Telegraf
Plugin-driven server agent for collecting metrics
Telegraf is a plugin-driven agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics and events. It has hundreds of input and output plugins covering systems, databases, IoT sensors, and cloud services.
Key features
- Hundreds of input plugins
- Single static binary
- Low resource footprint
- Outputs to many backends
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Huge plugin catalog
- Trivial to deploy
Trade-offs
- Configuration can get verbose
- No built-in UI
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