaries that can be unpacked and executed on any linux
-system. They can be unpacked and renamed in a location such as
-`/usr/local/bin` for convenience. A config file will need to be generated,
-see "How to use it" below.
+```
+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.
+
+### Ansible Role:
+
+Ansible role: https://github.com/rossmcdonald/telegraf

 ### OSX via Homebrew:

@@ -68,23 +84,29 @@ 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 1.4+.
+if you don't have it already. You also must build with golang version 1.5+.

 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/influxdb/telegraf`
-4. Run `cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/influxdb/telegraf`
+3. Run `go get github.com/influxdata/telegraf`
+4. Run `cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf`
 5. Run `make`

-### How to use it:
+## How to use it:

 ```console
 $ telegraf -help
-Telegraf, The plugin-driven server agent for reporting metrics into InfluxDB
+Telegraf, The plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics.

 Usage:

@@ -99,6 +121,8 @@ The flags are:
  -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:
@@ -121,43 +145,71 @@ Examples:

 ## Configuration

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

 ## Supported Input Plugins

-Telegraf currently has support for collecting metrics from:
+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`.

-* aerospike
-* apache
-* bcache
-* disque
-* elasticsearch
-* exec (generic JSON-emitting executable plugin)
-* haproxy
-* httpjson (generic JSON-emitting http service plugin)
-* influxdb
-* jolokia
-* leofs
-* lustre2
-* mailchimp
-* memcached
-* mongodb
-* mysql
-* nginx
-* phpfpm
-* ping
-* postgresql
-* procstat
-* prometheus
-* puppetagent
-* rabbitmq
-* redis
-* rethinkdb
-* twemproxy
-* zfs
-* zookeeper
-* system
+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)
    * cpu
    * mem
    * net
@@ -165,32 +217,42 @@ Telegraf currently has support for collecting metrics from:
    * disk
    * diskio
    * swap
+    * processes
+    * kernel (/proc/stat)

 Telegraf can also collect metrics via the following service plugins:

-* statsd
-* kafka_consumer
+* [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)

 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.

 ## Supported Output Plugins

-* influxdb
-* amon
-* amqp
-* datadog
-* kafka
-* amazon kinesis
-* librato
-* mqtt
-* nsq
-* opentsdb
-* prometheus
-* riemann
+* [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)

 ## Contributing

 Please see the
 [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md)
-for details on contributing a plugin or output to Telegraf.
+for details on contributing a plugin to Telegraf.
--- a/accumulator.go
+++ b/accumulator.go
@@ -1,188 +1,21 @@
 package telegraf

-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"log"
-	"math"
-	"sync"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/internal/config"
-
-	"github.com/influxdb/influxdb/client/v2"
-)
+import "time"

 type Accumulator interface {
-	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)
+	// 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)

-	SetDefaultTags(tags map[string]string)
-	AddDefaultTag(key, value string)
-
-	Prefix() string
-	SetPrefix(prefix string)
+	AddFields(measurement string,
+		fields map[string]interface{},
+		tags map[string]string,
+		t ...time.Time)

 	Debug() bool
 	SetDebug(enabled bool)
 }
-
-func NewAccumulator(
-	inputConfig *config.InputConfig,
-	points chan *client.Point,
-) Accumulator {
-	acc := accumulator{}
-	acc.points = points
-	acc.inputConfig = inputConfig
-	return &acc
-}
-
-type accumulator struct {
-	sync.Mutex
-
-	points chan *client.Point
-
-	defaultTags map[string]string
-
-	debug bool
-
-	inputConfig *config.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
-	ac.AddFields(measurement, fields, tags, t...)
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) AddFields(
-	measurement string,
-	fields map[string]interface{},
-	tags map[string]string,
-	t ...time.Time,
-) {
-	if len(fields) == 0 || len(measurement) == 0 {
-		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 plugin-wide tags if set
-	for k, v := range ac.inputConfig.Tags {
-		if _, ok := tags[k]; !ok {
-			tags[k] = v
-		}
-	}
-	// Apply daemon-wide tags if set
-	for k, v := range ac.defaultTags {
-		if _, ok := tags[k]; !ok {
-			tags[k] = v
-		}
-	}
-
-	result := make(map[string]interface{})
-	for k, v := range fields {
-		// Filter out any filtered fields
-		if ac.inputConfig != nil {
-			if !ac.inputConfig.Filter.ShouldPass(k) {
-				continue
-			}
-		}
-		result[k] = v
-
-		// 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)
-			}
-		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
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	fields = nil
-	if len(result) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
-
-	var timestamp time.Time
-	if len(t) > 0 {
-		timestamp = t[0]
-	} else {
-		timestamp = time.Now()
-	}
-
-	if ac.prefix != "" {
-		measurement = ac.prefix + measurement
-	}
-
-	pt, err := client.NewPoint(measurement, tags, result, timestamp)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("Error adding point [%s]: %s\n", measurement, err.Error())
-		return
-	}
-	if ac.debug {
-		fmt.Println("> " + pt.String())
-	}
-	ac.points <- pt
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) SetDefaultTags(tags map[string]string) {
-	ac.defaultTags = tags
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) AddDefaultTag(key, value string) {
-	ac.defaultTags[key] = value
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) Prefix() string {
-	return ac.prefix
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) SetPrefix(prefix string) {
-	ac.prefix = prefix
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) Debug() bool {
-	return ac.debug
-}
-
-func (ac *accumulator) SetDebug(debug bool) {
-	ac.debug = debug
-}
--- a/agent/accumulator.go
+++ b/agent/accumulator.go
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"math"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models"
+)
+
+func NewAccumulator(
+	inputConfig *internal_models.InputConfig,
+	metrics chan telegraf.Metric,
+) *accumulator {
+	acc := accumulator{}
+	acc.metrics = metrics
+	acc.inputConfig = inputConfig
+	return &acc
+}
+
+type accumulator struct {
+	sync.Mutex
+
+	metrics chan telegraf.Metric
+
+	defaultTags map[string]string
+
+	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...)
+}
+
+func (ac *accumulator) AddFields(
+	measurement string,
+	fields map[string]interface{},
+	tags map[string]string,
+	t ...time.Time,
+) {
+	if len(fields) == 0 || len(measurement) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+
+	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 {
+		return
+	}
+
+	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
+}
--- a/agent/accumulator_test.go
+++ b/agent/accumulator_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,334 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+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{}
+
+	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 value=101")
+
+	testm = <-a.metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test value=101")
+
+	testm = <-a.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()),
+		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{}
+
+	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)
+
+	testm := <-a.metrics
+	actual := testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest usage=99")
+
+	testm = <-a.metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest,acc=test usage=99")
+
+	testm = <-a.metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest,acc=test usage=99 %d", 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)
+
+	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":  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)
+
+	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")
+}
+
+// Test that nan fields are dropped and not added
+func TestAddNaNFields(t *testing.T) {
+	nan := math.NaN()
+
+	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": 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
+	actual := testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")
+
+	testm = <-a.metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Contains(t, actual, "acctest value=101")
+
+	testm = <-a.metrics
+	actual = testm.String()
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		fmt.Sprintf("acctest value=101 %d", now.UnixNano()),
+		actual)
+}
--- a/agent/agent.go
+++ b/agent/agent.go
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-package telegraf
+package agent

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

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/internal/config"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/outputs"
-
-	"github.com/influxdb/influxdb/client/v2"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models"
 )

 // Agent runs telegraf and collects data based on the given config
@@ -27,25 +27,29 @@ func NewAgent(config *config.Config) (*Agent, error) {
 		Config: config,
 	}

-	if a.Config.Agent.Hostname == "" {
-		hostname, err := os.Hostname()
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
+	if !a.Config.Agent.OmitHostname {
+		if a.Config.Agent.Hostname == "" {
+			hostname, err := os.Hostname()
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+
+			a.Config.Agent.Hostname = hostname
 		}

-		a.Config.Agent.Hostname = hostname
+		config.Tags["host"] = a.Config.Agent.Hostname
 	}

-	config.Tags["host"] = a.Config.Agent.Hostname
-
 	return a, nil
 }

 // 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 outputs.ServiceOutput:
+		case telegraf.ServiceOutput:
 			if err := ot.Start(); err != nil {
 				log.Printf("Service for output %s failed to start, exiting\n%s\n",
 					o.Name, err.Error())
@@ -58,7 +62,8 @@ func (a *Agent) Connect() error {
 		}
 		err := o.Output.Connect()
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("Failed to connect to output %s, retrying in 15s\n", o.Name)
+			log.Printf("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()
 			if err != nil {
@@ -78,20 +83,33 @@ func (a *Agent) Close() error {
 	for _, o := range a.Config.Outputs {
 		err = o.Output.Close()
 		switch ot := o.Output.(type) {
-		case outputs.ServiceOutput:
+		case telegraf.ServiceOutput:
 			ot.Stop()
 		}
 	}
 	return err
 }

+func panicRecover(input *internal_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 " +
+			"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(pointChan chan *client.Point) error {
+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
@@ -99,13 +117,24 @@ func (a *Agent) gatherParallel(pointChan chan *client.Point) error {

 		wg.Add(1)
 		counter++
-		go func(input *config.RunningInput) {
+		go func(input *internal_models.RunningInput) {
+			defer panicRecover(input)
 			defer wg.Done()

-			acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, pointChan)
+			acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, metricC)
 			acc.SetDebug(a.Config.Agent.Debug)
-			// acc.SetPrefix(input.Name + "_")
-			acc.SetDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
+			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)
@@ -121,8 +150,10 @@ func (a *Agent) gatherParallel(pointChan chan *client.Point) error {
 	wg.Wait()

 	elapsed := time.Since(start)
-	log.Printf("Gathered metrics, (%s interval), from %d inputs in %s\n",
-		a.Config.Agent.Interval.Duration, counter, elapsed)
+	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
 }

@@ -130,27 +161,30 @@ func (a *Agent) gatherParallel(pointChan chan *client.Point) error {
 // reporting interval.
 func (a *Agent) gatherSeparate(
 	shutdown chan struct{},
-	input *config.RunningInput,
-	pointChan chan *client.Point,
+	input *internal_models.RunningInput,
+	metricC chan telegraf.Metric,
 ) error {
+	defer panicRecover(input)
+
 	ticker := time.NewTicker(input.Config.Interval)

 	for {
 		var outerr error
 		start := time.Now()

-		acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, pointChan)
+		acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, metricC)
 		acc.SetDebug(a.Config.Agent.Debug)
-		// acc.SetPrefix(input.Name + "_")
-		acc.SetDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
+		acc.setDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)

 		if err := input.Input.Gather(acc); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("Error in input [%s]: %s", input.Name, err)
 		}

 		elapsed := time.Since(start)
-		log.Printf("Gathered metrics, (separate %s interval), from %s in %s\n",
-			input.Config.Interval, input.Name, elapsed)
+		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
@@ -170,13 +204,13 @@ func (a *Agent) gatherSeparate(
 func (a *Agent) Test() error {
 	shutdown := make(chan struct{})
 	defer close(shutdown)
-	pointChan := make(chan *client.Point)
+	metricC := make(chan telegraf.Metric)

 	// dummy receiver for the point channel
 	go func() {
 		for {
 			select {
-			case <-pointChan:
+			case <-metricC:
 				// do nothing
 			case <-shutdown:
 				return
@@ -185,9 +219,9 @@ func (a *Agent) Test() error {
 	}()

 	for _, input := range a.Config.Inputs {
-		acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, pointChan)
+		acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, metricC)
 		acc.SetDebug(true)
-		// acc.SetPrefix(input.Name + "_")
+		acc.setDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)

 		fmt.Printf("* Plugin: %s, Collection 1\n", input.Name)
 		if input.Config.Interval != 0 {
@@ -201,7 +235,7 @@ 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":
+		case "cpu", "mongodb", "procstat":
 			time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
 			fmt.Printf("* Plugin: %s, Collection 2\n", input.Name)
 			if err := input.Input.Gather(acc); err != nil {
@@ -213,91 +247,45 @@ func (a *Agent) Test() error {
 	return nil
 }

-// writeOutput writes a list of points to a single output, with retries.
-// Optionally takes a `done` channel to indicate that it is done writing.
-func (a *Agent) writeOutput(
-	points []*client.Point,
-	ro *config.RunningOutput,
-	shutdown chan struct{},
-	wg *sync.WaitGroup,
-) {
-	defer wg.Done()
-	if len(points) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
-	retry := 0
-	retries := a.Config.Agent.FlushRetries
-	start := time.Now()
-
-	for {
-		filtered := ro.FilterPoints(points)
-		err := ro.Output.Write(filtered)
-		if err == nil {
-			// Write successful
-			elapsed := time.Since(start)
-			log.Printf("Flushed %d metrics to output %s in %s\n",
-				len(filtered), ro.Name, elapsed)
-			return
-		}
-
-		select {
-		case <-shutdown:
-			return
-		default:
-			if retry >= retries {
-				// No more retries
-				msg := "FATAL: Write to output [%s] failed %d times, dropping" +
-					" %d metrics\n"
-				log.Printf(msg, ro.Name, retries+1, len(points))
-				return
-			} else if err != nil {
-				// Sleep for a retry
-				log.Printf("Error in output [%s]: %s, retrying in %s",
-					ro.Name, err.Error(), a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration)
-				time.Sleep(a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration)
-			}
-		}
-
-		retry++
-	}
-}
-
-// flush writes a list of points to all configured outputs
-func (a *Agent) flush(
-	points []*client.Point,
-	shutdown chan struct{},
-	wait bool,
-) {
+// flush writes a list of metrics to all configured outputs
+func (a *Agent) flush() {
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+
+	wg.Add(len(a.Config.Outputs))
 	for _, o := range a.Config.Outputs {
-		wg.Add(1)
-		go a.writeOutput(points, o, shutdown, &wg)
-	}
-	if wait {
-		wg.Wait()
+		go func(output *internal_models.RunningOutput) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			err := output.Write()
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Printf("Error writing to output [%s]: %s\n",
+					output.Name, err.Error())
+			}
+		}(o)
 	}
+
+	wg.Wait()
 }

-// flusher monitors the points input channel and flushes on the minimum interval
-func (a *Agent) flusher(shutdown chan struct{}, pointChan chan *client.Point) error {
+// flusher monitors the metrics input channel and flushes on the minimum interval
+func (a *Agent) flusher(shutdown chan struct{}, metricC 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 * 100)
+	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 200)

 	ticker := time.NewTicker(a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration)
-	points := make([]*client.Point, 0)

 	for {
 		select {
 		case <-shutdown:
-			log.Println("Hang on, flushing any cached points before shutdown")
-			a.flush(points, shutdown, true)
+			log.Println("Hang on, flushing any cached metrics before shutdown")
+			a.flush()
 			return nil
 		case <-ticker.C:
-			a.flush(points, shutdown, false)
-			points = make([]*client.Point, 0)
-		case pt := <-pointChan:
-			points = append(points, pt)
+			a.flush()
+		case m := <-metricC:
+			for _, o := range a.Config.Outputs {
+				o.AddMetric(m)
+			}
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -309,7 +297,7 @@ func jitterInterval(ininterval, injitter time.Duration) time.Duration {
 	outinterval := ininterval
 	if injitter.Nanoseconds() != 0 {
 		maxjitter := big.NewInt(injitter.Nanoseconds())
-		if j, err := rand.Int(rand.Reader, maxjitter); err == nil {
+		if j, err := cryptorand.Int(cryptorand.Reader, maxjitter); err == nil {
 			jitter = j.Int64()
 		}
 		outinterval = time.Duration(jitter + ininterval.Nanoseconds())
@@ -327,16 +315,33 @@ func jitterInterval(ininterval, injitter time.Duration) time.Duration {
 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.FlushInterval.Duration = jitterInterval(
+		a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration,
 		a.Config.Agent.FlushJitter.Duration)

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

-	// channel shared between all input threads for accumulating points
-	pointChan := make(chan *client.Point, 1000)
+	// channel shared between all input threads for accumulating metrics
+	metricC := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10000)
+
+	for _, input := range a.Config.Inputs {
+		// Start service of any ServicePlugins
+		switch p := input.Input.(type) {
+		case telegraf.ServiceInput:
+			acc := NewAccumulator(input.Config, metricC)
+			acc.SetDebug(a.Config.Agent.Debug)
+			acc.setDefaultTags(a.Config.Tags)
+			if err := p.Start(acc); err != nil {
+				log.Printf("Service for input %s failed to start, exiting\n%s\n",
+					input.Name, err.Error())
+				return err
+			}
+			defer p.Stop()
+		}
+	}

 	// Round collection to nearest interval by sleeping
 	if a.Config.Agent.RoundInterval {
@@ -348,32 +353,20 @@ func (a *Agent) Run(shutdown chan struct{}) error {
 	wg.Add(1)
 	go func() {
 		defer wg.Done()
-		if err := a.flusher(shutdown, pointChan); err != nil {
+		if err := a.flusher(shutdown, metricC); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("Flusher routine failed, exiting: %s\n", err.Error())
 			close(shutdown)
 		}
 	}()

 	for _, input := range a.Config.Inputs {
-
-		// Start service of any ServicePlugins
-		switch p := input.Input.(type) {
-		case inputs.ServiceInput:
-			if err := p.Start(); err != nil {
-				log.Printf("Service for input %s failed to start, exiting\n%s\n",
-					input.Name, err.Error())
-				return err
-			}
-			defer p.Stop()
-		}
-
 		// Special handling for inputs that have their own collection interval
 		// configured. Default intervals are handled below with gatherParallel
 		if input.Config.Interval != 0 {
 			wg.Add(1)
-			go func(input *config.RunningInput) {
+			go func(input *internal_models.RunningInput) {
 				defer wg.Done()
-				if err := a.gatherSeparate(shutdown, input, pointChan); err != nil {
+				if err := a.gatherSeparate(shutdown, input, metricC); err != nil {
 					log.Printf(err.Error())
 				}
 			}(input)
@@ -383,7 +376,7 @@ func (a *Agent) Run(shutdown chan struct{}) error {
 	defer wg.Wait()

 	for {
-		if err := a.gatherParallel(pointChan); err != nil {
+		if err := a.gatherParallel(metricC); err != nil {
 			log.Printf(err.Error())
 		}

--- a/agent/agent_test.go
+++ b/agent/agent_test.go
@@ -1,50 +1,59 @@
-package telegraf
+package agent

 import (
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"testing"
 	"time"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/internal/config"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config"

 	// needing to load the plugins
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/all"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/all"
 	// needing to load the outputs
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/outputs/all"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs/all"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )

+func TestAgent_OmitHostname(t *testing.T) {
+	c := config.NewConfig()
+	c.Agent.OmitHostname = true
+	_, err := NewAgent(c)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotContains(t, c.Tags, "host")
+}
+
 func TestAgent_LoadPlugin(t *testing.T) {
 	c := config.NewConfig()
 	c.InputFilters = []string{"mysql"}
-	err := c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err := c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ := NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 1, len(a.Config.Inputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.InputFilters = []string{"foo"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 0, len(a.Config.Inputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.InputFilters = []string{"mysql", "foo"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 1, len(a.Config.Inputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.InputFilters = []string{"mysql", "redis"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 2, len(a.Config.Inputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.InputFilters = []string{"mysql", "foo", "redis", "bar"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 2, len(a.Config.Inputs))
@@ -53,42 +62,42 @@ func TestAgent_LoadPlugin(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAgent_LoadOutput(t *testing.T) {
 	c := config.NewConfig()
 	c.OutputFilters = []string{"influxdb"}
-	err := c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err := c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ := NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 2, len(a.Config.Outputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.OutputFilters = []string{"kafka"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 1, len(a.Config.Outputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.OutputFilters = []string{}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 3, len(a.Config.Outputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.OutputFilters = []string{"foo"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 0, len(a.Config.Outputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.OutputFilters = []string{"influxdb", "foo"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 2, len(a.Config.Outputs))

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.OutputFilters = []string{"influxdb", "kafka"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, 3, len(c.Outputs))
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
@@ -96,7 +105,7 @@ func TestAgent_LoadOutput(t *testing.T) {

 	c = config.NewConfig()
 	c.OutputFilters = []string{"influxdb", "foo", "kafka", "bar"}
-	err = c.LoadConfig("./internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
+	err = c.LoadConfig("../internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml")
 	assert.NoError(t, err)
 	a, _ = NewAgent(c)
 	assert.Equal(t, 3, len(a.Config.Outputs))
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -1,670 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
-#
-# This is the Telegraf build script.
-#
-# Current caveats:
-#   - Does not checkout the correct commit/branch (for now, you will need to do so manually)
-#   - Has external dependencies for packaging (fpm) and uploading (boto)
-#
-
-import sys
-import os
-import subprocess
-import time
-import datetime
-import shutil
-import tempfile
-import hashlib
-import re
-
-try:
-    import boto
-    from boto.s3.key import Key
-except ImportError:
-    pass
-
-# PACKAGING VARIABLES
-INSTALL_ROOT_DIR = "/usr/bin"
-LOG_DIR = "/var/log/telegraf"
-SCRIPT_DIR = "/usr/lib/telegraf/scripts"
-CONFIG_DIR = "/etc/telegraf"
-LOGROTATE_DIR = "/etc/logrotate.d"
-
-INIT_SCRIPT = "scripts/init.sh"
-SYSTEMD_SCRIPT = "scripts/telegraf.service"
-LOGROTATE_SCRIPT = "etc/logrotate.d/telegraf"
-DEFAULT_CONFIG = "etc/telegraf.conf"
-POSTINST_SCRIPT = "scripts/post-install.sh"
-PREINST_SCRIPT = "scripts/pre-install.sh"
-
-# META-PACKAGE VARIABLES
-PACKAGE_LICENSE = "MIT"
-PACKAGE_URL = "https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
-MAINTAINER = "support@influxdb.com"
-VENDOR = "InfluxData"
-DESCRIPTION = "Plugin-driven server agent for reporting metrics into InfluxDB."
-
-# SCRIPT START
-prereqs = [ 'git', 'go' ]
-optional_prereqs = [ 'gvm', 'fpm', 'rpmbuild' ]
-
-fpm_common_args = "-f -s dir --log error \
- --vendor {} \
- --url {} \
- --license {} \
- --maintainer {} \
- --config-files {} \
- --config-files {} \
- --after-install {} \
- --before-install {} \
- --description \"{}\"".format(
-    VENDOR,
-    PACKAGE_URL,
-    PACKAGE_LICENSE,
-    MAINTAINER,
-    CONFIG_DIR + '/telegraf.conf',
-    LOGROTATE_DIR + '/telegraf',
-    POSTINST_SCRIPT,
-    PREINST_SCRIPT,
-    DESCRIPTION)
-
-targets = {
-    'telegraf' : './cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go',
-}
-
-supported_builds = {
-    # TODO(rossmcdonald): Add support for multiple GOARM values
-    'darwin': [ "amd64", "386" ],
-    # 'windows': [ "amd64", "386", "arm", "arm64" ],
-    'linux': [ "amd64", "386", "arm" ]
-}
-supported_go = [ '1.5.1' ]
-supported_packages = {
-    "darwin": [ "tar", "zip" ],
-    "linux": [ "deb", "rpm", "tar", "zip" ],
-    "windows": [ "tar", "zip" ],
-}
-
-def run(command, allow_failure=False, shell=False):
-    out = None
-    try:
-        if shell:
-            out = subprocess.check_output(command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=shell)
-        else:
-            out = subprocess.check_output(command.split(), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
-        print ""
-        print ""
-        print "Executed command failed!"
-        print "-- Command run was: {}".format(command)
-        print "-- Failure was: {}".format(e.output)
-        if allow_failure:
-            print "Continuing..."
-            return None
-        else:
-            print ""
-            print "Stopping."
-            sys.exit(1)
-    except OSError as e:
-        print ""
-        print ""
-        print "Invalid command!"
-        print "-- Command run was: {}".format(command)
-        print "-- Failure was: {}".format(e)
-        if allow_failure:
-            print "Continuing..."
-            return out
-        else:
-            print ""
-            print "Stopping."
-            sys.exit(1)
-    else:
-        return out
-
-def create_temp_dir():
-    return tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="telegraf-build.")
-
-def get_current_version():
-    command = "git describe --always --tags --abbrev=0"
-    out = run(command)
-    return out.strip()
-
-def get_current_commit(short=False):
-    command = None
-    if short:
-        command = "git log --pretty=format:'%h' -n 1"
-    else:
-        command = "git rev-parse HEAD"
-    out = run(command)
-    return out.strip('\'\n\r ')
-
-def get_current_branch():
-    command = "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
-    out = run(command)
-    return out.strip()
-
-def get_system_arch():
-    arch = os.uname()[4]
-    if arch == "x86_64":
-        arch = "amd64"
-    return arch
-
-def get_system_platform():
-    if sys.platform.startswith("linux"):
-        return "linux"
-    else:
-        return sys.platform
-
-def get_go_version():
-    out = run("go version")
-    matches = re.search('go version go(\S+)', out)
-    if matches is not None:
-        return matches.groups()[0].strip()
-    return None
-
-def check_path_for(b):
-    def is_exe(fpath):
-        return os.path.isfile(fpath) and os.access(fpath, os.X_OK)
-
-    for path in os.environ["PATH"].split(os.pathsep):
-        path = path.strip('"')
-        full_path = os.path.join(path, b)
-        if os.path.isfile(full_path) and os.access(full_path, os.X_OK):
-            return full_path
-
-def check_environ(build_dir = None):
-    print "\nChecking environment:"
-    for v in [ "GOPATH", "GOBIN", "GOROOT" ]:
-        print "\t- {} -> {}".format(v, os.environ.get(v))
-
-    cwd = os.getcwd()
-    if build_dir == None and os.environ.get("GOPATH") and os.environ.get("GOPATH") not in cwd:
-        print "\n!! WARNING: Your current directory is not under your GOPATH. This may lead to build failures."
-
-def check_prereqs():
-    print "\nChecking for dependencies:"
-    for req in prereqs:
-        print "\t- {} ->".format(req),
-        path = check_path_for(req)
-        if path:
-            print "{}".format(path)
-        else:
-            print "?"
-    for req in optional_prereqs:
-        print "\t- {} (optional) ->".format(req),
-        path = check_path_for(req)
-        if path:
-            print "{}".format(path)
-        else:
-            print "?"
-    print ""
-
-def upload_packages(packages, nightly=False):
-    print "Uploading packages to S3..."
-    print ""
-    c = boto.connect_s3()
-    # TODO(rossmcdonald) - Set to different S3 bucket for release vs nightly
-    bucket = c.get_bucket('telegraf-nightly')
-    for p in packages:
-        name = os.path.basename(p)
-        if bucket.get_key(name) is None or nightly:
-            print "\t - Uploading {}...".format(name),
-            k = Key(bucket)
-            k.key = name
-            if nightly:
-                n = k.set_contents_from_filename(p, replace=True)
-            else:
-                n = k.set_contents_from_filename(p, replace=False)
-            k.make_public()
-            print "[ DONE ]"
-        else:
-            print "\t - Not uploading {}, already exists.".format(p)
-    print ""
-
-def run_tests(race, parallel, timeout, no_vet):
-    get_command = "go get -d -t ./..."
-    print "Retrieving Go dependencies...",
-    sys.stdout.flush()
-    run(get_command)
-    print "done."
-    print "Running tests:"
-    print "\tRace: ", race
-    if parallel is not None:
-        print "\tParallel:", parallel
-    if timeout is not None:
-        print "\tTimeout:", timeout
-    sys.stdout.flush()
-    p = subprocess.Popen(["go", "fmt", "./..."], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-    out, err = p.communicate()
-    if len(out) > 0 or len(err) > 0:
-        print "Code not formatted. Please use 'go fmt ./...' to fix formatting errors."
-        print out
-        print err
-        return False
-    if not no_vet:
-        p = subprocess.Popen(["go", "tool", "vet", "-composites=false", "./"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-        out, err = p.communicate()
-        if len(out) > 0 or len(err) > 0:
-            print "Go vet failed. Please run 'go vet ./...' and fix any errors."
-            print out
-            print err
-            return False
-    else:
-        print "Skipping go vet ..."
-        sys.stdout.flush()
-    test_command = "go test -v"
-    if race:
-        test_command += " -race"
-    if parallel is not None:
-        test_command += " -parallel {}".format(parallel)
-    if timeout is not None:
-        test_command += " -timeout {}".format(timeout)
-    test_command += " ./..."
-    code = os.system(test_command)
-    if code != 0:
-        print "Tests Failed"
-        return False
-    else:
-        print "Tests Passed"
-        return True
-
-def build(version=None,
-          branch=None,
-          commit=None,
-          platform=None,
-          arch=None,
-          nightly=False,
-          rc=None,
-          race=False,
-          clean=False,
-          outdir=".",
-          goarm_version="6"):
-    print "-------------------------"
-    print ""
-    print "Build plan:"
-    print "\t- version: {}".format(version)
-    if rc:
-        print "\t- release candidate: {}".format(rc)
-    print "\t- commit: {}".format(commit)
-    print "\t- branch: {}".format(branch)
-    print "\t- platform: {}".format(platform)
-    print "\t- arch: {}".format(arch)
-    if arch == 'arm' and goarm_version:
-        print "\t- ARM version: {}".format(goarm_version)
-    print "\t- nightly? {}".format(str(nightly).lower())
-    print "\t- race enabled? {}".format(str(race).lower())
-    print ""
-
-    if not os.path.exists(outdir):
-        os.makedirs(outdir)
-    elif clean and outdir != '/':
-        print "Cleaning build directory..."
-        shutil.rmtree(outdir)
-        os.makedirs(outdir)
-
-    if rc:
-        # If a release candidate, update the version information accordingly
-        version = "{}rc{}".format(version, rc)
-
-    print "Starting build..."
-    for b, c in targets.iteritems():
-        print "\t- Building '{}'...".format(os.path.join(outdir, b)),
-        build_command = ""
-        build_command += "GOOS={} GOARCH={} ".format(platform, arch)
-        if arch == "arm" and goarm_version:
-            if goarm_version not in ["5", "6", "7", "arm64"]:
-                print "!! Invalid ARM build version: {}".format(goarm_version)
-            build_command += "GOARM={} ".format(goarm_version)
-        build_command += "go build -o {} ".format(os.path.join(outdir, b))
-        if race:
-            build_command += "-race "
-        go_version = get_go_version()
-        if "1.4" in go_version:
-            build_command += "-ldflags=\"-X main.buildTime '{}' ".format(datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat())
-            build_command += "-X main.Version {} ".format(version)
-            build_command += "-X main.Branch {} ".format(branch)
-            build_command += "-X main.Commit {}\" ".format(get_current_commit())
-        else:
-            build_command += "-ldflags=\"-X main.buildTime='{}' ".format(datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat())
-            build_command += "-X main.Version={} ".format(version)
-            build_command += "-X main.Branch={} ".format(branch)
-            build_command += "-X main.Commit={}\" ".format(get_current_commit())
-        build_command += c
-        run(build_command, shell=True)
-        print "[ DONE ]"
-    print ""
-
-def create_dir(path):
-    try:
-        os.makedirs(path)
-    except OSError as e:
-        print e
-
-def rename_file(fr, to):
-    try:
-        os.rename(fr, to)
-    except OSError as e:
-        print e
-        # Return the original filename
-        return fr
-    else:
-        # Return the new filename
-        return to
-
-def copy_file(fr, to):
-    try:
-        shutil.copy(fr, to)
-    except OSError as e:
-        print e
-
-def create_package_fs(build_root):
-    print "\t- Creating a filesystem hierarchy from directory: {}".format(build_root)
-    # Using [1:] for the path names due to them being absolute
-    # (will overwrite previous paths, per 'os.path.join' documentation)
-    dirs = [ INSTALL_ROOT_DIR[1:], LOG_DIR[1:], SCRIPT_DIR[1:], CONFIG_DIR[1:], LOGROTATE_DIR[1:] ]
-    for d in dirs:
-        create_dir(os.path.join(build_root, d))
-        os.chmod(os.path.join(build_root, d), 0755)
-
-def package_scripts(build_root):
-    print "\t- Copying scripts and sample configuration to build directory"
-    shutil.copyfile(INIT_SCRIPT, os.path.join(build_root, SCRIPT_DIR[1:], INIT_SCRIPT.split('/')[1]))
-    os.chmod(os.path.join(build_root, SCRIPT_DIR[1:], INIT_SCRIPT.split('/')[1]), 0644)
-    shutil.copyfile(SYSTEMD_SCRIPT, os.path.join(build_root, SCRIPT_DIR[1:], SYSTEMD_SCRIPT.split('/')[1]))
-    os.chmod(os.path.join(build_root, SCRIPT_DIR[1:], SYSTEMD_SCRIPT.split('/')[1]), 0644)
-    shutil.copyfile(LOGROTATE_SCRIPT, os.path.join(build_root, LOGROTATE_DIR[1:], "telegraf"))
-    os.chmod(os.path.join(build_root, LOGROTATE_DIR[1:], "telegraf"), 0644)
-    shutil.copyfile(DEFAULT_CONFIG, os.path.join(build_root, CONFIG_DIR[1:], "telegraf.conf"))
-    os.chmod(os.path.join(build_root, CONFIG_DIR[1:], "telegraf.conf"), 0644)
-
-def go_get(update=False):
-    get_command = None
-    if update:
-        get_command = "go get -u -f -d ./..."
-    else:
-        get_command = "go get -d ./..."
-    print "Retrieving Go dependencies...",
-    run(get_command)
-    print "done.\n"
-
-def generate_md5_from_file(path):
-    m = hashlib.md5()
-    with open(path, 'rb') as f:
-        for chunk in iter(lambda: f.read(4096), b""):
-            m.update(chunk)
-    return m.hexdigest()
-
-def build_packages(build_output, version, nightly=False, rc=None, iteration=1):
-    outfiles = []
-    tmp_build_dir = create_temp_dir()
-    try:
-        print "-------------------------"
-        print ""
-        print "Packaging..."
-        for p in build_output:
-            # Create top-level folder displaying which platform (linux, etc)
-            create_dir(os.path.join(tmp_build_dir, p))
-            for a in build_output[p]:
-                current_location = build_output[p][a]
-                # Create second-level directory displaying the architecture (amd64, etc)p
-                build_root = os.path.join(tmp_build_dir, p, a)
-                # Create directory tree to mimic file system of package
-                create_dir(build_root)
-                create_package_fs(build_root)
-                # Copy in packaging and miscellaneous scripts
-                package_scripts(build_root)
-                # Copy newly-built binaries to packaging directory
-                for b in targets:
-                    if p == 'windows':
-                        b = b + '.exe'
-                    fr = os.path.join(current_location, b)
-                    to = os.path.join(build_root, INSTALL_ROOT_DIR[1:], b)
-                    print "\t- [{}][{}] - Moving from '{}' to '{}'".format(p, a, fr, to)
-                    copy_file(fr, to)
-                # Package the directory structure
-                for package_type in supported_packages[p]:
-                    print "\t- Packaging directory '{}' as '{}'...".format(build_root, package_type),
-                    name = "telegraf"
-                    package_version = version
-                    package_iteration = iteration
-                    if package_type in ['zip', 'tar']:
-                        if nightly:
-                            name = '{}-nightly_{}_{}'.format(name, p, a)
-                        else:
-                            name = '{}-{}_{}_{}'.format(name, version, p, a)
-                    if package_type == 'tar':
-                        # Add `tar.gz` to path to reduce package size
-                        current_location = os.path.join(current_location, name + '.tar.gz')
-                    if rc is not None:
-                        package_iteration = "0.rc{}".format(rc)
-                    fpm_command = "fpm {} --name {} -a {} -t {} --version {} --iteration {} -C {} -p {} ".format(
-                        fpm_common_args,
-                        name,
-                        a,
-                        package_type,
-                        package_version,
-                        package_iteration,
-                        build_root,
-                        current_location)
-                    if package_type == "rpm":
-                        fpm_command += "--depends coreutils "
-                    out = run(fpm_command, shell=True)
-                    matches = re.search(':path=>"(.*)"', out)
-                    outfile = None
-                    if matches is not None:
-                        outfile = matches.groups()[0]
-                    if outfile is None:
-                        print "[ COULD NOT DETERMINE OUTPUT ]"
-                    else:
-                        # Strip nightly version (the unix epoch) from filename
-                        if nightly and package_type in ['deb', 'rpm']:
-                            outfile = rename_file(outfile, outfile.replace("{}-{}".format(version, iteration), "nightly"))
-                        outfiles.append(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), outfile))
-                        print "[ DONE ]"
-                        # Display MD5 hash for generated package
-                        print "\t\tMD5 = {}".format(generate_md5_from_file(outfile))
-        print ""
-        return outfiles
-    finally:
-        # Cleanup
-        shutil.rmtree(tmp_build_dir)
-
-def print_usage():
-    print "Usage: ./build.py [options]"
-    print ""
-    print "Options:"
-    print "\t --outdir=<path> \n\t\t- Send build output to a specified path. Defaults to ./build."
-    print "\t --arch=<arch> \n\t\t- Build for specified architecture. Acceptable values: x86_64|amd64, 386, arm, or all"
-    print "\t --goarm=<arm version> \n\t\t- Build for specified ARM version (when building for ARM). Default value is: 6"
-    print "\t --platform=<platform> \n\t\t- Build for specified platform. Acceptable values: linux, windows, darwin, or all"
-    print "\t --version=<version> \n\t\t- Version information to apply to build metadata. If not specified, will be pulled from repo tag."
-    print "\t --commit=<commit> \n\t\t- Use specific commit for build (currently a NOOP)."
-    print "\t --branch=<branch> \n\t\t- Build from a specific branch (currently a NOOP)."
-    print "\t --rc=<rc number> \n\t\t- Whether or not the build is a release candidate (affects version information)."
-    print "\t --iteration=<iteration number> \n\t\t- The iteration to display on the package output (defaults to 0 for RC's, and 1 otherwise)."    
-    print "\t --race \n\t\t- Whether the produced build should have race detection enabled."
-    print "\t --package \n\t\t- Whether the produced builds should be packaged for the target platform(s)."
-    print "\t --nightly \n\t\t- Whether the produced build is a nightly (affects version information)."
-    print "\t --update \n\t\t- Whether dependencies should be updated prior to building."
-    print "\t --test \n\t\t- Run Go tests. Will not produce a build."
-    print "\t --parallel \n\t\t- Run Go tests in parallel up to the count specified."
-    print "\t --timeout \n\t\t- Timeout for Go tests. Defaults to 480s."
-    print "\t --clean \n\t\t- Clean the build output directory prior to creating build."
-    print ""
-
-def print_package_summary(packages):
-    print packages
-
-def main():
-    # Command-line arguments
-    outdir = "build"
-    commit = None
-    target_platform = None
-    target_arch = None
-    nightly = False
-    race = False
-    branch = None
-    version = get_current_version()
-    rc = None
-    package = False
-    update = False
-    clean = False
-    upload = False
-    test = False
-    parallel = None
-    timeout = None
-    iteration = 1
-    no_vet = False
-    goarm_version = "6"
-
-    for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
-        if '--outdir' in arg:
-            # Output directory. If none is specified, then builds will be placed in the same directory.
-            output_dir = arg.split("=")[1]
-        if '--commit' in arg:
-            # Commit to build from. If none is specified, then it will build from the most recent commit.
-            commit = arg.split("=")[1]
-        if '--branch' in arg:
-            # Branch to build from. If none is specified, then it will build from the current branch.
