Release Announcement: Telegraf 1.8.1

By Russ Savage / Product
Oct 03, 2018

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A new maintenance release for Telegraf is available now.

This maintenance release for Telegraf includes the following updates:

  1. Basic Stats aggregator
    • Improved performance by switching to FieldList.
  2. Cloudwatch output
    • We no longer add tags with empty values in this output.
  3. GROK parser
    • Fixed the capitalization for Timezone.
  4. HTTP Listener input
    • The errors returned now match the errors found in InfluxDB more closely.
  5. OpenTSDB output
    • We no longer add tags with empty values in this output.
  6. SQLServer input
    • hardware_type field is no longer truncated in this input.
  7. vSphere input
    • Resolved a panic if a network error is encountered while querying for metric metadata.
    • Added BIOS UUID for the virtual machines.
    • Fixed an issue where we were getting null metrics or incorrect metrics if the clock on the collector node is ahead of vCenter.
  8. x509 Cert input
    • Added hostname to TLS config for SNI support.

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