telegraf-plugins.git

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Telegraf plugins

This repository contains Telegraf plugins used in ProfIT project.

Plugin types

Input Plugins used in the project can be divided into 2 groups:

• native plugins
• external plugins

This repository contains plugins which were elaborated or modified to fulfill requirements of the project. Most of them are external plugins.

Native plugins

Native plugins for Telegraf are written in Go and compiled with Telegraf. Because plugins require to be compiled they are not easily upgradable compared to external plugins. But at the same time they might work faster for particular tasks.

External plugins

External plugins are plugins written as shell or interpreted programming language scripts or even as executable binaries which run by Telegraf's exec input plugin. They are the fastest way to deploy the plugin, since for activation only configuration file should be altered and Telegraf daemon restarted.