-            branch = arg.split("=")[1]
-        elif '--arch' in arg:
-            # Target architecture. If none is specified, then it will build for the current arch.
-            target_arch = arg.split("=")[1]
-        elif '--platform' in arg:
-            # Target platform. If none is specified, then it will build for the current platform.
-            target_platform = arg.split("=")[1]
-        elif '--version' in arg:
-            # Version to assign to this build (0.9.5, etc)
-            version = arg.split("=")[1]
-        elif '--rc' in arg:
-            # Signifies that this is a release candidate build.
-            rc = arg.split("=")[1]
-        elif '--race' in arg:
-            # Signifies that race detection should be enabled.
-            race = True
-        elif '--package' in arg:
-            # Signifies that packages should be built.
-            package = True
-        elif '--nightly' in arg:
-            # Signifies that this is a nightly build.
-            nightly = True
-        elif '--update' in arg:
-            # Signifies that dependencies should be updated.
-            update = True
-        elif '--upload' in arg:
-            # Signifies that the resulting packages should be uploaded to S3
-            upload = True
-        elif '--test' in arg:
-            # Run tests and exit
-            test = True
-        elif '--parallel' in arg:
-            # Set parallel for tests.
-            parallel = int(arg.split("=")[1])
-        elif '--timeout' in arg:
-            # Set timeout for tests.
-            timeout = arg.split("=")[1]
-        elif '--clean' in arg:
-            # Signifies that the outdir should be deleted before building
-            clean = True
-        elif '--iteration' in arg:
-            iteration = arg.split("=")[1]
-        elif '--no-vet' in arg:
-            no_vet = True
-        elif '--goarm' in arg:
-            # Signifies GOARM flag to pass to build command when compiling for ARM
-            goarm_version = arg.split("=")[1]
-        elif '--help' in arg:
-            print_usage()
-            return 0
-        else:
-            print "!! Unknown argument: {}".format(arg)
-            print_usage()
-            return 1
-
-    if nightly:
-        if rc:
-            print "!! Cannot be both nightly and a release candidate! Stopping."
-            return 1
-        # In order to support nightly builds on the repository, we are adding the epoch timestamp
-        # to the version so that version numbers are always greater than the previous nightly.
-        version = "{}.n{}".format(version, int(time.time()))
-
-    # Pre-build checks
-    check_environ()
-    check_prereqs()
-
-    if not commit:
-        commit = get_current_commit(short=True)
-    if not branch:
-        branch = get_current_branch()
-    if not target_arch:
-        if 'arm' in get_system_arch():
-            # Prevent uname from reporting ARM arch (eg 'armv7l')
-            target_arch = "arm"
-        else:
-            target_arch = get_system_arch()
-    if not target_platform:
-        target_platform = get_system_platform()
-    if rc or nightly:
-        # If a release candidate or nightly, set iteration to 0 (instead of 1)
-        iteration = 0
-
-    build_output = {}
-    # TODO(rossmcdonald): Prepare git repo for build (checking out correct branch/commit, etc.)
-    # prepare(branch=branch, commit=commit)
-    if test:
-        if not run_tests(race, parallel, timeout, no_vet):
-            return 1
-        return 0
-
-    go_get(update=update)
-
-    platforms = []
-    single_build = True
-    if target_platform == 'all':
-        platforms = supported_builds.keys()
-        single_build = False
-    else:
-        platforms = [target_platform]
-
-    for platform in platforms:
-        build_output.update( { platform : {} } )
-        archs = []
-        if target_arch == "all":
-            single_build = False
-            archs = supported_builds.get(platform)
-        else:
-            archs = [target_arch]
-        for arch in archs:
-            od = outdir
-            if not single_build:
-                od = os.path.join(outdir, platform, arch)
-            build(version=version,
-                  branch=branch,
-                  commit=commit,
-                  platform=platform,
-                  arch=arch,
-                  nightly=nightly,
-                  rc=rc,
-                  race=race,
-                  clean=clean,
-                  outdir=od,
-                  goarm_version=goarm_version)
-            build_output.get(platform).update( { arch : od } )
-
-    # Build packages
-    if package:
-        if not check_path_for("fpm"):
-            print "!! Cannot package without command 'fpm'. Stopping."
-            return 1
-        packages = build_packages(build_output, version, nightly=nightly, rc=rc, iteration=iteration)
-        # TODO(rossmcdonald): Add nice output for print_package_summary()
-        # print_package_summary(packages)
-        # Optionally upload to S3
-        if upload:
-            upload_packages(packages, nightly=nightly)
-    return 0
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    sys.exit(main())
-
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -4,14 +4,17 @@ machine:
  post:
    - sudo service zookeeper stop
    - go version
-    - go version | grep 1.5.2 || sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
-    - wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.5.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
-    - sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.5.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+    - 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:
--- a/cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
+++ b/cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go
@@ -7,15 +7,20 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
 	"strings"
+	"syscall"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/internal/config"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/all"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/outputs/all"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/agent"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/config"
+	"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"
 )

 var fDebug = flag.Bool("debug", false,
 	"show metrics as they're generated to stdout")
+var fQuiet = flag.Bool("quiet", false,
+	"run in quiet mode")
 var fTest = flag.Bool("test", false, "gather metrics, print them out, and exit")
 var fConfig = flag.String("config", "", "configuration file to load")
 var fConfigDirectory = flag.String("config-directory", "",
@@ -25,14 +30,17 @@ var fSampleConfig = flag.Bool("sample-config", false,
 	"print out full sample configuration")
 var fPidfile = flag.String("pidfile", "", "file to write our pid to")
 var fInputFilters = flag.String("input-filter", "",
-	"filter the plugins to enable, separator is :")
+	"filter the inputs to enable, separator is :")
+var fInputList = flag.Bool("input-list", false,
+	"print available input plugins.")
 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 fUsage = flag.String("usage", "",
 	"print usage for a plugin, ie, 'telegraf -usage mysql'")
-
 var fInputFiltersLegacy = flag.String("filter", "",
-	"filter the plugins to enable, separator is :")
+	"filter the inputs to enable, separator is :")
 var fOutputFiltersLegacy = flag.String("outputfilter", "",
 	"filter the outputs to enable, separator is :")
 var fConfigDirectoryLegacy = flag.String("configdirectory", "",
@@ -55,10 +63,21 @@ The flags are:
  -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

+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
+
 Examples:

  # generate a telegraf config file:
@@ -78,142 +97,181 @@ Examples:
 `

 func main() {
-	flag.Usage = usageExit
-	flag.Parse()
+	reload := make(chan bool, 1)
+	reload <- true
+	for <-reload {
+		reload <- false
+		flag.Usage = func() { usageExit(0) }
+		flag.Parse()
+		args := flag.Args()

-	if flag.NFlag() == 0 {
-		usageExit()
-	}
+		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 inputFilters []string
-	if *fInputFiltersLegacy != "" {
-		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+":", ":")
+		}

-	var outputFilters []string
-	if *fOutputFiltersLegacy != "" {
-		outputFilter := strings.TrimSpace(*fOutputFiltersLegacy)
-		outputFilters = strings.Split(":"+outputFilter+":", ":")
-	}
-	if *fOutputFilters != "" {
-		outputFilter := strings.TrimSpace(*fOutputFilters)
-		outputFilters = strings.Split(":"+outputFilter+":", ":")
-	}
-
-	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)
+		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
 			}
 		}
-		return
-	}

-	var (
-		c   *config.Config
-		err error
-	)
+		if *fOutputList {
+			fmt.Println("Available Output Plugins:")
+			for k, _ := range outputs.Outputs {
+				fmt.Printf("  %s\n", k)
+			}
+			return
+		}

-	if *fConfig != "" {
-		c = config.NewConfig()
+		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()
 		c.OutputFilters = outputFilters
 		c.InputFilters = inputFilters
-		err = c.LoadConfig(*fConfig)
+		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)
+			}
+		}
+
+		if *fConfigDirectory != "" {
+			err = c.LoadDirectory(*fConfigDirectory)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		}
+		if len(c.Outputs) == 0 {
+			log.Fatalf("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?")
+		}
+
+		ag, err := agent.NewAgent(c)
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Fatal(err)
 		}
-	} else {
-		fmt.Println("Usage: Telegraf")
-		flag.PrintDefaults()
-		return
-	}

-	if *fConfigDirectoryLegacy != "" {
-		err = c.LoadDirectory(*fConfigDirectoryLegacy)
+		if *fDebug {
+			ag.Config.Agent.Debug = true
+		}
+
+		if *fQuiet {
+			ag.Config.Agent.Quiet = true
+		}
+
+		if *fTest {
+			err = ag.Test()
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			return
+		}
+
+		err = ag.Connect()
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Fatal(err)
 		}
-	}

-	if *fConfigDirectory != "" {
-		err = c.LoadDirectory(*fConfigDirectory)
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
-	if len(c.Outputs) == 0 {
-		log.Fatalf("Error: no outputs found, did you provide a valid config file?")
-	}
-	if len(c.Inputs) == 0 {
-		log.Fatalf("Error: no plugins found, did you provide a valid config file?")
-	}
+		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
+				close(shutdown)
+			}
+		}()

-	ag, err := telegraf.NewAgent(c)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
-	}
+		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())

-	if *fDebug {
-		ag.Config.Agent.Debug = true
-	}
+		if *fPidfile != "" {
+			f, err := os.Create(*fPidfile)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Fatalf("Unable to create pidfile: %s", err)
+			}

-	if *fTest {
-		err = ag.Test()
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		return
-	}
+			fmt.Fprintf(f, "%d\n", os.Getpid())

-	err = ag.Connect()
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	shutdown := make(chan struct{})
-	signals := make(chan os.Signal)
-	signal.Notify(signals, os.Interrupt)
-	go func() {
-		<-signals
-		close(shutdown)
-	}()
-
-	log.Printf("Starting Telegraf (version %s)\n", Version)
-	log.Printf("Loaded outputs: %s", strings.Join(c.OutputNames(), " "))
-	log.Printf("Loaded plugins: %s", strings.Join(c.InputNames(), " "))
-	log.Printf("Tags enabled: %s", c.ListTags())
-
-	if *fPidfile != "" {
-		f, err := os.Create(*fPidfile)
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Fatalf("Unable to create pidfile: %s", err)
+			f.Close()
 		}

-		fmt.Fprintf(f, "%d\n", os.Getpid())
-
-		f.Close()
+		ag.Run(shutdown)
 	}
-
-	ag.Run(shutdown)
 }

-func usageExit() {
+func usageExit(rc int) {
 	fmt.Println(usage)
-	os.Exit(0)
+	os.Exit(rc)
 }
--- a/docs/CONFIGURATION.md
+++ b/docs/CONFIGURATION.md
@@ -0,0 +1,277 @@
+# 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)
+
+## 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
+
+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
+
+Telegraf has a few options you can configure under the `agent` section of the
+config.
+
+* **interval**: Default data collection interval for all inputs
+* **round_interval**: Rounds collection interval to 'interval'
+ie, if interval="10s" then always collect on :00, :10, :20, etc.
+* **metric_batch_size**: Telegraf will send metrics to output in batch of at
+most metric_batch_size metrics.
+* **metric_buffer_limit**: Telegraf will cache metric_buffer_limit metrics
+for each output, and will flush this buffer on a successful write.
+This should be a multiple of metric_batch_size and could not be less
+than 2 times metric_batch_size.
+* **collection_jitter**: Collection jitter 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
+same time, which can have a measurable effect on the system.
+* **flush_interval**: Default data flushing interval for all outputs.
+You should not set this below
+interval. Maximum flush_interval will be flush_interval + flush_jitter
+* **flush_jitter**: Jitter the flush interval by a random amount.
+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.
+* **debug**: Run telegraf in debug mode.
+* **quiet**: Run telegraf in quiet mode.
+* **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.
+
+## Input Configuration
+
+Some configuration options are configurable per input:
+
+* **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.
+
+#### Input Configuration Examples
+
+This is a full working config that will output CPU data to an InfluxDB instance
+at 192.168.59.103:8086, tagging measurements with dc="denver-1". It will output
+measurements at a 10s interval and will collect per-cpu data, dropping any
+fields which begin with `time_`.
+
+```toml
+[global_tags]
+  dc = "denver-1"
+
+[agent]
+  interval = "10s"
+
+# OUTPUTS
+[[outputs.influxdb]]
+  url = "http://192.168.59.103:8086" # required.
+  database = "telegraf" # required.
+  precision = "s"
+
+# INPUTS
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  percpu = true
+  totalcpu = false
+  # filter all fields beginning with 'time_'
+  fielddrop = ["time_*"]
+```
+
+#### Input Config: tagpass and tagdrop
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  percpu = true
+  totalcpu = false
+  fielddrop = ["cpu_time"]
+  # Don't collect CPU data for cpu6 & cpu7
+  [inputs.cpu.tagdrop]
+    cpu = [ "cpu6", "cpu7" ]
+
+[[inputs.disk]]
+  [inputs.disk.tagpass]
+    # tagpass conditions are OR, not AND.
+    # If the (filesystem is ext4 or xfs) OR (the path is /opt or /home)
+    # then the metric passes
+    fstype = [ "ext4", "xfs" ]
+    # Globs can also be used on the tag values
+    path = [ "/opt", "/home*" ]
+```
+
+#### Input Config: fieldpass and fielddrop
+
+```toml
+# Drop all metrics for guest & steal CPU usage
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  percpu = false
+  totalcpu = true
+  fielddrop = ["usage_guest", "usage_steal"]
+
+# Only store inode related metrics for disks
+[[inputs.disk]]
+  fieldpass = ["inodes*"]
+```
+
+#### Input Config: namepass and namedrop
+
+```toml
+# Drop all metrics about containers for kubelet
+[[inputs.prometheus]]
+  urls = ["http://kube-node-1:4194/metrics"]
+  namedrop = ["container_*"]
+
+# Only store rest client related metrics for kubelet
+[[inputs.prometheus]]
+  urls = ["http://kube-node-1:4194/metrics"]
+  namepass = ["rest_client_*"]
+```
+
+#### Input Config: taginclude and tagexclude
+
+```toml
+# Only include the "cpu" tag in the measurements for the cpu plugin.
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  percpu = true
+  totalcpu = true
+  taginclude = ["cpu"]
+
+# Exclude the "fstype" tag from the measurements for the disk plugin.
+[[inputs.disk]]
+  tagexclude = ["fstype"]
+```
+
+#### Input config: prefix, suffix, and override
+
+This plugin will emit measurements with the name `cpu_total`
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  name_suffix = "_total"
+  percpu = false
+  totalcpu = true
+```
+
+This will emit measurements with the name `foobar`
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  name_override = "foobar"
+  percpu = false
+  totalcpu = true
+```
+
+#### Input config: tags
+
+This plugin will emit measurements with two additional tags: `tag1=foo` and
+`tag2=bar`
+
+NOTE: Order matters, the `[inputs.cpu.tags]` table must be at the _end_ of the
+plugin definition.
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  percpu = false
+  totalcpu = true
+  [inputs.cpu.tags]
+    tag1 = "foo"
+    tag2 = "bar"
+```
+
+#### Multiple inputs of the same type
+
+Additional inputs (or outputs) of the same type can be specified,
+just define more instances in the config file. It is highly recommended that
+you utilize `name_override`, `name_prefix`, or `name_suffix` config options
+to avoid measurement collisions:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  percpu = false
+  totalcpu = true
+
+[[inputs.cpu]]
+  percpu = true
+  totalcpu = false
+  name_override = "percpu_usage"
+  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`.
+
+```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"]
+```
--- a/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+++ b/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
@@ -0,0 +1,362 @@
+# Telegraf Input Data Formats
+
+Telegraf is able to parse the following input data formats into metrics:
+
+1. [InfluxDB Line Protocol](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#influx)
+1. [JSON](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md#json)
+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)
+
+Telegraf metrics, like InfluxDB
+[points](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.10/write_protocols/line/),
+are a combination of four basic parts:
+
+1. Measurement Name
+1. Tags
+1. Fields
+1. Timestamp
+
+These four parts are easily defined when using InfluxDB line-protocol as a
+data format. But there are other data formats that users may want to use which
+require more advanced configuration to create usable Telegraf metrics.
+
+Plugins such as `exec` and `kafka_consumer` parse textual data. Up until now,
+these plugins were statically configured to parse just a single
+data format. `exec` mostly only supported parsing JSON, and `kafka_consumer` only
+supported data in InfluxDB line-protocol.
+
+But now we are normalizing the parsing of various data formats across all
+plugins that can support it. You will be able to identify a plugin that supports
+different data formats by the presence of a `data_format` config option, for
+example, in the exec plugin:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  ## Commands array
+  commands = ["/tmp/test.sh", "/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"]
+
+  ## 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
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "json"
+
+  ## Additional configuration options go here
+```
+
+Each data_format has an additional set of configuration options available, which
+I'll go over below.
+
+# Influx:
+
+There are no additional configuration options for InfluxDB line-protocol. The
+metrics are parsed directly into Telegraf metrics.
+
+#### Influx Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  ## Commands array
+  commands = ["/tmp/test.sh", "/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"]
+
+  ## 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
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "influx"
+```
+
+# JSON:
+
+The JSON data format flattens JSON into metric _fields_.
+NOTE: Only numerical values are converted to fields, and they are converted
+into a float. strings are ignored unless specified as a tag_key (see below).
+
+So for example, this JSON:
+
+```json
+{
+    "a": 5,
+    "b": {
+        "c": 6
+    },
+    "ignored": "I'm a string"
+}
+```
+
+Would get translated into _fields_ of a measurement:
+
+```
+myjsonmetric a=5,b_c=6
+```
+
+The _measurement_ _name_ is usually the name of the plugin,
+but can be overridden using the `name_override` config option.
+
+#### JSON Configuration:
+
+The JSON data format supports specifying "tag keys". If specified, keys
+will be searched for in the root-level of the JSON blob. If the key(s) exist,
+they will be applied as tags to the Telegraf metrics.
+
+For example, if you had this configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  ## Commands array
+  commands = ["/tmp/test.sh", "/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"]
+
+  ## 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
+  ## 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"
+}
+```
+
+Your Telegraf metrics would get tagged with "my_tag_1"
+
+```
+exec_mycollector,my_tag_1=foo a=5,b_c=6
+```
+
+# Value:
+
+The "value" data format translates single values into Telegraf metrics. This
+is done by assigning a measurement name and setting a single field ("value")
+as the parsed metric.
+
+#### Value Configuration:
+
+You **must** tell Telegraf what type of metric to collect by using the
+`data_type` configuration option. Available options are:
+
+1. integer
+2. float or long
+3. string
+4. boolean
+
+**Note:** It is also recommended that you set `name_override` to a measurement
+name that makes sense for your metric, otherwise it will just be set to the
+name of the plugin.
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  ## Commands array
+  commands = ["cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail"]
+
+  ## override the default metric name of "exec"
+  name_override = "entropy_available"
+
+  ## Data format to consume.
+  ## Each data format has it's 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"
+  data_type = "integer" # required
+```
+
+# 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
+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:
+
+```
+cpu.usage.idle 99
+=> cpu_usage_idle value=99
+```
+
+#### 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:
+
+```toml
+templates = [
+    "region.measurement*"
+]
+```
+
+would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.
+
+```
+us-west.cpu.load 100
+=> cpu.load,region=us-west value=100
+```
+
+#### 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
+templates = [
+    "measurement.measurement.field.field.region"
+]
+```
+
+would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.
+
+```
+cpu.usage.idle.percent.us-west 100
+=> cpu_usage,region=us-west idle_percent=100
+```
+
+The field key can also be derived from the second "half" of the input metric-name by specifying ```field*```:
+```toml
+templates = [
+    "measurement.measurement.region.field*"
+]
+```
+
+would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.
+
+```
+cpu.usage.us-west.idle.percentage 100
+=> cpu_usage,region=us-west idle_percentage=100
+```
+(This cannot be used in conjunction with "measurement*"!)
+
+#### Filter Templates:
+
+Users can also filter the template(s) to use based on the name of the bucket,
+using glob matching, like so:
+
+```toml
+templates = [
+    "cpu.* measurement.measurement.region",
+    "mem.* measurement.measurement.host"
+]
+```
+
+which would result in the following transformation:
+
+```
+cpu.load.us-west 100
+=> cpu_load,region=us-west value=100
+
+mem.cached.localhost 256
+=> mem_cached,host=localhost value=256
+```
+
+#### Adding Tags:
+
+Additional tags can be added to a metric that don't exist on the received metric.
+You can add additional tags by specifying them after the pattern.
+Tags have the same format as the line protocol.
+Multiple tags are separated by commas.
+
+```toml
+templates = [
+    "measurement.measurement.field.region datacenter=1a"
+]
+```
+
+would result in the following Graphite -> Telegraf transformation.
+
+```
+cpu.usage.idle.us-west 100
+=> cpu_usage,region=us-west,datacenter=1a idle=100
+```
+
+There are many more options available,
+[More details can be found here](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/tree/master/services/graphite#templates)
+
+#### Graphite Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  ## Commands array
+  commands = ["/tmp/test.sh", "/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"]
+
+  ## 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
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "graphite"
+
+  ## This string will be used to join the matched values.
+  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
+  ## 3. filter + template with field key
+  ## 4. default template
+  templates = [
+    "*.app env.service.resource.measurement",
+    "stats.* .host.measurement* region=us-west,agent=sensu",
+    "stats2.* .host.measurement.field",
+    "measurement*"
+  ]
+```
+
+# Nagios:
+
+There are no additional configuration options for Nagios line-protocol. The
+metrics are parsed directly into Telegraf metrics.
+
+Note: Nagios Input Data Formats is only supported in `exec` input plugin.
+
+#### Nagios Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  ## Commands array
+  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
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "nagios"
+```
--- a/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
+++ b/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+# Telegraf Output Data Formats
+
+Telegraf is able to serialize metrics into the following output data formats:
+
+1. [InfluxDB Line Protocol](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md#influx)
+1. [JSON](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md#json)
+1. [Graphite](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md#graphite)
+
+Telegraf metrics, like InfluxDB
+[points](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.10/write_protocols/line/),
+are a combination of four basic parts:
+
+1. Measurement Name
+1. Tags
+1. Fields
+1. Timestamp
+
+In InfluxDB line protocol, these 4 parts are easily defined in textual form:
+
+```
+measurement_name[,tag1=val1,...]  field1=val1[,field2=val2,...]  [timestamp]
+```
+
+For Telegraf outputs that write textual data (such as `kafka`, `mqtt`, and `file`),
+InfluxDB line protocol was originally the only available output format. But now
+we are normalizing telegraf metric "serializers" into a
+[plugin-like interface](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/serializers)
+across all output plugins that can support it.
+You will be able to identify a plugin that supports different data formats
+by the presence of a `data_format`
+config option, for example, in the `file` output plugin:
+
+```toml
+[[outputs.file]]
+  ## Files to write to, "stdout" is a specially handled file.
+  files = ["stdout"]
+
+  ## Data format to output.
+  ## Each data format has it's 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"
+
+  ## Additional configuration options go here
+```
+
+Each data_format has an additional set of configuration options available, which
+I'll go over below.
+
+# Influx:
+
+There are no additional configuration options for InfluxDB line-protocol. The
+metrics are serialized directly into InfluxDB line-protocol.
+
+### Influx Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[outputs.file]]
+  ## Files to write to, "stdout" is a specially handled file.
+  files = ["stdout", "/tmp/metrics.out"]
+
+  ## Data format to output.
+  ## Each data format has it's 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"
+```
+
+# Graphite:
+
+The Graphite data format translates Telegraf metrics into _dot_ buckets. A
+template can be specified for the output of Telegraf metrics into Graphite
+buckets. The default template is:
+
+```
+template = "host.tags.measurement.field"
+```
+
+In the above template, we have four parts:
+
+1. _host_ is a tag key. This can be any tag key that is in the Telegraf
+metric(s). If the key doesn't exist, it will be ignored. If it does exist, the
+tag value will be filled in.
+1. _tags_ is a special keyword that outputs all remaining tag values, separated
+by dots and in alphabetical order (by tag key). These will be filled after all
+tag keys are filled.
+1. _measurement_ is a special keyword that outputs the measurement name.
+1. _field_ is a special keyword that outputs the field name.
+
+Which means the following influx metric -> graphite conversion would happen:
+
+```
+cpu,cpu=cpu-total,dc=us-east-1,host=tars usage_idle=98.09,usage_user=0.89 1455320660004257758
+=>
+tars.cpu-total.us-east-1.cpu.usage_user 0.89 1455320690
+tars.cpu-total.us-east-1.cpu.usage_idle 98.09 1455320690
+```
+
+### Graphite Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[outputs.file]]
+  ## Files to write to, "stdout" is a specially handled file.
+  files = ["stdout", "/tmp/metrics.out"]
+
+  ## Data format to output.
+  ## Each data format has it's 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"
+
+  # prefix each graphite bucket
+  prefix = "telegraf"
+  # graphite template
+  template = "host.tags.measurement.field"
+```
+
+# JSON:
+
+The JSON data format serialized Telegraf metrics in json format. The format is:
+
+```json
+{
+   "fields":{
+      "field_1":30,
+      "field_2":4,
+      "field_N":59,
+      "n_images":660
+   },
+   "name":"docker",
+   "tags":{
+      "host":"raynor"
+   },
+   "timestamp":1458229140
+}
+```
+
+### JSON Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[outputs.file]]
+  ## Files to write to, "stdout" is a specially handled file.
+  files = ["stdout", "/tmp/metrics.out"]
+
+  ## Data format to output.
+  ## Each data format has it's 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"
+```
--- a/docs/LICENSE_OF_DEPENDENCIES.md
+++ b/docs/LICENSE_OF_DEPENDENCIES.md
@@ -28,6 +28,5 @@
 - 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)
- internal Glob function [MIT LICENSE](https://github.com/ryanuber/go-glob/blob/master/LICENSE)
+- golang.org/x/crypto/ [BSD LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/LICENSE)

--- a/docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md
+++ b/docs/WINDOWS_SERVICE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# 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.
+
+**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.
+
+## NSSM Installation via Chocolatey
+
+You can install [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) and [NSSM](http://nssm.cc/) 
+with these commands
+
+```powershell
+iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
+choco install -y nssm
+```
+
+## Installing Telegraf as a Windows Service with NSSM
+
+You can download the latest Telegraf Windows binaries (still Experimental at 
+the moment) from [the Telegraf Github repo](https://github.com/influxdata/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**.
+
+Once you have NSSM installed in your system, the process is quite straightforward.
+You only need to type this command in your Windows shell
+
+```powershell
+nssm install Telegraf c:\telegraf\telegraf.exe -config c:\telegraf\telegraf.config
+```
+
+And now your service will be installed in Windows and you will be able to start and
+stop it gracefully
--- a/etc/telegraf.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf.conf
--- a/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+# Telegraf configuration
+
+# Telegraf is entirely plugin driven. All metrics are gathered from the
+# declared inputs, and sent to the declared outputs.
+
+# Plugins must be declared in here to be active.
+# To deactivate a plugin, comment out the name and any variables.
+
+# Use 'telegraf -config telegraf.conf -test' to see what metrics a config
+# file would generate.
+
+# Global tags can be specified here in key="value" format.
+[global_tags]
+  # dc = "us-east-1" # will tag all metrics with dc=us-east-1
+  # rack = "1a"
+
+# Configuration for telegraf agent
+[agent]
+  ## Default data collection interval for all inputs
+  interval = "10s"
+  ## Rounds collection interval to 'interval'
+  ## ie, if interval="10s" then always collect on :00, :10, :20, etc.
+  round_interval = true
+
+  ## Telegraf will cache metric_buffer_limit metrics for each output, and will
+  ## flush this buffer on a successful write.
+  metric_buffer_limit = 1000
+  ## Flush the buffer whenever full, regardless of flush_interval.
+  flush_buffer_when_full = true
+
+  ## Collection jitter 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
+  ## same time, which can have a measurable effect on the system.
+  collection_jitter = "0s"
+
+  ## Default flushing interval for all outputs. You shouldn't set this below
+  ## interval. Maximum flush_interval will be flush_interval + flush_jitter
+  flush_interval = "10s"
+  ## Jitter the flush interval by a random amount. This is primarily to avoid
+  ## large write spikes for users running a large number of telegraf instances.
+  ## ie, a jitter of 5s and interval 10s means flushes will happen every 10-15s
+  flush_jitter = "0s"
+
+  ## Run telegraf in debug mode
+  debug = false
+  ## Run telegraf in quiet mode
+  quiet = false
+  ## Override default hostname, if empty use os.Hostname()
+  hostname = ""
+
+
+###############################################################################
+#                                  OUTPUTS                                    #
+###############################################################################
+
+# Configuration for influxdb server to send metrics to
+[[outputs.influxdb]]
+  # 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
+  # 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".
+  # note: using second precision greatly helps InfluxDB compression
+  precision = "s"
+
+  ## Write timeout (for the InfluxDB client), formatted as a string.
+  ## If not provided, will default to 5s. 0s means no timeout (not recommended).
+  timeout = "5s"
+  # username = "telegraf"
+  # password = "metricsmetricsmetricsmetrics"
+  # Set the user agent for HTTP POSTs (can be useful for log differentiation)
+  # user_agent = "telegraf"
+  # Set UDP payload size, defaults to InfluxDB UDP Client default (512 bytes)
+  # udp_payload = 512
+
+
+###############################################################################
+#                                  INPUTS                                     #
+###############################################################################
+
+# 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.
+#
+# See more configuration examples at:
+#   https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters
+
+[[inputs.win_perf_counters]]
+  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
+    # Processor usage, alternative to native, reports on a per core.
+    ObjectName = "Processor"
+    Instances = ["*"]
+    Counters = ["% Idle Time", "% Interrupt Time", "% Privileged Time", "% User Time", "% Processor Time"]
+    Measurement = "win_cpu"
+    #IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+
+  [[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"]
+    Measurement = "win_disk"
+    #IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+
+  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
+    ObjectName = "System"
+    Counters = ["Context Switches/sec","System Calls/sec"]
+    Instances = ["------"]
+    Measurement = "win_system"
+    #IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+
+  [[inputs.win_perf_counters.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.
+    Measurement = "win_mem"
+    #IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
+
+
+# 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 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 swap memory usage
+#[[inputs.swap]]
+  # no configuration
+
--- a/input.go
+++ b/input.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package telegraf
+
+type Input interface {
+	// SampleConfig returns the default configuration of the Input
+	SampleConfig() string
+
+	// Description returns a one-sentence description on the Input
+	Description() string
+
+	// Gather takes in an accumulator and adds the metrics that the Input
+	// gathers. This is called every "interval"
+	Gather(Accumulator) error
+}
+
+type ServiceInput interface {
+	// SampleConfig returns the default configuration of the Input
+	SampleConfig() string
+
+	// Description returns a one-sentence description on the Input
+	Description() string
+
+	// Gather takes in an accumulator and adds the metrics that the Input
+	// gathers. This is called every "interval"
+	Gather(Accumulator) error
+
+	// Start starts the ServiceInput's service, whatever that may be
+	Start(Accumulator) error
+
+	// Stop stops the services and closes any necessary channels and connections
+	Stop()
+}
--- a/internal/buffer/buffer.go
+++ b/internal/buffer/buffer.go
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package buffer
+
+import (
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+// 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
+}
+
+// NewBuffer returns a Buffer
+//   size is the maximum number of metrics that Buffer will cache. If Add is
+//   called when the buffer is full, then the oldest metric(s) will be dropped.
+func NewBuffer(size int) *Buffer {
+	return &Buffer{
+		buf: make(chan telegraf.Metric, size),
+	}
+}
+
+// IsEmpty returns true if Buffer is empty.
+func (b *Buffer) IsEmpty() bool {
+	return len(b.buf) == 0
+}
+
+// Len returns the current length of the buffer.
+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++
+		select {
+		case b.buf <- metrics[i]:
+		default:
+			b.drops++
+			<-b.buf
+			b.buf <- metrics[i]
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Batch returns a batch of metrics of size batchSize.
+// 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 {
+	n := min(len(b.buf), batchSize)
+	out := make([]telegraf.Metric, n)
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		out[i] = <-b.buf
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func min(a, b int) int {
+	if b < a {
+		return b
+	}
+	return a
+}
--- a/internal/buffer/buffer_test.go
+++ b/internal/buffer/buffer_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+package buffer
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+var metricList = []telegraf.Metric{
+	testutil.TestMetric(2, "mymetric1"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(1, "mymetric2"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(11, "mymetric3"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(15, "mymetric4"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(8, "mymetric5"),
+}
+
+func BenchmarkAddMetrics(b *testing.B) {
+	buf := NewBuffer(10000)
+	m := testutil.TestMetric(1, "mymetric")
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		buf.Add(m)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNewBufferBasicFuncs(t *testing.T) {
+	b := NewBuffer(10)
+
+	assert.True(t, b.IsEmpty())
+	assert.Zero(t, b.Len())
+	assert.Zero(t, b.Drops())
+	assert.Zero(t, b.Total())
+
+	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)
+
+	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)
+}
+
+func TestDroppingMetrics(t *testing.T) {
+	b := NewBuffer(10)
+
+	// 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)
+
+	// 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)
+}
+
+func TestGettingBatches(t *testing.T) {
+	b := NewBuffer(20)
+
+	// Verify that the buffer returned is smaller than requested when there are
+	// not as many items as requested.
+	b.Add(metricList...)
+	batch := b.Batch(10)
+	assert.Len(t, batch, 5)
+
+	// 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)
+
+	// Verify that the buffer returned is not more than the size requested
+	b.Add(metricList...)
+	batch = b.Batch(3)
+	assert.Len(t, batch, 3)
+
+	// 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)
+}
--- a/internal/config/config.go
+++ b/internal/config/config.go
--- a/internal/config/config_test.go
+++ b/internal/config/config_test.go
@@ -1,16 +1,64 @@
 package config

 import (
+	"os"
 	"testing"
 	"time"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/exec"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/memcached"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/procstat"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/models"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/exec"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/memcached"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/procstat"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers"
+
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )

+func TestConfig_LoadSingleInputWithEnvVars(t *testing.T) {
+	c := NewConfig()
+	err := os.Setenv("MY_TEST_SERVER", "192.168.1.1")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	err = os.Setenv("TEST_INTERVAL", "10s")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	c.LoadConfig("./testdata/single_plugin_env_vars.toml")
+
+	memcached := inputs.Inputs["memcached"]().(*memcached.Memcached)
+	memcached.Servers = []string{"192.168.1.1"}
+
+	filter := internal_models.Filter{
+		NameDrop:  []string{"metricname2"},
+		NamePass:  []string{"metricname1"},
+		FieldDrop: []string{"other", "stuff"},
+		FieldPass: []string{"some", "strings"},
+		TagDrop: []internal_models.TagFilter{
+			internal_models.TagFilter{
+				Name:   "badtag",
+				Filter: []string{"othertag"},
+			},
+		},
+		TagPass: []internal_models.TagFilter{
+			internal_models.TagFilter{
+				Name:   "goodtag",
+				Filter: []string{"mytag"},
+			},
+		},
+		IsActive: true,
+	}
+	assert.NoError(t, filter.CompileFilter())
+	mConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{
+		Name:     "memcached",
+		Filter:   filter,
+		Interval: 10 * time.Second,
+	}
+	mConfig.Tags = make(map[string]string)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, memcached, c.Inputs[0].Input,
+		"Testdata did not produce a correct memcached struct.")
+	assert.Equal(t, mConfig, c.Inputs[0].Config,
+		"Testdata did not produce correct memcached metadata.")
+}
+
 func TestConfig_LoadSingleInput(t *testing.T) {
 	c := NewConfig()
 	c.LoadConfig("./testdata/single_plugin.toml")
@@ -18,25 +66,29 @@ func TestConfig_LoadSingleInput(t *testing.T) {
 	memcached := inputs.Inputs["memcached"]().(*memcached.Memcached)
 	memcached.Servers = []string{"localhost"}

-	mConfig := &InputConfig{
-		Name: "memcached",
-		Filter: Filter{
-			Drop: []string{"other", "stuff"},
-			Pass: []string{"some", "strings"},
-			TagDrop: []TagFilter{
-				TagFilter{
-					Name:   "badtag",
-					Filter: []string{"othertag"},
-				},
+	filter := internal_models.Filter{
+		NameDrop:  []string{"metricname2"},
+		NamePass:  []string{"metricname1"},
+		FieldDrop: []string{"other", "stuff"},
+		FieldPass: []string{"some", "strings"},
+		TagDrop: []internal_models.TagFilter{
+			internal_models.TagFilter{
+				Name:   "badtag",
+				Filter: []string{"othertag"},
 			},
-			TagPass: []TagFilter{
-				TagFilter{
-					Name:   "goodtag",
-					Filter: []string{"mytag"},
-				},
-			},
-			IsActive: true,
 		},
+		TagPass: []internal_models.TagFilter{
+			internal_models.TagFilter{
+				Name:   "goodtag",
+				Filter: []string{"mytag"},
+			},
+		},
+		IsActive: true,
+	}
+	assert.NoError(t, filter.CompileFilter())
+	mConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{
+		Name:     "memcached",
+		Filter:   filter,
 		Interval: 5 * time.Second,
 	}
 	mConfig.Tags = make(map[string]string)
@@ -61,25 +113,29 @@ func TestConfig_LoadDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 	memcached := inputs.Inputs["memcached"]().(*memcached.Memcached)
 	memcached.Servers = []string{"localhost"}

-	mConfig := &InputConfig{
-		Name: "memcached",
-		Filter: Filter{
-			Drop: []string{"other", "stuff"},
-			Pass: []string{"some", "strings"},
-			TagDrop: []TagFilter{
-				TagFilter{
-					Name:   "badtag",
-					Filter: []string{"othertag"},
-				},
+	filter := internal_models.Filter{
+		NameDrop:  []string{"metricname2"},
+		NamePass:  []string{"metricname1"},
+		FieldDrop: []string{"other", "stuff"},
+		FieldPass: []string{"some", "strings"},
+		TagDrop: []internal_models.TagFilter{
+			internal_models.TagFilter{
+				Name:   "badtag",
+				Filter: []string{"othertag"},
 			},
-			TagPass: []TagFilter{
-				TagFilter{
-					Name:   "goodtag",
-					Filter: []string{"mytag"},
-				},
-			},
-			IsActive: true,
 		},
+		TagPass: []internal_models.TagFilter{
+			internal_models.TagFilter{
+				Name:   "goodtag",
+				Filter: []string{"mytag"},
+			},
+		},
+		IsActive: true,
+	}
+	assert.NoError(t, filter.CompileFilter())
+	mConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{
+		Name:     "memcached",
+		Filter:   filter,
 		Interval: 5 * time.Second,
 	}
 	mConfig.Tags = make(map[string]string)
@@ -90,8 +146,11 @@ func TestConfig_LoadDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 		"Testdata did not produce correct memcached metadata.")

 	ex := inputs.Inputs["exec"]().(*exec.Exec)
+	p, err := parsers.NewJSONParser("exec", nil, nil)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	ex.SetParser(p)
 	ex.Command = "/usr/bin/myothercollector --foo=bar"
-	eConfig := &InputConfig{
+	eConfig := &internal_models.InputConfig{
 		Name:              "exec",
 		MeasurementSuffix: "_myothercollector",
 	}
@@ -110,7 +169,7 @@ func TestConfig_LoadDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 	pstat := inputs.Inputs["procstat"]().(*procstat.Procstat)
 	pstat.PidFile = "/var/run/grafana-server.pid"

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

 	assert.Equal(t, pstat, c.Inputs[3].Input,
@@ -118,175 +177,3 @@ func TestConfig_LoadDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, pConfig, c.Inputs[3].Config,
 		"Merged Testdata did not produce correct procstat metadata.")
