Use Telegraf plugins

Telegraf plugins collect, transform, and write metrics. Input plugins collect metrics, processor and aggregator plugins transform them, and output plugins write them to your destinations.

The guides in this section show how to configure and combine each plugin type:

Collect data with input plugins

Configure Telegraf input plugins to collect metrics from systems, services, and third-party APIs. Learn the difference between polling and service inputs and how to test an input configuration.

Write data with output plugins

Output plugins define where Telegraf delivers metrics. Learn how Telegraf batches, buffers, and retries writes, and how to send different metrics to different destinations.

Transform data with aggregator and processor plugins

Use processor plugins to transform, decorate, and filter metrics, and aggregator plugins to produce windowed statistics such as means, quantiles, and histograms. Includes common examples for both plugin types.

Integrate with external plugins

External plugins are programs built outside of Telegraf that run through the execd plugins. Use them to collect, process, or write metrics with code written in any language.

For the complete list of available plugins, see the Plugin directory. To learn how metrics move through the Telegraf data pipeline, see How Telegraf works.

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