Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.11.0

By Russ Savage / Product
Jun 11, 2019

A new feature-bearing release for Telegraf is now available:

• Telegraf 1.11.0 — release notes

The binaries for the latest open source release can be found on our downloads page.

Many thanks to the 45+ open source community members who contributed to this effort!

Key feature highlights from the release include:

• Telegraf has a set of new plugins for collecting Cisco GNMI Telemetry and Cisco Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT). These plugins allow you to collect similar information as the Cisco Pipeline Tool. A huge thank you goes out to the Cisco team for contributing these!
• A new Health Output Plugin provides an HTTP health check resource that can be configured to return a failure status code based on the value of a metric. When used in conjunction with the Internal Input Plugin, a load balancer could be configured to stop sending data to an overloaded Telegraf instance based on internal buffer size.
• The new ECS, Fargate compatible, Input Plugin uses the ECS v2 metadata and stats API endpoints to gather stats on running containers in a Task.
• The Cloudwatch Input has been updated to use a more efficient API. It now requires GetMetricData permissions instead of GetMetricStatistics. The units tag is not available from this API and is no longer collected.

New inputs

1. BIND 9 Nameserver Statistics (bind)
   • This plugin decodes the JSON or XML statistics provided by BIND 9 nameservers.
2. Cisco GNMI Telemetry (cisco_telemetry_gnmi)
   • This plugin consumes telemetry data similar to the GNMI specification. This GRPC-based protocol can utilize TLS for authentication and encryption.
3. Cisco Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT) (cisco_telemetry_mdt)
   • This plugin consumes telemetry data from Cisco IOS XR, IOS XE and NX-OS platforms.
4. ECS (Fargate Compatible) (ecs)
   • This plugin uses the ECS v2 metadata and stats API endpoints to gather stats on running containers in an ECS Task.
5. Github (github)
   • This plugin gathers repository information from the GitHub API for hosted repositories.
6. OpenWeatherMap (openweathermap)
   • This plugin collects current weather and forecast data from OpenWeatherMap.
7. PowerDNS Recursor (powerdns)
   • This plugin gathers metrics about the PowerDNS Recursor using a unix socket.

New outputs

1. Health (health)
   • This plugin provides an HTTP health check resource that can be configured to return a failure status code based on the value of a metric.
2. Syslog (syslog)
   • This plugin sends Syslog messages transmitted over UDP or TCP or TLS, with or without the octet counting framing. Syslog messages are formatted according to RFC 5424.

New aggregators

1. Final (final)
   • This aggregator emits the last metric of a contiguous series. A contiguous series is defined as a series which receives updates within the time period in series_timeout. The contiguous series may be longer than the time interval defined by period.

New serializers

1. Wavefront (wavefront)
   • This serializer translates the Telegraf metric format to the Wavefront Data Format.

The binaries for the latest open source release can be found on our downloads page.