 }
-
-func TestFilter_Empty(t *testing.T) {
-	f := Filter{}
-
-	measurements := []string{
-		"foo",
-		"bar",
-		"barfoo",
-		"foo_bar",
-		"foo.bar",
-		"foo-bar",
-		"supercalifradjulisticexpialidocious",
-	}
-
-	for _, measurement := range measurements {
-		if !f.ShouldPass(measurement) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestFilter_Pass(t *testing.T) {
-	f := Filter{
-		Pass: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
-	}
-
-	passes := []string{
-		"foo",
-		"foo_bar",
-		"foo.bar",
-		"foo-bar",
-		"cpu_usage_idle",
-	}
-
-	drops := []string{
-		"bar",
-		"barfoo",
-		"bar_foo",
-		"cpu_usage_busy",
-	}
-
-	for _, measurement := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldPass(measurement) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, measurement := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldPass(measurement) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestFilter_Drop(t *testing.T) {
-	f := Filter{
-		Drop: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
-	}
-
-	drops := []string{
-		"foo",
-		"foo_bar",
-		"foo.bar",
-		"foo-bar",
-		"cpu_usage_idle",
-	}
-
-	passes := []string{
-		"bar",
-		"barfoo",
-		"bar_foo",
-		"cpu_usage_busy",
-	}
-
-	for _, measurement := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldPass(measurement) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, measurement := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldPass(measurement) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestFilter_TagPass(t *testing.T) {
-	filters := []TagFilter{
-		TagFilter{
-			Name:   "cpu",
-			Filter: []string{"cpu-*"},
-		},
-		TagFilter{
-			Name:   "mem",
-			Filter: []string{"mem_free"},
-		}}
-	f := Filter{
-		TagPass: filters,
-	}
-
-	passes := []map[string]string{
-		{"cpu": "cpu-total"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu-0"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu-1"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu-2"},
-		{"mem": "mem_free"},
-	}
-
-	drops := []map[string]string{
-		{"cpu": "cputotal"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu0"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu1"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu2"},
-		{"mem": "mem_used"},
-	}
-
-	for _, tags := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to pass", tags)
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, tags := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to drop", tags)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestFilter_TagDrop(t *testing.T) {
-	filters := []TagFilter{
-		TagFilter{
-			Name:   "cpu",
-			Filter: []string{"cpu-*"},
-		},
-		TagFilter{
-			Name:   "mem",
-			Filter: []string{"mem_free"},
-		}}
-	f := Filter{
-		TagDrop: filters,
-	}
-
-	drops := []map[string]string{
-		{"cpu": "cpu-total"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu-0"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu-1"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu-2"},
-		{"mem": "mem_free"},
-	}
-
-	passes := []map[string]string{
-		{"cpu": "cputotal"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu0"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu1"},
-		{"cpu": "cpu2"},
-		{"mem": "mem_used"},
-	}
-
-	for _, tags := range passes {
-		if !f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to pass", tags)
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, tags := range drops {
-		if f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
-			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to drop", tags)
-		}
-	}
-}
--- a/internal/config/testdata/single_plugin.toml
+++ b/internal/config/testdata/single_plugin.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 [[inputs.memcached]]
  servers = ["localhost"]
-  pass = ["some", "strings"]
-  drop = ["other", "stuff"]
+  namepass = ["metricname1"]
+  namedrop = ["metricname2"]
+  fieldpass = ["some", "strings"]
+  fielddrop = ["other", "stuff"]
  interval = "5s"
  [inputs.memcached.tagpass]
    goodtag = ["mytag"]
--- a/internal/config/testdata/single_plugin_env_vars.toml
+++ b/internal/config/testdata/single_plugin_env_vars.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[[inputs.memcached]]
+  servers = ["$MY_TEST_SERVER"]
+  namepass = ["metricname1"]
+  namedrop = ["metricname2"]
+  fieldpass = ["some", "strings"]
+  fielddrop = ["other", "stuff"]
+  interval = "$TEST_INTERVAL"
+  [inputs.memcached.tagpass]
+    goodtag = ["mytag"]
+  [inputs.memcached.tagdrop]
+    badtag = ["othertag"]
--- a/internal/config/testdata/subconfig/memcached.conf
+++ b/internal/config/testdata/subconfig/memcached.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 [[inputs.memcached]]
  servers = ["192.168.1.1"]
+  namepass = ["metricname1"]
+  namedrop = ["metricname2"]
  pass = ["some", "strings"]
  drop = ["other", "stuff"]
  interval = "5s"
--- a/internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml
+++ b/internal/config/testdata/telegraf-agent.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # with 'required'. Be sure to edit those to make this configuration work.

 # Tags can also be specified via a normal map, but only one form at a time:
-[tags]
+[global_tags]
  dc = "us-east-1"

 # Configuration for telegraf agent
@@ -184,6 +184,15 @@
  # If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
  servers = ["localhost"]

+# Telegraf plugin for gathering metrics from N Mesos masters
+[[inputs.mesos]]
+  # Timeout, in ms.
+  timeout = 100
+  # A list of Mesos masters, default value is localhost:5050.
+  masters = ["localhost:5050"]
+  # Metrics groups to be collected, by default, all enabled.
+  master_collections = ["resources","master","system","slaves","frameworks","messages","evqueue","registrar"]
+
 # Read metrics from one or many MongoDB servers
 [[inputs.mongodb]]
  # An array of URI to gather stats about. Specify an ip or hostname
--- a/internal/globpath/globpath.go
+++ b/internal/globpath/globpath.go
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+package globpath
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/gobwas/glob"
+)
+
+var sepStr = fmt.Sprintf("%v", string(os.PathSeparator))
+
+type GlobPath struct {
+	path    string
+	hasMeta bool
+	g       glob.Glob
+	root    string
+}
+
+func Compile(path string) (*GlobPath, error) {
+	out := GlobPath{
+		hasMeta: hasMeta(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 {
+		return &out, nil
+	}
+
+	var err error
+	if out.g, err = glob.Compile(path, os.PathSeparator); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// Get the root directory for this filepath
+	out.root = findRootDir(path)
+	return &out, nil
+}
+
+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) {
+			out[g.path] = info
+		}
+		return out
+	}
+	return walkFilePath(g.root, g.g)
+}
+
+// walk the filepath from the given root and return a list of files that match
+// the given glob.
+func walkFilePath(root string, g glob.Glob) map[string]os.FileInfo {
+	matchedFiles := make(map[string]os.FileInfo)
+	walkfn := func(path string, info os.FileInfo, _ error) error {
+		if g.Match(path) {
+			matchedFiles[path] = info
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+	filepath.Walk(root, walkfn)
+	return matchedFiles
+}
+
+// find the root dir of the given path (could include globs).
+// ie:
+//   /var/log/telegraf.conf -> /var/log
+//   /home/** ->               /home
+//   /home/*/** ->             /home
+//   /lib/share/*/*/**.txt ->  /lib/share
+func findRootDir(path string) string {
+	pathItems := strings.Split(path, sepStr)
+	out := sepStr
+	for i, item := range pathItems {
+		if i == len(pathItems)-1 {
+			break
+		}
+		if item == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if hasMeta(item) {
+			break
+		}
+		out += item + sepStr
+	}
+	if out != "/" {
+		out = strings.TrimSuffix(out, "/")
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// hasMeta reports whether path contains any magic glob characters.
+func hasMeta(path string) bool {
+	return strings.IndexAny(path, "*?[") >= 0
+}
--- a/internal/globpath/globpath_test.go
+++ b/internal/globpath/globpath_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package globpath
+
+import (
+	"runtime"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestCompileAndMatch(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := getTestdataDir()
+	// test super asterisk
+	g1, err := Compile(dir + "/**")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	// test single asterisk
+	g2, err := Compile(dir + "/*.log")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	// test no meta characters (file exists)
+	g3, err := Compile(dir + "/log1.log")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	// test file that doesn't exist
+	g4, err := Compile(dir + "/i_dont_exist.log")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	// test super asterisk that doesn't exist
+	g5, err := Compile(dir + "/dir_doesnt_exist/**")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	matches := g1.Match()
+	assert.Len(t, matches, 3)
+	matches = g2.Match()
+	assert.Len(t, matches, 2)
+	matches = g3.Match()
+	assert.Len(t, matches, 1)
+	matches = g4.Match()
+	assert.Len(t, matches, 0)
+	matches = g5.Match()
+	assert.Len(t, matches, 0)
+}
+
+func TestFindRootDir(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		input  string
+		output string
+	}{
+		{"/var/log/telegraf.conf", "/var/log"},
+		{"/home/**", "/home"},
+		{"/home/*/**", "/home"},
+		{"/lib/share/*/*/**.txt", "/lib/share"},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		actual := findRootDir(test.input)
+		assert.Equal(t, test.output, actual)
+	}
+}
+
+func getTestdataDir() string {
+	_, filename, _, _ := runtime.Caller(1)
+	return strings.Replace(filename, "globpath_test.go", "testdata", 1)
+}
--- a/internal/globpath/testdata/log1.log
+++ b/internal/globpath/testdata/log1.log
--- a/internal/globpath/testdata/log2.log
+++ b/internal/globpath/testdata/log2.log
--- a/internal/globpath/testdata/test.conf
+++ b/internal/globpath/testdata/test.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# this is a fake testing config file
+# for testing the filestat plugin
+
+option1 = "foo"
+option2 = "bar"
--- a/internal/internal.go
+++ b/internal/internal.go
@@ -2,11 +2,27 @@ package internal

 import (
 	"bufio"
+	"bytes"
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"crypto/tls"
+	"crypto/x509"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"log"
 	"os"
+	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
+	"unicode"
+)
+
+const alphanum string = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
+
+var (
+	TimeoutErr = errors.New("Command timed out.")
+
+	NotImplementedError = errors.New("not implemented yet")
 )

 // Duration just wraps time.Duration
@@ -26,41 +42,6 @@ func (d *Duration) UnmarshalTOML(b []byte) error {
 	return nil
 }

-var NotImplementedError = errors.New("not implemented yet")
-
-type JSONFlattener struct {
-	Fields map[string]interface{}
-}
-
-// FlattenJSON flattens nested maps/interfaces into a fields map
-func (f *JSONFlattener) FlattenJSON(
-	fieldname string,
-	v interface{},
-) error {
-	if f.Fields == nil {
-		f.Fields = make(map[string]interface{})
-	}
-	fieldname = strings.Trim(fieldname, "_")
-	switch t := v.(type) {
-	case map[string]interface{}:
-		for k, v := range t {
-			err := f.FlattenJSON(fieldname+"_"+k+"_", v)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-		}
-	case float64:
-		f.Fields[fieldname] = t
-	case bool, string, []interface{}, nil:
-		// ignored types
-		return nil
-	default:
-		return fmt.Errorf("JSON Flattener: got unexpected type %T with value %v (%s)",
-			t, t, fieldname)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 // ReadLines reads contents from a file and splits them by new lines.
 // A convenience wrapper to ReadLinesOffsetN(filename, 0, -1).
 func ReadLines(filename string) ([]string, error) {
@@ -96,58 +77,117 @@ func ReadLinesOffsetN(filename string, offset uint, n int) ([]string, error) {
 	return ret, nil
 }

-// Glob will test a string pattern, potentially containing globs, against a
-// subject string. The result is a simple true/false, determining whether or
-// not the glob pattern matched the subject text.
-//
-// Adapted from https://github.com/ryanuber/go-glob/blob/master/glob.go
-// thanks Ryan Uber!
-func Glob(pattern, measurement string) bool {
-	// Empty pattern can only match empty subject
-	if pattern == "" {
-		return measurement == pattern
+// RandomString returns a random string of alpha-numeric characters
+func RandomString(n int) string {
+	var bytes = make([]byte, n)
+	rand.Read(bytes)
+	for i, b := range bytes {
+		bytes[i] = alphanum[b%byte(len(alphanum))]
+	}
+	return string(bytes)
+}
+
+// GetTLSConfig gets a tls.Config object from the given certs, key, and CA files.
+// you must give the full path to the files.
+// If all files are blank and InsecureSkipVerify=false, returns a nil pointer.
+func GetTLSConfig(
+	SSLCert, SSLKey, SSLCA string,
+	InsecureSkipVerify bool,
+) (*tls.Config, error) {
+	if SSLCert == "" && SSLKey == "" && SSLCA == "" && !InsecureSkipVerify {
+		return nil, nil
 	}

-	// If the pattern _is_ a glob, it matches everything
-	if pattern == "*" {
-		return true
+	t := &tls.Config{
+		InsecureSkipVerify: InsecureSkipVerify,
 	}

-	parts := strings.Split(pattern, "*")
-
-	if len(parts) == 1 {
-		// No globs in pattern, so test for match
-		return pattern == measurement
-	}
-
-	leadingGlob := strings.HasPrefix(pattern, "*")
-	trailingGlob := strings.HasSuffix(pattern, "*")
-	end := len(parts) - 1
-
-	for i, part := range parts {
-		switch i {
-		case 0:
-			if leadingGlob {
-				continue
-			}
-			if !strings.HasPrefix(measurement, part) {
-				return false
-			}
-		case end:
-			if len(measurement) > 0 {
-				return trailingGlob || strings.HasSuffix(measurement, part)
-			}
-		default:
-			if !strings.Contains(measurement, part) {
-				return false
-			}
+	if SSLCA != "" {
+		caCert, err := ioutil.ReadFile(SSLCA)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("Could not load TLS CA: %s",
+				err))
 		}

-		// Trim evaluated text from measurement as we loop over the pattern.
-		idx := strings.Index(measurement, part) + len(part)
-		measurement = measurement[idx:]
+		caCertPool := x509.NewCertPool()
+		caCertPool.AppendCertsFromPEM(caCert)
+		t.RootCAs = caCertPool
 	}

-	// All parts of the pattern matched
-	return true
+	if SSLCert != "" && SSLKey != "" {
+		cert, err := tls.LoadX509KeyPair(SSLCert, SSLKey)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.New(fmt.Sprintf(
+				"Could not load TLS client key/certificate: %s",
+				err))
+		}
+
+		t.Certificates = []tls.Certificate{cert}
+		t.BuildNameToCertificate()
+	}
+
+	// will be nil by default if nothing is provided
+	return t, nil
+}
+
+// SnakeCase converts the given string to snake case following the Golang format:
+// acronyms are converted to lower-case and preceded by an underscore.
+func SnakeCase(in string) string {
+	runes := []rune(in)
+	length := len(runes)
+
+	var out []rune
+	for i := 0; i < length; i++ {
+		if i > 0 && unicode.IsUpper(runes[i]) && ((i+1 < length && unicode.IsLower(runes[i+1])) || unicode.IsLower(runes[i-1])) {
+			out = append(out, '_')
+		}
+		out = append(out, unicode.ToLower(runes[i]))
+	}
+
+	return string(out)
+}
+
+// CombinedOutputTimeout runs the given command with the given timeout and
+// returns the combined output of stdout and stderr.
+// If the command times out, it attempts to kill the process.
+func CombinedOutputTimeout(c *exec.Cmd, timeout time.Duration) ([]byte, error) {
+	var b bytes.Buffer
+	c.Stdout = &b
+	c.Stderr = &b
+	if err := c.Start(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	err := WaitTimeout(c, timeout)
+	return b.Bytes(), err
+}
+
+// RunTimeout runs the given command with the given timeout.
+// If the command times out, it attempts to kill the process.
+func RunTimeout(c *exec.Cmd, timeout time.Duration) error {
+	if err := c.Start(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return WaitTimeout(c, timeout)
+}
+
+// WaitTimeout waits for the given command to finish with a timeout.
+// It assumes the command has already been started.
+// If the command times out, it attempts to kill the process.
+func WaitTimeout(c *exec.Cmd, timeout time.Duration) error {
+	timer := time.NewTimer(timeout)
+	done := make(chan error)
+	go func() { done <- c.Wait() }()
+	select {
+	case err := <-done:
+		timer.Stop()
+		return err
+	case <-timer.C:
+		if err := c.Process.Kill(); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("FATAL error killing process: %s", err)
+			return err
+		}
+		// wait for the command to return after killing it
+		<-done
+		return TimeoutErr
+	}
 }
--- a/internal/internal_test.go
+++ b/internal/internal_test.go
@@ -1,44 +1,108 @@
 package internal

-import "testing"
+import (
+	"os/exec"
+	"testing"
+	"time"

-func testGlobMatch(t *testing.T, pattern, subj string) {
-	if !Glob(pattern, subj) {
-		t.Errorf("%s should match %s", pattern, subj)
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+type SnakeTest struct {
+	input  string
+	output string
+}
+
+var tests = []SnakeTest{
+	{"a", "a"},
+	{"snake", "snake"},
+	{"A", "a"},
+	{"ID", "id"},
+	{"MOTD", "motd"},
+	{"Snake", "snake"},
+	{"SnakeTest", "snake_test"},
+	{"APIResponse", "api_response"},
+	{"SnakeID", "snake_id"},
+	{"SnakeIDGoogle", "snake_id_google"},
+	{"LinuxMOTD", "linux_motd"},
+	{"OMGWTFBBQ", "omgwtfbbq"},
+	{"omg_wtf_bbq", "omg_wtf_bbq"},
+}
+
+func TestSnakeCase(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		if SnakeCase(test.input) != test.output {
+			t.Errorf(`SnakeCase("%s"), wanted "%s", got \%s"`, test.input, test.output, SnakeCase(test.input))
+		}
 	}
 }

-func testGlobNoMatch(t *testing.T, pattern, subj string) {
-	if Glob(pattern, subj) {
-		t.Errorf("%s should not match %s", pattern, subj)
+var (
+	sleepbin, _ = exec.LookPath("sleep")
+	echobin, _  = exec.LookPath("echo")
+)
+
+func TestRunTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	if sleepbin == "" {
+		t.Skip("'sleep' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
 	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(sleepbin, "10")
+	start := time.Now()
+	err := RunTimeout(cmd, time.Millisecond*20)
+	elapsed := time.Since(start)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, TimeoutErr, err)
+	// Verify that command gets killed in 20ms, with some breathing room
+	assert.True(t, elapsed < time.Millisecond*75)
 }

-func TestEmptyPattern(t *testing.T) {
-	testGlobMatch(t, "", "")
-	testGlobNoMatch(t, "", "test")
-}
-
-func TestPatternWithoutGlobs(t *testing.T) {
-	testGlobMatch(t, "test", "test")
-}
-
-func TestGlob(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, pattern := range []string{
-		"*test",           // Leading glob
-		"this*",           // Trailing glob
-		"*is*a*",          // Lots of globs
-		"**test**",        // Double glob characters
-		"**is**a***test*", // Varying number of globs
-	} {
-		testGlobMatch(t, pattern, "this_is_a_test")
+func TestCombinedOutputTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	if sleepbin == "" {
+		t.Skip("'sleep' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
 	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(sleepbin, "10")
+	start := time.Now()
+	_, err := CombinedOutputTimeout(cmd, time.Millisecond*20)
+	elapsed := time.Since(start)

-	for _, pattern := range []string{
-		"test*", // Implicit substring match should fail
-		"*is",   // Partial match should fail
-		"*no*",  // Globs without a match between them should fail
-	} {
-		testGlobNoMatch(t, pattern, "this_is_a_test")
-	}
+	assert.Equal(t, TimeoutErr, err)
+	// Verify that command gets killed in 20ms, with some breathing room
+	assert.True(t, elapsed < time.Millisecond*75)
+}
+
+func TestCombinedOutput(t *testing.T) {
+	if echobin == "" {
+		t.Skip("'echo' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(echobin, "foo")
+	out, err := CombinedOutputTimeout(cmd, time.Second)
+
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "foo\n", string(out))
+}
+
+// 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.")
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(sleepbin, "foo")
+	expected, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+
+	cmd2 := exec.Command(sleepbin, "foo")
+	actual, err := CombinedOutputTimeout(cmd2, time.Second)
+
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, expected, actual)
+}
+
+func TestRunError(t *testing.T) {
+	if sleepbin == "" {
+		t.Skip("'sleep' binary not available on OS, skipping.")
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(sleepbin, "foo")
+	err := RunTimeout(cmd, time.Second)
+
+	assert.Error(t, err)
 }
--- a/internal/models/filter.go
+++ b/internal/models/filter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+package internal_models
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/gobwas/glob"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+// 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 containing drop/pass and tagdrop/tagpass rules
+type Filter struct {
+	NameDrop []string
+	nameDrop glob.Glob
+	NamePass []string
+	namePass glob.Glob
+
+	FieldDrop []string
+	fieldDrop glob.Glob
+	FieldPass []string
+	fieldPass glob.Glob
+
+	TagDrop []TagFilter
+	TagPass []TagFilter
+
+	TagExclude []string
+	tagExclude glob.Glob
+	TagInclude []string
+	tagInclude glob.Glob
+
+	IsActive bool
+}
+
+// Compile all Filter lists into glob.Glob objects.
+func (f *Filter) CompileFilter() error {
+	var err error
+	f.nameDrop, err = compileFilter(f.NameDrop)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'namedrop', %s", err)
+	}
+	f.namePass, err = compileFilter(f.NamePass)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'namepass', %s", err)
+	}
+
+	f.fieldDrop, err = compileFilter(f.FieldDrop)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'fielddrop', %s", err)
+	}
+	f.fieldPass, err = compileFilter(f.FieldPass)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'fieldpass', %s", err)
+	}
+
+	f.tagExclude, err = compileFilter(f.TagExclude)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'tagexclude', %s", err)
+	}
+	f.tagInclude, err = compileFilter(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)
+		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)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("Error compiling 'tagpass', %s", err)
+		}
+	}
+	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()) {
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// ShouldFieldsPass 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 {
+		if f.namePass.Match(key) {
+			return true
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if f.nameDrop != nil {
+		if f.nameDrop.Match(key) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// ShouldFieldsPass 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 {
+		if f.fieldPass.Match(key) {
+			return true
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if f.fieldDrop != nil {
+		if f.fieldDrop.Match(key) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// 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 {
+		for _, pat := range f.TagPass {
+			if pat.filter == nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			if tagval, ok := tags[pat.Name]; ok {
+				if pat.filter.Match(tagval) {
+					return true
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+
+	if f.TagDrop != nil {
+		for _, pat := range f.TagDrop {
+			if pat.filter == nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			if tagval, ok := tags[pat.Name]; ok {
+				if pat.filter.Match(tagval) {
+					return false
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return true
+	}
+
+	return true
+}
+
+// Apply TagInclude and TagExclude filters.
+// modifies the tags map in-place.
+func (f *Filter) FilterTags(tags map[string]string) {
+	if f.tagInclude != nil {
+		for k, _ := range tags {
+			if !f.tagInclude.Match(k) {
+				delete(tags, k)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if f.tagExclude != nil {
+		for k, _ := range tags {
+			if f.tagExclude.Match(k) {
+				delete(tags, k)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
--- a/internal/models/filter_test.go
+++ b/internal/models/filter_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,366 @@
+package internal_models
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestFilter_Empty(t *testing.T) {
+	f := Filter{}
+
+	measurements := []string{
+		"foo",
+		"bar",
+		"barfoo",
+		"foo_bar",
+		"foo.bar",
+		"foo-bar",
+		"supercalifradjulisticexpialidocious",
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range measurements {
+		if !f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFilter_NamePass(t *testing.T) {
+	f := Filter{
+		NamePass: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	passes := []string{
+		"foo",
+		"foo_bar",
+		"foo.bar",
+		"foo-bar",
+		"cpu_usage_idle",
+	}
+
+	drops := []string{
+		"bar",
+		"barfoo",
+		"bar_foo",
+		"cpu_usage_busy",
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range passes {
+		if !f.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range drops {
+		if f.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFilter_NameDrop(t *testing.T) {
+	f := Filter{
+		NameDrop: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	drops := []string{
+		"foo",
+		"foo_bar",
+		"foo.bar",
+		"foo-bar",
+		"cpu_usage_idle",
+	}
+
+	passes := []string{
+		"bar",
+		"barfoo",
+		"bar_foo",
+		"cpu_usage_busy",
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range passes {
+		if !f.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range drops {
+		if f.ShouldNamePass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFilter_FieldPass(t *testing.T) {
+	f := Filter{
+		FieldPass: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	passes := []string{
+		"foo",
+		"foo_bar",
+		"foo.bar",
+		"foo-bar",
+		"cpu_usage_idle",
+	}
+
+	drops := []string{
+		"bar",
+		"barfoo",
+		"bar_foo",
+		"cpu_usage_busy",
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range passes {
+		if !f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range drops {
+		if f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFilter_FieldDrop(t *testing.T) {
+	f := Filter{
+		FieldDrop: []string{"foo*", "cpu_usage_idle"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	drops := []string{
+		"foo",
+		"foo_bar",
+		"foo.bar",
+		"foo-bar",
+		"cpu_usage_idle",
+	}
+
+	passes := []string{
+		"bar",
+		"barfoo",
+		"bar_foo",
+		"cpu_usage_busy",
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range passes {
+		if !f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to pass", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, measurement := range drops {
+		if f.ShouldFieldsPass(measurement) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected measurement %s to drop", measurement)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFilter_TagPass(t *testing.T) {
+	filters := []TagFilter{
+		TagFilter{
+			Name:   "cpu",
+			Filter: []string{"cpu-*"},
+		},
+		TagFilter{
+			Name:   "mem",
+			Filter: []string{"mem_free"},
+		}}
+	f := Filter{
+		TagPass: filters,
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	passes := []map[string]string{
+		{"cpu": "cpu-total"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu-0"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu-1"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu-2"},
+		{"mem": "mem_free"},
+	}
+
+	drops := []map[string]string{
+		{"cpu": "cputotal"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu0"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu1"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu2"},
+		{"mem": "mem_used"},
+	}
+
+	for _, tags := range passes {
+		if !f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to pass", tags)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, tags := range drops {
+		if f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to drop", tags)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFilter_TagDrop(t *testing.T) {
+	filters := []TagFilter{
+		TagFilter{
+			Name:   "cpu",
+			Filter: []string{"cpu-*"},
+		},
+		TagFilter{
+			Name:   "mem",
+			Filter: []string{"mem_free"},
+		}}
+	f := Filter{
+		TagDrop: filters,
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	drops := []map[string]string{
+		{"cpu": "cpu-total"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu-0"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu-1"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu-2"},
+		{"mem": "mem_free"},
+	}
+
+	passes := []map[string]string{
+		{"cpu": "cputotal"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu0"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu1"},
+		{"cpu": "cpu2"},
+		{"mem": "mem_used"},
+	}
+
+	for _, tags := range passes {
+		if !f.ShouldTagsPass(tags) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected tags %v to pass", tags)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, tags := range drops {
+		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",
+		"mytag": "foobar",
+	}
+	f := Filter{
+		TagExclude: []string{"nomatch"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	f.FilterTags(pretags)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{
+		"host":  "localhost",
+		"mytag": "foobar",
+	}, pretags)
+
+	f = Filter{
+		TagInclude: []string{"nomatch"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	f.FilterTags(pretags)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{}, pretags)
+}
+
+func TestFilter_FilterTagsMatches(t *testing.T) {
+	pretags := map[string]string{
+		"host":  "localhost",
+		"mytag": "foobar",
+	}
+	f := Filter{
+		TagExclude: []string{"ho*"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	f.FilterTags(pretags)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{
+		"mytag": "foobar",
+	}, pretags)
+
+	pretags = map[string]string{
+		"host":  "localhost",
+		"mytag": "foobar",
+	}
+	f = Filter{
+		TagInclude: []string{"my*"},
+	}
+	require.NoError(t, f.CompileFilter())
+
+	f.FilterTags(pretags)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{
+		"mytag": "foobar",
+	}, pretags)
+}
--- a/internal/models/running_input.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_input.go
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package internal_models
+
+import (
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+type RunningInput struct {
+	Name   string
+	Input  telegraf.Input
+	Config *InputConfig
+}
+
+// InputConfig containing a name, interval, and filter
+type InputConfig struct {
+	Name              string
+	NameOverride      string
+	MeasurementPrefix string
+	MeasurementSuffix string
+	Tags              map[string]string
+	Filter            Filter
+	Interval          time.Duration
+}
--- a/internal/models/running_output.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_output.go
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+package internal_models
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/buffer"
+)
+
+const (
+	// Default size of metrics batch size.
+	DEFAULT_METRIC_BATCH_SIZE = 1000
+
+	// Default number of metrics kept. It should be a multiple of batch size.
+	DEFAULT_METRIC_BUFFER_LIMIT = 10000
+)
+
+// RunningOutput contains the output configuration
+type RunningOutput struct {
+	Name              string
+	Output            telegraf.Output
+	Config            *OutputConfig
+	Quiet             bool
+	MetricBufferLimit int
+	MetricBatchSize   int
+
+	metrics     *buffer.Buffer
+	failMetrics *buffer.Buffer
+}
+
+func NewRunningOutput(
+	name string,
+	output telegraf.Output,
+	conf *OutputConfig,
+	batchSize int,
+	bufferLimit int,
+) *RunningOutput {
+	if bufferLimit == 0 {
+		bufferLimit = DEFAULT_METRIC_BUFFER_LIMIT
+	}
+	if batchSize == 0 {
+		batchSize = DEFAULT_METRIC_BATCH_SIZE
+	}
+	ro := &RunningOutput{
+		Name:              name,
+		metrics:           buffer.NewBuffer(batchSize),
+		failMetrics:       buffer.NewBuffer(bufferLimit),
+		Output:            output,
+		Config:            conf,
+		MetricBufferLimit: bufferLimit,
+		MetricBatchSize:   batchSize,
+	}
+	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
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Filter any tagexclude/taginclude parameters before adding metric
+	if len(ro.Config.Filter.TagExclude) != 0 || len(ro.Config.Filter.TagInclude) != 0 {
+		// 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)
+		// error is not possible if creating from another metric, so ignore.
+		metric, _ = telegraf.NewMetric(name, tags, fields, t)
+	}
+
+	ro.metrics.Add(metric)
+	if ro.metrics.Len() == ro.MetricBatchSize {
+		batch := ro.metrics.Batch(ro.MetricBatchSize)
+		err := ro.write(batch)
+		if err != nil {
+			ro.failMetrics.Add(batch...)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// 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())
+	}
+
+	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
+		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
+			}
+			batch := ro.failMetrics.Batch(batchSize)
+			// If we've already failed previous writes, don't bother trying to
+			// write to this output again. We are not exiting the loop just so
+			// that we can rotate the metrics to preserve order.
+			if err == nil {
+				err = ro.write(batch)
+			}
+			if err != nil {
+				ro.failMetrics.Add(batch...)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	batch := ro.metrics.Batch(ro.MetricBatchSize)
+	// see comment above about not trying to write to an already failed output.
+	// if ro.failMetrics is empty then err will always be nil at this point.
+	if err == nil {
+		err = ro.write(batch)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		ro.failMetrics.Add(batch...)
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (ro *RunningOutput) write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
+	if len(metrics) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	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)
+		}
+	}
+	return err
+}
+
+// OutputConfig containing name and filter
+type OutputConfig struct {
+	Name   string
+	Filter Filter
+}
--- a/internal/models/running_output_test.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_output_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,568 @@
+package internal_models
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+var first5 = []telegraf.Metric{
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric1"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric2"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric3"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric4"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric5"),
+}
+
+var next5 = []telegraf.Metric{
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric6"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric7"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric8"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric9"),
+	testutil.TestMetric(101, "metric10"),
+}
+
+// Benchmark adding metrics.
+func BenchmarkRunningOutputAddWrite(b *testing.B) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &perfOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+	ro.Quiet = true
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+		ro.Write()
+	}
+}
+
+// Benchmark adding metrics.
+func BenchmarkRunningOutputAddWriteEvery100(b *testing.B) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &perfOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+	ro.Quiet = true
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+		if n%100 == 0 {
+			ro.Write()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Benchmark adding metrics.
+func BenchmarkRunningOutputAddFailWrites(b *testing.B) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	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])
+	}
+}
+
+// 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())
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	for _, metric := range next5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 8)
+}
+
+// Test that NameDrop filters without a match do nothing.
+func TestRunningOutput_PassFilter(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: true,
+			NameDrop: []string{"metric1000", "foo*"},
+		},
+	}
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	for _, metric := range next5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 10)
+}
+
+// Test that tags are properly included
+func TestRunningOutput_TagIncludeNoMatch(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive:   true,
+			TagInclude: []string{"nothing*"},
+		},
+	}
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+
+	ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 1)
+	assert.Empty(t, m.Metrics()[0].Tags())
+}
+
+// Test that tags are properly excluded
+func TestRunningOutput_TagExcludeMatch(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive:   true,
+			TagExclude: []string{"tag*"},
+		},
+	}
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+
+	ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 1)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics()[0].Tags(), 0)
+}
+
+// Test that tags are properly Excluded
+func TestRunningOutput_TagExcludeNoMatch(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive:   true,
+			TagExclude: []string{"nothing*"},
+		},
+	}
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+
+	ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 1)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics()[0].Tags(), 1)
+}
+
+// Test that tags are properly included
+func TestRunningOutput_TagIncludeMatch(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive:   true,
+			TagInclude: []string{"tag*"},
+		},
+	}
+	assert.NoError(t, conf.Filter.CompileFilter())
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+
+	ro.AddMetric(first5[0])
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 1)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics()[0].Tags(), 1)
+}
+
+// Test that we can write metrics with simple default setup.
+func TestRunningOutputDefault(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 1000, 10000)
+
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	for _, metric := range next5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 10)
+}
+
+// Test that running output doesn't flush until it's full when
+// FlushBufferWhenFull is set.
+func TestRunningOutputFlushWhenFull(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 6, 10)
+
+	// Fill buffer to 1 under limit
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// no flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	// add one more metric
+	ro.AddMetric(next5[0])
+	// now it flushed
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 6)
+
+	// add one more metric and write it manually
+	ro.AddMetric(next5[1])
+	err := ro.Write()
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 7)
+}
+
+// Test that running output doesn't flush until it's full when
+// FlushBufferWhenFull is set, twice.
+func TestRunningOutputMultiFlushWhenFull(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 4, 12)
+
+	// Fill buffer past limit twive
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	for _, metric := range next5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// flushed twice
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 8)
+}
+
+func TestRunningOutputWriteFail(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	m.failWrite = true
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 4, 12)
+
+	// Fill buffer to limit twice
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	for _, metric := range next5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	// manual write fails
+	err := ro.Write()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	m.failWrite = false
+	err = ro.Write()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 10)
+}
+
+// Verify that the order of points is preserved during a write failure.
+func TestRunningOutputWriteFailOrder(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	m.failWrite = true
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 100, 1000)
+
+	// add 5 metrics
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	// Write fails
+	err := ro.Write()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	m.failWrite = false
+	// add 5 more metrics
+	for _, metric := range next5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	err = ro.Write()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Verify that 10 metrics were written
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 10)
+	// Verify that they are in order
+	expected := append(first5, next5...)
+	assert.Equal(t, expected, m.Metrics())
+}
+
+// Verify that the order of points is preserved during many write failures.
+func TestRunningOutputWriteFailOrder2(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	m.failWrite = true
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 5, 100)
+
+	// add 5 metrics
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// Write fails
+	err := ro.Write()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	// add 5 metrics
+	for _, metric := range next5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// Write fails
+	err = ro.Write()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	// add 5 metrics
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// Write fails
+	err = ro.Write()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	// add 5 metrics
+	for _, metric := range next5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// Write fails
+	err = ro.Write()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	m.failWrite = false
+	err = ro.Write()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Verify that 10 metrics were written
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 20)
+	// Verify that they are in order
+	expected := append(first5, next5...)
+	expected = append(expected, first5...)
+	expected = append(expected, next5...)
+	assert.Equal(t, expected, m.Metrics())
+}
+
+// Verify that the order of points is preserved when there is a remainder
+// of points for the batch.
+//
+// ie, with a batch size of 5:
+//
+//     1 2 3 4 5 6 <-- order, failed points
+//     6 1 2 3 4 5 <-- order, after 1st write failure (1 2 3 4 5 was batch)
+//     1 2 3 4 5 6 <-- order, after 2nd write failure, (6 was batch)
+//
+func TestRunningOutputWriteFailOrder3(t *testing.T) {
+	conf := &OutputConfig{
+		Filter: Filter{
+			IsActive: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	m := &mockOutput{}
+	m.failWrite = true
+	ro := NewRunningOutput("test", m, conf, 5, 1000)
+
+	// add 5 metrics
+	for _, metric := range first5 {
+		ro.AddMetric(metric)
+	}
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	// Write fails
+	err := ro.Write()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	// no successful flush yet
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 0)
+
+	// add and attempt to write a single metric:
+	ro.AddMetric(next5[0])
+	err = ro.Write()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+
+	// unset fail and write metrics
+	m.failWrite = false
+	err = ro.Write()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Verify that 6 metrics were written
+	assert.Len(t, m.Metrics(), 6)
+	// Verify that they are in order
+	expected := append(first5, next5[0])
+	assert.Equal(t, expected, m.Metrics())
+}
+
+type mockOutput struct {
+	sync.Mutex
+
+	metrics []telegraf.Metric
+
+	// if true, mock a write failure
+	failWrite bool
+}
+
+func (m *mockOutput) Connect() error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m *mockOutput) Close() error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m *mockOutput) Description() string {
+	return ""
+}
+
+func (m *mockOutput) SampleConfig() string {
+	return ""
+}
+
+func (m *mockOutput) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
+	m.Lock()
+	defer m.Unlock()
+	if m.failWrite {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Failed Write!")
+	}
+
+	if m.metrics == nil {
+		m.metrics = []telegraf.Metric{}
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range metrics {
+		m.metrics = append(m.metrics, metric)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m *mockOutput) Metrics() []telegraf.Metric {
+	m.Lock()
+	defer m.Unlock()
+	return m.metrics
+}
+
+type perfOutput struct {
+	// if true, mock a write failure
+	failWrite bool
+}
+
+func (m *perfOutput) Connect() error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m *perfOutput) Close() error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (m *perfOutput) Description() string {
+	return ""
+}
+
+func (m *perfOutput) SampleConfig() string {
+	return ""
+}
+
+func (m *perfOutput) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
+	if m.failWrite {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Failed Write!")
+	}
+	return nil
+}
--- a/metric.go
+++ b/metric.go
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+package telegraf
+
+import (
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/client/v2"
+)
+
+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
+	String() string
+
+	// PrecisionString returns a line-protocol string of the metric, at precision
+	PrecisionString(precison string) 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
+}
--- a/metric_test.go
+++ b/metric_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+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/output.go
+++ b/output.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package telegraf
+
+type Output interface {
+	// Connect to the Output
+	Connect() error
+	// Close any connections to the Output
+	Close() error
+	// Description returns a one-sentence description on the Output
+	Description() string
+	// SampleConfig returns the default configuration of the Output
+	SampleConfig() string
+	// Write takes in group of points to be written to the Output
+	Write(metrics []Metric) error
+}
+
+type ServiceOutput interface {
+	// Connect to the Output
+	Connect() error
+	// Close any connections to the Output
+	Close() error
+	// Description returns a one-sentence description on the Output
+	Description() string
+	// SampleConfig returns the default configuration of the Output
+	SampleConfig() string
+	// Write takes in group of points to be written to the Output
+	Write(metrics []Metric) error
+	// Start the "service" that will provide an Output
+	Start() error
+	// Stop the "service" that will provide an Output
+	Stop()
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/EXAMPLE_README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/EXAMPLE_README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Example Input Plugin
+
+The example plugin gathers metrics about example things
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```toml
+# Description
+[[inputs.example]]
+  # SampleConfig
+```
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+<optional description>
+
+- measurement1
+    - field1 (type, unit)
+    - field2 (float, percent)
+- measurement2
+    - field3 (integer, bytes)
+
+### Tags:
+
+- All measurements have the following tags:
+    - tag1 (optional description)
+    - tag2
+- measurement2 has the following tags:
+    - tag3
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+$ ./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/aerospike.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/aerospike/aerospike.go
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"fmt"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 	"net"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -103,11 +104,9 @@ type Aerospike struct {
 }

 var sampleConfig = `
-  # Aerospike servers to connect to (with port)
-  # Default: servers = ["localhost:3000"]
-  #
-  # This plugin will query all namespaces the aerospike
-  # server has configured and get stats for them.
