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+telegraf (An Open-Source Collecting & Reporting Agent)
+
+It is part of the TICK stack and is a plugin-driven server agent for
+collecting and reporting metrics. Telegraf has plugins or integrations
+to source a variety of metrics directly from the system it’s running
+on, pull metrics from third-party APIs, or even listen for metrics via
+a StatsD and Kafka consumer services. It also has output plugins to
+send metrics to a variety of other datastores, services, and message
+queues, including InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Datadog, Librato,
+Kafka, MQTT, NSQ, and many others.
+
+Groupname and Username
+
+You must have the "telegraf" group and user to run this script, for example:
+
+ groupadd -g 349 telegraf
+ useradd -u 349 -s /bin/false -d /dev/null -g telegraf telegraf