Telegraf is an agent that runs on your operating system of choice, schedules gathering metrics and events from various sources and then sends them to one or more sinks, such as InfluxDB or Kafka. For InfluxDB, version 1.x, 2.0 as well as InfluxDB Cloud are supported.
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Telegraf can collect information from multiple inputs and currently includes over 200 plugins for retrieving information from multiple types of applications. It can also retrieve information about hardware and software from the OS.