+  ## Aerospike servers to connect to (with port)
+  ## This plugin will query all namespaces the aerospike
+  ## server has configured and get stats for them.
  servers = ["localhost:3000"]
 `

@@ -119,7 +118,7 @@ func (a *Aerospike) Description() string {
 	return "Read stats from an aerospike server"
 }

-func (a *Aerospike) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (a *Aerospike) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	if len(a.Servers) == 0 {
 		return a.gatherServer("127.0.0.1:3000", acc)
 	}
@@ -140,7 +139,7 @@ func (a *Aerospike) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 	return outerr
 }

-func (a *Aerospike) gatherServer(host string, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (a *Aerospike) gatherServer(host string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	aerospikeInfo, err := getMap(STATISTICS_COMMAND, host)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Aerospike info failed: %s", err)
@@ -249,7 +248,7 @@ func get(key []byte, host string) (map[string]string, error) {

 func readAerospikeStats(
 	stats map[string]string,
-	acc inputs.Accumulator,
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
 	host string,
 	namespace string,
 ) {
@@ -336,7 +335,7 @@ func msgLenFromBytes(buf [6]byte) int64 {
 }

 func init() {
-	inputs.Add("aerospike", func() inputs.Input {
+	inputs.Add("aerospike", func() telegraf.Input {
 		return &Aerospike{}
 	})
 }
--- a/plugins/inputs/aerospike/aerospike_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/aerospike/aerospike_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"reflect"
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
--- a/plugins/inputs/all/all.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/all/all.go
@@ -1,37 +1,67 @@
 package all

 import (
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/aerospike"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/apache"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/bcache"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/disque"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/exec"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/haproxy"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/httpjson"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/influxdb"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/jolokia"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/leofs"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/lustre2"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mailchimp"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/memcached"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mongodb"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mysql"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/nginx"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/phpfpm"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/ping"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/postgresql"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/procstat"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/prometheus"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/puppetagent"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/rabbitmq"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/redis"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/rethinkdb"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/statsd"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/system"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/trig"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/twemproxy"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/zfs"
-	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs/zookeeper"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/aerospike"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/apache"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/bcache"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/cassandra"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/couchbase"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/couchdb"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/disque"
+	_ "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/filestat"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/haproxy"
+	_ "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/ipmi_sensor"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/jolokia"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/leofs"
+	_ "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/mongodb"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/mysql"
+	_ "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/nsq"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/ntpq"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/passenger"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/phpfpm"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/ping"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/postgresql"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/postgresql_extensible"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/powerdns"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/procstat"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/prometheus"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/puppetagent"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/rabbitmq"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/raindrops"
+	_ "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/sensors"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/snmp"
+	_ "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/trig"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/twemproxy"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/udp_listener"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/zfs"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/zookeeper"
 )
--- a/plugins/inputs/apache/apache.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/apache/apache.go
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 )

 type Apache struct {
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ type Apache struct {
 }

 var sampleConfig = `
-  # An array of Apache status URI to gather stats.
+  ## An array of Apache status URI to gather stats.
  urls = ["http://localhost/server-status?auto"]
 `

@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ func (n *Apache) Description() string {
 	return "Read Apache status information (mod_status)"
 }

-func (n *Apache) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (n *Apache) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
 	var outerr error

@@ -57,9 +58,12 @@ var tr = &http.Transport{
 	ResponseHeaderTimeout: time.Duration(3 * time.Second),
 }

-var client = &http.Client{Transport: tr}
+var client = &http.Client{
+	Transport: tr,
+	Timeout:   time.Duration(4 * time.Second),
+}

-func (n *Apache) gatherUrl(addr *url.URL, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (n *Apache) gatherUrl(addr *url.URL, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	resp, err := client.Get(addr.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error making HTTP request to %s: %s", addr.String(), err)
@@ -164,7 +168,7 @@ func getTags(addr *url.URL) map[string]string {
 }

 func init() {
-	inputs.Add("apache", func() inputs.Input {
+	inputs.Add("apache", func() telegraf.Input {
 		return &Apache{}
 	})
 }
--- a/plugins/inputs/apache/apache_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/apache/apache_test.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"

 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
--- a/plugins/inputs/bcache/bcache.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/bcache/bcache.go
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 )

 type Bcache struct {
@@ -17,14 +18,14 @@ type Bcache struct {
 }

 var sampleConfig = `
-  # Bcache sets path
-  # If not specified, then default is:
-  # bcachePath = "/sys/fs/bcache"
-  #
-  # By default, telegraf gather stats for all bcache devices
-  # Setting devices will restrict the stats to the specified
-  # bcache devices.
-  # bcacheDevs = ["bcache0", ...]
+  ## Bcache sets path
+  ## If not specified, then default is:
+  bcachePath = "/sys/fs/bcache"
+
+  ## By default, telegraf gather stats for all bcache devices
+  ## Setting devices will restrict the stats to the specified
+  ## bcache devices.
+  bcacheDevs = ["bcache0"]
 `

 func (b *Bcache) SampleConfig() string {
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ func prettyToBytes(v string) uint64 {
 	return uint64(result)
 }

-func (b *Bcache) gatherBcache(bdev string, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (b *Bcache) gatherBcache(bdev string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	tags := getTags(bdev)
 	metrics, err := filepath.Glob(bdev + "/stats_total/*")
 	if len(metrics) < 0 {
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ func (b *Bcache) gatherBcache(bdev string, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 	return nil
 }

-func (b *Bcache) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (b *Bcache) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	bcacheDevsChecked := make(map[string]bool)
 	var restrictDevs bool
 	if len(b.BcacheDevs) != 0 {
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ func (b *Bcache) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 }

 func init() {
-	inputs.Add("bcache", func() inputs.Input {
+	inputs.Add("bcache", func() telegraf.Input {
 		return &Bcache{}
 	})
 }
--- a/plugins/inputs/bcache/bcache_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/bcache/bcache_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"testing"

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

--- a/plugins/inputs/cassandra/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/cassandra/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+# Telegraf plugin: Cassandra
+
+#### Plugin arguments:
+- **context** string: Context root used for jolokia url
+- **servers** []string: List of servers with the format "<user:passwd@><host>:port"
+- **metrics** []string: List of Jmx paths that identify mbeans attributes
+
+#### Description
+
+The Cassandra plugin collects Cassandra/JVM metrics exposed as MBean's attributes through jolokia REST endpoint. All metrics are collected for each server configured.
+
+See: https://jolokia.org/ and [Cassandra Documentation](http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.x/cassandra/operations/monitoringCassandraTOC.html)
+
+# Measurements:
+Cassandra plugin produces one or more measurements for each metric configured, adding Server's name  as `host` tag. More than one measurement is generated when querying table metrics with a wildcard for the keyspace or table name.
+
+Given a configuration like:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.cassandra]]
+  context = "/jolokia/read"
+  servers = [":8778"]
+  metrics = ["/java.lang:type=Memory/HeapMemoryUsage"]
+```
+
+The collected metrics will be:
+
+```
+javaMemory,host=myHost,mname=HeapMemoryUsage HeapMemoryUsage_committed=1040187392,HeapMemoryUsage_init=1050673152,HeapMemoryUsage_max=1040187392,HeapMemoryUsage_used=368155000 1459551767230567084
+```
+
+# Useful Metrics:
+
+Here is a list of metrics that might be useful to monitor your cassandra cluster. This was put together from multiple sources on the web.
+
+- [How to monitor Cassandra performance metrics](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/how-to-monitor-cassandra-performance-metrics)
+- [Cassandra Documentation](http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.x/cassandra/operations/monitoringCassandraTOC.html)
+
+####measurement = javaGarbageCollector
+
+- /java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=ConcurrentMarkSweep/CollectionTime       
+- /java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=ConcurrentMarkSweep/CollectionCount
+- /java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=ParNew/CollectionTime          
+- /java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=ParNew/CollectionCount
+
+####measurement = javaMemory
+
+- /java.lang:type=Memory/HeapMemoryUsage
+- /java.lang:type=Memory/NonHeapMemoryUsage
+
+####measurement = cassandraCache
+
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=KeyCache,name=Hit
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=KeyCache,name=Requests
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=KeyCache,name=Entries
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=KeyCache,name=Size 
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=KeyCache,name=Capacity 
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=RowCache,name=Hit
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=RowCache,name=Requests     
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=RowCache,name=Entries
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=RowCache,name=Size
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Cache,scope=RowCache,name=Capacity
+
+####measurement = cassandraClient
+
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Client,name=connectedNativeClients
+
+####measurement = cassandraClientRequest
+
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Read,name=TotalLatency        
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Write,name=TotalLatency         
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Read,name=Latency       
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Write,name=Latency        
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Read,name=Timeouts       
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Write,name=Timeouts
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Read,name=Unavailables        
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Write,name=Unavailables         
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Read,name=Failures         
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Write,name=Failures 
+
+####measurement = cassandraCommitLog
+
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=CommitLog,name=PendingTasks        
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=CommitLog,name=TotalCommitLogSize
+
+####measurement = cassandraCompaction
+
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Compaction,name=CompletedTask
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Compaction,name=PendingTasks    
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Compaction,name=TotalCompactionsCompleted
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Compaction,name=BytesCompacted
+
+####measurement = cassandraStorage
+
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Storage,name=Load
+-  /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Storage,name=Exceptions 
+
+####measurement = cassandraTable
+Using wildcards for "keyspace" and "scope" can create a lot of series as metrics will be reported for every table and keyspace including internal system tables. Specify a keyspace name and/or a table name to limit them.
+
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=\*,scope=\*,name=LiveDiskSpaceUsed
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=\*,scope=\*,name=TotalDiskSpaceUsed
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=\*,scope=\*,name=ReadLatency
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=\*,scope=\*,name=CoordinatorReadLatency 
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=\*,scope=\*,name=WriteLatency 
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=\*,scope=\*,name=ReadTotalLatency 
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=\*,scope=\*,name=WriteTotalLatency              
+
+
+####measurement = cassandraThreadPools
+
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=internal,scope=CompactionExecutor,name=ActiveTasks          
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=internal,scope=AntiEntropyStage,name=ActiveTasks         
+-  /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=CounterMutationStage,name=PendingTasks
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=CounterMutationStage,name=CurrentlyBlockedTasks        
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=MutationStage,name=PendingTasks
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=MutationStage,name=CurrentlyBlockedTasks        
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=ReadRepairStage,name=PendingTasks
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=ReadRepairStage,name=CurrentlyBlockedTasks        
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=ReadStage,name=PendingTasks
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=ReadStage,name=CurrentlyBlockedTasks          
+-  /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=RequestResponseStage,name=PendingTasks                  
+- /org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ThreadPools,path=request,scope=RequestResponseStage,name=CurrentlyBlockedTasks 
+
+
--- a/plugins/inputs/cassandra/cassandra.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/cassandra/cassandra.go
@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+package cassandra
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+type JolokiaClient interface {
+	MakeRequest(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error)
+}
+
+type JolokiaClientImpl struct {
+	client *http.Client
+}
+
+func (c JolokiaClientImpl) MakeRequest(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	return c.client.Do(req)
+}
+
+type Cassandra struct {
+	jClient JolokiaClient
+	Context string
+	Servers []string
+	Metrics []string
+}
+
+type javaMetric struct {
+	host   string
+	metric string
+	acc    telegraf.Accumulator
+}
+
+type cassandraMetric struct {
+	host   string
+	metric string
+	acc    telegraf.Accumulator
+}
+
+type jmxMetric interface {
+	addTagsFields(out map[string]interface{})
+}
+
+func newJavaMetric(host string, metric string,
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator) *javaMetric {
+	return &javaMetric{host: host, metric: metric, acc: acc}
+}
+
+func newCassandraMetric(host string, metric string,
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator) *cassandraMetric {
+	return &cassandraMetric{host: host, metric: metric, acc: acc}
+}
+
+func addValuesAsFields(values map[string]interface{}, fields map[string]interface{},
+	mname string) {
+	for k, v := range values {
+		if v != nil {
+			fields[mname+"_"+k] = v
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func parseJmxMetricRequest(mbean string) map[string]string {
+	tokens := make(map[string]string)
+	classAndPairs := strings.Split(mbean, ":")
+	if classAndPairs[0] == "org.apache.cassandra.metrics" {
+		tokens["class"] = "cassandra"
+	} else if classAndPairs[0] == "java.lang" {
+		tokens["class"] = "java"
+	} else {
+		return tokens
+	}
+	pairs := strings.Split(classAndPairs[1], ",")
+	for _, pair := range pairs {
+		p := strings.Split(pair, "=")
+		tokens[p[0]] = p[1]
+	}
+	return tokens
+}
+
+func addTokensToTags(tokens map[string]string, tags map[string]string) {
+	for k, v := range tokens {
+		if k == "name" {
+			tags["mname"] = v // name seems to a reserved word in influxdb
+		} else if k == "class" || k == "type" {
+			continue // class and type are used in the metric name
+		} else {
+			tags[k] = v
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (j javaMetric) addTagsFields(out map[string]interface{}) {
+	tags := make(map[string]string)
+	fields := make(map[string]interface{})
+
+	a := out["request"].(map[string]interface{})
+	attribute := a["attribute"].(string)
+	mbean := a["mbean"].(string)
+
+	tokens := parseJmxMetricRequest(mbean)
+	addTokensToTags(tokens, tags)
+	tags["cassandra_host"] = j.host
+
+	if _, ok := tags["mname"]; !ok {
+		//Queries for a single value will not return a "name" tag in the response.
+		tags["mname"] = attribute
+	}
+
+	if values, ok := out["value"]; ok {
+		switch t := values.(type) {
+		case map[string]interface{}:
+			addValuesAsFields(values.(map[string]interface{}), fields, attribute)
+		case interface{}:
+			fields[attribute] = t
+		}
+		j.acc.AddFields(tokens["class"]+tokens["type"], fields, tags)
+	} else {
+		fmt.Printf("Missing key 'value' in '%s' output response\n%v\n",
+			j.metric, out)
+	}
+}
+
+func addCassandraMetric(mbean string, c cassandraMetric,
+	values map[string]interface{}) {
+
+	tags := make(map[string]string)
+	fields := make(map[string]interface{})
+	tokens := parseJmxMetricRequest(mbean)
+	addTokensToTags(tokens, tags)
+	tags["cassandra_host"] = c.host
+	addValuesAsFields(values, fields, tags["mname"])
+	c.acc.AddFields(tokens["class"]+tokens["type"], fields, tags)
+
+}
+
+func (c cassandraMetric) addTagsFields(out map[string]interface{}) {
+
+	r := out["request"]
+
+	tokens := parseJmxMetricRequest(r.(map[string]interface{})["mbean"].(string))
+	// Requests with wildcards for keyspace or table names will return nested
+	// maps in the json response
+	if tokens["type"] == "Table" && (tokens["keyspace"] == "*" ||
+		tokens["scope"] == "*") {
+		if valuesMap, ok := out["value"]; ok {
+			for k, v := range valuesMap.(map[string]interface{}) {
+				addCassandraMetric(k, c, v.(map[string]interface{}))
+			}
+		} else {
+			fmt.Printf("Missing key 'value' in '%s' output response\n%v\n",
+				c.metric, out)
+			return
+		}
+	} else {
+		if values, ok := out["value"]; ok {
+			addCassandraMetric(r.(map[string]interface{})["mbean"].(string),
+				c, values.(map[string]interface{}))
+		} else {
+			fmt.Printf("Missing key 'value' in '%s' output response\n%v\n",
+				c.metric, out)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (j *Cassandra) SampleConfig() string {
+	return `
+  # This is the context root used to compose the jolokia url
+  context = "/jolokia/read"
+  ## List of cassandra servers exposing jolokia read service
+  servers = ["myuser:mypassword@10.10.10.1:8778","10.10.10.2:8778",":8778"]
+  ## List of metrics collected on above servers
+  ## Each metric consists of a jmx path.
+  ## This will collect all heap memory usage metrics from the jvm and
+  ## ReadLatency metrics for all keyspaces and tables.
+  ## "type=Table" in the query works with Cassandra3.0. Older versions might
+  ## need to use "type=ColumnFamily"
+  metrics  = [
+    "/java.lang:type=Memory/HeapMemoryUsage",
+    "/org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=*,scope=*,name=ReadLatency"
+  ]
+`
+}
+
+func (j *Cassandra) Description() string {
+	return "Read Cassandra metrics through Jolokia"
+}
+
+func (j *Cassandra) getAttr(requestUrl *url.URL) (map[string]interface{}, error) {
+	// Create + send request
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", requestUrl.String(), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	resp, err := j.jClient.MakeRequest(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	// Process response
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		err = fmt.Errorf("Response from url \"%s\" has status code %d (%s), expected %d (%s)",
+			requestUrl,
+			resp.StatusCode,
+			http.StatusText(resp.StatusCode),
+			http.StatusOK,
+			http.StatusText(http.StatusOK))
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// read body
+	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// Unmarshal json
+	var jsonOut map[string]interface{}
+	if err = json.Unmarshal([]byte(body), &jsonOut); err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.New("Error decoding JSON response")
+	}
+
+	return jsonOut, nil
+}
+
+func parseServerTokens(server string) map[string]string {
+	serverTokens := make(map[string]string)
+
+	hostAndUser := strings.Split(server, "@")
+	hostPort := ""
+	userPasswd := ""
+	if len(hostAndUser) == 2 {
+		hostPort = hostAndUser[1]
+		userPasswd = hostAndUser[0]
+	} else {
+		hostPort = hostAndUser[0]
+	}
+	hostTokens := strings.Split(hostPort, ":")
+	serverTokens["host"] = hostTokens[0]
+	serverTokens["port"] = hostTokens[1]
+
+	if userPasswd != "" {
+		userTokens := strings.Split(userPasswd, ":")
+		serverTokens["user"] = userTokens[0]
+		serverTokens["passwd"] = userTokens[1]
+	}
+	return serverTokens
+}
+
+func (c *Cassandra) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	context := c.Context
+	servers := c.Servers
+	metrics := c.Metrics
+
+	for _, server := range servers {
+		for _, metric := range metrics {
+			serverTokens := parseServerTokens(server)
+
+			var m jmxMetric
+			if strings.HasPrefix(metric, "/java.lang:") {
+				m = newJavaMetric(serverTokens["host"], metric, acc)
+			} else if strings.HasPrefix(metric,
+				"/org.apache.cassandra.metrics:") {
+				m = newCassandraMetric(serverTokens["host"], metric, acc)
+			} else {
+				// unsupported metric type
+				log.Printf("Unsupported Cassandra metric [%s], skipping",
+					metric)
+				continue
+			}
+
+			// Prepare URL
+			requestUrl, err := url.Parse("http://" + serverTokens["host"] + ":" +
+				serverTokens["port"] + context + metric)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if serverTokens["user"] != "" && serverTokens["passwd"] != "" {
+				requestUrl.User = url.UserPassword(serverTokens["user"],
+					serverTokens["passwd"])
+			}
+			fmt.Printf("host %s url %s\n", serverTokens["host"], requestUrl)
+
+			out, err := c.getAttr(requestUrl)
+			if out["status"] != 200.0 {
+				fmt.Printf("URL returned with status %v\n", out["status"])
+				continue
+			}
+			m.addTagsFields(out)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("cassandra", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &Cassandra{jClient: &JolokiaClientImpl{client: &http.Client{}}}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/cassandra/cassandra_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/cassandra/cassandra_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,286 @@
+package cassandra
+
+import (
+	_ "fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	_ "github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+const validJavaMultiValueJSON = `
+{
+  "request":{
+    "mbean":"java.lang:type=Memory",
+    "attribute":"HeapMemoryUsage",
+    "type":"read"
+  },
+  "value":{
+    "init":67108864,
+    "committed":456130560,
+    "max":477626368,
+    "used":203288528
+  },
+  "timestamp":1446129191,
+  "status":200
+}`
+
+const validCassandraMultiValueJSON = `
+{
+	"request": {
+		"mbean": "org.apache.cassandra.metrics:keyspace=test_keyspace1,name=ReadLatency,scope=test_table,type=Table",
+		"type": "read"},
+	"status": 200,
+	"timestamp": 1458089229,
+	"value": {
+		"999thPercentile": 20.0,
+		"99thPercentile": 10.0,
+		"Count": 400,
+		"DurationUnit": "microseconds",
+		"Max": 30.0,
+		"Mean": null,
+		"MeanRate": 3.0,
+		"Min": 1.0,
+		"RateUnit": "events/second",
+		"StdDev": null
+	}
+}`
+
+const validCassandraNestedMultiValueJSON = `
+{
+	"request": {
+		"mbean": "org.apache.cassandra.metrics:keyspace=test_keyspace1,name=ReadLatency,scope=*,type=Table",
+		"type": "read"},
+    "status": 200,
+    "timestamp": 1458089184,
+    "value": {
+		"org.apache.cassandra.metrics:keyspace=test_keyspace1,name=ReadLatency,scope=test_table1,type=Table":
+		{  	"999thPercentile": 1.0,
+			"Count": 100,
+			"DurationUnit": "microseconds",
+			"OneMinuteRate": 1.0,
+			"RateUnit": "events/second",
+			"StdDev": null
+		},
+		"org.apache.cassandra.metrics:keyspace=test_keyspace2,name=ReadLatency,scope=test_table2,type=Table":
+		{  	"999thPercentile": 2.0,
+			"Count": 200,
+			"DurationUnit": "microseconds",
+			"OneMinuteRate": 2.0,
+			"RateUnit": "events/second",
+			"StdDev": null
+		}
+	}
+}`
+
+const validSingleValueJSON = `
+{
+  "request":{
+    "path":"used",
+    "mbean":"java.lang:type=Memory",
+    "attribute":"HeapMemoryUsage",
+    "type":"read"
+  },
+  "value":209274376,
+  "timestamp":1446129256,
+  "status":200
+}`
+
+const validJavaMultiTypeJSON = `
+{
+   "request":{
+	   "mbean":"java.lang:name=ConcurrentMarkSweep,type=GarbageCollector",
+	   "attribute":"CollectionCount",
+	   "type":"read"
+   },
+   "value":1,
+   "timestamp":1459316570,
+   "status":200
+}`
+
+const invalidJSON = "I don't think this is JSON"
+
+const empty = ""
+
+var Servers = []string{"10.10.10.10:8778"}
+var AuthServers = []string{"user:passwd@10.10.10.10:8778"}
+var MultipleServers = []string{"10.10.10.10:8778", "10.10.10.11:8778"}
+var HeapMetric = "/java.lang:type=Memory/HeapMemoryUsage"
+var ReadLatencyMetric = "/org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=test_keyspace1,scope=test_table,name=ReadLatency"
+var NestedReadLatencyMetric = "/org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=Table,keyspace=test_keyspace1,scope=*,name=ReadLatency"
+var GarbageCollectorMetric1 = "/java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=ConcurrentMarkSweep/CollectionCount"
+var GarbageCollectorMetric2 = "/java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=ConcurrentMarkSweep/CollectionTime"
+var Context = "/jolokia/read"
+
+type jolokiaClientStub struct {
+	responseBody string
+	statusCode   int
+}
+
+func (c jolokiaClientStub) MakeRequest(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	resp := http.Response{}
+	resp.StatusCode = c.statusCode
+	resp.Body = ioutil.NopCloser(strings.NewReader(c.responseBody))
+	return &resp, nil
+}
+
+// Generates a pointer to an HttpJson object that uses a mock HTTP client.
+// Parameters:
+//     response  : Body of the response that the mock HTTP client should return
+//     statusCode: HTTP status code the mock HTTP client should return
+//
+// Returns:
+//     *HttpJson: Pointer to an HttpJson object that uses the generated mock HTTP client
+func genJolokiaClientStub(response string, statusCode int, servers []string, metrics []string) *Cassandra {
+	return &Cassandra{
+		jClient: jolokiaClientStub{responseBody: response, statusCode: statusCode},
+		Context: Context,
+		Servers: servers,
+		Metrics: metrics,
+	}
+}
+
+// Test that the proper values are ignored or collected for class=Java
+func TestHttpJsonJavaMultiValue(t *testing.T) {
+	cassandra := genJolokiaClientStub(validJavaMultiValueJSON, 200,
+		MultipleServers, []string{HeapMetric})
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	acc.SetDebug(true)
+	err := cassandra.Gather(&acc)
+
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, len(acc.Metrics))
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"HeapMemoryUsage_init":      67108864.0,
+		"HeapMemoryUsage_committed": 456130560.0,
+		"HeapMemoryUsage_max":       477626368.0,
+		"HeapMemoryUsage_used":      203288528.0,
+	}
+	tags1 := map[string]string{
+		"cassandra_host": "10.10.10.10",
+		"mname":          "HeapMemoryUsage",
+	}
+
+	tags2 := map[string]string{
+		"cassandra_host": "10.10.10.11",
+		"mname":          "HeapMemoryUsage",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "javaMemory", fields, tags1)
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "javaMemory", fields, tags2)
+}
+
+func TestHttpJsonJavaMultiType(t *testing.T) {
+	cassandra := genJolokiaClientStub(validJavaMultiTypeJSON, 200, AuthServers, []string{GarbageCollectorMetric1, GarbageCollectorMetric2})
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	acc.SetDebug(true)
+	err := cassandra.Gather(&acc)
+
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, len(acc.Metrics))
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"CollectionCount": 1.0,
+	}
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"cassandra_host": "10.10.10.10",
+		"mname":          "ConcurrentMarkSweep",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "javaGarbageCollector", fields, tags)
+}
+
+// Test that the proper values are ignored or collected
+func TestHttpJsonOn404(t *testing.T) {
+
+	jolokia := genJolokiaClientStub(validJavaMultiValueJSON, 404, Servers,
+		[]string{HeapMetric})
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	err := jolokia.Gather(&acc)
+
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, 0, len(acc.Metrics))
+}
+
+// Test that the proper values are ignored or collected for class=Cassandra
+func TestHttpJsonCassandraMultiValue(t *testing.T) {
+	cassandra := genJolokiaClientStub(validCassandraMultiValueJSON, 200, Servers, []string{ReadLatencyMetric})
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	err := cassandra.Gather(&acc)
+
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, len(acc.Metrics))
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"ReadLatency_999thPercentile": 20.0,
+		"ReadLatency_99thPercentile":  10.0,
+		"ReadLatency_Count":           400.0,
+		"ReadLatency_DurationUnit":    "microseconds",
+		"ReadLatency_Max":             30.0,
+		"ReadLatency_MeanRate":        3.0,
+		"ReadLatency_Min":             1.0,
+		"ReadLatency_RateUnit":        "events/second",
+	}
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"cassandra_host": "10.10.10.10",
+		"mname":          "ReadLatency",
+		"keyspace":       "test_keyspace1",
+		"scope":          "test_table",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "cassandraTable", fields, tags)
+}
+
+// Test that the proper values are ignored or collected for class=Cassandra with
+// nested values
+func TestHttpJsonCassandraNestedMultiValue(t *testing.T) {
+	cassandra := genJolokiaClientStub(validCassandraNestedMultiValueJSON, 200, Servers, []string{NestedReadLatencyMetric})
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	acc.SetDebug(true)
+	err := cassandra.Gather(&acc)
+
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, len(acc.Metrics))
+
+	fields1 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"ReadLatency_999thPercentile": 1.0,
+		"ReadLatency_Count":           100.0,
+		"ReadLatency_DurationUnit":    "microseconds",
+		"ReadLatency_OneMinuteRate":   1.0,
+		"ReadLatency_RateUnit":        "events/second",
+	}
+
+	fields2 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"ReadLatency_999thPercentile": 2.0,
+		"ReadLatency_Count":           200.0,
+		"ReadLatency_DurationUnit":    "microseconds",
+		"ReadLatency_OneMinuteRate":   2.0,
+		"ReadLatency_RateUnit":        "events/second",
+	}
+
+	tags1 := map[string]string{
+		"cassandra_host": "10.10.10.10",
+		"mname":          "ReadLatency",
+		"keyspace":       "test_keyspace1",
+		"scope":          "test_table1",
+	}
+
+	tags2 := map[string]string{
+		"cassandra_host": "10.10.10.10",
+		"mname":          "ReadLatency",
+		"keyspace":       "test_keyspace2",
+		"scope":          "test_table2",
+	}
+
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "cassandraTable", fields1, tags1)
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "cassandraTable", fields2, tags2)
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+# Amazon CloudWatch Statistics Input
+
+This plugin will pull Metric Statistics from Amazon CloudWatch.
+
+### Amazon Authentication
+
+This plugin uses a credential chain for Authentication with the CloudWatch
+API endpoint. In the following order the plugin will attempt to authenticate.
+1. [IAMS Role](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html)
+2. [Environment Variables](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/wiki/configuring-sdk#environment-variables)
+3. [Shared Credentials](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/wiki/configuring-sdk#shared-credentials-file)
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[inputs.cloudwatch]]
+  ## Amazon Region (required)
+  region = 'us-east-1'
+
+  ## Requested CloudWatch aggregation Period (required - must be a multiple of 60s)
+  period = '1m'
+
+  ## Collection Delay (required - must account for metrics availability via CloudWatch API)
+  delay = '1m'
+
+  ## Override global run interval (optional - defaults to global interval)
+  ## Recomended: use metric 'interval' that is a multiple of 'period' to avoid 
+  ## gaps or overlap in pulled data
+  interval = '1m'
+
+  ## Metric Statistic Namespace (required)
+  namespace = 'AWS/ELB'
+
+  ## Metrics to Pull (optional)
+  ## Defaults to all Metrics in Namespace if nothing is provided
+  ## Refreshes Namespace available metrics every 1h
+  [[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics]]
+    names = ['Latency', 'RequestCount']
+	
+    ## Dimension filters for Metric (optional)
+    [[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics.dimensions]]
+      name = 'LoadBalancerName'
+      value = 'p-example'
+```
+#### Requirements and Terminology
+
+Plugin Configuration utilizes [CloudWatch concepts](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html) and access pattern to allow monitoring of any CloudWatch Metric.
+
+- `region` must be a valid AWS [Region](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#CloudWatchRegions) value
+- `period` must be a valid CloudWatch [Period](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#CloudWatchPeriods) value
+- `namespace` must be a valid CloudWatch [Namespace](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#Namespace) value
+- `names` must be valid CloudWatch [Metric](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#Metric) names
+- `dimensions` must be valid CloudWatch [Dimension](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_concepts.html#Dimension) name/value pairs
+
+#### Restrictions and Limitations
+- CloudWatch metrics are not available instantly via the CloudWatch API. You should adjust your collection `delay` to account for this lag in metrics availability based on your [monitoring subscription level](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-cloudwatch-new.html)
+- CloudWatch API usage incurs cost - see [GetMetricStatistics Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/)
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+Each CloudWatch Namespace monitored records a measurement with fields for each available Metric Statistic
+Namespace and Metrics are represented in [snake case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_case)
+
+- cloudwatch_{namespace}
+  - {metric}_sum         (metric Sum value)
+  - {metric}_average     (metric Average value)
+  - {metric}_minimum     (metric Minimum value)
+  - {metric}_maximum     (metric Maximum value)
+  - {metric}_sample_count (metric SampleCount value)
+
+
+### Tags:
+Each measurement is tagged with the following identifiers to uniquely identify the associated metric
+Tag Dimension names are represented in [snake case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_case)
+
+- All measurements have the following tags:
+  - region           (CloudWatch Region)
+  - unit             (CloudWatch Metric Unit)
+  - {dimension-name} (Cloudwatch Dimension value - one for each metric dimension)
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+$ ./telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter cloudwatch -test
+> cloudwatch_aws_elb,load_balancer_name=p-example,region=us-east-1,unit=seconds latency_average=0.004810798017284538,latency_maximum=0.1100282669067383,latency_minimum=0.0006084442138671875,latency_sample_count=4029,latency_sum=19.382705211639404 1459542420000000000
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go
@@ -0,0 +1,311 @@
+package cloudwatch
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/cloudwatch"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+)
+
+type (
+	CloudWatch struct {
+		Region      string            `toml:"region"`
+		AccessKey   string            `toml:"access_key"`
+		SecretKey   string            `toml:"secret_key"`
+		Period      internal.Duration `toml:"period"`
+		Delay       internal.Duration `toml:"delay"`
+		Namespace   string            `toml:"namespace"`
+		Metrics     []*Metric         `toml:"metrics"`
+		client      cloudwatchClient
+		metricCache *MetricCache
+	}
+
+	Metric struct {
+		MetricNames []string     `toml:"names"`
+		Dimensions  []*Dimension `toml:"dimensions"`
+	}
+
+	Dimension struct {
+		Name  string `toml:"name"`
+		Value string `toml:"value"`
+	}
+
+	MetricCache struct {
+		TTL     time.Duration
+		Fetched time.Time
+		Metrics []*cloudwatch.Metric
+	}
+
+	cloudwatchClient interface {
+		ListMetrics(*cloudwatch.ListMetricsInput) (*cloudwatch.ListMetricsOutput, error)
+		GetMetricStatistics(*cloudwatch.GetMetricStatisticsInput) (*cloudwatch.GetMetricStatisticsOutput, error)
+	}
+)
+
+func (c *CloudWatch) SampleConfig() string {
+	return `
+  ## Amazon Region
+  region = 'us-east-1'
+
+  ## Amazon Credentials
+  ## Credentials are loaded in the following order
+  ## 1) explicit credentials from 'access_key' and 'secret_key'
+  ## 2) environment variables
+  ## 3) shared credentials file
+  ## 4) EC2 Instance Profile
+  #access_key = ""
+  #secret_key = ""
+
+  ## Requested CloudWatch aggregation Period (required - must be a multiple of 60s)
+  period = '1m'
+
+  ## Collection Delay (required - must account for metrics availability via CloudWatch API)
+  delay = '1m'
+
+  ## Recomended: use metric 'interval' that is a multiple of 'period' to avoid
+  ## gaps or overlap in pulled data
+  interval = '1m'
+
+  ## Metric Statistic Namespace (required)
+  namespace = 'AWS/ELB'
+
+  ## Metrics to Pull (optional)
+  ## Defaults to all Metrics in Namespace if nothing is provided
+  ## Refreshes Namespace available metrics every 1h
+  #[[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics]]
+  #  names = ['Latency', 'RequestCount']
+  #
+  #  ## Dimension filters for Metric (optional)
+  #  [[inputs.cloudwatch.metrics.dimensions]]
+  #    name = 'LoadBalancerName'
+  #    value = 'p-example'
+`
+}
+
+func (c *CloudWatch) Description() string {
+	return "Pull Metric Statistics from Amazon CloudWatch"
+}
+
+func (c *CloudWatch) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	if c.client == nil {
+		c.initializeCloudWatch()
+	}
+
+	var metrics []*cloudwatch.Metric
+
+	// check for provided metric filter
+	if c.Metrics != nil {
+		metrics = []*cloudwatch.Metric{}
+		for _, m := range c.Metrics {
+			dimensions := make([]*cloudwatch.Dimension, len(m.Dimensions))
+			for k, d := range m.Dimensions {
+				dimensions[k] = &cloudwatch.Dimension{
+					Name:  aws.String(d.Name),
+					Value: aws.String(d.Value),
+				}
+			}
+			for _, name := range m.MetricNames {
+				metrics = append(metrics, &cloudwatch.Metric{
+					Namespace:  aws.String(c.Namespace),
+					MetricName: aws.String(name),
+					Dimensions: dimensions,
+				})
+			}
+		}
+	} else {
+		var err error
+		metrics, err = c.fetchNamespaceMetrics()
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	metricCount := len(metrics)
+	var errChan = make(chan error, metricCount)
+
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	// limit concurrency or we can easily exhaust user connection limit
+	semaphore := make(chan byte, 64)
+
+	for _, m := range metrics {
+		semaphore <- 0x1
+		go c.gatherMetric(acc, m, now, semaphore, errChan)
+	}
+
+	for i := 1; i <= metricCount; i++ {
+		err := <-errChan
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("cloudwatch", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &CloudWatch{}
+	})
+}
+
+/*
+ * Initialize CloudWatch client
+ */
+func (c *CloudWatch) initializeCloudWatch() error {
+	config := &aws.Config{
+		Region: aws.String(c.Region),
+	}
+	if c.AccessKey != "" || c.SecretKey != "" {
+		config.Credentials = credentials.NewStaticCredentials(c.AccessKey, c.SecretKey, "")
+	}
+
+	c.client = cloudwatch.New(session.New(config))
+	return nil
+}
+
+/*
+ * Fetch available metrics for given CloudWatch Namespace
+ */
+func (c *CloudWatch) fetchNamespaceMetrics() (metrics []*cloudwatch.Metric, err error) {
+	if c.metricCache != nil && c.metricCache.IsValid() {
+		metrics = c.metricCache.Metrics
+		return
+	}
+
+	metrics = []*cloudwatch.Metric{}
+
+	var token *string
+	for more := true; more; {
+		params := &cloudwatch.ListMetricsInput{
+			Namespace:  aws.String(c.Namespace),
+			Dimensions: []*cloudwatch.DimensionFilter{},
+			NextToken:  token,
+			MetricName: nil,
+		}
+
+		resp, err := c.client.ListMetrics(params)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		metrics = append(metrics, resp.Metrics...)
