Telegraf 1.8 release notes

v1.8.3 [2018-10-30]

Bug fixes

Add DN attributes as tags in X.509 Certificate (x509_cert) input plugin to avoid series overwrite.
Prevent connection leak by closing unused connections in AMQP (amqp) output plugin.
Use default partition key when tag does not exist in Amazon Kinesis (kinesis) output plugin.
Log the correct error in JTI OpenConfig Telemetry (jti_openconfig_telemetry).
Handle panic when IMPI Sensor (ipmi_sensor) input plugin gets bad input.
Don’t add unserializable fields to Jolokia2 (jolokia2) input plugin.
Fix version check in PostgreSQL Extensible (postgresql_extensible) input plugin.

v1.8.2 [2018-10-17]

Bug fixes

Aerospike (aerospike) input plugin
- Support uint fields.
Docker (docker) input plugin
- Use container name from list if no name in container stats.
Filecount (filecount) input plugin
- Prevent panic on error in file stat.
InfluxDB v2 (influxdb_v2) input plugin
- Update write path to match updated v2 API.
Logparser (logparser) input plugin
- Fix panic.
MongoDB (mongodb) input plugin
- Lower authorization errors to debug level.
MQTT Consumer (mqtt_consumer) input plugin
- Fix connect and reconnect.
Ping (ping) input plugin
- Return correct response code.
VMware vSphere (vsphere) input plugin
- Fix missing timeouts.
X.509 Certificate (x509_cert) input plugin
- Fix segfault.

v1.8.1 [2018-10-03]

Bug fixes

Fix hardware_type may be truncated in Microsoft SQL Server (sqlserver) input plugin.
Improve performance in Basicstats (basicstats) aggregator plugin.
Add hostname to TLS config for SNI support in X.509 Certicate (x509_cert) input plugin.
Don’t add tags with empty values to OpenTSDB (opentsdb) output plugin.
Fix panic during network error in VMware vSphere (vsphere) input plugin.
Unify error response in HTTP Listener (http_listener) input plugin with InfluxDB (influxdb) output plugin.
Add UUID to VMs in VMware vSphere (vsphere) input plugin.
Skip tags with empty values in Amazon Cloudwatch (cloudwatch) output plugin.
Fix missing non-realtime samples in VMware vSphere (vsphere) input plugin.
Fix case of timezone/grok_timezone options in grok parser and logparser input plugin.

v1.8 [2018-09-21]

New input plugins

ActiveMQ (activemq) - Contributed by @mlabouardy
Beanstalkd (beanstalkd) - Contributed by @44px
File (file) - Contributed by @maxunt
Filecount (filecount) - Contributed by @sometimesfood
Icinga2 (icinga2) - Contributed by @mlabouardy
Kibana (kibana) - Contributed by @lpic10
PgBouncer (pgbouncer) - Contributed by @nerzhul
Temp (temp) - Contributed by @pytimer
Tengine (tengine) - Contributed by @ertaoxu
VMware vSphere (vsphere) - Contributed by @prydin
X.509 Certificate (x509_cert) - Contributed by @jtyr

New processor plugins

Enum (enum) - Contributed by @KarstenSchnitter
Parser (parser) - Contributed by @Ayrdrie & @maxunt
Rename (rename) - Contributed by @goldibex
Strings (strings) - Contributed by @bsmaldon

New aggregator plugins

ValueCounter (valuecounter) - Contributed by @piotr1212

New output plugins

Azure Monitor (azure_monitor) - Contributed by @influxdata
InfluxDB v2 (influxdb_v2) - Contributed by @influxdata

New input data formats (parsers)

csv - Contributed by @maxunt
grok - Contributed by @maxunt
logfmt - Contributed by @Ayrdrie & @maxunt
wavefront - Contributed by @puckpuck

