Linux Sysctl Filesystem Input Plugin

This plugin gathers metrics by reading the system filesystem files on Linux systems.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.24.0 Tags: system OS support: linux

Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Provides Linux sysctl fs metrics
[[inputs.linux_sysctl_fs]]
  # no configuration

Metrics

linux_sysctl_fs metric:

• tags: none
• fields:
  • aio-max-nr (unsigned integer)
  • aio-nr (unsigned integer)
  • dentry-age-limit (unsigned integer)
  • dentry-nr (unsigned integer)
  • dentry-unused-nr (unsigned integer)
  • dentry-want-pages (unsigned integer)
  • dquot-max (unsigned integer)
  • dquot-nr (unsigned integer)
  • inode-free-nr (unsigned integer)
  • inode-nr (unsigned integer)
  • inode-preshrink-nr (unsigned integer)
  • super-max (unsigned integer)
  • super-nr (unsigned integer)
  • file-max (unsigned integer)
  • file-nr (unsigned integer)

Example Output

> linux_sysctl_fs,host=foo dentry-want-pages=0i,file-max=44222i,aio-max-nr=65536i,inode-preshrink-nr=0i,dentry-nr=64340i,dentry-unused-nr=55274i,file-nr=1568i,aio-nr=0i,inode-nr=35952i,inode-free-nr=12957i,dentry-age-limit=45i 1490982022000000000