+
+		token = resp.NextToken
+		more = token != nil
+	}
+
+	cacheTTL, _ := time.ParseDuration("1hr")
+	c.metricCache = &MetricCache{
+		Metrics: metrics,
+		Fetched: time.Now(),
+		TTL:     cacheTTL,
+	}
+
+	return
+}
+
+/*
+ * Gather given Metric and emit any error
+ */
+func (c *CloudWatch) gatherMetric(acc telegraf.Accumulator, metric *cloudwatch.Metric, now time.Time, semaphore chan byte, errChan chan error) {
+	params := c.getStatisticsInput(metric, now)
+	resp, err := c.client.GetMetricStatistics(params)
+	if err != nil {
+		errChan <- err
+		<-semaphore
+		return
+	}
+
+	for _, point := range resp.Datapoints {
+		tags := map[string]string{
+			"region": c.Region,
+			"unit":   snakeCase(*point.Unit),
+		}
+
+		for _, d := range metric.Dimensions {
+			tags[snakeCase(*d.Name)] = *d.Value
+		}
+
+		// record field for each statistic
+		fields := map[string]interface{}{}
+
+		if point.Average != nil {
+			fields[formatField(*metric.MetricName, cloudwatch.StatisticAverage)] = *point.Average
+		}
+		if point.Maximum != nil {
+			fields[formatField(*metric.MetricName, cloudwatch.StatisticMaximum)] = *point.Maximum
+		}
+		if point.Minimum != nil {
+			fields[formatField(*metric.MetricName, cloudwatch.StatisticMinimum)] = *point.Minimum
+		}
+		if point.SampleCount != nil {
+			fields[formatField(*metric.MetricName, cloudwatch.StatisticSampleCount)] = *point.SampleCount
+		}
+		if point.Sum != nil {
+			fields[formatField(*metric.MetricName, cloudwatch.StatisticSum)] = *point.Sum
+		}
+
+		acc.AddFields(formatMeasurement(c.Namespace), fields, tags, *point.Timestamp)
+	}
+
+	errChan <- nil
+	<-semaphore
+}
+
+/*
+ * Formatting helpers
+ */
+func formatField(metricName string, statistic string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%s_%s", snakeCase(metricName), snakeCase(statistic))
+}
+
+func formatMeasurement(namespace string) string {
+	namespace = strings.Replace(namespace, "/", "_", -1)
+	namespace = snakeCase(namespace)
+	return fmt.Sprintf("cloudwatch_%s", namespace)
+}
+
+func snakeCase(s string) string {
+	s = internal.SnakeCase(s)
+	s = strings.Replace(s, "__", "_", -1)
+	return s
+}
+
+/*
+ * Map Metric to *cloudwatch.GetMetricStatisticsInput for given timeframe
+ */
+func (c *CloudWatch) getStatisticsInput(metric *cloudwatch.Metric, now time.Time) *cloudwatch.GetMetricStatisticsInput {
+	end := now.Add(-c.Delay.Duration)
+
+	input := &cloudwatch.GetMetricStatisticsInput{
+		StartTime:  aws.Time(end.Add(-c.Period.Duration)),
+		EndTime:    aws.Time(end),
+		MetricName: metric.MetricName,
+		Namespace:  metric.Namespace,
+		Period:     aws.Int64(int64(c.Period.Duration.Seconds())),
+		Dimensions: metric.Dimensions,
+		Statistics: []*string{
+			aws.String(cloudwatch.StatisticAverage),
+			aws.String(cloudwatch.StatisticMaximum),
+			aws.String(cloudwatch.StatisticMinimum),
+			aws.String(cloudwatch.StatisticSum),
+			aws.String(cloudwatch.StatisticSampleCount)},
+	}
+	return input
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check Metric Cache validity
+ */
+func (c *MetricCache) IsValid() bool {
+	return c.Metrics != nil && time.Since(c.Fetched) < c.TTL
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/cloudwatch/cloudwatch_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+package cloudwatch
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/cloudwatch"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+type mockCloudWatchClient struct{}
+
+func (m *mockCloudWatchClient) ListMetrics(params *cloudwatch.ListMetricsInput) (*cloudwatch.ListMetricsOutput, error) {
+	metric := &cloudwatch.Metric{
+		Namespace:  params.Namespace,
+		MetricName: aws.String("Latency"),
+		Dimensions: []*cloudwatch.Dimension{
+			&cloudwatch.Dimension{
+				Name:  aws.String("LoadBalancerName"),
+				Value: aws.String("p-example"),
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	result := &cloudwatch.ListMetricsOutput{
+		Metrics: []*cloudwatch.Metric{metric},
+	}
+	return result, nil
+}
+
+func (m *mockCloudWatchClient) GetMetricStatistics(params *cloudwatch.GetMetricStatisticsInput) (*cloudwatch.GetMetricStatisticsOutput, error) {
+	dataPoint := &cloudwatch.Datapoint{
+		Timestamp:   params.EndTime,
+		Minimum:     aws.Float64(0.1),
+		Maximum:     aws.Float64(0.3),
+		Average:     aws.Float64(0.2),
+		Sum:         aws.Float64(123),
+		SampleCount: aws.Float64(100),
+		Unit:        aws.String("Seconds"),
+	}
+	result := &cloudwatch.GetMetricStatisticsOutput{
+		Label:      aws.String("Latency"),
+		Datapoints: []*cloudwatch.Datapoint{dataPoint},
+	}
+	return result, nil
+}
+
+func TestGather(t *testing.T) {
+	duration, _ := time.ParseDuration("1m")
+	internalDuration := internal.Duration{
+		Duration: duration,
+	}
+	c := &CloudWatch{
+		Region:    "us-east-1",
+		Namespace: "AWS/ELB",
+		Delay:     internalDuration,
+		Period:    internalDuration,
+	}
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	c.client = &mockCloudWatchClient{}
+
+	c.Gather(&acc)
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{}
+	fields["latency_minimum"] = 0.1
+	fields["latency_maximum"] = 0.3
+	fields["latency_average"] = 0.2
+	fields["latency_sum"] = 123.0
+	fields["latency_sample_count"] = 100.0
+
+	tags := map[string]string{}
+	tags["unit"] = "seconds"
+	tags["region"] = "us-east-1"
+	tags["load_balancer_name"] = "p-example"
+
+	assert.True(t, acc.HasMeasurement("cloudwatch_aws_elb"))
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "cloudwatch_aws_elb", fields, tags)
+
+}
+
+func TestGenerateStatisticsInputParams(t *testing.T) {
+	d := &cloudwatch.Dimension{
+		Name:  aws.String("LoadBalancerName"),
+		Value: aws.String("p-example"),
+	}
+
+	m := &cloudwatch.Metric{
+		MetricName: aws.String("Latency"),
+		Dimensions: []*cloudwatch.Dimension{d},
+	}
+
+	duration, _ := time.ParseDuration("1m")
+	internalDuration := internal.Duration{
+		Duration: duration,
+	}
+
+	c := &CloudWatch{
+		Namespace: "AWS/ELB",
+		Delay:     internalDuration,
+		Period:    internalDuration,
+	}
+
+	c.initializeCloudWatch()
+
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	params := c.getStatisticsInput(m, now)
+
+	assert.EqualValues(t, *params.EndTime, now.Add(-c.Delay.Duration))
+	assert.EqualValues(t, *params.StartTime, now.Add(-c.Period.Duration).Add(-c.Delay.Duration))
+	assert.Len(t, params.Dimensions, 1)
+	assert.Len(t, params.Statistics, 5)
+	assert.EqualValues(t, *params.Period, 60)
+}
+
+func TestMetricsCacheTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	ttl, _ := time.ParseDuration("5ms")
+	cache := &MetricCache{
+		Metrics: []*cloudwatch.Metric{},
+		Fetched: time.Now(),
+		TTL:     ttl,
+	}
+
+	assert.True(t, cache.IsValid())
+	time.Sleep(ttl)
+	assert.False(t, cache.IsValid())
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/couchbase/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/couchbase/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+# Telegraf Plugin: Couchbase
+
+## Configuration:
+
+```
+# Read per-node and per-bucket metrics from Couchbase
+[[inputs.couchbase]]
+  ## specify servers via a url matching:
+  ##  [protocol://][:password]@address[:port]
+  ##  e.g.
+  ##    http://couchbase-0.example.com/
+  ##    http://admin:secret@couchbase-0.example.com:8091/
+  ##
+  ## If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
+  ## If no protocol is specifed, HTTP is used.
+  ## If no port is specified, 8091 is used.
+  servers = ["http://localhost:8091"]
+```
+
+## Measurements:
+
+### couchbase_node
+
+Tags:
+- cluster: whatever you called it in `servers` in the configuration, e.g.: `http://couchbase-0.example.com/`
+- hostname: Couchbase's name for the node and port, e.g., `172.16.10.187:8091`
+
+Fields:
+- memory_free (unit: bytes, example: 23181365248.0)
+- memory_total (unit: bytes, example: 64424656896.0)
+
+### couchbase_bucket
+
+Tags:
+- cluster: whatever you called it in `servers` in the configuration, e.g.: `http://couchbase-0.example.com/`)
+- bucket: the name of the couchbase bucket, e.g., `blastro-df`
+
+Fields:
+- quota_percent_used (unit: percent, example: 68.85424936294555)
+- ops_per_sec (unit: count, example: 5686.789686789687)
+- disk_fetches (unit: count, example: 0.0)
+- item_count (unit: count, example: 943239752.0)
+- disk_used (unit: bytes, example: 409178772321.0)
+- data_used (unit: bytes, example: 212179309111.0)
+- mem_used (unit: bytes, example: 202156957464.0)
+
+
+## Example output
+
+```
+$ telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter couchbase -test
+* Plugin: couchbase, Collection 1
+> couchbase_node,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/,hostname=172.16.10.187:8091 memory_free=22927384576,memory_total=64424656896 1458381183695864929
+> couchbase_node,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/,hostname=172.16.10.65:8091 memory_free=23520161792,memory_total=64424656896 1458381183695972112
+> couchbase_node,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/,hostname=172.16.13.105:8091 memory_free=23531704320,memory_total=64424656896 1458381183695995259
+> couchbase_node,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/,hostname=172.16.13.173:8091 memory_free=23628767232,memory_total=64424656896 1458381183696010870
+> couchbase_node,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/,hostname=172.16.15.120:8091 memory_free=23616692224,memory_total=64424656896 1458381183696027406
+> couchbase_node,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/,hostname=172.16.8.127:8091 memory_free=23431770112,memory_total=64424656896 1458381183696041040
+> couchbase_node,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/,hostname=172.16.8.148:8091 memory_free=23811371008,memory_total=64424656896 1458381183696059060
+> couchbase_bucket,bucket=default,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/ data_used=25743360,disk_fetches=0,disk_used=31744886,item_count=0,mem_used=77729224,ops_per_sec=0,quota_percent_used=10.58976636614118 1458381183696210074
+> couchbase_bucket,bucket=demoncat,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/ data_used=38157584951,disk_fetches=0,disk_used=62730302441,item_count=14662532,mem_used=24015304256,ops_per_sec=1207.753207753208,quota_percent_used=79.87855353525707 1458381183696242695
+> couchbase_bucket,bucket=blastro-df,cluster=https://couchbase-0.example.com/ data_used=212552491622,disk_fetches=0,disk_used=413323157621,item_count=944655680,mem_used=202421103760,ops_per_sec=1692.176692176692,quota_percent_used=68.9442170551845 1458381183696272206
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/couchbase/couchbase.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/couchbase/couchbase.go
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+package couchbase
+
+import (
+	couchbase "github.com/couchbase/go-couchbase"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+type Couchbase struct {
+	Servers []string
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## specify servers via a url matching:
+  ##  [protocol://][:password]@address[:port]
+  ##  e.g.
+  ##    http://couchbase-0.example.com/
+  ##    http://admin:secret@couchbase-0.example.com:8091/
+  ##
+  ## If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
+  ## If no protocol is specifed, HTTP is used.
+  ## If no port is specified, 8091 is used.
+  servers = ["http://localhost:8091"]
+`
+
+func (r *Couchbase) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (r *Couchbase) Description() string {
+	return "Read metrics from one or many couchbase clusters"
+}
+
+// Reads stats from all configured clusters. Accumulates stats.
+// Returns one of the errors encountered while gathering stats (if any).
+func (r *Couchbase) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	if len(r.Servers) == 0 {
+		r.gatherServer("http://localhost:8091/", acc, nil)
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+
+	var outerr error
+
+	for _, serv := range r.Servers {
+		wg.Add(1)
+		go func(serv string) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			outerr = r.gatherServer(serv, acc, nil)
+		}(serv)
+	}
+
+	wg.Wait()
+
+	return outerr
+}
+
+func (r *Couchbase) gatherServer(addr string, acc telegraf.Accumulator, pool *couchbase.Pool) error {
+	if pool == nil {
+		client, err := couchbase.Connect(addr)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		// `default` is the only possible pool name. It's a
+		// placeholder for a possible future Couchbase feature. See
+		// http://stackoverflow.com/a/16990911/17498.
+		p, err := client.GetPool("default")
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		pool = &p
+	}
+	for i := 0; i < len(pool.Nodes); i++ {
+		node := pool.Nodes[i]
+		tags := map[string]string{"cluster": addr, "hostname": node.Hostname}
+		fields := make(map[string]interface{})
+		fields["memory_free"] = node.MemoryFree
+		fields["memory_total"] = node.MemoryTotal
+		acc.AddFields("couchbase_node", fields, tags)
+	}
+	for bucketName, _ := range pool.BucketMap {
+		tags := map[string]string{"cluster": addr, "bucket": bucketName}
+		bs := pool.BucketMap[bucketName].BasicStats
+		fields := make(map[string]interface{})
+		fields["quota_percent_used"] = bs["quotaPercentUsed"]
+		fields["ops_per_sec"] = bs["opsPerSec"]
+		fields["disk_fetches"] = bs["diskFetches"]
+		fields["item_count"] = bs["itemCount"]
+		fields["disk_used"] = bs["diskUsed"]
+		fields["data_used"] = bs["dataUsed"]
+		fields["mem_used"] = bs["memUsed"]
+		acc.AddFields("couchbase_bucket", fields, tags)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("couchbase", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &Couchbase{}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/couchbase/couchbase_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/couchbase/couchbase_test.go
--- a/plugins/inputs/couchdb/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/couchdb/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
+# CouchDB Input Plugin
+---
+
+The CouchDB plugin gathers metrics of CouchDB using [_stats](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/1.6.1/api/server/common.html?highlight=stats#get--_stats) endpoint.
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```
+# Sample Config:
+[[inputs.couchdb]]
+  hosts = ["http://localhost:5984/_stats"]
+```
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+Statistics specific to the internals of CouchDB:
+
+- couchdb_auth_cache_misses
+- couchdb_database_writes
+- couchdb_open_databases
+- couchdb_auth_cache_hits
+- couchdb_request_time
+- couchdb_database_reads
+- couchdb_open_os_files
+
+Statistics of HTTP requests by method:
+
+- httpd_request_methods_put
+- httpd_request_methods_get
+- httpd_request_methods_copy
+- httpd_request_methods_delete
+- httpd_request_methods_post
+- httpd_request_methods_head
+
+Statistics of HTTP requests by response code:
+
+- httpd_status_codes_200
+- httpd_status_codes_201
+- httpd_status_codes_202
+- httpd_status_codes_301
+- httpd_status_codes_304
+- httpd_status_codes_400
+- httpd_status_codes_401
+- httpd_status_codes_403
+- httpd_status_codes_404
+- httpd_status_codes_405
+- httpd_status_codes_409
+- httpd_status_codes_412
+- httpd_status_codes_500
+
+httpd statistics:
+
+- httpd_clients_requesting_changes
+- httpd_temporary_view_reads
+- httpd_requests
+- httpd_bulk_requests
+- httpd_view_reads
+
+### Tags:
+
+- server (url of the couchdb _stats endpoint)
+
+### Example output:
+
+```
+➜  telegraf git:(master) ✗ ./telegraf -config ./config.conf  -input-filter couchdb -test
+* Plugin: couchdb,
+ Collection 1
+> couchdb,server=http://localhost:5984/_stats couchdb_auth_cache_hits_current=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_hits_max=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_hits_mean=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_hits_min=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_hits_stddev=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_hits_sum=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_misses_current=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_misses_max=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_misses_mean=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_misses_min=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_misses_stddev=0,
+couchdb_auth_cache_misses_sum=0,
+couchdb_database_reads_current=0,
+couchdb_database_reads_max=0,
+couchdb_database_reads_mean=0,
+couchdb_database_reads_min=0,
+couchdb_database_reads_stddev=0,
+couchdb_database_reads_sum=0,
+couchdb_database_writes_current=1102,
+couchdb_database_writes_max=131,
+couchdb_database_writes_mean=0.116,
+couchdb_database_writes_min=0,
+couchdb_database_writes_stddev=3.536,
+couchdb_database_writes_sum=1102,
+couchdb_open_databases_current=1,
+couchdb_open_databases_max=1,
+couchdb_open_databases_mean=0,
+couchdb_open_databases_min=0,
+couchdb_open_databases_stddev=0.01,
+couchdb_open_databases_sum=1,
+couchdb_open_os_files_current=2,
+couchdb_open_os_files_max=2,
+couchdb_open_os_files_mean=0,
+couchdb_open_os_files_min=0,
+couchdb_open_os_files_stddev=0.02,
+couchdb_open_os_files_sum=2,
+couchdb_request_time_current=242.21,
+couchdb_request_time_max=102,
+couchdb_request_time_mean=5.767,
+couchdb_request_time_min=1,
+couchdb_request_time_stddev=17.369,
+couchdb_request_time_sum=242.21,
+httpd_bulk_requests_current=0,
+httpd_bulk_requests_max=0,
+httpd_bulk_requests_mean=0,
+httpd_bulk_requests_min=0,
+httpd_bulk_requests_stddev=0,
+httpd_bulk_requests_sum=0,
+httpd_clients_requesting_changes_current=0,
+httpd_clients_requesting_changes_max=0,
+httpd_clients_requesting_changes_mean=0,
+httpd_clients_requesting_changes_min=0,
+httpd_clients_requesting_changes_stddev=0,
+httpd_clients_requesting_changes_sum=0,
+httpd_request_methods_copy_current=0,
+httpd_request_methods_copy_max=0,
+httpd_request_methods_copy_mean=0,
+httpd_request_methods_copy_min=0,
+httpd_request_methods_copy_stddev=0,
+httpd_request_methods_copy_sum=0,
+httpd_request_methods_delete_current=0,
+httpd_request_methods_delete_max=0,
+httpd_request_methods_delete_mean=0,
+httpd_request_methods_delete_min=0,
+httpd_request_methods_delete_stddev=0,
+httpd_request_methods_delete_sum=0,
+httpd_request_methods_get_current=31,
+httpd_request_methods_get_max=1,
+httpd_request_methods_get_mean=0.003,
+httpd_request_methods_get_min=0,
+httpd_request_methods_get_stddev=0.057,
+httpd_request_methods_get_sum=31,
+httpd_request_methods_head_current=0,
+httpd_request_methods_head_max=0,
+httpd_request_methods_head_mean=0,
+httpd_request_methods_head_min=0,
+httpd_request_methods_head_stddev=0,
+httpd_request_methods_head_sum=0,
+httpd_request_methods_post_current=1102,
+httpd_request_methods_post_max=131,
+httpd_request_methods_post_mean=0.116,
+httpd_request_methods_post_min=0,
+httpd_request_methods_post_stddev=3.536,
+httpd_request_methods_post_sum=1102,
+httpd_request_methods_put_current=1,
+httpd_request_methods_put_max=1,
+httpd_request_methods_put_mean=0,
+httpd_request_methods_put_min=0,
+httpd_request_methods_put_stddev=0.01,
+httpd_request_methods_put_sum=1,
+httpd_requests_current=1133,
+httpd_requests_max=130,
+httpd_requests_mean=0.118,
+httpd_requests_min=0,
+httpd_requests_stddev=3.512,
+httpd_requests_sum=1133,
+httpd_status_codes_200_current=31,
+httpd_status_codes_200_max=1,
+httpd_status_codes_200_mean=0.003,
+httpd_status_codes_200_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_200_stddev=0.057,
+httpd_status_codes_200_sum=31,
+httpd_status_codes_201_current=1103,
+httpd_status_codes_201_max=130,
+httpd_status_codes_201_mean=0.116,
+httpd_status_codes_201_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_201_stddev=3.532,
+httpd_status_codes_201_sum=1103,
+httpd_status_codes_202_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_202_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_202_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_202_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_202_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_202_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_301_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_301_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_301_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_301_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_301_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_301_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_304_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_304_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_304_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_304_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_304_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_304_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_400_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_400_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_400_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_400_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_400_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_400_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_401_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_401_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_401_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_401_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_401_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_401_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_403_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_403_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_403_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_403_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_403_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_403_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_404_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_404_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_404_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_404_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_404_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_404_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_405_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_405_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_405_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_405_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_405_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_405_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_409_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_409_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_409_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_409_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_409_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_409_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_412_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_412_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_412_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_412_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_412_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_412_sum=0,
+httpd_status_codes_500_current=0,
+httpd_status_codes_500_max=0,
+httpd_status_codes_500_mean=0,
+httpd_status_codes_500_min=0,
+httpd_status_codes_500_stddev=0,
+httpd_status_codes_500_sum=0,
+httpd_temporary_view_reads_current=0,
+httpd_temporary_view_reads_max=0,
+httpd_temporary_view_reads_mean=0,
+httpd_temporary_view_reads_min=0,
+httpd_temporary_view_reads_stddev=0,
+httpd_temporary_view_reads_sum=0,
+httpd_view_reads_current=0,
+httpd_view_reads_max=0,
+httpd_view_reads_mean=0,
+httpd_view_reads_min=0,
+httpd_view_reads_stddev=0,
+httpd_view_reads_sum=0 1454692257621938169
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/couchdb/couchdb.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/couchdb/couchdb.go
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+package couchdb
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"net/http"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// Schema:
+type metaData struct {
+	Description string  `json:"description"`
+	Current     float64 `json:"current"`
+	Sum         float64 `json:"sum"`
+	Mean        float64 `json:"mean"`
+	Stddev      float64 `json:"stddev"`
+	Min         float64 `json:"min"`
+	Max         float64 `json:"max"`
+}
+
+type Stats struct {
+	Couchdb struct {
+		AuthCacheMisses metaData `json:"auth_cache_misses"`
+		DatabaseWrites  metaData `json:"database_writes"`
+		OpenDatabases   metaData `json:"open_databases"`
+		AuthCacheHits   metaData `json:"auth_cache_hits"`
+		RequestTime     metaData `json:"request_time"`
+		DatabaseReads   metaData `json:"database_reads"`
+		OpenOsFiles     metaData `json:"open_os_files"`
+	} `json:"couchdb"`
+	HttpdRequestMethods struct {
+		Put    metaData `json:"PUT"`
+		Get    metaData `json:"GET"`
+		Copy   metaData `json:"COPY"`
+		Delete metaData `json:"DELETE"`
+		Post   metaData `json:"POST"`
+		Head   metaData `json:"HEAD"`
+	} `json:"httpd_request_methods"`
+	HttpdStatusCodes struct {
+		Status200 metaData `json:"200"`
+		Status201 metaData `json:"201"`
+		Status202 metaData `json:"202"`
+		Status301 metaData `json:"301"`
+		Status304 metaData `json:"304"`
+		Status400 metaData `json:"400"`
+		Status401 metaData `json:"401"`
+		Status403 metaData `json:"403"`
+		Status404 metaData `json:"404"`
+		Status405 metaData `json:"405"`
+		Status409 metaData `json:"409"`
+		Status412 metaData `json:"412"`
+		Status500 metaData `json:"500"`
+	} `json:"httpd_status_codes"`
+	Httpd struct {
+		ClientsRequestingChanges metaData `json:"clients_requesting_changes"`
+		TemporaryViewReads       metaData `json:"temporary_view_reads"`
+		Requests                 metaData `json:"requests"`
+		BulkRequests             metaData `json:"bulk_requests"`
+		ViewReads                metaData `json:"view_reads"`
+	} `json:"httpd"`
+}
+
+type CouchDB struct {
+	HOSTs []string `toml:"hosts"`
+}
+
+func (*CouchDB) Description() string {
+	return "Read CouchDB Stats from one or more servers"
+}
+
+func (*CouchDB) SampleConfig() string {
+	return `
+  ## Works with CouchDB stats endpoints out of the box
+  ## Multiple HOSTs from which to read CouchDB stats:
+  hosts = ["http://localhost:8086/_stats"]
+`
+}
+
+func (c *CouchDB) Gather(accumulator telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	errorChannel := make(chan error, len(c.HOSTs))
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	for _, u := range c.HOSTs {
+		wg.Add(1)
+		go func(host string) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			if err := c.fetchAndInsertData(accumulator, host); err != nil {
+				errorChannel <- fmt.Errorf("[host=%s]: %s", host, err)
+			}
+		}(u)
+	}
+
+	wg.Wait()
+	close(errorChannel)
+
+	// If there weren't any errors, we can return nil now.
+	if len(errorChannel) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// There were errors, so join them all together as one big error.
+	errorStrings := make([]string, 0, len(errorChannel))
+	for err := range errorChannel {
+		errorStrings = append(errorStrings, err.Error())
+	}
+
+	return errors.New(strings.Join(errorStrings, "\n"))
+
+}
+
+var tr = &http.Transport{
+	ResponseHeaderTimeout: time.Duration(3 * time.Second),
+}
+
+var client = &http.Client{
+	Transport: tr,
+	Timeout:   time.Duration(4 * time.Second),
+}
+
+func (c *CouchDB) fetchAndInsertData(accumulator telegraf.Accumulator, host string) error {
+
+	response, error := client.Get(host)
+	if error != nil {
+		return error
+	}
+	defer response.Body.Close()
+
+	var stats Stats
+	decoder := json.NewDecoder(response.Body)
+	decoder.Decode(&stats)
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{}
+
+	// CouchDB meta stats:
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("couchdb_auth_cache_misses", stats.Couchdb.AuthCacheMisses))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("couchdb_database_writes", stats.Couchdb.DatabaseWrites))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("couchdb_open_databases", stats.Couchdb.OpenDatabases))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("couchdb_auth_cache_hits", stats.Couchdb.AuthCacheHits))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("couchdb_request_time", stats.Couchdb.RequestTime))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("couchdb_database_reads", stats.Couchdb.DatabaseReads))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("couchdb_open_os_files", stats.Couchdb.OpenOsFiles))
+
+	// http request methods stats:
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_request_methods_put", stats.HttpdRequestMethods.Put))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_request_methods_get", stats.HttpdRequestMethods.Get))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_request_methods_copy", stats.HttpdRequestMethods.Copy))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_request_methods_delete", stats.HttpdRequestMethods.Delete))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_request_methods_post", stats.HttpdRequestMethods.Post))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_request_methods_head", stats.HttpdRequestMethods.Head))
+
+	// status code stats:
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_200", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status200))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_201", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status201))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_202", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status202))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_301", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status301))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_304", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status304))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_400", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status400))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_401", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status401))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_403", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status403))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_404", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status404))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_405", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status405))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_409", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status409))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_412", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status412))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_status_codes_500", stats.HttpdStatusCodes.Status500))
+
+	// httpd stats:
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_clients_requesting_changes", stats.Httpd.ClientsRequestingChanges))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_temporary_view_reads", stats.Httpd.TemporaryViewReads))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_requests", stats.Httpd.Requests))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_bulk_requests", stats.Httpd.BulkRequests))
+	c.MapCopy(fields, c.generateFields("httpd_view_reads", stats.Httpd.ViewReads))
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"server": host,
+	}
+	accumulator.AddFields("couchdb", fields, tags)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (*CouchDB) MapCopy(dst, src interface{}) {
+	dv, sv := reflect.ValueOf(dst), reflect.ValueOf(src)
+	for _, k := range sv.MapKeys() {
+		dv.SetMapIndex(k, sv.MapIndex(k))
+	}
+}
+
+func (*CouchDB) safeCheck(value interface{}) interface{} {
+	if value == nil {
+		return 0.0
+	}
+	return value
+}
+
+func (c *CouchDB) generateFields(prefix string, obj metaData) map[string]interface{} {
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		prefix + "_current": c.safeCheck(obj.Current),
+		prefix + "_sum":     c.safeCheck(obj.Sum),
+		prefix + "_mean":    c.safeCheck(obj.Mean),
+		prefix + "_stddev":  c.safeCheck(obj.Stddev),
+		prefix + "_min":     c.safeCheck(obj.Min),
+		prefix + "_max":     c.safeCheck(obj.Max),
+	}
+	return fields
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("couchdb", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &CouchDB{}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/couchdb/couchdb_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/couchdb/couchdb_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,320 @@
+package couchdb_test
+
+import (
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs/couchdb"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestBasic(t *testing.T) {
+	js := `
+{
+    "couchdb": {
+        "auth_cache_misses": {
+            "description": "number of authentication cache misses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "database_writes": {
+            "description": "number of times a database was changed",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "open_databases": {
+            "description": "number of open databases",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "auth_cache_hits": {
+            "description": "number of authentication cache hits",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "request_time": {
+            "description": "length of a request inside CouchDB without MochiWeb",
+            "current": 18.0,
+            "sum": 18.0,
+            "mean": 18.0,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": 18.0,
+            "max": 18.0
+        },
+        "database_reads": {
+            "description": "number of times a document was read from a database",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "open_os_files": {
+            "description": "number of file descriptors CouchDB has open",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        }
+    },
+    "httpd_request_methods": {
+        "PUT": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP PUT requests",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "GET": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP GET requests",
+            "current": 2.0,
+            "sum": 2.0,
+            "mean": 0.25,
+            "stddev": 0.70699999999999996181,
+            "min": 0,
+            "max": 2
+        },
+        "COPY": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP COPY requests",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "DELETE": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP DELETE requests",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "POST": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP POST requests",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "HEAD": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP HEAD requests",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        }
+    },
+    "httpd_status_codes": {
+        "403": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 403 Forbidden responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "202": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 202 Accepted responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "401": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 401 Unauthorized responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "409": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 409 Conflict responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "200": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 200 OK responses",
+            "current": 1.0,
+            "sum": 1.0,
+            "mean": 0.125,
+            "stddev": 0.35399999999999998135,
+            "min": 0,
+            "max": 1
+        },
+        "405": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "400": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 400 Bad Request responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "201": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 201 Created responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "404": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 404 Not Found responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "500": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 500 Internal Server Error responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "412": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 412 Precondition Failed responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "301": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 301 Moved Permanently responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "304": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP 304 Not Modified responses",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        }
+    },
+    "httpd": {
+        "clients_requesting_changes": {
+            "description": "number of clients for continuous _changes",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "temporary_view_reads": {
+            "description": "number of temporary view reads",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "requests": {
+            "description": "number of HTTP requests",
+            "current": 2.0,
+            "sum": 2.0,
+            "mean": 0.25,
+            "stddev": 0.70699999999999996181,
+            "min": 0,
+            "max": 2
+        },
+        "bulk_requests": {
+            "description": "number of bulk requests",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        },
+        "view_reads": {
+            "description": "number of view reads",
+            "current": null,
+            "sum": null,
+            "mean": null,
+            "stddev": null,
+            "min": null,
+            "max": null
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+`
+	fakeServer := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if r.URL.Path == "/_stats" {
+			_, _ = w.Write([]byte(js))
+		} else {
+			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
+		}
+	}))
+	defer fakeServer.Close()
+
+	plugin := &couchdb.CouchDB{
+		HOSTs: []string{fakeServer.URL + "/_stats"},
+	}
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	require.NoError(t, plugin.Gather(&acc))
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/disque/disque.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/disque/disque.go
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"time"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 )

 type Disque struct {
@@ -21,14 +23,15 @@ type Disque struct {
 }

 var sampleConfig = `
-  # An array of URI to gather stats about. Specify an ip or hostname
-  # with optional port and password. ie disque://localhost, disque://10.10.3.33:18832,
-  # 10.0.0.1:10000, etc.
-  #
-  # If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
+  ## An array of URI to gather stats about. Specify an ip or hostname
+  ## with optional port and password.
+  ## ie disque://localhost, disque://10.10.3.33:18832, 10.0.0.1:10000, etc.
+  ## If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
  servers = ["localhost"]
 `

+var defaultTimeout = 5 * time.Second
+
 func (r *Disque) SampleConfig() string {
 	return sampleConfig
 }
@@ -61,7 +64,7 @@ var ErrProtocolError = errors.New("disque protocol error")

 // Reads stats from all configured servers accumulates stats.
 // Returns one of the errors encountered while gather stats (if any).
-func (g *Disque) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (g *Disque) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	if len(g.Servers) == 0 {
 		url := &url.URL{
 			Host: ":7711",
@@ -98,7 +101,7 @@ func (g *Disque) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {

 const defaultPort = "7711"

-func (g *Disque) gatherServer(addr *url.URL, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (g *Disque) gatherServer(addr *url.URL, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	if g.c == nil {

 		_, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(addr.Host)
@@ -106,7 +109,7 @@ func (g *Disque) gatherServer(addr *url.URL, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 			addr.Host = addr.Host + ":" + defaultPort
 		}

-		c, err := net.Dial("tcp", addr.Host)
+		c, err := net.DialTimeout("tcp", addr.Host, defaultTimeout)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("Unable to connect to disque server '%s': %s", addr.Host, err)
 		}
@@ -131,6 +134,9 @@ func (g *Disque) gatherServer(addr *url.URL, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 		g.c = c
 	}

+	// Extend connection
+	g.c.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(defaultTimeout))
+
 	g.c.Write([]byte("info\r\n"))

 	r := bufio.NewReader(g.c)
@@ -156,7 +162,7 @@ func (g *Disque) gatherServer(addr *url.URL, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 	var read int

 	fields := make(map[string]interface{})
-	tags := map[string]string{"host": addr.String()}
+	tags := map[string]string{"disque_host": addr.String()}
 	for read < sz {
 		line, err := r.ReadString('\n')
 		if err != nil {
@@ -198,7 +204,7 @@ func (g *Disque) gatherServer(addr *url.URL, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 }

 func init() {
-	inputs.Add("disque", func() inputs.Input {
+	inputs.Add("disque", func() telegraf.Input {
 		return &Disque{}
 	})
 }
--- a/plugins/inputs/disque/disque_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/disque/disque_test.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"net"
 	"testing"

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

--- a/plugins/inputs/dns_query/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/dns_query/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# DNS Query Input Plugin
+
+The DNS plugin gathers dns query times in miliseconds - like [Dig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_\(command\))
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```
+# Sample Config:
+[[inputs.dns_query]]
+  ## servers to query
+  servers = ["8.8.8.8"] # required
+
+  ## Domains or subdomains to query. "." (root) is default
+  domains = ["."] # optional
+
+  ## Query record type. Posible values: A, AAAA, ANY, CNAME, MX,  NS, PTR, SOA, SPF, SRV, TXT. Default is "NS"
+  record_type = "A" # optional
+
+  ## Dns server port. 53 is default
+  port = 53 # optional
+
+  ## Query timeout in seconds. Default is 2 seconds
+  timeout = 2 # optional
+```
+
+For querying more than one record type make:
+
+```
+[[inputs.dns_query]]
+  domains = ["mjasion.pl"]
+  servers = ["8.8.8.8", "8.8.4.4"]
+  record_type = "A"
+
+[[inputs.dns_query]]
+  domains = ["mjasion.pl"]
+  servers = ["8.8.8.8", "8.8.4.4"]
+  record_type = "MX"
+```
+
+### Tags:
+
+- server
+- domain
+- record_type
+
+### Example output:
+
+```
+./telegraf -config telegraf.conf -test -input-filter dns_query -test
+> dns_query,domain=mjasion.pl,record_type=A,server=8.8.8.8 query_time_ms=67.189842 1456082743585760680
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/dns_query/dns_query.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/dns_query/dns_query.go
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+package dns_query
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/miekg/dns"
+	"net"
+	"strconv"
+	"time"
+)
+
+type DnsQuery struct {
+	// Domains or subdomains to query
+	Domains []string
+
+	// Server to query
+	Servers []string
+
+	// Record type
+	RecordType string `toml:"record_type"`
+
+	// DNS server port number
+	Port int
+
+	// Dns query timeout in seconds. 0 means no timeout
+	Timeout int
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## servers to query
+  servers = ["8.8.8.8"] # required
+
+  ## Domains or subdomains to query. "."(root) is default
+  domains = ["."] # optional
+
+  ## Query record type. Default is "A"
+  ## Posible values: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, TXT, SOA, SPF, SRV.
+  record_type = "A" # optional
+
+  ## Dns server port. 53 is default
+  port = 53 # optional
+
+  ## Query timeout in seconds. Default is 2 seconds
+  timeout = 2 # optional
+`
+
+func (d *DnsQuery) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (d *DnsQuery) Description() string {
+	return "Query given DNS server and gives statistics"
+}
+func (d *DnsQuery) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	d.setDefaultValues()
+	for _, domain := range d.Domains {
+		for _, server := range d.Servers {
+			dnsQueryTime, err := d.getDnsQueryTime(domain, server)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			tags := map[string]string{
+				"server":      server,
+				"domain":      domain,
+				"record_type": d.RecordType,
+			}
+
+			fields := map[string]interface{}{"query_time_ms": dnsQueryTime}
+			acc.AddFields("dns_query", fields, tags)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (d *DnsQuery) setDefaultValues() {
+	if len(d.RecordType) == 0 {
+		d.RecordType = "NS"
+	}
+
+	if len(d.Domains) == 0 {
+		d.Domains = []string{"."}
+		d.RecordType = "NS"
+	}
+
+	if d.Port == 0 {
+		d.Port = 53
+	}
+
+	if d.Timeout == 0 {
+		d.Timeout = 2
+	}
+}
+
+func (d *DnsQuery) getDnsQueryTime(domain string, server string) (float64, error) {
+	dnsQueryTime := float64(0)
+
+	c := new(dns.Client)
+	c.ReadTimeout = time.Duration(d.Timeout) * time.Second
+
+	m := new(dns.Msg)
+	recordType, err := d.parseRecordType()
+	if err != nil {
+		return dnsQueryTime, err
+	}
+	m.SetQuestion(dns.Fqdn(domain), recordType)
+	m.RecursionDesired = true
+
+	r, rtt, err := c.Exchange(m, net.JoinHostPort(server, strconv.Itoa(d.Port)))
+	if err != nil {
+		return dnsQueryTime, err
+	}
+	if r.Rcode != dns.RcodeSuccess {
+		return dnsQueryTime, errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("Invalid answer name %s after %s query for %s\n", domain, d.RecordType, domain))
+	}
+	dnsQueryTime = float64(rtt.Nanoseconds()) / 1e6
+	return dnsQueryTime, nil
+}
+
+func (d *DnsQuery) parseRecordType() (uint16, error) {
+	var recordType uint16
+	var error error
+
+	switch d.RecordType {
+	case "A":
+		recordType = dns.TypeA
+	case "AAAA":
+		recordType = dns.TypeAAAA
+	case "ANY":
+		recordType = dns.TypeANY
+	case "CNAME":
+		recordType = dns.TypeCNAME
+	case "MX":
+		recordType = dns.TypeMX
+	case "NS":
+		recordType = dns.TypeNS
+	case "PTR":
+		recordType = dns.TypePTR
+	case "SOA":
+		recordType = dns.TypeSOA
+	case "SPF":
+		recordType = dns.TypeSPF
+	case "SRV":
+		recordType = dns.TypeSRV
+	case "TXT":
+		recordType = dns.TypeTXT
+	default:
+		error = errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("Record type %s not recognized", d.RecordType))
+	}
+
+	return recordType, error
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("dns_query", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &DnsQuery{}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/dns_query/dns_query_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/dns_query/dns_query_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+package dns_query
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+
+	"github.com/miekg/dns"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+var servers = []string{"8.8.8.8"}
+var domains = []string{"google.com"}
+
+func TestGathering(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping network-dependent test in short mode.")
+	}
+	var dnsConfig = DnsQuery{
+		Servers: servers,
+		Domains: domains,
+	}
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+
+	err := dnsConfig.Gather(&acc)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	metric, ok := acc.Get("dns_query")
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	queryTime, _ := metric.Fields["query_time_ms"].(float64)
+
+	assert.NotEqual(t, 0, queryTime)
+}
+
+func TestGatheringMxRecord(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping network-dependent test in short mode.")
+	}
+	var dnsConfig = DnsQuery{
+		Servers: servers,
+		Domains: domains,
+	}
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "MX"
+
+	err := dnsConfig.Gather(&acc)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	metric, ok := acc.Get("dns_query")
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	queryTime, _ := metric.Fields["query_time_ms"].(float64)
+
+	assert.NotEqual(t, 0, queryTime)
+}
+
+func TestGatheringRootDomain(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping network-dependent test in short mode.")