New output data formats (serializers)

splunkmetric - Contributed by @ronnocol

Features

Add SSL/TLS support to Redis (redis) input plugin.
Add tengine input plugin.
Add power draw field to the NVIDIA SMI (nvidia_smi) input plugin.
Add support for Solr 7 to the Solr (solr) input plugin.
Add owner tag on partitions in Burrow (burrow) input plugin.
Add container status tag to Docker (docker) input plugin.
Add ValueCounter (valuecounter) aggregator plugin.
Add new measurement with results of pgrep lookup to Procstat (procstat) input plugin.
Add support for comma in logparser timestamp format.
Add path tag to Tail (tail) input plugin.
Add log message when tail is added or removed from a file.
Add option to use of counter time in win perf counters.
Add energy and power field and device id tag to Fibaro (fibaro) input plugin.
Add HTTP path configuration for OpenTSDB output.
Gather IPMI metrics concurrently.
Add mongo document and connection metrics.
Add enum processor plugin.
Add user tag to procstat input.
Add support for multivalue metrics to collectd parser.
Add support for setting kafka client id.
Add file input plugin and grok parser.
Improve cloudwatch output performance.
Add x509_cert input plugin.
Add IPSIpAddress syntax to ipaddr conversion in snmp plugin.
Add Filecount filecount input plugin.
Add support for configuring an AWS endpoint_url.
Send all messages before waiting for results in Kafka output plugin.
Add support for lz4 compression to Kafka output plugin.
Split multiple sensor keys in ipmi input.
Support StatisticValues in cloudwatch output plugin.
Add ip restriction for the prometheus_client output.
Add PgBouncer (pgbouncer) input plugin.
Add ActiveMQ input plugin.
Add wavefront parser plugin.
Add rename processor plugin.
Add message ‘max_bytes’ configuration to kafka input.
Add gopsutil meminfo fields to Mem (mem) input plugin.
Document how to parse Telegraf logs.
Use dep v0.5.0.
Add ability to set measurement from matched text in grok parser.
Drop message batches in Kafka (kafka) output plugin if too large.
Add support for static and random routing keys in Kafka (kafka) output plugin.
Add logfmt parser plugin.
Add parser processor plugin.
Add Icinga2 input plugin.
Add name, time, path and string field options to JSON parser.
Add forwarded records to sqlserver input.
Add Kibana input plugin.
Add csv parser plugin.
Add read_buffer_size option to statsd input.
Add azure_monitor output plugin.
Add queue_durability parameter to amqp_consumer input.
Add strings processor.
Add OAuth 2.0 support to HTTP output plugin.
Add Unix epoch timestamp support for JSON parser.
Add options for basic auth to haproxy input.
Add temp input plugin.
Add Beanstalkd input plugin.
Add means to specify server password for redis input.
Add Splunk Metrics serializer.
Add input plugin for VMware vSphere.
Align metrics window to interval in cloudwatch input.
Improve Azure Managed Instance support + more in sqlserver input.
Allow alternate binaries for iptables input plugin.
Add influxdb_v2 output plugin.

Bug fixes

Fix divide by zero in logparser input.
Fix instance and object name in performance counters with backslashes.
Reset/flush saved contents from bad metric.
Document all supported cli arguments.
Log access denied opening a service at debug level in win_services.
Add support for Kafka 2.0.
Fix nagios parser does not support ranges in performance data.
Fix nagios parser does not strip quotes from performance data.
Fix null value crash in postgresql_extensible input.
Remove the startup authentication check from the cloudwatch output.
Support tailing files created after startup in tail input.
Fix CSV format configuration loading.

v1.7.4 [2018-08-29]

Bug fixes

Continue sending write batch in UDP if a metric is unserializable in InfluxDB (influxdb) output plugin.
Fix PowerDNS (powerdns) input plugin tests.
Fix burrow_group offset calculation for Burrow (burrow) input plugin.
Add result_code value for errors running ping command.
Remove timeout deadline for UDP in Syslog (syslog) input plugin.
Ensure channel is closed if an error occurs in CGroup (cgroup) input plugin.
Fix sending of basic authentication credentials in HTTP (output) output plugin.
Use the correct GOARM value in the Linux armel package.

v1.7.3 [2018-08-07]

Bug fixes

Reduce required Docker API version.
Keep leading whitespace for messages in syslog input.
Skip bad entries on interrupt input.
Preserve metric type when using filters in output plugins.
Fix error message if URL is unparseable in InfluxDB output.
Use explicit zpool properties to fix parse error on FreeBSD 11.2.
Lock buffer when adding metrics.

v1.7.2 [2018-07-18]

