# Telegraf [![Circle CI](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/influxdata/telegraf) Telegraf is an agent written in Go for collecting metrics from the system it's running on, or from other services, and writing them into InfluxDB or other [outputs](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf#supported-output-plugins). Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics from well known services (like Hadoop, Postgres, or Redis) and third party APIs (like Mailchimp, AWS CloudWatch, or Google Analytics). New input and output plugins are designed to be easy to contribute, we'll eagerly accept pull requests and will manage the set of plugins that Telegraf supports. See the [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for instructions on writing new plugins. ## 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. For more details on the differences between Telegraf 0.2.x and 0.10.x, see the [release blog post](https://influxdata.com/blog/announcing-telegraf-0-10-0/). ### Linux deb and rpm Packages: Latest: * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_0.10.4.1-1_amd64.deb * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.10.4.1-1.x86_64.rpm Latest (arm): * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_0.10.4.1-1_arm.deb * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.10.4.1-1.arm.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 ##### Package Instructions: * Telegraf binary is installed in `/usr/bin/telegraf` * Telegraf daemon configuration file is in `/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf` * On sysv systems, the telegraf daemon can be controlled via `service telegraf [action]` * On systemd systems (such as Ubuntu 15+), the telegraf daemon can be controlled via `systemctl [action] telegraf` ### yum/apt Repositories: There is a yum/apt repo available for the whole InfluxData stack, see [here](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.9/introduction/installation/#installation) for instructions, replacing the `influxdb` package name with `telegraf`. ### Linux tarballs: Latest: * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.10.4.1-1_linux_amd64.tar.gz * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.10.4.1-1_linux_i386.tar.gz * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.10.4.1-1_linux_arm.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: To install the full directory structure with config file, run: ``` sudo tar -C / -zxvf ./telegraf-0.10.4.1-1_linux_amd64.tar.gz ``` To extract only the binary, run: ``` tar -zxvf telegraf-0.10.4.1-1_linux_amd64.tar.gz --strip-components=3 ./usr/bin/telegraf ``` ### Ansible Role: Ansible role: https://github.com/rossmcdonald/telegraf ### OSX via Homebrew: ``` brew update brew install telegraf ``` ### Windows Binaries (EXPERIMENTAL) Latest: * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.10.4.1-1_windows_amd64.zip * http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf-0.10.4.1-1_windows_i386.zip ### From Source: Telegraf manages dependencies via [gdm](https://github.com/sparrc/gdm), which gets installed via the Makefile if you don't have it already. You also must build with golang version 1.5+. 1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install) 2. [Setup your GOPATH](https://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH) 3. Run `go get github.com/influxdata/telegraf` 4. Run `cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf` 5. Run `make` ## How to use it: ```console $ telegraf -help Telegraf, The plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics. Usage: telegraf The flags are: -config configuration file to load -test gather metrics once, print them to stdout, and exit -sample-config print out full sample configuration to stdout -config-directory directory containing additional *.conf files -input-filter filter the input plugins to enable, separator is : -output-filter filter the output plugins to enable, separator is : -usage print usage for a plugin, ie, 'telegraf -usage mysql' -debug print metrics as they're generated to stdout -quiet run in quiet mode -version print the version to stdout Examples: # generate a telegraf config file: telegraf -sample-config > telegraf.conf # generate config with only cpu input & influxdb output plugins defined telegraf -sample-config -input-filter cpu -output-filter influxdb # run a single telegraf collection, outputing metrics to stdout telegraf -config telegraf.conf -test # run telegraf with all plugins defined in config file telegraf -config telegraf.conf # run telegraf, enabling the cpu & memory input, and influxdb output plugins telegraf -config telegraf.conf -input-filter cpu:mem -output-filter influxdb ``` ## Configuration 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 many sources. For more information on each, please look at the directory of the same name in `plugins/inputs`. Currently implemented sources: * aerospike * apache * bcache * couchdb * disque * dns query time * docker * dovecot * elasticsearch * exec (generic executable plugin, support JSON, influx and graphite) * haproxy * httpjson (generic JSON-emitting http service plugin) * influxdb * jolokia * leofs * lustre2 * mailchimp * memcached * mesos * mongodb * mysql * net_response * nginx * nsq * phpfpm * phusion passenger * ping * postgresql * powerdns * procstat * prometheus * puppetagent * rabbitmq * raindrops * redis * rethinkdb * riak * sensors (only available if built from source) * snmp * sql server (microsoft) * twemproxy * zfs * zookeeper * win_perf_counters (windows performance counters) * system * cpu * mem * net * netstat * disk * diskio * swap * processes Telegraf can also collect metrics via the following service plugins: * statsd * udp_listener * tcp_listener * mqtt_consumer * kafka_consumer * nats_consumer * 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 * aws kinesis * aws cloudwatch * datadog * graphite * kafka * librato * mqtt * nsq * opentsdb * prometheus * riemann ## Contributing Please see the [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on contributing a plugin to Telegraf.