+	}
+	var dnsConfig = DnsQuery{
+		Servers:    servers,
+		Domains:    []string{"."},
+		RecordType: "MX",
+	}
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"server":      "8.8.8.8",
+		"domain":      ".",
+		"record_type": "MX",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{}
+
+	err := dnsConfig.Gather(&acc)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	metric, ok := acc.Get("dns_query")
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	queryTime, _ := metric.Fields["query_time_ms"].(float64)
+
+	fields["query_time_ms"] = queryTime
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "dns_query", fields, tags)
+}
+
+func TestMetricContainsServerAndDomainAndRecordTypeTags(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping network-dependent test in short mode.")
+	}
+	var dnsConfig = DnsQuery{
+		Servers: servers,
+		Domains: domains,
+	}
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"server":      "8.8.8.8",
+		"domain":      "google.com",
+		"record_type": "NS",
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{}
+
+	err := dnsConfig.Gather(&acc)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	metric, ok := acc.Get("dns_query")
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	queryTime, _ := metric.Fields["query_time_ms"].(float64)
+
+	fields["query_time_ms"] = queryTime
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "dns_query", fields, tags)
+}
+
+func TestGatheringTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping network-dependent test in short mode.")
+	}
+	var dnsConfig = DnsQuery{
+		Servers: servers,
+		Domains: domains,
+	}
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	dnsConfig.Port = 60054
+	dnsConfig.Timeout = 1
+	var err error
+
+	channel := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() {
+		channel <- dnsConfig.Gather(&acc)
+	}()
+	select {
+	case res := <-channel:
+		err = res
+	case <-time.After(time.Second * 2):
+		err = nil
+	}
+
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "i/o timeout")
+}
+
+func TestSettingDefaultValues(t *testing.T) {
+	dnsConfig := DnsQuery{}
+
+	dnsConfig.setDefaultValues()
+
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"."}, dnsConfig.Domains, "Default domain not equal \".\"")
+	assert.Equal(t, "NS", dnsConfig.RecordType, "Default record type not equal 'NS'")
+	assert.Equal(t, 53, dnsConfig.Port, "Default port number not equal 53")
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, dnsConfig.Timeout, "Default timeout not equal 2")
+
+	dnsConfig = DnsQuery{Domains: []string{"."}}
+
+	dnsConfig.setDefaultValues()
+
+	assert.Equal(t, "NS", dnsConfig.RecordType, "Default record type not equal 'NS'")
+}
+
+func TestRecordTypeParser(t *testing.T) {
+	var dnsConfig = DnsQuery{}
+	var recordType uint16
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "A"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeA, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "AAAA"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeAAAA, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "ANY"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeANY, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "CNAME"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeCNAME, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "MX"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeMX, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "NS"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeNS, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "PTR"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypePTR, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "SOA"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeSOA, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "SPF"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeSPF, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "SRV"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeSRV, recordType)
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "TXT"
+	recordType, _ = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Equal(t, dns.TypeTXT, recordType)
+}
+
+func TestRecordTypeParserError(t *testing.T) {
+	var dnsConfig = DnsQuery{}
+	var err error
+
+	dnsConfig.RecordType = "nil"
+	_, err = dnsConfig.parseRecordType()
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/docker/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/docker/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+# Docker Input Plugin
+
+The docker plugin uses the docker remote API to gather metrics on running
+docker containers. You can read Docker's documentation for their remote API
+[here](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/api/docker_remote_api_v1.20/#get-container-stats-based-on-resource-usage)
+
+The docker plugin uses the excellent
+[docker engine-api](https://github.com/docker/engine-api) library to
+gather stats. Documentation for the library can be found
+[here](https://godoc.org/github.com/docker/engine-api) and documentation
+for the stat structure can be found
+[here](https://godoc.org/github.com/docker/engine-api/types#Stats)
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```
+# Read metrics about docker containers
+[[inputs.docker]]
+  # Docker Endpoint
+  #   To use TCP, set endpoint = "tcp://[ip]:[port]"
+  #   To use environment variables (ie, docker-machine), set endpoint = "ENV"
+  endpoint = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
+  # Only collect metrics for these containers, collect all if empty
+  container_names = []
+```
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+Every effort was made to preserve the names based on the JSON response from the
+docker API.
+
+Note that the docker_container_cpu metric may appear multiple times per collection,
+based on the availability of per-cpu stats on your system.
+
+- docker_container_mem
+    - total_pgmafault
+    - cache
+    - mapped_file
+    - total_inactive_file
+    - pgpgout
+    - rss
+    - total_mapped_file
+    - writeback
+    - unevictable
+    - pgpgin
+    - total_unevictable
+    - pgmajfault
+    - total_rss
+    - total_rss_huge
+    - total_writeback
+    - total_inactive_anon
+    - rss_huge
+    - hierarchical_memory_limit
+    - total_pgfault
+    - total_active_file
+    - active_anon
+    - total_active_anon
+    - total_pgpgout
+    - total_cache
+    - inactive_anon
+    - active_file
+    - pgfault
+    - inactive_file
+    - total_pgpgin
+    - max_usage
+    - usage
+    - failcnt
+    - limit
+    - container_id
+- docker_container_cpu
+    - throttling_periods
+    - throttling_throttled_periods
+    - throttling_throttled_time
+    - usage_in_kernelmode
+    - usage_in_usermode
+    - usage_system
+    - usage_total
+    - usage_percent
+    - container_id
+- docker_container_net
+    - rx_dropped
+    - rx_bytes
+    - rx_errors
+    - tx_packets
+    - tx_dropped
+    - rx_packets
+    - tx_errors
+    - tx_bytes
+    - container_id
+- docker_container_blkio
+    - io_service_bytes_recursive_async
+    - io_service_bytes_recursive_read
+    - io_service_bytes_recursive_sync
+    - io_service_bytes_recursive_total
+    - io_service_bytes_recursive_write
+    - io_serviced_recursive_async
+    - io_serviced_recursive_read
+    - io_serviced_recursive_sync
+    - io_serviced_recursive_total
+    - io_serviced_recursive_write
+- docker_
+    - n_used_file_descriptors
+    - n_cpus
+    - n_containers
+    - n_images
+    - n_goroutines
+    - n_listener_events
+    - memory_total
+    - pool_blocksize
+- docker_data
+    - available
+    - total
+    - used
+- docker_metadata
+    - available
+    - total
+    - used
+
+
+### Tags:
+
+- docker (memory_total)
+    - unit=bytes
+- docker (pool_blocksize)
+    - unit=bytes
+- docker_data
+    - unit=bytes
+- docker_metadata
+    - unit=bytes
+
+- docker_container_mem specific:
+    - container_image
+    - container_name
+- docker_container_cpu specific:
+    - container_image
+    - container_name
+    - cpu
+- docker_container_net specific:
+    - container_image
+    - container_name
+    - network
+- docker_container_blkio specific:
+    - container_image
+    - container_name
+    - device
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+% ./telegraf -config ~/ws/telegraf.conf -input-filter docker -test
+* Plugin: docker, Collection 1
+> docker n_cpus=8i 1456926671065383978
+> docker n_used_file_descriptors=15i 1456926671065383978
+> docker n_containers=7i 1456926671065383978
+> docker n_images=152i 1456926671065383978
+> docker n_goroutines=36i 1456926671065383978
+> docker n_listener_events=0i 1456926671065383978
+> docker,unit=bytes memory_total=18935443456i 1456926671065383978
+> docker,unit=bytes pool_blocksize=65540i 1456926671065383978
+> docker_data,unit=bytes available=24340000000i,total=107400000000i,used=14820000000i 1456926671065383978
+> docker_metadata,unit=bytes available=2126999999i,total=2146999999i,used=20420000i 145692667106538
+> docker_container_mem,
+container_image=spotify/kafka,container_name=kafka \
+active_anon=52568064i,active_file=6926336i,cache=12038144i,fail_count=0i,\
+hierarchical_memory_limit=9223372036854771712i,inactive_anon=52707328i,\
+inactive_file=5111808i,limit=1044578304i,mapped_file=10301440i,\
+max_usage=140656640i,pgfault=63762i,pgmajfault=2837i,pgpgin=73355i,\
+pgpgout=45736i,rss=105275392i,rss_huge=4194304i,total_active_anon=52568064i,\
+total_active_file=6926336i,total_cache=12038144i,total_inactive_anon=52707328i,\
+total_inactive_file=5111808i,total_mapped_file=10301440i,total_pgfault=63762i,\
+total_pgmafault=0i,total_pgpgin=73355i,total_pgpgout=45736i,\
+total_rss=105275392i,total_rss_huge=4194304i,total_unevictable=0i,\
+total_writeback=0i,unevictable=0i,usage=117440512i,writeback=0i 1453409536840126713
+> docker_container_cpu,
+container_image=spotify/kafka,container_name=kafka,cpu=cpu-total \
+throttling_periods=0i,throttling_throttled_periods=0i,\
+throttling_throttled_time=0i,usage_in_kernelmode=440000000i,\
+usage_in_usermode=2290000000i,usage_system=84795360000000i,\
+usage_total=6628208865i 1453409536840126713
+> docker_container_cpu,
+container_image=spotify/kafka,container_name=kafka,cpu=cpu0 \
+usage_total=6628208865i 1453409536840126713
+> docker_container_net,\
+container_image=spotify/kafka,container_name=kafka,network=eth0 \
+rx_bytes=7468i,rx_dropped=0i,rx_errors=0i,rx_packets=94i,tx_bytes=946i,\
+tx_dropped=0i,tx_errors=0i,tx_packets=13i 1453409536840126713
+> docker_container_blkio,
+container_image=spotify/kafka,container_name=kafka,device=8:0 \
+io_service_bytes_recursive_async=80216064i,io_service_bytes_recursive_read=79925248i,\
+io_service_bytes_recursive_sync=77824i,io_service_bytes_recursive_total=80293888i,\
+io_service_bytes_recursive_write=368640i,io_serviced_recursive_async=6562i,\
+io_serviced_recursive_read=6492i,io_serviced_recursive_sync=37i,\
+io_serviced_recursive_total=6599i,io_serviced_recursive_write=107i 1453409536840126713
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/docker/docker.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/docker/docker.go
@@ -0,0 +1,469 @@
+package system
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"golang.org/x/net/context"
+
+	"github.com/docker/engine-api/client"
+	"github.com/docker/engine-api/types"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+)
+
+// Docker object
+type Docker struct {
+	Endpoint       string
+	ContainerNames []string
+	Timeout        internal.Duration
+
+	client DockerClient
+}
+
+// DockerClient interface, useful for testing
+type DockerClient interface {
+	Info(ctx context.Context) (types.Info, error)
+	ContainerList(ctx context.Context, options types.ContainerListOptions) ([]types.Container, error)
+	ContainerStats(ctx context.Context, containerID string, stream bool) (io.ReadCloser, error)
+}
+
+// KB, MB, GB, TB, PB...human friendly
+const (
+	KB = 1000
+	MB = 1000 * KB
+	GB = 1000 * MB
+	TB = 1000 * GB
+	PB = 1000 * TB
+)
+
+var (
+	sizeRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`^(\d+(\.\d+)*) ?([kKmMgGtTpP])?[bB]?$`)
+)
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## Docker Endpoint
+  ##   To use TCP, set endpoint = "tcp://[ip]:[port]"
+  ##   To use environment variables (ie, docker-machine), set endpoint = "ENV"
+  endpoint = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
+  ## Only collect metrics for these containers, collect all if empty
+  container_names = []
+  ## Timeout for docker list, info, and stats commands
+  timeout = "5s"
+`
+
+// Description returns input description
+func (d *Docker) Description() string {
+	return "Read metrics about docker containers"
+}
+
+// SampleConfig prints sampleConfig
+func (d *Docker) SampleConfig() string { return sampleConfig }
+
+// Gather starts stats collection
+func (d *Docker) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	if d.client == nil {
+		var c *client.Client
+		var err error
+		defaultHeaders := map[string]string{"User-Agent": "engine-api-cli-1.0"}
+		if d.Endpoint == "ENV" {
+			c, err = client.NewEnvClient()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		} else if d.Endpoint == "" {
+			c, err = client.NewClient("unix:///var/run/docker.sock", "", nil, defaultHeaders)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		} else {
+			c, err = client.NewClient(d.Endpoint, "", nil, defaultHeaders)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		}
+		d.client = c
+	}
+
+	// Get daemon info
+	err := d.gatherInfo(acc)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err.Error())
+	}
+
+	// List containers
+	opts := types.ContainerListOptions{}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), d.Timeout.Duration)
+	defer cancel()
+	containers, err := d.client.ContainerList(ctx, opts)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Get container data
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(len(containers))
+	for _, container := range containers {
+		go func(c types.Container) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			err := d.gatherContainer(c, acc)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Printf("Error gathering container %s stats: %s\n",
+					c.Names, err.Error())
+			}
+		}(container)
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (d *Docker) gatherInfo(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	// Init vars
+	dataFields := make(map[string]interface{})
+	metadataFields := make(map[string]interface{})
+	now := time.Now()
+	// Get info from docker daemon
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), d.Timeout.Duration)
+	defer cancel()
+	info, err := d.client.Info(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"n_cpus":                  info.NCPU,
+		"n_used_file_descriptors": info.NFd,
+		"n_containers":            info.Containers,
+		"n_images":                info.Images,
+		"n_goroutines":            info.NGoroutines,
+		"n_listener_events":       info.NEventsListener,
+	}
+	// Add metrics
+	acc.AddFields("docker",
+		fields,
+		nil,
+		now)
+	acc.AddFields("docker",
+		map[string]interface{}{"memory_total": info.MemTotal},
+		map[string]string{"unit": "bytes"},
+		now)
+	// Get storage metrics
+	for _, rawData := range info.DriverStatus {
+		// Try to convert string to int (bytes)
+		value, err := parseSize(rawData[1])
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		name := strings.ToLower(strings.Replace(rawData[0], " ", "_", -1))
+		if name == "pool_blocksize" {
+			// pool blocksize
+			acc.AddFields("docker",
+				map[string]interface{}{"pool_blocksize": value},
+				map[string]string{"unit": "bytes"},
+				now)
+		} else if strings.HasPrefix(name, "data_space_") {
+			// data space
+			fieldName := strings.TrimPrefix(name, "data_space_")
+			dataFields[fieldName] = value
+		} else if strings.HasPrefix(name, "metadata_space_") {
+			// metadata space
+			fieldName := strings.TrimPrefix(name, "metadata_space_")
+			metadataFields[fieldName] = value
+		}
+	}
+	if len(dataFields) > 0 {
+		acc.AddFields("docker_data",
+			dataFields,
+			map[string]string{"unit": "bytes"},
+			now)
+	}
+	if len(metadataFields) > 0 {
+		acc.AddFields("docker_metadata",
+			metadataFields,
+			map[string]string{"unit": "bytes"},
+			now)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (d *Docker) gatherContainer(
+	container types.Container,
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
+) error {
+	var v *types.StatsJSON
+	// Parse container name
+	cname := "unknown"
+	if len(container.Names) > 0 {
+		// Not sure what to do with other names, just take the first.
+		cname = strings.TrimPrefix(container.Names[0], "/")
+	}
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"container_name":  cname,
+		"container_image": container.Image,
+	}
+	if len(d.ContainerNames) > 0 {
+		if !sliceContains(cname, d.ContainerNames) {
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), d.Timeout.Duration)
+	defer cancel()
+	r, err := d.client.ContainerStats(ctx, container.ID, false)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("Error getting docker stats: %s\n", err.Error())
+	}
+	defer r.Close()
+	dec := json.NewDecoder(r)
+	if err = dec.Decode(&v); err != nil {
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			return nil
+		}
+		return fmt.Errorf("Error decoding: %s", err.Error())
+	}
+
+	// Add labels to tags
+	for k, label := range container.Labels {
+		tags[k] = label
+	}
+
+	gatherContainerStats(v, acc, tags, container.ID)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func gatherContainerStats(
+	stat *types.StatsJSON,
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
+	tags map[string]string,
+	id string,
+) {
+	now := stat.Read
+
+	memfields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"max_usage":                 stat.MemoryStats.MaxUsage,
+		"usage":                     stat.MemoryStats.Usage,
+		"fail_count":                stat.MemoryStats.Failcnt,
+		"limit":                     stat.MemoryStats.Limit,
+		"total_pgmafault":           stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_pgmajfault"],
+		"cache":                     stat.MemoryStats.Stats["cache"],
+		"mapped_file":               stat.MemoryStats.Stats["mapped_file"],
+		"total_inactive_file":       stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_inactive_file"],
+		"pgpgout":                   stat.MemoryStats.Stats["pagpgout"],
+		"rss":                       stat.MemoryStats.Stats["rss"],
+		"total_mapped_file":         stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_mapped_file"],
+		"writeback":                 stat.MemoryStats.Stats["writeback"],
+		"unevictable":               stat.MemoryStats.Stats["unevictable"],
+		"pgpgin":                    stat.MemoryStats.Stats["pgpgin"],
+		"total_unevictable":         stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_unevictable"],
+		"pgmajfault":                stat.MemoryStats.Stats["pgmajfault"],
+		"total_rss":                 stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_rss"],
+		"total_rss_huge":            stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_rss_huge"],
+		"total_writeback":           stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_write_back"],
+		"total_inactive_anon":       stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_inactive_anon"],
+		"rss_huge":                  stat.MemoryStats.Stats["rss_huge"],
+		"hierarchical_memory_limit": stat.MemoryStats.Stats["hierarchical_memory_limit"],
+		"total_pgfault":             stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_pgfault"],
+		"total_active_file":         stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_active_file"],
+		"active_anon":               stat.MemoryStats.Stats["active_anon"],
+		"total_active_anon":         stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_active_anon"],
+		"total_pgpgout":             stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_pgpgout"],
+		"total_cache":               stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_cache"],
+		"inactive_anon":             stat.MemoryStats.Stats["inactive_anon"],
+		"active_file":               stat.MemoryStats.Stats["active_file"],
+		"pgfault":                   stat.MemoryStats.Stats["pgfault"],
+		"inactive_file":             stat.MemoryStats.Stats["inactive_file"],
+		"total_pgpgin":              stat.MemoryStats.Stats["total_pgpgin"],
+		"usage_percent":             calculateMemPercent(stat),
+		"container_id":              id,
+	}
+	acc.AddFields("docker_container_mem", memfields, tags, now)
+
+	cpufields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_total":                  stat.CPUStats.CPUUsage.TotalUsage,
+		"usage_in_usermode":            stat.CPUStats.CPUUsage.UsageInUsermode,
+		"usage_in_kernelmode":          stat.CPUStats.CPUUsage.UsageInKernelmode,
+		"usage_system":                 stat.CPUStats.SystemUsage,
+		"throttling_periods":           stat.CPUStats.ThrottlingData.Periods,
+		"throttling_throttled_periods": stat.CPUStats.ThrottlingData.ThrottledPeriods,
+		"throttling_throttled_time":    stat.CPUStats.ThrottlingData.ThrottledTime,
+		"usage_percent":                calculateCPUPercent(stat),
+		"container_id":                 id,
+	}
+	cputags := copyTags(tags)
+	cputags["cpu"] = "cpu-total"
+	acc.AddFields("docker_container_cpu", cpufields, cputags, now)
+
+	for i, percpu := range stat.CPUStats.CPUUsage.PercpuUsage {
+		percputags := copyTags(tags)
+		percputags["cpu"] = fmt.Sprintf("cpu%d", i)
+		acc.AddFields("docker_container_cpu", map[string]interface{}{"usage_total": percpu}, percputags, now)
+	}
+
+	for network, netstats := range stat.Networks {
+		netfields := map[string]interface{}{
+			"rx_dropped":   netstats.RxDropped,
+			"rx_bytes":     netstats.RxBytes,
+			"rx_errors":    netstats.RxErrors,
+			"tx_packets":   netstats.TxPackets,
+			"tx_dropped":   netstats.TxDropped,
+			"rx_packets":   netstats.RxPackets,
+			"tx_errors":    netstats.TxErrors,
+			"tx_bytes":     netstats.TxBytes,
+			"container_id": id,
+		}
+		// Create a new network tag dictionary for the "network" tag
+		nettags := copyTags(tags)
+		nettags["network"] = network
+		acc.AddFields("docker_container_net", netfields, nettags, now)
+	}
+
+	gatherBlockIOMetrics(stat, acc, tags, now)
+}
+
+func calculateMemPercent(stat *types.StatsJSON) float64 {
+	var memPercent = 0.0
+	if stat.MemoryStats.Limit > 0 {
+		memPercent = float64(stat.MemoryStats.Usage) / float64(stat.MemoryStats.Limit) * 100.0
+	}
+	return memPercent
+}
+
+func calculateCPUPercent(stat *types.StatsJSON) float64 {
+	var cpuPercent = 0.0
+	// calculate the change for the cpu and system usage of the container in between readings
+	cpuDelta := float64(stat.CPUStats.CPUUsage.TotalUsage) - float64(stat.PreCPUStats.CPUUsage.TotalUsage)
+	systemDelta := float64(stat.CPUStats.SystemUsage) - float64(stat.PreCPUStats.SystemUsage)
+
+	if systemDelta > 0.0 && cpuDelta > 0.0 {
+		cpuPercent = (cpuDelta / systemDelta) * float64(len(stat.CPUStats.CPUUsage.PercpuUsage)) * 100.0
+	}
+	return cpuPercent
+}
+
+func gatherBlockIOMetrics(
+	stat *types.StatsJSON,
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
+	tags map[string]string,
+	now time.Time,
+) {
+	blkioStats := stat.BlkioStats
+	// Make a map of devices to their block io stats
+	deviceStatMap := make(map[string]map[string]interface{})
+
+	for _, metric := range blkioStats.IoServiceBytesRecursive {
+		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", metric.Major, metric.Minor)
+		_, ok := deviceStatMap[device]
+		if !ok {
+			deviceStatMap[device] = make(map[string]interface{})
+		}
+
+		field := fmt.Sprintf("io_service_bytes_recursive_%s", strings.ToLower(metric.Op))
+		deviceStatMap[device][field] = metric.Value
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range blkioStats.IoServicedRecursive {
+		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", metric.Major, metric.Minor)
+		_, ok := deviceStatMap[device]
+		if !ok {
+			deviceStatMap[device] = make(map[string]interface{})
+		}
+
+		field := fmt.Sprintf("io_serviced_recursive_%s", strings.ToLower(metric.Op))
+		deviceStatMap[device][field] = metric.Value
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range blkioStats.IoQueuedRecursive {
+		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", metric.Major, metric.Minor)
+		field := fmt.Sprintf("io_queue_recursive_%s", strings.ToLower(metric.Op))
+		deviceStatMap[device][field] = metric.Value
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range blkioStats.IoServiceTimeRecursive {
+		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", metric.Major, metric.Minor)
+		field := fmt.Sprintf("io_service_time_recursive_%s", strings.ToLower(metric.Op))
+		deviceStatMap[device][field] = metric.Value
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range blkioStats.IoWaitTimeRecursive {
+		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", metric.Major, metric.Minor)
+		field := fmt.Sprintf("io_wait_time_%s", strings.ToLower(metric.Op))
+		deviceStatMap[device][field] = metric.Value
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range blkioStats.IoMergedRecursive {
+		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", metric.Major, metric.Minor)
+		field := fmt.Sprintf("io_merged_recursive_%s", strings.ToLower(metric.Op))
+		deviceStatMap[device][field] = metric.Value
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range blkioStats.IoTimeRecursive {
+		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", metric.Major, metric.Minor)
+		deviceStatMap[device]["io_time_recursive"] = metric.Value
+	}
+
+	for _, metric := range blkioStats.SectorsRecursive {
+		device := fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", metric.Major, metric.Minor)
+		deviceStatMap[device]["sectors_recursive"] = metric.Value
+	}
+
+	for device, fields := range deviceStatMap {
+		iotags := copyTags(tags)
+		iotags["device"] = device
+		acc.AddFields("docker_container_blkio", fields, iotags, now)
+	}
+}
+
+func copyTags(in map[string]string) map[string]string {
+	out := make(map[string]string)
+	for k, v := range in {
+		out[k] = v
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func sliceContains(in string, sl []string) bool {
+	for _, str := range sl {
+		if str == in {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// Parses the human-readable size string into the amount it represents.
+func parseSize(sizeStr string) (int64, error) {
+	matches := sizeRegex.FindStringSubmatch(sizeStr)
+	if len(matches) != 4 {
+		return -1, fmt.Errorf("invalid size: '%s'", sizeStr)
+	}
+
+	size, err := strconv.ParseFloat(matches[1], 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, err
+	}
+
+	uMap := map[string]int64{"k": KB, "m": MB, "g": GB, "t": TB, "p": PB}
+	unitPrefix := strings.ToLower(matches[3])
+	if mul, ok := uMap[unitPrefix]; ok {
+		size *= float64(mul)
+	}
+
+	return int64(size), nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("docker", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &Docker{}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/docker/docker_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/docker/docker_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,428 @@
+package system
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"golang.org/x/net/context"
+
+	"github.com/docker/engine-api/types"
+	"github.com/docker/engine-api/types/registry"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestDockerGatherContainerStats(t *testing.T) {
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	stats := testStats()
+
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"container_name":  "redis",
+		"container_image": "redis/image",
+	}
+	gatherContainerStats(stats, &acc, tags, "123456789")
+
+	// test docker_container_net measurement
+	netfields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"rx_dropped":   uint64(1),
+		"rx_bytes":     uint64(2),
+		"rx_errors":    uint64(3),
+		"tx_packets":   uint64(4),
+		"tx_dropped":   uint64(1),
+		"rx_packets":   uint64(2),
+		"tx_errors":    uint64(3),
+		"tx_bytes":     uint64(4),
+		"container_id": "123456789",
+	}
+	nettags := copyTags(tags)
+	nettags["network"] = "eth0"
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "docker_container_net", netfields, nettags)
+
+	// test docker_blkio measurement
+	blkiotags := copyTags(tags)
+	blkiotags["device"] = "6:0"
+	blkiofields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"io_service_bytes_recursive_read": uint64(100),
+		"io_serviced_recursive_write":     uint64(101),
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "docker_container_blkio", blkiofields, blkiotags)
+
+	// test docker_container_mem measurement
+	memfields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"max_usage":                 uint64(1001),
+		"usage":                     uint64(1111),
+		"fail_count":                uint64(1),
+		"limit":                     uint64(2000),
+		"total_pgmafault":           uint64(0),
+		"cache":                     uint64(0),
+		"mapped_file":               uint64(0),
+		"total_inactive_file":       uint64(0),
+		"pgpgout":                   uint64(0),
+		"rss":                       uint64(0),
+		"total_mapped_file":         uint64(0),
+		"writeback":                 uint64(0),
+		"unevictable":               uint64(0),
+		"pgpgin":                    uint64(0),
+		"total_unevictable":         uint64(0),
+		"pgmajfault":                uint64(0),
+		"total_rss":                 uint64(44),
+		"total_rss_huge":            uint64(444),
+		"total_writeback":           uint64(55),
+		"total_inactive_anon":       uint64(0),
+		"rss_huge":                  uint64(0),
+		"hierarchical_memory_limit": uint64(0),
+		"total_pgfault":             uint64(0),
+		"total_active_file":         uint64(0),
+		"active_anon":               uint64(0),
+		"total_active_anon":         uint64(0),
+		"total_pgpgout":             uint64(0),
+		"total_cache":               uint64(0),
+		"inactive_anon":             uint64(0),
+		"active_file":               uint64(1),
+		"pgfault":                   uint64(2),
+		"inactive_file":             uint64(3),
+		"total_pgpgin":              uint64(4),
+		"usage_percent":             float64(55.55),
+		"container_id":              "123456789",
+	}
+
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "docker_container_mem", memfields, tags)
+
+	// test docker_container_cpu measurement
+	cputags := copyTags(tags)
+	cputags["cpu"] = "cpu-total"
+	cpufields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_total":                  uint64(500),
+		"usage_in_usermode":            uint64(100),
+		"usage_in_kernelmode":          uint64(200),
+		"usage_system":                 uint64(100),
+		"throttling_periods":           uint64(1),
+		"throttling_throttled_periods": uint64(0),
+		"throttling_throttled_time":    uint64(0),
+		"usage_percent":                float64(400.0),
+		"container_id":                 "123456789",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "docker_container_cpu", cpufields, cputags)
+
+	cputags["cpu"] = "cpu0"
+	cpu0fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_total": uint64(1),
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "docker_container_cpu", cpu0fields, cputags)
+
+	cputags["cpu"] = "cpu1"
+	cpu1fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_total": uint64(1002),
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "docker_container_cpu", cpu1fields, cputags)
+}
+
+func testStats() *types.StatsJSON {
+	stats := &types.StatsJSON{}
+	stats.Read = time.Now()
+	stats.Networks = make(map[string]types.NetworkStats)
+
+	stats.CPUStats.CPUUsage.PercpuUsage = []uint64{1, 1002}
+	stats.CPUStats.CPUUsage.UsageInUsermode = 100
+	stats.CPUStats.CPUUsage.TotalUsage = 500
+	stats.CPUStats.CPUUsage.UsageInKernelmode = 200
+	stats.CPUStats.SystemUsage = 100
+	stats.CPUStats.ThrottlingData.Periods = 1
+
+	stats.PreCPUStats.CPUUsage.TotalUsage = 400
+	stats.PreCPUStats.SystemUsage = 50
+
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats = make(map[string]uint64)
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_pgmajfault"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["cache"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["mapped_file"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_inactive_file"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["pagpgout"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["rss"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_mapped_file"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["writeback"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["unevictable"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["pgpgin"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_unevictable"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["pgmajfault"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_rss"] = 44
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_rss_huge"] = 444
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_write_back"] = 55
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_inactive_anon"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["rss_huge"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["hierarchical_memory_limit"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_pgfault"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_active_file"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["active_anon"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_active_anon"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_pgpgout"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_cache"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["inactive_anon"] = 0
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["active_file"] = 1
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["pgfault"] = 2
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["inactive_file"] = 3
+	stats.MemoryStats.Stats["total_pgpgin"] = 4
+
+	stats.MemoryStats.MaxUsage = 1001
+	stats.MemoryStats.Usage = 1111
+	stats.MemoryStats.Failcnt = 1
+	stats.MemoryStats.Limit = 2000
+
+	stats.Networks["eth0"] = types.NetworkStats{
+		RxDropped: 1,
+		RxBytes:   2,
+		RxErrors:  3,
+		TxPackets: 4,
+		TxDropped: 1,
+		RxPackets: 2,
+		TxErrors:  3,
+		TxBytes:   4,
+	}
+
+	sbr := types.BlkioStatEntry{
+		Major: 6,
+		Minor: 0,
+		Op:    "read",
+		Value: 100,
+	}
+	sr := types.BlkioStatEntry{
+		Major: 6,
+		Minor: 0,
+		Op:    "write",
+		Value: 101,
+	}
+
+	stats.BlkioStats.IoServiceBytesRecursive = append(
+		stats.BlkioStats.IoServiceBytesRecursive, sbr)
+	stats.BlkioStats.IoServicedRecursive = append(
+		stats.BlkioStats.IoServicedRecursive, sr)
+
+	return stats
+}
+
+type FakeDockerClient struct {
+}
+
+func (d FakeDockerClient) Info(ctx context.Context) (types.Info, error) {
+	env := types.Info{
+		Containers:         108,
+		OomKillDisable:     false,
+		SystemTime:         "2016-02-24T00:55:09.15073105-05:00",
+		NEventsListener:    0,
+		ID:                 "5WQQ:TFWR:FDNG:OKQ3:37Y4:FJWG:QIKK:623T:R3ME:QTKB:A7F7:OLHD",
+		Debug:              false,
+		LoggingDriver:      "json-file",
+		KernelVersion:      "4.3.0-1-amd64",
+		IndexServerAddress: "https://index.docker.io/v1/",
+		MemTotal:           3840757760,
+		Images:             199,
+		CPUCfsQuota:        true,
+		Name:               "absol",
+		SwapLimit:          false,
+		IPv4Forwarding:     true,
+		ExecutionDriver:    "native-0.2",
+		ExperimentalBuild:  false,
+		CPUCfsPeriod:       true,
+		RegistryConfig: &registry.ServiceConfig{
+			IndexConfigs: map[string]*registry.IndexInfo{
+				"docker.io": {
+					Name:     "docker.io",
+					Mirrors:  []string{},
+					Official: true,
+					Secure:   true,
+				},
+			}, InsecureRegistryCIDRs: []*registry.NetIPNet{{IP: []byte{127, 0, 0, 0}, Mask: []byte{255, 0, 0, 0}}}, Mirrors: []string{}},
+		OperatingSystem:   "Linux Mint LMDE (containerized)",
+		BridgeNfIptables:  true,
+		HTTPSProxy:        "",
+		Labels:            []string{},
+		MemoryLimit:       false,
+		DriverStatus:      [][2]string{{"Pool Name", "docker-8:1-1182287-pool"}, {"Pool Blocksize", "65.54 kB"}, {"Backing Filesystem", "extfs"}, {"Data file", "/dev/loop0"}, {"Metadata file", "/dev/loop1"}, {"Data Space Used", "17.3 GB"}, {"Data Space Total", "107.4 GB"}, {"Data Space Available", "36.53 GB"}, {"Metadata Space Used", "20.97 MB"}, {"Metadata Space Total", "2.147 GB"}, {"Metadata Space Available", "2.127 GB"}, {"Udev Sync Supported", "true"}, {"Deferred Removal Enabled", "false"}, {"Data loop file", "/var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/data"}, {"Metadata loop file", "/var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/metadata"}, {"Library Version", "1.02.115 (2016-01-25)"}},
+		NFd:               19,
+		HTTPProxy:         "",
+		Driver:            "devicemapper",
+		NGoroutines:       39,
+		NCPU:              4,
+		DockerRootDir:     "/var/lib/docker",
+		NoProxy:           "",
+		BridgeNfIP6tables: true,
+	}
+	return env, nil
+}
+
+func (d FakeDockerClient) ContainerList(octx context.Context, options types.ContainerListOptions) ([]types.Container, error) {
+	container1 := types.Container{
+		ID:      "e2173b9478a6ae55e237d4d74f8bbb753f0817192b5081334dc78476296b7dfb",
+		Names:   []string{"/etcd"},
+		Image:   "quay.io/coreos/etcd:v2.2.2",
+		Command: "/etcd -name etcd0 -advertise-client-urls http://localhost:2379 -listen-client-urls http://0.0.0.0:2379",
+		Created: 1455941930,
+		Status:  "Up 4 hours",
+		Ports: []types.Port{
+			types.Port{
+				PrivatePort: 7001,
+				PublicPort:  0,
+				Type:        "tcp",
+			},
+			types.Port{
+				PrivatePort: 4001,
+				PublicPort:  0,
+				Type:        "tcp",
+			},
+			types.Port{
+				PrivatePort: 2380,
+				PublicPort:  0,
+				Type:        "tcp",
+			},
+			types.Port{
+				PrivatePort: 2379,
+				PublicPort:  2379,
+				Type:        "tcp",
+				IP:          "0.0.0.0",
+			},
+		},
+		SizeRw:     0,
+		SizeRootFs: 0,
+	}
+	container2 := types.Container{
+		ID:      "b7dfbb9478a6ae55e237d4d74f8bbb753f0817192b5081334dc78476296e2173",
+		Names:   []string{"/etcd2"},
+		Image:   "quay.io/coreos/etcd:v2.2.2",
+		Command: "/etcd -name etcd2 -advertise-client-urls http://localhost:2379 -listen-client-urls http://0.0.0.0:2379",
+		Created: 1455941933,
+		Status:  "Up 4 hours",
+		Ports: []types.Port{
+			types.Port{
+				PrivatePort: 7002,
+				PublicPort:  0,
+				Type:        "tcp",
+			},
+			types.Port{
+				PrivatePort: 4002,
+				PublicPort:  0,
+				Type:        "tcp",
+			},
+			types.Port{
+				PrivatePort: 2381,
+				PublicPort:  0,
+				Type:        "tcp",
+			},
+			types.Port{
+				PrivatePort: 2382,
+				PublicPort:  2382,
+				Type:        "tcp",
+				IP:          "0.0.0.0",
+			},
+		},
+		SizeRw:     0,
+		SizeRootFs: 0,
+	}
+
+	containers := []types.Container{container1, container2}
+	return containers, nil
+
+	//#{e6a96c84ca91a5258b7cb752579fb68826b68b49ff957487695cd4d13c343b44 titilambert/snmpsim /bin/sh -c 'snmpsimd --agent-udpv4-endpoint=0.0.0.0:31161 --process-user=root --process-group=user' 1455724831 Up 4 hours [{31161 31161 udp 0.0.0.0}] 0 0 [/snmp] map[]}]2016/02/24 01:05:01 Gathered metrics, (3s interval), from 1 inputs in 1.233836656s
+}
+
+func (d FakeDockerClient) ContainerStats(ctx context.Context, containerID string, stream bool) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
+	var stat io.ReadCloser
+	jsonStat := `{"read":"2016-02-24T11:42:27.472459608-05:00","memory_stats":{"stats":{},"limit":18935443456},"blkio_stats":{"io_service_bytes_recursive":[{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Read","value":753664},{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Write"},{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Sync"},{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Async","value":753664},{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Total","value":753664}],"io_serviced_recursive":[{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Read","value":26},{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Write"},{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Sync"},{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Async","value":26},{"major":252,"minor":1,"op":"Total","value":26}]},"cpu_stats":{"cpu_usage":{"percpu_usage":[17871,4959158,1646137,1231652,11829401,244656,369972,0],"usage_in_usermode":10000000,"total_usage":20298847},"system_cpu_usage":24052607520000000,"throttling_data":{}},"precpu_stats":{"cpu_usage":{"percpu_usage":[17871,4959158,1646137,1231652,11829401,244656,369972,0],"usage_in_usermode":10000000,"total_usage":20298847},"system_cpu_usage":24052599550000000,"throttling_data":{}}}`
+	stat = ioutil.NopCloser(strings.NewReader(jsonStat))
+	return stat, nil
+}
+
+func TestDockerGatherInfo(t *testing.T) {
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	client := FakeDockerClient{}
+	d := Docker{client: client}
+
+	err := d.Gather(&acc)
+
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t,
+		"docker",
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"n_listener_events":       int(0),
+			"n_cpus":                  int(4),
+			"n_used_file_descriptors": int(19),
+			"n_containers":            int(108),
+			"n_images":                int(199),
+			"n_goroutines":            int(39),
+		},
+		map[string]string{},
+	)
+
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t,
+		"docker_data",
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"used":      int64(17300000000),
+			"total":     int64(107400000000),
+			"available": int64(36530000000),
+		},
+		map[string]string{
+			"unit": "bytes",
+		},
+	)
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t,
+		"docker_container_cpu",
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"usage_total": uint64(1231652),
+		},
+		map[string]string{
+			"container_name":  "etcd2",
+			"container_image": "quay.io/coreos/etcd:v2.2.2",
+			"cpu":             "cpu3",
+		},
+	)
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t,
+		"docker_container_mem",
+		map[string]interface{}{
+			"total_pgpgout":             uint64(0),
+			"usage_percent":             float64(0),
+			"rss":                       uint64(0),
+			"total_writeback":           uint64(0),
+			"active_anon":               uint64(0),
+			"total_pgmafault":           uint64(0),
+			"total_rss":                 uint64(0),
+			"total_unevictable":         uint64(0),
+			"active_file":               uint64(0),
+			"total_mapped_file":         uint64(0),
+			"pgpgin":                    uint64(0),
+			"total_active_file":         uint64(0),
+			"total_active_anon":         uint64(0),
+			"total_cache":               uint64(0),
+			"inactive_anon":             uint64(0),
+			"pgmajfault":                uint64(0),
+			"total_inactive_anon":       uint64(0),
+			"total_rss_huge":            uint64(0),
+			"rss_huge":                  uint64(0),
+			"hierarchical_memory_limit": uint64(0),
+			"pgpgout":                   uint64(0),
+			"unevictable":               uint64(0),
+			"total_inactive_file":       uint64(0),
+			"writeback":                 uint64(0),
+			"total_pgfault":             uint64(0),
+			"total_pgpgin":              uint64(0),
+			"cache":                     uint64(0),
+			"mapped_file":               uint64(0),
+			"inactive_file":             uint64(0),
+			"max_usage":                 uint64(0),
+			"fail_count":                uint64(0),
+			"pgfault":                   uint64(0),
+			"usage":                     uint64(0),
+			"limit":                     uint64(18935443456),
+			"container_id":              "b7dfbb9478a6ae55e237d4d74f8bbb753f0817192b5081334dc78476296e2173",
+		},
+		map[string]string{
+			"container_name":  "etcd2",
+			"container_image": "quay.io/coreos/etcd:v2.2.2",
+		},
+	)
+
+	//fmt.Print(info)
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/dovecot/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/dovecot/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Dovecot Input Plugin
+
+The dovecot plugin uses the dovecot Stats protocol to gather metrics on configured
+domains. You can read Dovecot's documentation
+[here](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics)
+
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```
+# Read metrics about dovecot servers
+[[inputs.dovecot]]
+  ## specify dovecot servers via an address:port list
+  ##  e.g.