Bug fixes

Use localhost as default server tag in Zookeeper (zookeeper) input plugin.
Don’t set values when pattern doesn’t match in Regex (regex) processor plugin.
Fix output format of Printer (printer) processor plugin.
Fix metric can have duplicate field.
Return error if NewRequest fails in HTTP (http) output plugin.
Reset read deadline for Syslog (syslog) input plugin.
Exclude cached memory on Docker (docker) input plugin.

v1.7.1 [2018-07-03]

Bug fixes

Treat sigterm as a clean shutdown signal.
Fix selection of tags under nested objects in the JSON parser.
Fix Postfix (postfix) input plugin handling of multilevel queues.
Fix Syslog (syslog input plugin timestamp parsing with single digit day of month.
Handle MySQL (mysql) input plugin variations in the user_statistics collecting.
Fix Minmax (minmax) and Basicstats (basicstats) aggregator plugins to use uint64.
Document Swap (swap) input plugin.
Fix incorrect precision being applied to metric in HTTP Listener (http_listener) input plugin.

v1.7 [2018-06-12]

Release notes

The Cassandra (cassandra) input plugin has been deprecated in favor of the Jolokia2 (jolokia2) input plugin which is much more configurable and more performant. There is an example configuration to help you get started.
For plugins supporting TLS, you can now specify the certificate and keys using tls_ca, tls_cert, tls_key. These options behave the same as the, now deprecated, ssl forms.

New input plugins

Aurora (aurora) - Contributed by @influxdata
Burrow (burrow) input plugin - Contributed by @arkady-emelyanov
fibaro - Contributed by @dynek
jti_openconfig_telemetry - Contributed by @ajhai
mcrouter - Contributed by @cthayer
NVIDIA SMI (nvidia_smi) - Contributed by @jackzampolin
Syslog (syslog) - Contributed by @influxdata

New processor plugins

converter - Contributed by @influxdata
regex - Contributed by @44px
topk - Contributed by @mirath

New output plugins

HTTP (http) - Contributed by @Dark0096
Application Insights (application_insights) output plugin: Contribute by @karolz-ms

Features

Add repl_oplog_window_sec metric to MongoDB (mongodb) input plugin.
Add per-host shard metrics in MongoDB (mongodb) input plugin.
Skip files with leading .. in config directory.
Add TLS support to socket_writer and socket_listener plugins.
Add snmp input option to strip non-fixed length index suffixes.
Add server version tag to the Docker (docker) input plugin.
Add support for LeoFS 1.4 to leofs input.
Add parameter to force the interval of gather for Sysstat (sysstat).
Support BusyBox ping in the Ping (ping) input plugin.
Add Mcrouter (mcrouter) input plugin.
Add TopK (topk) processor plugin.
Add cursor metrics to MongoDB (mongodb) input plugin.
Add tag/integer pair for result to Network Response (net_response) input plugin.
Add Application Insights (application_insights) output plugin.
Added several important Elasticsearch cluster health metrics.
Add batch mode to mqtt output.
Add Aurora (aurora) input plugin.
Add Regex (regex) processor plugin.
Add support for Graphite 1.1 tags.
Add timeout option to Sensors (sensors) input plugin.
Add Burrow (burrow) input plugin.
Add option to Unbound (unbound) input plugin to use threads as tags.
Add support for TLS and username/password auth to Aerospike (aerospike) input plugin.
Add special syslog timestamp parser to grok parser that uses current year.
Add Syslog (syslog) input plugin.
Print the enabled aggregator and processor plugins on startup.
Add static routing_key option to amqp output.
Add passive mode exchange declaration option to AMQP Consumer (amqp_consumer) input plugin.
Add counter fields to PF (pf) input plugin.

