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Cameron Sparr 9c0d14bb60 Create public models for telegraf metrics, accumlator, plugins This will basically make the root directory a place for storing the major telegraf interfaces, which will make telegraf's godoc looks quite a bit nicer. And make it easier for contributors to lookup the few data types that they actually care about. closes #564		2016-01-27 15:42:50 -07:00
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README.md

influxdb plugin

The influxdb plugin collects InfluxDB-formatted data from JSON endpoints.

With a configuration of:

[[inputs.influxdb]]
  urls = [
    "http://127.0.0.1:8086/debug/vars",
    "http://192.168.2.1:8086/debug/vars"
  ]

And if 127.0.0.1 responds with this JSON:

{
  "k1": {
    "name": "fruit",
    "tags": {
      "kind": "apple"
    },
    "values": {
      "inventory": 371,
      "sold": 112
    }
  },
  "k2": {
    "name": "fruit",
    "tags": {
      "kind": "banana"
    },
    "values": {
      "inventory": 1000,
      "sold": 403
    }
  }
}

And if 192.168.2.1 responds like so:

{
  "k3": {
    "name": "transactions",
    "tags": {},
    "values": {
      "total": 100,
      "balance": 184.75
    }
  }
}

Then the collected metrics will be:

influxdb_fruit,url='http://127.0.0.1:8086/debug/vars',kind='apple' inventory=371.0,sold=112.0
influxdb_fruit,url='http://127.0.0.1:8086/debug/vars',kind='banana' inventory=1000.0,sold=403.0

influxdb_transactions,url='http://192.168.2.1:8086/debug/vars' total=100.0,balance=184.75

There are two important details to note about the collected metrics:

Even though the values in JSON are being displayed as integers, the metrics are reported as floats. JSON encoders usually don't print the fractional part for round floats. Because you cannot change the type of an existing field in InfluxDB, we assume all numbers are floats.
The top-level keys' names (in the example above, "k1", "k2", and "k3") are not considered when recording the metrics.