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What is Telegraf?

Telegraf is a plug-in driven server agent for collecting and sending metrics and events from databases, systems, and IoT sensors. Telegraf has been written in Go, compiles into a single binary file without any external dependency, and requires the minimum memory space.

  • ** Collection and transmission of all types of data**

    • Database

      It collects and sends metrics by connecting data sources such as MongoDB, MySQL, and Redis.

    • System

      It collects metrics from modern cloud platforms, containers, and orchestrator stacks.

    • IoT Sensor

      It collects important stateful data (pressure levels, temperature levels, etc.) from IoT sensors and devices.

  • Telegraf Plug-in

    Telegraf is a plug-in driven agent that collects, processes, aggregates, and creates metrics. It supports four categories of plug-ins: input, output, aggregator, and processor.

You can forward the metrics collected by Telegraf to the WhaTap collection server by using the Telegraf's WhaTap output plug-in and installing the WhaTap Telegraf agent.

Telegraf - WhaTap integration structure

Note

Telegraf plug-ins and agents must have been installed and configured directly on the service.

The guide is provided on how to install plug-ins or agents and the use cases are provides as follows.