Telegraf
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.16.1
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.16.1 release notes This maintenance release of Telegraf includes improvements to the following plugins: Kafka Input and Output (kafka) Kafka SASL-mechanism authentication support for SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512, GSSAPI SQL Server Input (sqlserver)...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.16.0
A new feature-bearing release for Telegraf is now available Telegraf 1.16.0 release notes The binaries for the latest open source release can be found on our downloads page. Many thanks to the 60+ open source community members who contributed to this...
Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.15.3
A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now. Telegraf 1.15.3 release notes This maintenance release of Telegraf includes improvements to the following plugins: Agent Fixed a minor agent error message Updated Dockerfiles to Go 1.14 Execd Go Shim (shim) Fixed bug in...
Getting Started with Sending StatsD Metrics to Telegraf & InfluxDB
This tutorial will walk you through sending StatsD metrics to Telegraf. StatsD is a simple protocol for sending application metrics via UDP. These metrics can be sent to a Telegraf instance, where they are aggregated and periodically flushed to InfluxDB or...
Track Fortnite Player Performance with InfluxDB, Telegraf and Python
Although I’m not much of a gamer, ever since my middle-school-aged son introduced me to the online game Fortnite, I’ve been having a blast as I improve my skills week by week. It turns out I’m not alone as my old...
Getting Started: Writing Data to InfluxDB
This is a beginner’s tutorial for how to write static data in batches to InfluxDB 2.0 using these three methods: Uploading data via the InfluxDB UI Importing directly into InfluxDB Using Telegraf and the Tail plugin Before beginning, make sure you’ve...
Getting Started: Streaming Data into InfluxDB
This is Part Two of Getting Started Tutorials for InfluxDB v2. If you’re new to InfluxDB v2, I recommend first learning about different methods for writing static data in batches to InfluxDB v2 in Part One of this Getting Started series....
How InfluxDB Helps Retail Organizations Prepare for the Cyber Five Weekend
The five-day period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday is known as the Cyber Five Weekend (also known as Cyber 5). Forbes estimates that people spent $3.7 billion on Thanksgiving Day in 2018. They approximate that over 165 million people shopped over...
New in Telegraf 1.15: Starlark, execd, Go, NGINX, Network Monitoring, Redfish, New Relic, MongoDB and More
Last week we released Telegraf 1.15 with new plugins for network monitoring and a large number of processors to help with your data ingestion. All packages were written in Go 1.14.5. This all couldn’t have been done without the 50+ community...
How to Use Starlark with Telegraf
Our Telegraf Starlark Processor Plugin is an exciting new processor in Telegraf 1.15 that gives you the flexibility of performing various operations in Telegraf using the Starlark language. What is Starlark, you ask? Starlark (formerly known as Skylark) is a language...