Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.16.1

By Samantha Wang / Product
Oct 29, 2020

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:

1. Kafka Input and Output (kafka)
   • Kafka SASL-mechanism authentication support for SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512, GSSAPI
2. SQL Server Input (sqlserver)
   • Fixed a syntax error of the Azure queries
   • Removed some synthetic performance counters that no longer exist from the sqlserver_performance_counters measurement
   • Added the readable value of the SQL Server version (sql_version_desc) as a new tag
3. RAS Input (ras)
   • Disabled RAS input plugin on specific Linux architectures (MIPS64, mips64le, ppc64le, riscv64)
   • Fixed an issue that didn't properly close file handlers
4. Processes Input (processes)
   • Fixed an issue with receiving no such file or directory stat error
5. Windows Performance Counters Input (win_perf_counters)
   • Fixed an issue with the counter with a negative denominator error to cause gathering operations to fail

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