Bug fixes

Write to working file outputs if any files are not writeable.
Add all win_perf_counters fields for a series in a single metric.
Report results of dns_query instead of 0ms on timeout.
Add consul service tags to metric.
Fix wildcards and multi instance processes in win_perf_counters.
Fix crash on 32-bit Windows in win_perf_counters.
Fix win_perf_counters not collecting at every interval.
Use same flags for all BSD family ping variants.

v1.6.4 [2018-06-05]

Bugfixes

Fix SNMP overriding of auto-configured table fields.
Fix uint support in CloudWatch output.
Fix documentation of instance_name option in Varnish input.
Revert to previous Aerospike library version due to memory leak.

v1.6.3 [2018-05-21]

Bug fixes

Fix intermittent panic in Aerospike input plugin.
Fix connection leak in the Jolokia agent (Jolokia2_agent) input plugin.
Fix Jolokia agent (Jolokia2_agent) input plugin timeout parsing.
Fix error parsing Dropwizard metrics.
Fix Librato (librato) output plugin support for unsigned integer (uint) and Boolean (bool).
Fix WaitGroup deadlock, if URL is incorrect, in Apache input plugin.

v1.6.2 [2018-05-08]

Bug fixes

Use same timestamp for fields in system input.
Fix handling of uint64 in Datadog (datadog) output.
Ignore UTF8 BOM in JSON parser.
Fix case for slave metrics in MySQL (mysql) input.
Fix uint support in CrateDB (cratedb) output.

v1.6.1 [2018-04-23]

Bug fixes

Report mem input fields as gauges instead of counters.
Fix Graphite outputs unsigned integers in wrong format.
Report available fields if utmp is unreadable.
Fix potential no fields error writing to outputs.
Fix uptime reporting in system input when ran inside docker.
Fix mem input cannot allocate memory error on FreeBSD-based systems.
Fix duplicate tags when overriding an existing tag.
Add server argument as first argument in the Unbound (unbound) input plugin.
Fix handling of floats with multiple leading zeroes.
Return errors in SSL/TLS configuration of MongoDB (mongodb) input plugin.

v1.6 [2018-04-16]

Release notes

The MySQL (mysql) input plugin has been updated fix a number of type conversion issues. This may cause a field type error when inserting into InfluxDB due the change of types.

To address this, we have introduced a new metric_version option to control enabling the new format.
For in depth recommendations on upgrading, see Metric version in the MySQL input plugin documentation.

You are encouraged to migrate to the new model when possible as the old version is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

The PostgreSQL (postgresql) input plugin now defaults to using a persistent connection to the database. In environments where TCP connections are terminated, the max_lifetime setting should be set less than the collection interval to prevent errors.
The SQL Server (sqlserver) input plugin has a new query and data model that can be enabled by setting query_version = 2.
Migrate to the new model, if possible, since the old version is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
The OpenLDAP (openldap) input plugin has a new option, reverse_metric_names = true, that reverses metric names to improve grouping.
Enable this option, when possible, as the old ordering is deprecated.
The new HTTP (http) input plugin, when configured with data_format = "json", can perform the same task as the, now deprecated, HTTP JSON (httpjson) input plugin.

Features

Add health status mapping from string to int in Elasticsearch (elasticsearch) input plugin.
Add control over which stats to gather in BasicStats (basicstats) aggregator plugin.
Add messages_delivered_get to RabbitMQ (rabbitmq) input plugin.
Add wired field to mem input plugin.
Add support for gathering exchange metrics to the RabbitMQ (rabbitmq) input plugin.
Add support for additional metrics on Linux in Zfs (zfs) input plugin.
Add available_entropy field to Kernel (kernel) input plugin.
Add user privilege level setting to IPMI sensors.
Use persistent connection to PostgreSQL database.
Add support for dropwizard input data format.
Add container health metrics to Docker (docker) input plugin.
Add support for using globs in devices list of DiskIO (diskio) input plugin.
Allow running as console application on Windows.
Add listener counts and node running status to RabbitMQ (rabbitmq) input plugin.
Add NATS Server Monitoring (nats) input plugin.
Add ability to select which queues will be gathered in RabbitMQ (rabbitmq) input plugin.
Add support for setting BSD source address to the ping (ping) input plugin.
Add Ipset (ipset) input plugin.
Add TLS and HTTP basic auth to Prometheus Client (prometheus_client) output plugin.
Add new sqlserver output data model.
Add native Go method for finding pid to the Procstat (procstat) input plugin.
Add additional metrics and reverse metric names option to OpenLDAP (openldap) input plugin.
Add TLS support to the Mesos (mesos) input plugin.
Add HTTP (http) input plugin.
Add keep alive support to the TCP mode of StatsD (statsd) input plugin .
Support deadline in Ping (ping) input plugin.
Add option to disable labels in the Prometheus Client (prometheus) output plugin for string fields.
Add shard server stats to the MongoDB (mongodb) input plugin.
Add server option to Unbound (unbound) input plugin.
Convert boolean metric values to float in Datadog (datadog) output plugin.
Add Solr 3 compatibility.
Add sum stat to BasicStats (basicstats) aggregator plugin.
Add ability to override proxy from environment in HTTP Response (http_response) input plugin.
Add host to ping timeout log message.
Add override processor plugin.
Add status_code and result tags and result_type field to HTTP Response (http_response) input plugin.
Added config flag to skip collection of network protocol metrics.
Add TLS support to Kapacitor (kapacitor) input plugin.
Add HTTP basic auth support to the HTTP Listener (http_listener) input plugin.
Tags in output InfluxDB Line Protocol are now sorted.
InfluxDB Line Protocol parser now accepts DOS line endings.
An option has been added to skip database creation in the InfluxDB (influxdb) output plugin.
Add support for connecting to InfluxDB over a UNIX domain socket.
Add optional unsigned integer support to the influx data format.
Add TLS support to Zookeeper (zookeeper) input plugin.
Add filters for container state to Docker (docker) input plugin.

