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48 lines
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# Telegraf Execd Go Shim
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The goal of this _shim_ is to make it trivial to extract an internal input plugin
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out to a stand-alone repo for the purpose of compiling it as a separate app and
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running it from the inputs.execd plugin.
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The execd-shim is still experimental and the interface may change in the future.
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Especially as the concept expands to prcoessors, aggregators, and outputs.
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## Steps to externalize a plugin
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1. Move the project to an external repo, optionally preserving the
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_plugins/inputs/plugin_name_ folder structure. For an example of what this might
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look at, take a look at [ssoroka/rand](https://github.com/ssoroka/rand) or
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[danielnelson/telegraf-plugins](https://github.com/danielnelson/telegraf-plugins)
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1. Copy [main.go](./example/cmd/main.go) into your project under the cmd folder.
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This will be the entrypoint to the plugin when run as a stand-alone program, and
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it will call the shim code for you to make that happen.
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1. Edit the main.go file to import your plugin. Within Telegraf this would have
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been done in an all.go file, but here we don't split the two apart, and the change
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just goes in the top of main.go. If you skip this step, your plugin will do nothing.
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1. Optionally add a [plugin.conf](./example/cmd/plugin.conf) for configuration
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specific to your plugin. Note that this config file **must be separate from the
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rest of the config for Telegraf, and must not be in a shared directory where
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Telegraf is expecting to load all configs**. If Telegraf reads this config file
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it will not know which plugin it relates to.
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## Steps to build and run your plugin
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1. Build the cmd/main.go. For my rand project this looks like `go build -o rand cmd/main.go`
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1. Test out the binary if you haven't done this yet. eg `./rand -config plugin.conf`
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Depending on your polling settings and whether you implemented a service plugin or
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an input gathering plugin, you may see data right away, or you may have to hit enter
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first, or wait for your poll duration to elapse, but the metrics will be written to
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STDOUT. Ctrl-C to end your test.
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1. Configure Telegraf to call your new plugin binary. eg:
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```
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[[inputs.execd]]
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command = ["/path/to/rand", "-config", "/path/to/plugin.conf"]
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signal = "none"
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```
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## Congratulations!
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You've done it! Consider publishing your plugin to github and open a Pull Request
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back to the Telegraf repo letting us know about the availability of your
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[external plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/EXTERNAL_PLUGINS.md). |