+  ##    localhost:24242
+  ##
+  ## If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
+  servers = ["localhost:24242"]
+  ## Type is one of "user", "domain", "ip", or "global"
+  type = "global"
+  ## Wildcard matches like "*.com". An empty string "" is same as "*"
+  ## If type = "ip" filters should be <IP/network>
+  filters = [""]
+```
+
+
+### Tags:
+	server: hostname
+	type: query type
+	ip: ip addr
+	user: username
+	domain: domain name
+
+
+### Fields:
+
+	reset_timestamp        time.Time
+	last_update            time.Time
+	num_logins             int64
+	num_cmds               int64
+	num_connected_sessions int64				## not in <user> type
+	user_cpu               float32
+	sys_cpu                float32
+	clock_time             float64
+	min_faults             int64
+	maj_faults             int64
+	vol_cs                 int64
+	invol_cs               int64
+	disk_input             int64
+	disk_output            int64
+	read_count             int64
+	read_bytes             int64
+	write_count            int64
+	write_bytes            int64
+	mail_lookup_path       int64
+	mail_lookup_attr       int64
+	mail_read_count        int64
+	mail_read_bytes        int64
+	mail_cache_hits        int64
+
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+telegraf -config t.cfg -input-filter dovecot -test
+* Plugin: dovecot, Collection 1
+> dovecot,ip=192.168.0.1,server=dovecot-1.domain.test,type=ip clock_time=0,disk_input=0i,disk_output=0i,invol_cs=0i,last_update="2016-04-08 10:59:47.000208479 +0200 CEST",mail_cache_hits=0i,mail_lookup_attr=0i,mail_lookup_path=0i,mail_read_bytes=0i,mail_read_count=0i,maj_faults=0i,min_faults=0i,num_cmds=12i,num_connected_sessions=0i,num_logins=6i,read_bytes=0i,read_count=0i,reset_timestamp="2016-04-08 10:33:34 +0200 CEST",sys_cpu=0,user_cpu=0,vol_cs=0i,write_bytes=0i,write_count=0i 1460106251633824223
+* Plugin: dovecot, Collection 1
+> dovecot,server=dovecot-1.domain.test,type=user,user=user-1@domain.test clock_time=0.00006,disk_input=405504i,disk_output=77824i,invol_cs=67i,last_update="2016-04-08 11:02:55.000111634 +0200 CEST",mail_cache_hits=26i,mail_lookup_attr=0i,mail_lookup_path=6i,mail_read_bytes=86233i,mail_read_count=5i,maj_faults=0i,min_faults=975i,num_cmds=41i,num_logins=3i,read_bytes=368833i,read_count=394i,reset_timestamp="2016-04-08 11:01:32 +0200 CEST",sys_cpu=0.008,user_cpu=0.004,vol_cs=323i,write_bytes=105086i,write_count=176i 1460106256637049167
+* Plugin: dovecot, Collection 1
+> dovecot,domain=domain.test,server=dovecot-1.domain.test,type=domain clock_time=100896189179847.7,disk_input=6467588263936i,disk_output=17933680439296i,invol_cs=1194808498i,last_update="2016-04-08 11:04:08.000377367 +0200 CEST",mail_cache_hits=46455781i,mail_lookup_attr=0i,mail_lookup_path=571490i,mail_read_bytes=79287033067i,mail_read_count=491243i,maj_faults=16992i,min_faults=1278442541i,num_cmds=606005i,num_connected_sessions=6597i,num_logins=166381i,read_bytes=30231409780721i,read_count=1624912080i,reset_timestamp="2016-04-08 10:28:45 +0200 CEST",sys_cpu=156440.372,user_cpu=216676.476,vol_cs=2749291157i,write_bytes=17097106707594i,write_count=944448998i 1460106261639672622
+* Plugin: dovecot, Collection 1
+> dovecot,server=dovecot-1.domain.test,type=global clock_time=101196971074203.94,disk_input=6493168218112i,disk_output=17978638815232i,invol_cs=1198855447i,last_update="2016-04-08 11:04:13.000379245 +0200 CEST",mail_cache_hits=68192209i,mail_lookup_attr=0i,mail_lookup_path=653861i,mail_read_bytes=86705151847i,mail_read_count=566125i,maj_faults=17208i,min_faults=1286179702i,num_cmds=917469i,num_connected_sessions=8896i,num_logins=174827i,read_bytes=30327690466186i,read_count=1772396430i,reset_timestamp="2016-04-08 10:28:45 +0200 CEST",sys_cpu=157965.692,user_cpu=219337.48,vol_cs=2827615787i,write_bytes=17150837661940i,write_count=992653220i 1460106266642153907
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/dovecot/dovecot.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/dovecot/dovecot.go
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+package dovecot
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	//	"log"
+	"net"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+)
+
+type Dovecot struct {
+	Type    string
+	Filters []string
+	Servers []string
+}
+
+func (d *Dovecot) Description() string {
+	return "Read statistics from one or many dovecot servers"
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## specify dovecot servers via an address:port list
+  ##  e.g.
+  ##    localhost:24242
+  ##
+  ## If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
+  servers = ["localhost:24242"]
+  ## Type is one of "user", "domain", "ip", or "global"
+  type = "global"
+  ## Wildcard matches like "*.com". An empty string "" is same as "*"
+  ## If type = "ip" filters should be <IP/network>
+  filters = [""]
+`
+
+var defaultTimeout = time.Second * time.Duration(5)
+
+var validQuery = map[string]bool{
+	"user": true, "domain": true, "global": true, "ip": true,
+}
+
+func (d *Dovecot) SampleConfig() string { return sampleConfig }
+
+const defaultPort = "24242"
+
+// Reads stats from all configured servers.
+func (d *Dovecot) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+
+	if !validQuery[d.Type] {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Error: %s is not a valid query type\n",
+			d.Type)
+	}
+
+	if len(d.Servers) == 0 {
+		d.Servers = append(d.Servers, "127.0.0.1:24242")
+	}
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+
+	var outerr error
+
+	if len(d.Filters) <= 0 {
+		d.Filters = append(d.Filters, "")
+	}
+
+	for _, serv := range d.Servers {
+		for _, filter := range d.Filters {
+			wg.Add(1)
+			go func(serv string, filter string) {
+				defer wg.Done()
+				outerr = d.gatherServer(serv, acc, d.Type, filter)
+			}(serv, filter)
+		}
+	}
+
+	wg.Wait()
+
+	return outerr
+}
+
+func (d *Dovecot) gatherServer(addr string, acc telegraf.Accumulator, qtype string, filter string) error {
+
+	_, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(addr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Error: %s on url %s\n", err, addr)
+	}
+
+	c, err := net.DialTimeout("tcp", addr, defaultTimeout)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Unable to connect to dovecot server '%s': %s", addr, err)
+	}
+	defer c.Close()
+
+	// Extend connection
+	c.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(defaultTimeout))
+
+	msg := fmt.Sprintf("EXPORT\t%s", qtype)
+	if len(filter) > 0 {
+		msg += fmt.Sprintf("\t%s=%s", qtype, filter)
+	}
+	msg += "\n"
+
+	c.Write([]byte(msg))
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	io.Copy(&buf, c)
+
+	host, _, _ := net.SplitHostPort(addr)
+
+	return gatherStats(&buf, acc, host, qtype)
+}
+
+func gatherStats(buf *bytes.Buffer, acc telegraf.Accumulator, host string, qtype string) error {
+
+	lines := strings.Split(buf.String(), "\n")
+	head := strings.Split(lines[0], "\t")
+	vals := lines[1:]
+
+	for i := range vals {
+		if vals[i] == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		val := strings.Split(vals[i], "\t")
+
+		fields := make(map[string]interface{})
+		tags := map[string]string{"server": host, "type": qtype}
+
+		if qtype != "global" {
+			tags[qtype] = val[0]
+		}
+
+		for n := range val {
+			switch head[n] {
+			case qtype:
+				continue
+			case "user_cpu", "sys_cpu", "clock_time":
+				fields[head[n]] = secParser(val[n])
+			case "reset_timestamp", "last_update":
+				fields[head[n]] = timeParser(val[n])
+			default:
+				ival, _ := splitSec(val[n])
+				fields[head[n]] = ival
+			}
+		}
+
+		acc.AddFields("dovecot", fields, tags)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func splitSec(tm string) (sec int64, msec int64) {
+	var err error
+	ss := strings.Split(tm, ".")
+
+	sec, err = strconv.ParseInt(ss[0], 10, 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		sec = 0
+	}
+	if len(ss) > 1 {
+		msec, err = strconv.ParseInt(ss[1], 10, 64)
+		if err != nil {
+			msec = 0
+		}
+	} else {
+		msec = 0
+	}
+
+	return sec, msec
+}
+
+func timeParser(tm string) time.Time {
+
+	sec, msec := splitSec(tm)
+	return time.Unix(sec, msec)
+}
+
+func secParser(tm string) float64 {
+
+	sec, msec := splitSec(tm)
+	return float64(sec) + (float64(msec) / 1000000.0)
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("dovecot", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &Dovecot{}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/dovecot/dovecot_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/dovecot/dovecot_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+package dovecot
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestDovecot(t *testing.T) {
+
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping integration test in short mode")
+	}
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"reset_timestamp":        time.Unix(1453969886, 0),
+		"last_update":            time.Unix(1454603963, 39864),
+		"num_logins":             int64(7503897),
+		"num_cmds":               int64(52595715),
+		"num_connected_sessions": int64(1204),
+		"user_cpu":               1.00831175372e+08,
+		"sys_cpu":                8.3849071112e+07,
+		"clock_time":             4.3260019315281835e+15,
+		"min_faults":             int64(763950011),
+		"maj_faults":             int64(1112443),
+		"vol_cs":                 int64(4120386897),
+		"invol_cs":               int64(3685239306),
+		"disk_input":             int64(41679480946688),
+		"disk_output":            int64(1819070669176832),
+		"read_count":             int64(2368906465),
+		"read_bytes":             int64(2957928122981169),
+		"write_count":            int64(3545389615),
+		"write_bytes":            int64(1666822498251286),
+		"mail_lookup_path":       int64(24396105),
+		"mail_lookup_attr":       int64(302845),
+		"mail_read_count":        int64(20155768),
+		"mail_read_bytes":        int64(669946617705),
+		"mail_cache_hits":        int64(1557255080),
+	}
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+
+	// Test type=global
+	tags := map[string]string{"server": "dovecot.test", "type": "global"}
+	buf := bytes.NewBufferString(sampleGlobal)
+
+	err := gatherStats(buf, &acc, "dovecot.test", "global")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "dovecot", fields, tags)
+
+	// Test type=domain
+	tags = map[string]string{"server": "dovecot.test", "type": "domain", "domain": "domain.test"}
+	buf = bytes.NewBufferString(sampleDomain)
+
+	err = gatherStats(buf, &acc, "dovecot.test", "domain")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "dovecot", fields, tags)
+
+	// Test type=ip
+	tags = map[string]string{"server": "dovecot.test", "type": "ip", "ip": "192.168.0.100"}
+	buf = bytes.NewBufferString(sampleIp)
+
+	err = gatherStats(buf, &acc, "dovecot.test", "ip")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "dovecot", fields, tags)
+
+	// Test type=user
+	fields = map[string]interface{}{
+		"reset_timestamp":  time.Unix(1453969886, 0),
+		"last_update":      time.Unix(1454603963, 39864),
+		"num_logins":       int64(7503897),
+		"num_cmds":         int64(52595715),
+		"user_cpu":         1.00831175372e+08,
+		"sys_cpu":          8.3849071112e+07,
+		"clock_time":       4.3260019315281835e+15,
+		"min_faults":       int64(763950011),
+		"maj_faults":       int64(1112443),
+		"vol_cs":           int64(4120386897),
+		"invol_cs":         int64(3685239306),
+		"disk_input":       int64(41679480946688),
+		"disk_output":      int64(1819070669176832),
+		"read_count":       int64(2368906465),
+		"read_bytes":       int64(2957928122981169),
+		"write_count":      int64(3545389615),
+		"write_bytes":      int64(1666822498251286),
+		"mail_lookup_path": int64(24396105),
+		"mail_lookup_attr": int64(302845),
+		"mail_read_count":  int64(20155768),
+		"mail_read_bytes":  int64(669946617705),
+		"mail_cache_hits":  int64(1557255080),
+	}
+
+	tags = map[string]string{"server": "dovecot.test", "type": "user", "user": "user.1@domain.test"}
+	buf = bytes.NewBufferString(sampleUser)
+
+	err = gatherStats(buf, &acc, "dovecot.test", "user")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "dovecot", fields, tags)
+
+}
+
+const sampleGlobal = `reset_timestamp	last_update	num_logins	num_cmds	num_connected_sessions	user_cpu	sys_cpu	clock_time	min_faults	maj_faults	vol_cs	invol_cs	disk_input	disk_output	read_count	read_bytes	write_count	write_bytes	mail_lookup_path	mail_lookup_attr	mail_read_count	mail_read_bytes	mail_cache_hits
+1453969886	1454603963.039864	7503897	52595715	1204	100831175.372000	83849071.112000	4326001931528183.495762	763950011	1112443	4120386897	3685239306	41679480946688	1819070669176832	2368906465	2957928122981169	3545389615	1666822498251286	24396105	302845	20155768	669946617705	1557255080`
+
+const sampleDomain = `domain	reset_timestamp	last_update	num_logins	num_cmds	num_connected_sessions	user_cpu	sys_cpu	clock_time	min_faults	maj_faults	vol_cs	invol_cs	disk_input	disk_output	read_count	read_bytes	write_count	write_bytes	mail_lookup_path	mail_lookup_attr	mail_read_count	mail_read_bytes	mail_cache_hits
+domain.test	1453969886	1454603963.039864	7503897	52595715	1204	100831175.372000	83849071.112000	4326001931528183.495762	763950011	1112443	4120386897	3685239306	41679480946688	1819070669176832	2368906465	2957928122981169	3545389615	1666822498251286	24396105	302845	20155768	669946617705	1557255080`
+
+const sampleIp = `ip	reset_timestamp	last_update	num_logins	num_cmds	num_connected_sessions	user_cpu	sys_cpu	clock_time	min_faults	maj_faults	vol_cs	invol_cs	disk_input	disk_output	read_count	read_bytes	write_count	write_bytes	mail_lookup_path	mail_lookup_attr	mail_read_count	mail_read_bytes	mail_cache_hits
+192.168.0.100	1453969886	1454603963.039864	7503897	52595715	1204	100831175.372000	83849071.112000	4326001931528183.495762	763950011	1112443	4120386897	3685239306	41679480946688	1819070669176832	2368906465	2957928122981169	3545389615	1666822498251286	24396105	302845	20155768	669946617705	1557255080`
+
+const sampleUser = `user	reset_timestamp	last_update	num_logins	num_cmds	user_cpu	sys_cpu	clock_time	min_faults	maj_faults	vol_cs	invol_cs	disk_input	disk_output	read_count	read_bytes	write_count	write_bytes	mail_lookup_path	mail_lookup_attr	mail_read_count	mail_read_bytes	mail_cache_hits
+user.1@domain.test	1453969886	1454603963.039864	7503897	52595715	100831175.372000	83849071.112000	4326001931528183.495762	763950011	1112443	4120386897	3685239306	41679480946688	1819070669176832	2368906465	2957928122981169	3545389615	1666822498251286	24396105	302845	20155768	669946617705	1557255080`
--- a/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.go
@@ -2,12 +2,16 @@ package elasticsearch

 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
 	"time"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/internal"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	jsonparser "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/json"
 )

 const statsPath = "/_nodes/stats"
@@ -55,14 +59,14 @@ type indexHealth struct {
 }

 const sampleConfig = `
-  # specify a list of one or more Elasticsearch servers
+  ## specify a list of one or more Elasticsearch servers
  servers = ["http://localhost:9200"]

-  # set local to false when you want to read the indices stats from all nodes
-  # within the cluster
+  ## set local to false when you want to read the indices stats from all nodes
+  ## within the cluster
  local = true

-  # set cluster_health to true when you want to also obtain cluster level stats
+  ## set cluster_health to true when you want to also obtain cluster level stats
  cluster_health = false
 `

@@ -77,7 +81,12 @@ type Elasticsearch struct {

 // NewElasticsearch return a new instance of Elasticsearch
 func NewElasticsearch() *Elasticsearch {
-	return &Elasticsearch{client: http.DefaultClient}
+	tr := &http.Transport{ResponseHeaderTimeout: time.Duration(3 * time.Second)}
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Transport: tr,
+		Timeout:   time.Duration(4 * time.Second),
+	}
+	return &Elasticsearch{client: client}
 }

 // SampleConfig returns sample configuration for this plugin.
@@ -92,25 +101,45 @@ func (e *Elasticsearch) Description() string {

 // Gather reads the stats from Elasticsearch and writes it to the
 // Accumulator.
-func (e *Elasticsearch) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (e *Elasticsearch) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	errChan := make(chan error, len(e.Servers))
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	wg.Add(len(e.Servers))
+
 	for _, serv := range e.Servers {
-		var url string
-		if e.Local {
-			url = serv + statsPathLocal
-		} else {
-			url = serv + statsPath
-		}
-		if err := e.gatherNodeStats(url, acc); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		if e.ClusterHealth {
-			e.gatherClusterStats(fmt.Sprintf("%s/_cluster/health?level=indices", serv), acc)
-		}
+		go func(s string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			var url string
+			if e.Local {
+				url = s + statsPathLocal
+			} else {
+				url = s + statsPath
+			}
+			if err := e.gatherNodeStats(url, acc); err != nil {
+				errChan <- err
+				return
+			}
+			if e.ClusterHealth {
+				e.gatherClusterStats(fmt.Sprintf("%s/_cluster/health?level=indices", s), acc)
+			}
+		}(serv, acc)
 	}
-	return nil
+
+	wg.Wait()
+	close(errChan)
+	// Get all errors and return them as one giant error
+	errStrings := []string{}
+	for err := range errChan {
+		errStrings = append(errStrings, err.Error())
+	}
+
+	if len(errStrings) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return errors.New(strings.Join(errStrings, "\n"))
 }

-func (e *Elasticsearch) gatherNodeStats(url string, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (e *Elasticsearch) gatherNodeStats(url string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	nodeStats := &struct {
 		ClusterName string           `json:"cluster_name"`
 		Nodes       map[string]*node `json:"nodes"`
@@ -144,7 +173,7 @@ func (e *Elasticsearch) gatherNodeStats(url string, acc inputs.Accumulator) erro

 		now := time.Now()
 		for p, s := range stats {
-			f := internal.JSONFlattener{}
+			f := jsonparser.JSONFlattener{}
 			err := f.FlattenJSON("", s)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
@@ -155,7 +184,7 @@ func (e *Elasticsearch) gatherNodeStats(url string, acc inputs.Accumulator) erro
 	return nil
 }

-func (e *Elasticsearch) gatherClusterStats(url string, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (e *Elasticsearch) gatherClusterStats(url string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	clusterStats := &clusterHealth{}
 	if err := e.gatherData(url, clusterStats); err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -220,7 +249,7 @@ func (e *Elasticsearch) gatherData(url string, v interface{}) error {
 }

 func init() {
-	inputs.Add("elasticsearch", func() inputs.Input {
+	inputs.Add("elasticsearch", func() telegraf.Input {
 		return NewElasticsearch()
 	})
 }
--- a/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_test.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"

 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ func (t *transportMock) RoundTrip(r *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
 	return res, nil
 }

+func (t *transportMock) CancelRequest(_ *http.Request) {
+}
+
 func TestElasticsearch(t *testing.T) {
 	es := NewElasticsearch()
 	es.Servers = []string{"http://example.com:9200"}
--- a/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch/testdata_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch/testdata_test.go
@@ -562,6 +562,9 @@ var indicesExpected = map[string]interface{}{
 }

 var osExpected = map[string]interface{}{
+	"load_average_0":           float64(0.01),
+	"load_average_1":           float64(0.04),
+	"load_average_2":           float64(0.05),
 	"swap_used_in_bytes":       float64(0),
 	"swap_free_in_bytes":       float64(487997440),
 	"timestamp":                float64(1436460392944),
@@ -724,10 +727,13 @@ var threadPoolExpected = map[string]interface{}{
 }

 var fsExpected = map[string]interface{}{
-	"timestamp":                float64(1436460392946),
-	"total_free_in_bytes":      float64(16909316096),
-	"total_available_in_bytes": float64(15894814720),
-	"total_total_in_bytes":     float64(19507089408),
+	"data_0_total_in_bytes":     float64(19507089408),
+	"data_0_free_in_bytes":      float64(16909316096),
+	"data_0_available_in_bytes": float64(15894814720),
+	"timestamp":                 float64(1436460392946),
+	"total_free_in_bytes":       float64(16909316096),
+	"total_available_in_bytes":  float64(15894814720),
+	"total_total_in_bytes":      float64(19507089408),
 }

 var transportExpected = map[string]interface{}{
--- a/plugins/inputs/exec/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/exec/README.md
@@ -1,42 +1,183 @@
-# Exec Plugin
+# Exec Input Plugin

-The exec plugin can execute arbitrary commands which output JSON. Then it flattens JSON and finds
-all numeric values, treating them as floats.
+Please also see: [Telegraf Input Data Formats](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md)

-For example, if you have a json-returning command called mycollector, you could
-setup the exec plugin with:
+### Example 1 - JSON
+
+#### Configuration
+
+In this example a script called ```/tmp/test.sh``` and a script called ```/tmp/test2.sh```
+are configured for ```[[inputs.exec]]``` in JSON format.

 ```
-[[exec.commands]]
-command = "/usr/bin/mycollector --output=json"
-name = "mycollector"
-interval = 10
+# Read flattened metrics from one or more commands that output JSON to stdout
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  # Shell/commands array
+  commands = ["/tmp/test.sh", "/tmp/test2.sh"]
+
+  # Data format to consume.
+  # NOTE json only reads numerical measurements, strings and booleans are ignored.
+  data_format = "json"
+
+  # measurement name suffix (for separating different commands)
+  name_suffix = "_mycollector"
+
+  ## Below configuration will be used for data_format = "graphite", can be ignored for other data_format
+  ## If matching multiple measurement files, this string will be used to join the matched values.
+  #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.  The can be only one default template.
+  ## Templates support below format:
+  ## 1. filter + template
+  ## 2. filter + template + extra tag
+  ## 3. filter + template with field key
+  ## 4. default template
+  #templates = [
+  #  "*.app env.service.resource.measurement",
+  #  "stats.* .host.measurement* region=us-west,agent=sensu",
+  #  "stats2.* .host.measurement.field",
+  #  "measurement*"
+  #]
 ```

-The name is used as a prefix for the measurements.
+Other options for modifying the measurement names are:

-The interval is used to determine how often a particular command should be run. Each
-time the exec plugin runs, it will only run a particular command if it has been at least
-`interval` seconds since the exec plugin last ran the command.
+```
+name_prefix = "prefix_"
+```

+Let's say that we have the above configuration, and mycollector outputs the
+following JSON:

-# Sample
-
-Let's say that we have a command named "mycollector", which gives the following output:
 ```json
 {
    "a": 0.5,
    "b": {
-        "c": "some text",
-        "d": 0.1,
-        "e": 5
+        "c": 0.1,
+        "d": 5
    }
 }
 ```

-The collected metrics will be:
+The collected metrics will be stored as fields under the measurement
+"exec_mycollector":
+
 ```
-exec_mycollector_a value=0.5
-exec_mycollector_b_d value=0.1
-exec_mycollector_b_e value=5
+exec_mycollector a=0.5,b_c=0.1,b_d=5 1452815002357578567
 ```
+If using JSON, only numeric values are parsed and turned into floats. Booleans
+and strings will be ignored.
+
+### Example 2 - Influx Line-Protocol
+
+In this example an application called ```/usr/bin/line_protocol_collector```
+and a script called ```/tmp/test2.sh``` are configured for ```[[inputs.exec]]```
+in influx line-protocol format.
+
+#### Configuration
+
+```
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  # Shell/commands array
+  # compatible with old version
+  # we can still use the old command configuration
+  # command = "/usr/bin/line_protocol_collector"
+  commands = ["/usr/bin/line_protocol_collector","/tmp/test2.sh"]
+
+  # Data format to consume.
+  # NOTE json only reads numerical measurements, strings and booleans are ignored.
+  data_format = "influx"
+```
+
+The line_protocol_collector application outputs the following line protocol:
+
+```
+cpu,cpu=cpu0,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu2,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,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu5,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu6,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+```
+
+You will get data in InfluxDB exactly as it is defined above,
+tags are cpu=cpuN, host=foo, and datacenter=us-east with fields usage_idle
+and usage_busy. They will receive a timestamp at collection time.
+Each line must end in \n, just as the Influx line protocol does.
+
+
+### Example 3 - Graphite
+
+We can also change the data_format to "graphite" to use the metrics collecting scripts such as (compatible with graphite):
+
+* Nagios [Metrics Plugins](https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins)
+* Sensu [Metrics Plugins](https://github.com/sensu-plugins)
+
+In this example a script called /tmp/test.sh and a script called /tmp/test2.sh are configured for [[inputs.exec]] in graphite format.
+
+#### Configuration
+```
+# Read flattened metrics from one or more commands that output JSON to stdout
+[[inputs.exec]]
+  # Shell/commands array
+  commands = ["/tmp/test.sh","/tmp/test2.sh"]
+
+  # Data format to consume.
+  # NOTE json only reads numerical measurements, strings and booleans are ignored.
+  data_format = "graphite"
+
+  # measurement name suffix (for separating different commands)
+  name_suffix = "_mycollector"
+
+  ## Below configuration will be used for data_format = "graphite", can be ignored for other data_format
+  ## If matching multiple measurement files, this string will be used to join the matched values.
+  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.  The can be only one default template.
+  ## Templates support below format:
+  ## 1. filter + template
+  ## 2. filter + template + extra tag
+  ## 3. filter + template with field key
+  ## 4. default template
+  templates = [
+    "*.app env.service.resource.measurement",
+    "stats.* .host.measurement* region=us-west,agent=sensu",
+    "stats2.* .host.measurement.field",
+    "measurement*"
+  ]
+```
+Graphite messages are in this format:
+
+```
+metric_path value timestamp\n
+```
+
+__metric_path__ is the metric namespace that you want to populate.
+
+__value__ is the value that you want to assign to the metric at this time.
+
+__timestamp__ is the unix epoch time.
+
+And test.sh/test2.sh will output:
+
+```
+sensu.metric.net.server0.eth0.rx_packets 461295119435 1444234982
+sensu.metric.net.server0.eth0.tx_bytes 1093086493388480 1444234982
+sensu.metric.net.server0.eth0.rx_bytes 1015633926034834 1444234982
+sensu.metric.net.server0.eth0.tx_errors 0 1444234982
+sensu.metric.net.server0.eth0.rx_errors 0 1444234982
+sensu.metric.net.server0.eth0.tx_dropped 0 1444234982
+sensu.metric.net.server0.eth0.rx_dropped 0 1444234982
+```
+
+The templates configuration will be used to parse the graphite metrics to support influxdb/opentsdb tagging store engines.
+
+More detail information about templates, please refer to [The graphite Input](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/blob/master/services/graphite/README.md)
+
--- a/plugins/inputs/exec/exec.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/exec/exec.go
@@ -2,55 +2,133 @@ package exec

 import (
 	"bytes"
-	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"os/exec"
+	"sync"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"

 	"github.com/gonuts/go-shellquote"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/internal"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/nagios"
 )

 const sampleConfig = `
-  # the command to run
-  command = "/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"
+  ## Commands array
+  commands = ["/tmp/test.sh", "/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"]

-  # measurement name suffix (for separating different commands)
+  ## Timeout for each command to complete.
+  timeout = "5s"
+
+  ## 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
+  ## more about them here:
+  ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
+  data_format = "influx"
 `

 type Exec struct {
-	Command string
+	Commands []string
+	Command  string
+	Timeout  internal.Duration

-	runner Runner
+	parser parsers.Parser
+
+	wg sync.WaitGroup
+
+	runner  Runner
+	errChan chan error
+}
+
+func NewExec() *Exec {
+	return &Exec{
+		runner:  CommandRunner{},
+		Timeout: internal.Duration{Duration: time.Second * 5},
+	}
 }

 type Runner interface {
-	Run(*Exec) ([]byte, error)
+	Run(*Exec, string, telegraf.Accumulator) ([]byte, error)
 }

 type CommandRunner struct{}

-func (c CommandRunner) Run(e *Exec) ([]byte, error) {
-	split_cmd, err := shellquote.Split(e.Command)
+func AddNagiosState(exitCode error, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	nagiosState := 0
+	if exitCode != nil {
+		exiterr, ok := exitCode.(*exec.ExitError)
+		if ok {
+			status, ok := exiterr.Sys().(syscall.WaitStatus)
+			if ok {
+				nagiosState = status.ExitStatus()
+			} else {
+				return fmt.Errorf("exec: unable to get nagios plugin exit code")
+			}
+		} else {
+			return fmt.Errorf("exec: unable to get nagios plugin exit code")
+		}
+	}
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{"state": nagiosState}
+	acc.AddFields("nagios_state", fields, nil)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (c CommandRunner) Run(
+	e *Exec,
+	command string,
+	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
+) ([]byte, error) {
+	split_cmd, err := shellquote.Split(command)
 	if err != nil || len(split_cmd) == 0 {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("exec: unable to parse command, %s", err)
 	}

 	cmd := exec.Command(split_cmd[0], split_cmd[1:]...)
+
 	var out bytes.Buffer
 	cmd.Stdout = &out

-	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("exec: %s for command '%s'", err, e.Command)
+	if err := internal.RunTimeout(cmd, e.Timeout.Duration); err != nil {
+		switch e.parser.(type) {
+		case *nagios.NagiosParser:
+			AddNagiosState(err, acc)
+		default:
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("exec: %s for command '%s'", err, command)
+		}
+	} else {
+		switch e.parser.(type) {
+		case *nagios.NagiosParser:
+			AddNagiosState(nil, acc)
+		}
 	}

 	return out.Bytes(), nil
 }

-func NewExec() *Exec {
-	return &Exec{runner: CommandRunner{}}
+func (e *Exec) ProcessCommand(command string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
+	defer e.wg.Done()
+
+	out, err := e.runner.Run(e, command, acc)
+	if err != nil {
+		e.errChan <- err
+		return
+	}
+
+	metrics, err := e.parser.Parse(out)
+	if err != nil {
+		e.errChan <- err
+	} else {
+		for _, metric := range metrics {
+			acc.AddFields(metric.Name(), metric.Fields(), metric.Tags(), metric.Time())
+		}
+	}
 }

 func (e *Exec) SampleConfig() string {
@@ -58,34 +136,41 @@ func (e *Exec) SampleConfig() string {
 }

 func (e *Exec) Description() string {
-	return "Read flattened metrics from one or more commands that output JSON to stdout"
+	return "Read metrics from one or more commands that can output to stdout"
 }

-func (e *Exec) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
-	out, err := e.runner.Run(e)
-	if err != nil {
+func (e *Exec) SetParser(parser parsers.Parser) {
+	e.parser = parser
+}
+
+func (e *Exec) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	// Legacy single command support
+	if e.Command != "" {
+		e.Commands = append(e.Commands, e.Command)
+		e.Command = ""
+	}
+
+	e.errChan = make(chan error, len(e.Commands))
+
+	e.wg.Add(len(e.Commands))
+	for _, command := range e.Commands {
+		go e.ProcessCommand(command, acc)
+	}
+	e.wg.Wait()
+
+	select {
+	default:
+		close(e.errChan)
+		return nil
+	case err := <-e.errChan:
+		close(e.errChan)
 		return err
 	}

-	var jsonOut interface{}
-	err = json.Unmarshal(out, &jsonOut)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("exec: unable to parse output of '%s' as JSON, %s",
-			e.Command, err)
-	}
-
-	f := internal.JSONFlattener{}
-	err = f.FlattenJSON("", jsonOut)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	acc.AddFields("exec", f.Fields, nil)
-	return nil
 }

 func init() {
-	inputs.Add("exec", func() inputs.Input {
+	inputs.Add("exec", func() telegraf.Input {
 		return NewExec()
 	})
 }
--- a/plugins/inputs/exec/exec_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/exec/exec_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
@@ -31,6 +34,18 @@ const malformedJson = `
    "status": "green",
 `

+const lineProtocol = "cpu,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1"
+
+const lineProtocolMulti = `
+cpu,cpu=cpu0,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu1,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu2,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,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu5,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+cpu,cpu=cpu6,host=foo,datacenter=us-east usage_idle=99,usage_busy=1
+`
+
 type runnerMock struct {
 	out []byte
 	err error
@@ -43,7 +58,7 @@ func newRunnerMock(out []byte, err error) Runner {
 	}
 }

-func (r runnerMock) Run(e *Exec) ([]byte, error) {
+func (r runnerMock) Run(e *Exec, command string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) ([]byte, error) {
 	if r.err != nil {
 		return nil, r.err
 	}
@@ -51,29 +66,37 @@ func (r runnerMock) Run(e *Exec) ([]byte, error) {
 }

 func TestExec(t *testing.T) {
+	parser, _ := parsers.NewJSONParser("exec", []string{}, nil)
 	e := &Exec{
-		runner:  newRunnerMock([]byte(validJson), nil),
-		Command: "testcommand arg1",
+		runner:   newRunnerMock([]byte(validJson), nil),
+		Commands: []string{"testcommand arg1"},
+		parser:   parser,
 	}

 	var acc testutil.Accumulator
 	err := e.Gather(&acc)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
-	assert.Equal(t, acc.NFields(), 4, "non-numeric measurements should be ignored")
+	assert.Equal(t, acc.NFields(), 8, "non-numeric measurements should be ignored")

 	fields := map[string]interface{}{
 		"num_processes": float64(82),
 		"cpu_used":      float64(8234),
 		"cpu_free":      float64(32),
 		"percent":       float64(0.81),
+		"users_0":       float64(0),
+		"users_1":       float64(1),
+		"users_2":       float64(2),
+		"users_3":       float64(3),
 	}
 	acc.AssertContainsFields(t, "exec", fields)
 }

 func TestExecMalformed(t *testing.T) {
+	parser, _ := parsers.NewJSONParser("exec", []string{}, nil)
 	e := &Exec{
-		runner:  newRunnerMock([]byte(malformedJson), nil),
-		Command: "badcommand arg1",
+		runner:   newRunnerMock([]byte(malformedJson), nil),
+		Commands: []string{"badcommand arg1"},
+		parser:   parser,
 	}

 	var acc testutil.Accumulator
@@ -83,9 +106,11 @@ func TestExecMalformed(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestCommandError(t *testing.T) {
+	parser, _ := parsers.NewJSONParser("exec", []string{}, nil)
 	e := &Exec{
-		runner:  newRunnerMock(nil, fmt.Errorf("exit status code 1")),
-		Command: "badcommand",
+		runner:   newRunnerMock(nil, fmt.Errorf("exit status code 1")),
+		Commands: []string{"badcommand"},
+		parser:   parser,
 	}

 	var acc testutil.Accumulator
@@ -93,3 +118,54 @@ func TestCommandError(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Error(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, acc.NFields(), 0, "No new points should have been added")
 }
+
+func TestLineProtocolParse(t *testing.T) {
+	parser, _ := parsers.NewInfluxParser()
+	e := &Exec{
+		runner:   newRunnerMock([]byte(lineProtocol), nil),
+		Commands: []string{"line-protocol"},
+		parser:   parser,
+	}
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	err := e.Gather(&acc)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": float64(99),
+		"usage_busy": float64(1),
+	}
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host":       "foo",
+		"datacenter": "us-east",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "cpu", fields, tags)
+}
+
+func TestLineProtocolParseMultiple(t *testing.T) {
+	parser, _ := parsers.NewInfluxParser()
+	e := &Exec{
+		runner:   newRunnerMock([]byte(lineProtocolMulti), nil),
+		Commands: []string{"line-protocol"},
+		parser:   parser,
+	}
+
+	var acc testutil.Accumulator
+	err := e.Gather(&acc)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	fields := map[string]interface{}{
+		"usage_idle": float64(99),
+		"usage_busy": float64(1),
+	}
+	tags := map[string]string{
+		"host":       "foo",
+		"datacenter": "us-east",
+	}
+	cpuTags := []string{"cpu0", "cpu1", "cpu2", "cpu3", "cpu4", "cpu5", "cpu6"}
+
+	for _, cpu := range cpuTags {
+		tags["cpu"] = cpu
+		acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "cpu", fields, tags)
+	}
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/filestat/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/filestat/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# filestat Input Plugin
+
+The filestat plugin gathers metrics about file existence, size, and other stats.
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```toml
+# Read stats about given file(s)
+[[inputs.filestat]]
+  ## Files to gather stats about.
+  ## These accept standard unix glob matching rules, but with the addition of
+  ## ** as a "super asterisk". See https://github.com/gobwas/glob.
+  files = ["/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf", "/var/log/**.log"]
+  ## If true, read the entire file and calculate an md5 checksum.
+  md5 = false
+```
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+- filestat
+    - exists (int, 0 | 1)
+    - size_bytes (int, bytes)
+    - md5 (optional, string)
+
+### Tags:
+
+- All measurements have the following tags:
+    - file (the path the to file, as specified in the config)
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+$ telegraf -config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf -input-filter filestat -test
+* Plugin: filestat, Collection 1
+> filestat,file=/tmp/foo/bar,host=tyrion exists=0i 1461203374493128216
+> filestat,file=/Users/sparrc/ws/telegraf.conf,host=tyrion exists=1i,size=47894i 1461203374493199335
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/filestat/filestat.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/filestat/filestat.go
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+package filestat
+
+import (
+	"crypto/md5"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal/globpath"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+)
+
+const sampleConfig = `
+  ## Files to gather stats about.