Bug fixes

Fix various MySQL data type conversions.
Fix metric buffer limit in internal plugin after reload.
Fix panic in HTTP Response (http_response) input plugin on invalid regex.
Fix socket_listener setting ReadBufferSize on TCP sockets.
Add tag for target URL to phpfpm input plugin.
Fix cannot unmarshal object error in Mesosphere DC/OS (dcos) input plugin.
Fix InfluxDB output not able to reconnect when server address changes.
Fix parsing of DOS line endings in the SMART (smart) input plugin.
Fix precision truncation when no timestamp included.
Fix SNMPv3 connection with Cisco ASA 5515 in SNMP (snmp) input plugin.

v1.5.3 [2018-03-14]

Bug fixes

Set path to / if HOST_MOUNT_PREFIX matches full path.
Remove userinfo from url tag in Prometheus input plugin.
Fix Ping input plugin not reporting zero durations.
Disable keepalive in MQTT output plugin to prevent deadlock.
Fix collation difference in SQL Server (sqlserver) input plugin.
Fix uptime metric in Passenger (passenger) input plugin.
Add output of stderr in case of error to exec log message.

v1.5.2 [2018-01-30]

Bug fixes

Ignore empty lines in Graphite plaintext.
Fix index out of bounds error in Solr input plugin.
Reconnect before sending Graphite metrics if disconnected.
Align aggregator period with internal ticker to avoid skipping metrics.
Fix a potential deadlock when using aggregators.
Limit wait time for writes in MQTT (mqtt) output plugin.
Revert change in Graphite (graphite) output plugin where dot(.) in field key was replaced by underscore (_).
Add timeout to Wavefront output write.
Exclude master_replid fields from Redis input.

v1.5.1 [2017-01-10]

Bug fixes

Fix name error in jolokia2_agent sample config.
Fix DC/OS input - login expiration time.
Set Content-Type charset parameter in InfluxDB (influxdb) output plugin and allow it to be overridden.
Document permissions setup for Postfix (postfix) input plugin.
Fix deliver_get field in RabbitMQ (rabbitmq) input plugin.
Escape environment variables during config TOML parsing.

v1.5 [2017-12-14]

New plugins

Input plugins

Bond (bond) - Thanks to @ildarsv
DC/OS (dcos) - Thanks to @influxdata
Jolokia2 (jolokia2) - Thanks to @dylanmei
NGINX Plus (nginx_plus) - Thanks to @mplonka & @poblahblahblah
OpenSMTPD (opensmtpd) - Thanks to @aromeyer
Particle.io Webhooks (particle) - Thanks to @davidgs
PF (pf) - Thanks to @nferch
Postfix (postfix) - Thanks to @phemmer
SMART (smart) - Thanks to @rickard-von-essen
Solr (solr) - Thanks to @ljagiello
Teamspeak (teamspeak) - Thanks to @p4ddy1
Unbound (unbound) - Thanks to @aromeyer

Aggregator plugins

BasicStats (basicstats) - Thanks to @toni-moreno

Output plugins

CrateDB (cratedb) - Thanks to @felixge
Wavefront (wavefront) - Thanks to @puckpuck

Release notes

In the Kinesis (kinesis) output plugin, use of the partition_key and use_random_partitionkey options has been deprecated in favor of the partition subtable. This allows for more flexible methods to set the partition key such as by metric name or by tag.
With the release of the new improved Jolokia2 (jolokia2) input plugin, the legacy jolokia plugin is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Users of this plugin are encouraged to update to the new jolokia2 plugin.

