From edd7d6734f6505da2fc172958f388ea7f1e87eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ebben Aries Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:30 +0000 Subject: system/telegraf: Added (Open-Source Collecting & Reporting Agent). Signed-off-by: David Spencer --- system/telegraf/README | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 system/telegraf/README (limited to 'system/telegraf/README') diff --git a/system/telegraf/README b/system/telegraf/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5603c0571c71 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/telegraf/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +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 -- cgit v1.2.3