+  ## These accept standard unix glob matching rules, but with the addition of
+  ## ** as a "super asterisk". ie:
+  ##   "/var/log/**.log"  -> recursively find all .log files in /var/log
+  ##   "/var/log/*/*.log" -> find all .log files with a parent dir in /var/log
+  ##   "/var/log/apache.log" -> just tail the apache log file
+  ##
+  ## See https://github.com/gobwas/glob for more examples
+  ##
+  files = ["/var/log/**.log"]
+  ## If true, read the entire file and calculate an md5 checksum.
+  md5 = false
+`
+
+type FileStat struct {
+	Md5   bool
+	Files []string
+
+	// maps full file paths to globmatch obj
+	globs map[string]*globpath.GlobPath
+}
+
+func NewFileStat() *FileStat {
+	return &FileStat{
+		globs: make(map[string]*globpath.GlobPath),
+	}
+}
+
+func (_ *FileStat) Description() string {
+	return "Read stats about given file(s)"
+}
+
+func (_ *FileStat) SampleConfig() string { return sampleConfig }
+
+func (f *FileStat) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	var errS string
+	var err error
+
+	for _, filepath := range f.Files {
+		// Get the compiled glob object for this filepath
+		g, ok := f.globs[filepath]
+		if !ok {
+			if g, err = globpath.Compile(filepath); err != nil {
+				errS += err.Error() + " "
+				continue
+			}
+			f.globs[filepath] = g
+		}
+
+		files := g.Match()
+		if len(files) == 0 {
+			acc.AddFields("filestat",
+				map[string]interface{}{
+					"exists": int64(0),
+				},
+				map[string]string{
+					"file": filepath,
+				})
+			continue
+		}
+
+		for fileName, fileInfo := range files {
+			tags := map[string]string{
+				"file": fileName,
+			}
+			fields := map[string]interface{}{
+				"exists":     int64(1),
+				"size_bytes": fileInfo.Size(),
+			}
+
+			if f.Md5 {
+				md5, err := getMd5(fileName)
+				if err != nil {
+					errS += err.Error() + " "
+				} else {
+					fields["md5_sum"] = md5
+				}
+			}
+
+			acc.AddFields("filestat", fields, tags)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if errS != "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf(errS)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Read given file and calculate an md5 hash.
+func getMd5(file string) (string, error) {
+	of, err := os.Open(file)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	defer of.Close()
+
+	hash := md5.New()
+	_, err = io.Copy(hash, of)
+	if err != nil {
+		// fatal error
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%x", hash.Sum(nil)), nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("filestat", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return NewFileStat()
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/filestat/filestat_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/filestat/filestat_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+package filestat
+
+import (
+	"runtime"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestGatherNoMd5(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := getTestdataDir()
+	fs := NewFileStat()
+	fs.Files = []string{
+		dir + "log1.log",
+		dir + "log2.log",
+		"/non/existant/file",
+	}
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	fs.Gather(&acc)
+
+	tags1 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "log1.log",
+	}
+	fields1 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(0),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields1, tags1)
+
+	tags2 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "log2.log",
+	}
+	fields2 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(0),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields2, tags2)
+
+	tags3 := map[string]string{
+		"file": "/non/existant/file",
+	}
+	fields3 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"exists": int64(0),
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields3, tags3)
+}
+
+func TestGatherExplicitFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := getTestdataDir()
+	fs := NewFileStat()
+	fs.Md5 = true
+	fs.Files = []string{
+		dir + "log1.log",
+		dir + "log2.log",
+		"/non/existant/file",
+	}
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	fs.Gather(&acc)
+
+	tags1 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "log1.log",
+	}
+	fields1 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(0),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+		"md5_sum":    "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields1, tags1)
+
+	tags2 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "log2.log",
+	}
+	fields2 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(0),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+		"md5_sum":    "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields2, tags2)
+
+	tags3 := map[string]string{
+		"file": "/non/existant/file",
+	}
+	fields3 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"exists": int64(0),
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields3, tags3)
+}
+
+func TestGatherGlob(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := getTestdataDir()
+	fs := NewFileStat()
+	fs.Md5 = true
+	fs.Files = []string{
+		dir + "*.log",
+	}
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	fs.Gather(&acc)
+
+	tags1 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "log1.log",
+	}
+	fields1 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(0),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+		"md5_sum":    "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields1, tags1)
+
+	tags2 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "log2.log",
+	}
+	fields2 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(0),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+		"md5_sum":    "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields2, tags2)
+}
+
+func TestGatherSuperAsterisk(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := getTestdataDir()
+	fs := NewFileStat()
+	fs.Md5 = true
+	fs.Files = []string{
+		dir + "**",
+	}
+
+	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
+	fs.Gather(&acc)
+
+	tags1 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "log1.log",
+	}
+	fields1 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(0),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+		"md5_sum":    "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields1, tags1)
+
+	tags2 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "log2.log",
+	}
+	fields2 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(0),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+		"md5_sum":    "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields2, tags2)
+
+	tags3 := map[string]string{
+		"file": dir + "test.conf",
+	}
+	fields3 := map[string]interface{}{
+		"size_bytes": int64(104),
+		"exists":     int64(1),
+		"md5_sum":    "5a7e9b77fa25e7bb411dbd17cf403c1f",
+	}
+	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "filestat", fields3, tags3)
+}
+
+func TestGetMd5(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := getTestdataDir()
+	md5, err := getMd5(dir + "test.conf")
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, "5a7e9b77fa25e7bb411dbd17cf403c1f", md5)
+
+	md5, err = getMd5("/tmp/foo/bar/fooooo")
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+}
+
+func getTestdataDir() string {
+	_, filename, _, _ := runtime.Caller(1)
+	return strings.Replace(filename, "filestat_test.go", "testdata/", 1)
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/filestat/testdata/log1.log
+++ b/plugins/inputs/filestat/testdata/log1.log
--- a/plugins/inputs/filestat/testdata/log2.log
+++ b/plugins/inputs/filestat/testdata/log2.log
--- a/plugins/inputs/filestat/testdata/test.conf
+++ b/plugins/inputs/filestat/testdata/test.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# this is a fake testing config file
+# for testing the filestat plugin
+
+option1 = "foo"
+option2 = "bar"
--- a/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,369 @@
+# github_webhooks
+
+This is a Telegraf service plugin that listens for events kicked off by Github's Webhooks service and persists data from them into configured outputs. To set up the listener first generate the proper configuration:
+```sh
+$ telegraf -sample-config -input-filter github_webhooks -output-filter influxdb > config.conf.new
+```
+Change the config file to point to the InfluxDB server you are using and adjust the settings to match your environment. Once that is complete:
+```sh
+$ cp config.conf.new /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf
+$ sudo service telegraf start
+```
+Once the server is running you should configure your Organization's Webhooks to point at the `github_webhooks` service. To do this go to `github.com/{my_organization}` and click `Settings > Webhooks > Add webhook`. In the resulting menu set `Payload URL` to `http://<my_ip>:1618`, `Content type` to `application/json` and under the section `Which events would you like to trigger this webhook?` select 'Send me <b>everything</b>'. By default all of the events will write to the `github_webhooks` measurement, this is configurable by setting the `measurement_name` in the config file.
+
+## Events
+
+The titles of the following sections are links to the full payloads and details for each event. The body contains what information from the event is persisted. The format is as follows:
+```
+# TAGS
+* 'tagKey' = `tagValue` type
+# FIELDS 
+* 'fieldKey' = `fieldValue` type
+```
+The tag values and field values show the place on the incoming JSON object where the data is sourced from. 
+
+#### [`commit_comment` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#commitcommentevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'commit' = `event.comment.commit_id` string
+* 'comment' = `event.comment.body` string
+
+#### [`create` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#createevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'ref' = `event.ref` string
+* 'issues' = `event.ref_type` string
+
+#### [`delete` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#deleteevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'ref' = `event.ref` string
+* 'issues' = `event.ref_type` string
+
+#### [`deployment` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#deploymentevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'commit' = `event.deployment.sha` string
+* 'task' = `event.deployment.task` string
+* 'environment' = `event.deployment.evnironment` string
+* 'description' = `event.deployment.description` string
+
+#### [`deployment_status` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#deploymentstatusevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'commit' = `event.deployment.sha` string
+* 'task' = `event.deployment.task` string
+* 'environment' = `event.deployment.evnironment` string
+* 'description' = `event.deployment.description` string
+* 'depState' = `event.deployment_status.state` string
+* 'depDescription' = `event.deployment_status.description` string
+
+#### [`fork` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#forkevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'forkee' = `event.forkee.repository` string
+
+#### [`gollum` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#gollumevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+
+#### [`issue_comment` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#issuecommentevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+* 'issue' = `event.issue.number` int
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'title' = `event.issue.title` string
+* 'comments' = `event.issue.comments` int
+* 'body' = `event.comment.body` string
+
+#### [`issues` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#issuesevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+* 'issue' = `event.issue.number` int
+* 'action' = `event.action` string
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'title' = `event.issue.title` string
+* 'comments' = `event.issue.comments` int
+
+#### [`member` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#memberevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'newMember' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'newMemberStatus' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+#### [`membership` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#membershipevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+* 'action' = `event.action` string
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'newMember' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'newMemberStatus' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+#### [`page_build` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#pagebuildevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+
+#### [`public` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#publicevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+
+#### [`pull_request_review_comment` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#pullrequestreviewcommentevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'action' = `event.action` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+* 'prNumber' = `event.pull_request.number` int
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'state' = `event.pull_request.state` string
+* 'title' = `event.pull_request.title` string
+* 'comments' = `event.pull_request.comments` int
+* 'commits' = `event.pull_request.commits` int
+* 'additions' = `event.pull_request.additions` int
+* 'deletions' = `event.pull_request.deletions` int
+* 'changedFiles' = `event.pull_request.changed_files` int
+* 'commentFile' = `event.comment.file` string
+* 'comment' = `event.comment.body` string
+
+#### [`pull_request` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#pullrequestevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'action' = `event.action` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+* 'prNumber' = `event.pull_request.number` int
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'state' = `event.pull_request.state` string
+* 'title' = `event.pull_request.title` string
+* 'comments' = `event.pull_request.comments` int
+* 'commits' = `event.pull_request.commits` int
+* 'additions' = `event.pull_request.additions` int
+* 'deletions' = `event.pull_request.deletions` int
+* 'changedFiles' = `event.pull_request.changed_files` int
+
+#### [`push` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#pushevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'ref' = `event.ref` string
+* 'before' = `event.before` string
+* 'after' = `event.after` string
+
+#### [`repository` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#repositoryevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+
+#### [`release` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#releaseevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'tagName' = `event.release.tag_name` string
+
+#### [`status` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#statusevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'commit' = `event.sha` string
+* 'state' = `event.state` string
+
+#### [`team_add` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#teamaddevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
+* 'teamName' = `event.team.name` string
+
+#### [`watch` event](https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/#watchevent)
+
+**Tags:**
+* 'event' = `headers[X-Github-Event]` string
+* 'repository' = `event.repository.full_name` string
+* 'private' = `event.repository.private` bool
+* 'user' = `event.sender.login` string
+* 'admin' = `event.sender.site_admin` bool
+
+**Fields:**
+* 'stars' = `event.repository.stargazers_count` int
+* 'forks' = `event.repository.forks_count` int
+* 'issues' = `event.repository.open_issues_count` int
--- a/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/github_webhooks.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/github_webhooks.go
@@ -0,0 +1,338 @@
+package github_webhooks
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+)
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("github_webhooks", func() telegraf.Input { return &GithubWebhooks{} })
+}
+
+type GithubWebhooks struct {
+	ServiceAddress string
+	// Lock for the struct
+	sync.Mutex
+	// Events buffer to store events between Gather calls
+	events []Event
+}
+
+func NewGithubWebhooks() *GithubWebhooks {
+	return &GithubWebhooks{}
+}
+
+func (gh *GithubWebhooks) SampleConfig() string {
+	return `
+  ## Address and port to host Webhook listener on
+  service_address = ":1618"
+`
+}
+
+func (gh *GithubWebhooks) Description() string {
+	return "A Github Webhook Event collector"
+}
+
+// Writes the points from <-gh.in to the Accumulator
+func (gh *GithubWebhooks) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	gh.Lock()
+	defer gh.Unlock()
+	for _, event := range gh.events {
+		p := event.NewMetric()
+		acc.AddFields("github_webhooks", p.Fields(), p.Tags(), p.Time())
+	}
+	gh.events = make([]Event, 0)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (gh *GithubWebhooks) Listen() {
+	r := mux.NewRouter()
+	r.HandleFunc("/", gh.eventHandler).Methods("POST")
+	err := http.ListenAndServe(fmt.Sprintf("%s", gh.ServiceAddress), r)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("Error starting server: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func (gh *GithubWebhooks) Start(_ telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	go gh.Listen()
+	log.Printf("Started the github_webhooks service on %s\n", gh.ServiceAddress)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (gh *GithubWebhooks) Stop() {
+	log.Println("Stopping the ghWebhooks service")
+}
+
+// Handles the / route
+func (gh *GithubWebhooks) eventHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	defer r.Body.Close()
+	eventType := r.Header["X-Github-Event"][0]
+	data, err := ioutil.ReadAll(r.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+		return
+	}
+	e, err := NewEvent(data, eventType)
+	if err != nil {
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+		return
+	}
+	gh.Lock()
+	gh.events = append(gh.events, e)
+	gh.Unlock()
+	w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+}
+
+func newCommitComment(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	commitCommentStruct := CommitCommentEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &commitCommentStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return commitCommentStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newCreate(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	createStruct := CreateEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &createStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return createStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newDelete(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	deleteStruct := DeleteEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &deleteStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return deleteStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newDeployment(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	deploymentStruct := DeploymentEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &deploymentStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return deploymentStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newDeploymentStatus(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	deploymentStatusStruct := DeploymentStatusEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &deploymentStatusStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return deploymentStatusStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newFork(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	forkStruct := ForkEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &forkStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return forkStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newGollum(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	gollumStruct := GollumEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &gollumStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return gollumStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newIssueComment(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	issueCommentStruct := IssueCommentEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &issueCommentStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return issueCommentStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newIssues(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	issuesStruct := IssuesEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &issuesStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return issuesStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newMember(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	memberStruct := MemberEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &memberStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return memberStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newMembership(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	membershipStruct := MembershipEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &membershipStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return membershipStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newPageBuild(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	pageBuildEvent := PageBuildEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &pageBuildEvent)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return pageBuildEvent, nil
+}
+
+func newPublic(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	publicEvent := PublicEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &publicEvent)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return publicEvent, nil
+}
+
+func newPullRequest(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	pullRequestStruct := PullRequestEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &pullRequestStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return pullRequestStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newPullRequestReviewComment(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	pullRequestReviewCommentStruct := PullRequestReviewCommentEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &pullRequestReviewCommentStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return pullRequestReviewCommentStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newPush(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	pushStruct := PushEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &pushStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return pushStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newRelease(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	releaseStruct := ReleaseEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &releaseStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return releaseStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newRepository(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	repositoryStruct := RepositoryEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &repositoryStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return repositoryStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newStatus(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	statusStruct := StatusEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &statusStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return statusStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newTeamAdd(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	teamAddStruct := TeamAddEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &teamAddStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return teamAddStruct, nil
+}
+
+func newWatch(data []byte) (Event, error) {
+	watchStruct := WatchEvent{}
+	err := json.Unmarshal(data, &watchStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return watchStruct, nil
+}
+
+type newEventError struct {
+	s string
+}
+
+func (e *newEventError) Error() string {
+	return e.s
+}
+
+func NewEvent(r []byte, t string) (Event, error) {
+	log.Printf("New %v event recieved", t)
+	switch t {
+	case "commit_comment":
+		return newCommitComment(r)
+	case "create":
+		return newCreate(r)
+	case "delete":
+		return newDelete(r)
+	case "deployment":
+		return newDeployment(r)
+	case "deployment_status":
+		return newDeploymentStatus(r)
+	case "fork":
+		return newFork(r)
+	case "gollum":
+		return newGollum(r)
+	case "issue_comment":
+		return newIssueComment(r)
+	case "issues":
+		return newIssues(r)
+	case "member":
+		return newMember(r)
+	case "membership":
+		return newMembership(r)
+	case "page_build":
+		return newPageBuild(r)
+	case "public":
+		return newPublic(r)
+	case "pull_request":
+		return newPullRequest(r)
+	case "pull_request_review_comment":
+		return newPullRequestReviewComment(r)
+	case "push":
+		return newPush(r)
+	case "release":
+		return newRelease(r)
+	case "repository":
+		return newRepository(r)
+	case "status":
+		return newStatus(r)
+	case "team_add":
+		return newTeamAdd(r)
+	case "watch":
+		return newWatch(r)
+	}
+	return nil, &newEventError{"Not a recgonized event type"}
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/github_webhooks_mock_json.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/github_webhooks_mock_json.go
--- a/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/github_webhooks_models.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/github_webhooks_models.go
@@ -0,0 +1,711 @@
+package github_webhooks
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+)
+
+const meas = "github_webhooks"
+
+type Event interface {
+	NewMetric() telegraf.Metric
+}
+
+type Repository struct {
+	Repository string `json:"full_name"`
+	Private    bool   `json:"private"`
+	Stars      int    `json:"stargazers_count"`
+	Forks      int    `json:"forks_count"`
+	Issues     int    `json:"open_issues_count"`
+}
+
+type Sender struct {
+	User  string `json:"login"`
+	Admin bool   `json:"site_admin"`
+}
+
+type CommitComment struct {
+	Commit string `json:"commit_id"`
+	Body   string `json:"body"`
+}
+
+type Deployment struct {
+	Commit      string `json:"sha"`
+	Task        string `json:"task"`
+	Environment string `json:"environment"`
+	Description string `json:"description"`
+}
+
+type Page struct {
+	Name   string `json:"page_name"`
+	Title  string `json:"title"`
+	Action string `json:"action"`
+}
+
+type Issue struct {
+	Number   int    `json:"number"`
+	Title    string `json:"title"`
+	Comments int    `json:"comments"`
+}
+
+type IssueComment struct {
+	Body string `json:"body"`
+}
+
+type Team struct {
+	Name string `json:"name"`
+}
+
+type PullRequest struct {
+	Number       int    `json:"number"`
+	State        string `json:"state"`
+	Title        string `json:"title"`
+	Comments     int    `json:"comments"`
+	Commits      int    `json:"commits"`
+	Additions    int    `json:"additions"`
+	Deletions    int    `json:"deletions"`
+	ChangedFiles int    `json:"changed_files"`
+}
+
+type PullRequestReviewComment struct {
+	File    string `json:"path"`
+	Comment string `json:"body"`
+}
+
+type Release struct {
+	TagName string `json:"tag_name"`
+}
+
+type DeploymentStatus struct {
+	State       string `json:"state"`
+	Description string `json:"description"`
+}
+
+type CommitCommentEvent struct {
+	Comment    CommitComment `json:"comment"`
+	Repository Repository    `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender        `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s CommitCommentEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "commit_comment"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":   s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":   s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":  s.Repository.Issues,
+		"commit":  s.Comment.Commit,
+		"comment": s.Comment.Body,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type CreateEvent struct {
+	Ref        string     `json:"ref"`
+	RefType    string     `json:"ref_type"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s CreateEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "create"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":   s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":   s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":  s.Repository.Issues,
+		"ref":     s.Ref,
+		"refType": s.RefType,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type DeleteEvent struct {
+	Ref        string     `json:"ref"`
+	RefType    string     `json:"ref_type"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s DeleteEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "delete"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":   s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":   s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":  s.Repository.Issues,
+		"ref":     s.Ref,
+		"refType": s.RefType,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type DeploymentEvent struct {
+	Deployment Deployment `json:"deployment"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s DeploymentEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "deployment"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":       s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":       s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":      s.Repository.Issues,
+		"commit":      s.Deployment.Commit,
+		"task":        s.Deployment.Task,
+		"environment": s.Deployment.Environment,
+		"description": s.Deployment.Description,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type DeploymentStatusEvent struct {
+	Deployment       Deployment       `json:"deployment"`
+	DeploymentStatus DeploymentStatus `json:"deployment_status"`
+	Repository       Repository       `json:"repository"`
+	Sender           Sender           `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s DeploymentStatusEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "delete"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":          s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":          s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":         s.Repository.Issues,
+		"commit":         s.Deployment.Commit,
+		"task":           s.Deployment.Task,
+		"environment":    s.Deployment.Environment,
+		"description":    s.Deployment.Description,
+		"depState":       s.DeploymentStatus.State,
+		"depDescription": s.DeploymentStatus.Description,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type ForkEvent struct {
+	Forkee     Repository `json:"forkee"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s ForkEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "fork"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":  s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":  s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues": s.Repository.Issues,
+		"fork":   s.Forkee.Repository,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type GollumEvent struct {
+	Pages      []Page     `json:"pages"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+// REVIEW: Going to be lazy and not deal with the pages.
+func (s GollumEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "gollum"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":  s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":  s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues": s.Repository.Issues,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type IssueCommentEvent struct {
+	Issue      Issue        `json:"issue"`
+	Comment    IssueComment `json:"comment"`
+	Repository Repository   `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender       `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s IssueCommentEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "issue_comment"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+		"issue":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Issue.Number),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":    s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":    s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":   s.Repository.Issues,
+		"title":    s.Issue.Title,
+		"comments": s.Issue.Comments,
+		"body":     s.Comment.Body,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type IssuesEvent struct {
+	Action     string     `json:"action"`
+	Issue      Issue      `json:"issue"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s IssuesEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "issue"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+		"issue":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Issue.Number),
+		"action":     s.Action,
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":    s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":    s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":   s.Repository.Issues,
+		"title":    s.Issue.Title,
+		"comments": s.Issue.Comments,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type MemberEvent struct {
+	Member     Sender     `json:"member"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s MemberEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "member"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":           s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":           s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":          s.Repository.Issues,
+		"newMember":       s.Member.User,
+		"newMemberStatus": s.Member.Admin,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type MembershipEvent struct {
+	Action string `json:"action"`
+	Member Sender `json:"member"`
+	Sender Sender `json:"sender"`
+	Team   Team   `json:"team"`
+}
+
+func (s MembershipEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "membership"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":  event,
+		"user":   s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":  fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+		"action": s.Action,
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"newMember":       s.Member.User,
+		"newMemberStatus": s.Member.Admin,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type PageBuildEvent struct {
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s PageBuildEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "page_build"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":  s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":  s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues": s.Repository.Issues,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type PublicEvent struct {
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s PublicEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "public"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":  s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":  s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues": s.Repository.Issues,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type PullRequestEvent struct {
+	Action      string      `json:"action"`
+	PullRequest PullRequest `json:"pull_request"`
+	Repository  Repository  `json:"repository"`
+	Sender      Sender      `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s PullRequestEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "pull_request"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"action":     s.Action,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+		"prNumber":   fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.PullRequest.Number),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":        s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":        s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":       s.Repository.Issues,
+		"state":        s.PullRequest.State,
+		"title":        s.PullRequest.Title,
+		"comments":     s.PullRequest.Comments,
+		"commits":      s.PullRequest.Commits,
+		"additions":    s.PullRequest.Additions,
+		"deletions":    s.PullRequest.Deletions,
+		"changedFiles": s.PullRequest.ChangedFiles,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type PullRequestReviewCommentEvent struct {
+	Comment     PullRequestReviewComment `json:"comment"`
+	PullRequest PullRequest              `json:"pull_request"`
+	Repository  Repository               `json:"repository"`
+	Sender      Sender                   `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s PullRequestReviewCommentEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "pull_request_review_comment"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+		"prNumber":   fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.PullRequest.Number),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":        s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":        s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":       s.Repository.Issues,
+		"state":        s.PullRequest.State,
+		"title":        s.PullRequest.Title,
+		"comments":     s.PullRequest.Comments,
+		"commits":      s.PullRequest.Commits,
+		"additions":    s.PullRequest.Additions,
+		"deletions":    s.PullRequest.Deletions,
+		"changedFiles": s.PullRequest.ChangedFiles,
+		"commentFile":  s.Comment.File,
+		"comment":      s.Comment.Comment,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type PushEvent struct {
+	Ref        string     `json:"ref"`
+	Before     string     `json:"before"`
+	After      string     `json:"after"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s PushEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "push"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":  s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":  s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues": s.Repository.Issues,
+		"ref":    s.Ref,
+		"before": s.Before,
+		"after":  s.After,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type ReleaseEvent struct {
+	Release    Release    `json:"release"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s ReleaseEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "release"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":   s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":   s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":  s.Repository.Issues,
+		"tagName": s.Release.TagName,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type RepositoryEvent struct {
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s RepositoryEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "repository"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":  s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":  s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues": s.Repository.Issues,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type StatusEvent struct {
+	Commit     string     `json:"sha"`
+	State      string     `json:"state"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s StatusEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "status"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":  s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":  s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues": s.Repository.Issues,
+		"commit": s.Commit,
+		"state":  s.State,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type TeamAddEvent struct {
+	Team       Team       `json:"team"`
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s TeamAddEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "team_add"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":    s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":    s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues":   s.Repository.Issues,
+		"teamName": s.Team.Name,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+type WatchEvent struct {
+	Repository Repository `json:"repository"`
+	Sender     Sender     `json:"sender"`
+}
+
+func (s WatchEvent) NewMetric() telegraf.Metric {
+	event := "delete"
+	t := map[string]string{
+		"event":      event,
+		"repository": s.Repository.Repository,
+		"private":    fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Repository.Private),
+		"user":       s.Sender.User,
+		"admin":      fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.Sender.Admin),
+	}
+	f := map[string]interface{}{
+		"stars":  s.Repository.Stars,
+		"forks":  s.Repository.Forks,
+		"issues": s.Repository.Issues,
+	}
+	m, err := telegraf.NewMetric(meas, t, f, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to create %v event", event)
+	}
+	return m
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/github_webhooks_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/github_webhooks/github_webhooks_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+package github_webhooks
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestCommitCommentEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := CommitCommentEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "commit_comment")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDeleteEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := DeleteEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "delete")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDeploymentEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := DeploymentEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "deployment")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDeploymentStatusEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := DeploymentStatusEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "deployment_status")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestForkEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := ForkEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "fork")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGollumEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := GollumEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "gollum")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestIssueCommentEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := IssueCommentEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "issue_comment")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestIssuesEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := IssuesEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "issues")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMemberEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := MemberEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "member")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMembershipEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := MembershipEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "membership")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPageBuildEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := PageBuildEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "page_build")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPublicEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := PublicEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "public")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPullRequestReviewCommentEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := PullRequestReviewCommentEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "pull_request_review_comment")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPushEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := PushEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "push")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReleaseEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := ReleaseEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "release")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRepositoryEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := RepositoryEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "repository")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStatusEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+
+	jsonString := StatusEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "status")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTeamAddEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := TeamAddEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "team_add")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWatchEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	gh := NewGithubWebhooks()
+	jsonString := WatchEventJSON()
+	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", strings.NewReader(jsonString))
+	req.Header.Add("X-Github-Event", "watch")
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	gh.eventHandler(w, req)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Errorf("POST commit_comment returned HTTP status code %v.\nExpected %v", w.Code, http.StatusOK)
+	}
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy.go
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ package haproxy
 import (
 	"encoding/csv"
 	"fmt"
-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
@@ -85,13 +86,13 @@ type haproxy struct {
 }

 var sampleConfig = `
-  # An array of address to gather stats about. Specify an ip on hostname
-  # with optional port. ie localhost, 10.10.3.33:1936, etc.
-  #
-  # If no servers are specified, then default to 127.0.0.1:1936
+  ## An array of address to gather stats about. Specify an ip on hostname
+  ## with optional port. ie localhost, 10.10.3.33:1936, etc.
+
+  ## If no servers are specified, then default to 127.0.0.1:1936
  servers = ["http://myhaproxy.com:1936", "http://anotherhaproxy.com:1936"]
-  # Or you can also use local socket(not work yet)
-  # servers = ["socket://run/haproxy/admin.sock"]
+  ## Or you can also use local socket(not work yet)
+  ## servers = ["socket://run/haproxy/admin.sock"]
 `

 func (r *haproxy) SampleConfig() string {
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ func (r *haproxy) Description() string {

 // Reads stats from all configured servers accumulates stats.
 // Returns one of the errors encountered while gather stats (if any).
-func (g *haproxy) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (g *haproxy) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	if len(g.Servers) == 0 {
 		return g.gatherServer("http://127.0.0.1:1936", acc)
 	}
@@ -126,10 +127,13 @@ func (g *haproxy) Gather(acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 	return outerr
 }

-func (g *haproxy) gatherServer(addr string, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
+func (g *haproxy) gatherServer(addr string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	if g.client == nil {
-
-		client := &http.Client{}
+		tr := &http.Transport{ResponseHeaderTimeout: time.Duration(3 * time.Second)}
+		client := &http.Client{
+			Transport: tr,
+			Timeout:   time.Duration(4 * time.Second),
+		}
 		g.client = client
 	}

@@ -156,7 +160,7 @@ func (g *haproxy) gatherServer(addr string, acc inputs.Accumulator) error {
 	return importCsvResult(res.Body, acc, u.Host)
 }

-func importCsvResult(r io.Reader, acc inputs.Accumulator, host string) error {
+func importCsvResult(r io.Reader, acc telegraf.Accumulator, host string) error {
 	csv := csv.NewReader(r)
 	result, err := csv.ReadAll()
 	now := time.Now()
@@ -358,7 +362,7 @@ func importCsvResult(r io.Reader, acc inputs.Accumulator, host string) error {
 }

 func init() {
-	inputs.Add("haproxy", func() inputs.Input {
+	inputs.Add("haproxy", func() telegraf.Input {
 		return &haproxy{}
 	})
 }
--- a/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"

-	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"net/http"
--- a/plugins/inputs/http_response/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/http_response/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Example Input Plugin
+
+This input plugin will test HTTP/HTTPS connections.
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```
+# List of UDP/TCP connections you want to check
+[[inputs.http_response]]
+  ## Server address (default http://localhost)
+  address = "http://github.com"
+  ## Set response_timeout (default 5 seconds)
+  response_timeout = 5
+  ## HTTP Request Method
+  method = "GET"
+  ## HTTP Request Headers
+  [inputs.http_response.headers]
+      Host = github.com
+  ## Whether to follow redirects from the server (defaults to false)
+  follow_redirects = true
+  ## Optional HTTP Request Body
+  body = '''
+  {'fake':'data'}
+  '''
+```
+
+### Measurements & Fields:
+
+- http_response
+    - response_time (float, seconds)
+    - http_response_code (int) #The code received
+
+### Tags:
+
+- All measurements have the following tags:
+    - server
+    - method
+
+### Example Output:
+
+```
+$ ./telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter http_response -test
+http_response,method=GET,server=http://www.github.com http_response_code=200i,response_time=6.223266528 1459419354977857955
+```
--- a/plugins/inputs/http_response/http_response.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/http_response/http_response.go
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+package http_response
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/inputs"
+)
+
+// HTTPResponse struct
+type HTTPResponse struct {
+	Address         string
+	Body            string
+	Method          string
+	ResponseTimeout int
+	Headers         map[string]string
+	FollowRedirects bool
+}
+
+// Description returns the plugin Description
+func (h *HTTPResponse) Description() string {
+	return "HTTP/HTTPS request given an address a method and a timeout"
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+  ## Server address (default http://localhost)
+  address = "http://github.com"
+  ## Set response_timeout (default 5 seconds)
+  response_timeout = 5
+  ## HTTP Request Method
+  method = "GET"
+  ## Whether to follow redirects from the server (defaults to false)
+  follow_redirects = true
+  ## HTTP Request Headers (all values must be strings)
+  # [inputs.http_response.headers]
+  #   Host = "github.com"
+  ## Optional HTTP Request Body
+  # body = '''
+  # {'fake':'data'}
+  # '''
+`
+
+// SampleConfig returns the plugin SampleConfig
+func (h *HTTPResponse) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+// ErrRedirectAttempted indicates that a redirect occurred
+var ErrRedirectAttempted = errors.New("redirect")
+
+// CreateHttpClient creates an http client which will timeout at the specified
+// timeout period and can follow redirects if specified
+func CreateHttpClient(followRedirects bool, ResponseTimeout time.Duration) *http.Client {
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Timeout: time.Second * ResponseTimeout,
+	}
+
+	if followRedirects == false {
+		client.CheckRedirect = func(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
+			return ErrRedirectAttempted
+		}
+	}
+	return client
+}
+
+// CreateHeaders takes a map of header strings and puts them
+// into a http.Header Object
+func CreateHeaders(headers map[string]string) http.Header {
+	httpHeaders := make(http.Header)
+	for key := range headers {
+		httpHeaders.Add(key, headers[key])
+	}
+	return httpHeaders
+}
+
+// HTTPGather gathers all fields and returns any errors it encounters
+func (h *HTTPResponse) HTTPGather() (map[string]interface{}, error) {
+	// Prepare fields
+	fields := make(map[string]interface{})
+
+	client := CreateHttpClient(h.FollowRedirects, time.Duration(h.ResponseTimeout))
+
+	var body io.Reader
+	if h.Body != "" {
+		body = strings.NewReader(h.Body)
+	}
+	request, err := http.NewRequest(h.Method, h.Address, body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	request.Header = CreateHeaders(h.Headers)
+
+	// Start Timer
+	start := time.Now()
+	resp, err := client.Do(request)
+	if err != nil {
+		if h.FollowRedirects {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if urlError, ok := err.(*url.Error); ok &&
+			urlError.Err == ErrRedirectAttempted {
+			err = nil
+		} else {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	fields["response_time"] = time.Since(start).Seconds()
+	fields["http_response_code"] = resp.StatusCode
+	return fields, nil
+}
+
+// Gather gets all metric fields and tags and returns any errors it encounters
+func (h *HTTPResponse) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
+	// Set default values
+	if h.ResponseTimeout < 1 {
+		h.ResponseTimeout = 5
+	}
+	// Check send and expected string
+	if h.Method == "" {
+		h.Method = "GET"
+	}
+	if h.Address == "" {
+		h.Address = "http://localhost"
+	}
+	addr, err := url.Parse(h.Address)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if addr.Scheme != "http" && addr.Scheme != "https" {
+		return errors.New("Only http and https are supported")
+	}
+	// Prepare data
+	tags := map[string]string{"server": h.Address, "method": h.Method}
+	var fields map[string]interface{}
+	// Gather data
+	fields, err = h.HTTPGather()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	// Add metrics
+	acc.AddFields("http_response", fields, tags)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	inputs.Add("http_response", func() telegraf.Input {
+		return &HTTPResponse{}
+	})
+}
--- a/plugins/inputs/http_response/http_response_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/http_response/http_response_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+package http_response
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestCreateHeaders(t *testing.T) {
+	fakeHeaders := map[string]string{
+		"Accept":        "text/plain",
+		"Content-Type":  "application/json",
+		"Cache-Control": "no-cache",
+	}
+	headers := CreateHeaders(fakeHeaders)
+	testHeaders := make(http.Header)
+	testHeaders.Add("Accept", "text/plain")
+	testHeaders.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	testHeaders.Add("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
+	assert.Equal(t, testHeaders, headers)
+}
+
+func setUpTestMux() http.Handler {
+	mux := http.NewServeMux()
+	mux.HandleFunc("/redirect", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+		http.Redirect(w, req, "/good", http.StatusMovedPermanently)
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("/good", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+		fmt.Fprintf(w, "hit the good page!")
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("/badredirect", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+		http.Redirect(w, req, "/badredirect", http.StatusMovedPermanently)
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("/mustbepostmethod", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+		if req.Method != "POST" {
+			http.Error(w, "method wasn't post", http.StatusMethodNotAllowed)
+			return
+		}
+		fmt.Fprintf(w, "used post correctly!")
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("/musthaveabody", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+		body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
+		req.Body.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, "couldn't read request body", http.StatusBadRequest)
+			return
+		}
+		if string(body) == "" {
+			http.Error(w, "body was empty", http.StatusBadRequest)
+			return
+		}
+		fmt.Fprintf(w, "sent a body!")
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("/twosecondnap", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+		time.Sleep(time.Second * 2)
+		return
+	})
+	return mux
+}
+
+func TestFields(t *testing.T) {
+	mux := setUpTestMux()
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(mux)
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	h := &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/good",
+		Body:            "{ 'test': 'data'}",
+		Method:          "GET",
+		ResponseTimeout: 20,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	fields, err := h.HTTPGather()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotEmpty(t, fields)
+	if assert.NotNil(t, fields["http_response_code"]) {
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, fields["http_response_code"])
+	}
+	assert.NotNil(t, fields["response_time"])
+
+}
+
+func TestRedirects(t *testing.T) {
+	mux := setUpTestMux()
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(mux)
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	h := &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/redirect",
+		Body:            "{ 'test': 'data'}",
+		Method:          "GET",
+		ResponseTimeout: 20,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	fields, err := h.HTTPGather()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotEmpty(t, fields)
+	if assert.NotNil(t, fields["http_response_code"]) {
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, fields["http_response_code"])
+	}
+
+	h = &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/badredirect",
+		Body:            "{ 'test': 'data'}",
+		Method:          "GET",
+		ResponseTimeout: 20,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	fields, err = h.HTTPGather()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+}
+
+func TestMethod(t *testing.T) {
+	mux := setUpTestMux()
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(mux)
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	h := &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/mustbepostmethod",
+		Body:            "{ 'test': 'data'}",
+		Method:          "POST",
+		ResponseTimeout: 20,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	fields, err := h.HTTPGather()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotEmpty(t, fields)
+	if assert.NotNil(t, fields["http_response_code"]) {
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, fields["http_response_code"])
+	}
+
+	h = &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/mustbepostmethod",
+		Body:            "{ 'test': 'data'}",
+		Method:          "GET",
+		ResponseTimeout: 20,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	fields, err = h.HTTPGather()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotEmpty(t, fields)
+	if assert.NotNil(t, fields["http_response_code"]) {
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusMethodNotAllowed, fields["http_response_code"])
+	}
+
+	//check that lowercase methods work correctly
+	h = &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/mustbepostmethod",
+		Body:            "{ 'test': 'data'}",
+		Method:          "head",
+		ResponseTimeout: 20,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	fields, err = h.HTTPGather()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotEmpty(t, fields)
+	if assert.NotNil(t, fields["http_response_code"]) {
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusMethodNotAllowed, fields["http_response_code"])
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBody(t *testing.T) {
+	mux := setUpTestMux()
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(mux)
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	h := &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/musthaveabody",
+		Body:            "{ 'test': 'data'}",
+		Method:          "GET",
+		ResponseTimeout: 20,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	fields, err := h.HTTPGather()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotEmpty(t, fields)
+	if assert.NotNil(t, fields["http_response_code"]) {
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, fields["http_response_code"])
+	}
+
+	h = &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/musthaveabody",
+		Method:          "GET",
+		ResponseTimeout: 20,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	fields, err = h.HTTPGather()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.NotEmpty(t, fields)
+	if assert.NotNil(t, fields["http_response_code"]) {
+		assert.Equal(t, http.StatusBadRequest, fields["http_response_code"])
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	mux := setUpTestMux()
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(mux)
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	h := &HTTPResponse{
+		Address:         ts.URL + "/twosecondnap",
+		Body:            "{ 'test': 'data'}",
+		Method:          "GET",
+		ResponseTimeout: 1,
+		Headers: map[string]string{
+			"Content-Type": "application/json",
+		},
+		FollowRedirects: true,
+	}
+	_, err := h.HTTPGather()
+	require.Error(t, err)
+}
--- a/Show More
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