Features

Add support for sharding based on metric name.
Add Kafka output plugin topic_suffix option.
Include mount mode option in disk metrics.
TLS and MTLS enhancements to HTTP Listener input plugin.
Add polling method to logparser and tail inputs.
Add timeout option for Kubernetes (kubernetes) input plugin.
Add support for timing sums in statsd input plugin.
Add resource limit monitoring to Procstat (procstat) input plugin.
Add support for k8s service DNS discovery to Prometheus Client (prometheus) input plugin.
Add configurable metrics endpoint to (prometheus) output plugin.
Add support for NSQLookupd to nsq_consumer.
Add configurable separator for metrics and fields in OpenTSDB (opentsdb) output plugin.
Add support for the rollbar occurrence webhook event.
Add extra wired tiger cache metrics to mongodb input.
Collect Docker Swarm service metrics in Docker (docker) input plugin.
Add cluster health level configuration to Elasticsearch (elasticsearch) input plugin.
Add ability to limit node stats in Elasticsearch (elasticsearch) input plugin.
Add UDP IPv6 support to StatsD (statsd) input plugin.
Use labels in Prometheus Client (prometheus) output plugin for string fields.
Add support for decimal timestamps to ts-epoch modifier.
Add histogram and summary types and use in Prometheus (prometheus) plugins.
Gather concurrently from snmp agents.
Perform DNS lookup before ping and report result.
Add instance name option to Varnish (varnish) plugin.
Add support for SSL settings to ElasticSearch (elasticsearch) output plugin.
Add modification_time field to Filestat (filestat) input plugin.
Add systemd unit pid and cgroup matching to Procstat (procstat) .
Use MAX() instead of SUM() for latency measurements in SQL Server (sqlserver) input plugin.
Add index by week number to Elasticsearch (elasticsearch) output plugin.
Add support for tags in the index name in Elasticsearch (elasticsearch) output plugin.
Add slab to mem plugin.
Add support for glob patterns in net input plugin.
Add option to AMQP (amqp) output plugin to publish persistent messages.
Support I (idle) process state on procfs+Linux.

Bug fixes

Fix webhooks input address in use during reload.
Unlock Statsd when stopping to prevent deadlock.
Fix cloudwatch output requires unneeded permissions.
Fix prometheus passthrough for existing value types.
Always ignore autofs filesystems in disk input.
Fail metrics parsing on unescaped quotes.
Whitelist allowed char classes for graphite output.
Use hexadecimal ids and lowercase names in zipkin input.
Fix snmp-tools output parsing with Windows EOLs.
Add shadow-utils dependency to rpm package.
Use deb-systemd-invoke to restart service.
Fix kafka_consumer outside range of offsets error.
Fix separation of multiple prometheus_client outputs.
Don’t add system input uptime_format as a counter.

v1.4.5 [2017-12-01]

Bug fixes

Fix global variable collection when using interval_slow option in MySQL input.
Fix error getting net connections info in netstat input.
Fix HOST_MOUNT_PREFIX in Docker with disk input.

v1.4.4 [2017-11-08]

Bug fixes

Use schema specified in mqtt_consumer input.
Redact Datadog API key in log output.
Fix error getting PIDs in netstat input.
Support HOST_VAR envvar to locate /var in system input.
Use current time if Docker container read time is zero value.

v1.4.3 [2017-10-25]

Bug fixes

Fix container name filters in Docker input.
Fix snmpwalk address format in leofs input.
Fix case sensitivity issue in SQL Server query.
Fix CPU input plugin stuck after suspend on Linux.
Fix MongoDB input panic when restarting MongoDB.
Preserve URL path prefix in InfluxDB output.
Fix TELEGRAF_OPTS expansion in systemd service unit.
Remove warning when JSON contains null value.
Fix ACL token usage in consul input plugin.
Fix unquoting error with Tomcat 6.
Fix syscall panic in diskio on some Linux systems.

v1.4.2 [2017-10-10]

Bug fixes

Fix error if int larger than 32-bit in /proc/vmstat.
Fix parsing of JSON with a UTF8 BOM in httpjson.
Allow JSON data format to contain zero metrics.
Fix format of connection_timeout in mqtt_consumer.
Fix case sensitivity error in SQL Server input.
Add support for proxy environment variables to http_response.
Add support for standard proxy env vars in outputs.
Fix panic in CPU input if number of CPUs changes.
Use chunked transfer encoding in InfluxDB output.

v1.4.1 [2017-09-26]

Bug fixes

Fix MQTT input exits if Broker is not available on startup.
Fix optional field value conversions in fluentd input.
Whitelist allowed char classes for opentsdb output.
Fix counter and gauge metric types.
Fix skipped line with empty target in iptables.
Fix duplicate keys in perf counters sqlserver query.
Fix panic in statsd p100 calculation.
Fix arm64 packages contain 32-bit executable.

v1.4.0 [2017-09-05]

Release Notes

The kafka_consumer input has been updated to support Kafka 0.9 and above style consumer offset handling. The previous version of this plugin supporting Kafka 0.8 and below is available as the kafka_consumer_legacy plugin.
In the aerospike input the node_name field has been changed to be a tag for both the aerospike_node and aerospike_namespace measurements.
The default prometheus_client port has been changed to 9273.

New plugins

fail2ban
fluentd
histogram
minecraft
openldap
salesforce
tomcat
win_services
zipkin

Features

Add Kafka 0.9+ consumer support.
Add support for self-signed certs to InfluxDB input plugin.
Add TCP listener for statsd input.
Add Docker container environment variables as tags. Only whitelisted.
Add timeout option to IPMI sensor plugin.
Add support for an optional SSL/TLS configuration to Nginx input plugin.
Add timezone support for logparser timestamps.
Add result_type field for http_response input.
Add include/exclude filters for docker containers.
Add secure connection support to graphite output.
Add min/max response time on linux/darwin to ping.
Add HTTP Proxy support to influxdb output.
Add standard SSL options to mysql input.
Add input plugin for fail2ban.
Support HOST_PROC in processes and linux_sysctl_fs inputs.
Add Minecraft input plugin.
Add support for RethinkDB 1.0 handshake protocol.
Add optional usage_active and time_active CPU metrics.
Change default prometheus_client port.
Add fluentd input plugin.
Add result_type field to net_response input plugin.
Add read timeout to socket_listener.
Add input plugin for OpenLDAP.
Add network option to dns_query.
Add redis_version field to redis input.
Add tls options to docker input.
Add histogram aggregator plugin.
Add Zipkin input plugin.
Add Windows Services input plugin.
Add path tag to logparser containing path of logfile.
Add Salesforce input plugin.
Add option to run varnish under sudo.
Add weighted_io_time to diskio input.
Add gzip content-encoding support to influxdb output.
Allow using system plugin in Windows.
Add Tomcat input plugin.
HTTP headers can be added to InfluxDB output.

Bug fixes

Improve logging of errors in Cassandra input.
[enh] set db_version at 0 if query version fails.
Fixed SQL Server input to work with case sensitive server collation.
Systemd does not see all shutdowns as failures.
Reuse transports in input plugins.
Inputs processes fails with “no such process”.
Fix multiple plugin loading in win_perf_counters.
MySQL input: log and continue on field parse error.
Fix timeout option in Windows ping input sample configuration.
Fix Kinesis output plugin in govcloud.
Fix Aerospike input adds all nodes to a single series.
Improve Prometheus Client output documentation.
Display error message if prometheus output fails to listen.
Fix elasticsearch output content type detection warning.
Prevent possible deadlock when using aggregators.
Fix combined tagdrop/tagpass filtering.
Fix filtering when both pass and drop match an item.
Only report cpu usage for online cpus in docker input.
Start first aggregator period at startup time.
Fix panic in logparser if file cannot be opened.
Default to localhost if zookeeper has no servers set.
Fix docker memory and cpu reporting in Windows.
Allow iptable entries with trailing text.
Sanitize password from couchbase metric.
Converge to typed value in prometheus output.
Skip compilcation of logparser and tail on solaris.
Discard logging from tail library.
Remove log message on ping timeout.
Don’t retry points beyond retention policy.
Don’t start Telegraf on install in Amazon Linux.
Enable hddtemp input on all platforms.
Escape backslash within string fields.
Fix parsing of SHM remotes in ntpq input
Don’t fail parsing zpool stats if pool health is UNAVAIL on FreeBSD.
Fix NSQ input plugin when used with version 1.0.0-compat.
Added CloudWatch metric constraint validation.
Skip non-numerical values in graphite format.
Fix panic when handling string fields with escapes.

v1.3.5 [2017-07-26]

Bug fixes

Fix prometheus output cannot be reloaded.
Fix filestat reporting exists when cannot list directory.
Fix ntpq parse issue when using dns_lookup.
Fix panic when agent.interval = “0s”.

v1.3.4 [2017-07-12]

Bug fixes

Fix handling of escape characters within fields.
Fix chrony plugin does not track system time offset.
Do not allow metrics with trailing slashes.
Prevent Write from being called concurrently.

v1.3.3 [2017-06-28]

Bug fixes

Allow dos line endings in tail and logparser.
Remove label value sanitization in prometheus output.
Fix bug parsing default timestamps with modified precision.
Fix panic in elasticsearch input if cannot determine master.

v1.3.2 [2017-06-14]

Bug fixes

Fix InfluxDB UDP metric splitting.
Fix mongodb/leofs urls without scheme.
Fix inconsistent label dimensions in prometheus output.

v1.3.1 [2017-05-31]

Bug fixes

Fixed sqlserver input to work with case-sensitive server collation.
Reuse transports in input plugins.
Process input fails with no such process.
Fix InfluxDB output database quoting.
Fix net input on older Linux kernels.
Fix panic in mongo input.
Fix length calculation of split metric buffer.

v1.3.0 [2017-05-09]

Changes to the Windows ping plugin

Users of the windows ping plugin will need to drop or migrate their measurements to continue using the plugin. The reason for this is that the windows plugin was outputting a different type than the linux plugin. This made it impossible to use the ping plugin for both windows and linux machines.

Changes to the Ceph plugin

For the Ceph plugin, the ceph_pgmap_state metric content has been modified to use a unique field count, with each state expressed as a state tag.

Telegraf < 1.3:

# field_name             value
active+clean             123
active+clean+scrubbing   3

Telegraf >= 1.3:

# field_name    value       tag
count           123         state=active+clean
count           3           state=active+clean+scrubbing

Rewritten Riemann plugin

The Riemann output plugin has been rewritten and the previous riemann plugin is incompatible with the new one. The reasons for this are outlined in issue #1878. The previous Riemann output will still be available using outputs.riemann_legacy if needed, but that will eventually be deprecated. It is highly recommended that all users migrate to the new Riemann output plugin.

New Socket Listener and Socket Writer plugins

Generic Socket Listener and Socket Writer plugins have been implemented for receiving and sending UDP, TCP, unix, & unix-datagram data. These plugins will replace udp_listener and tcp_listener, which are still available but will be deprecated eventually.

Features

Add SASL options for the Kafka output plugin.
Add SSL configuration for HAproxy input plugin.
Add the Interrupts input plugin.
Add generic Socket Listener input plugin and socket writer output plugin.
Extend the HTTP Response input plugin to support searching for a substring in response. Return 1 if found, else 0.
Add userstats to the MySQL input plugin.
Add more InnoDB metric to the MySQL input plugin.
For the Ceph input plugin, ceph_pgmap_state metric now uses a single field count, with PG state published as state tag.
Use own client for improved through-put and less allocations in the InfluxDB output plugin.
Keep -config-directory when running as Windows service.
Rewrite the Riemann output plugin.
Add support for name templates and udev tags to the DiskIO input plugin.
Add integer metrics for Consul check health state.
Add lock option to the IPtables input plugin.
Support ipmi_sensor input plugin querying local ipmi sensors.
Increment gather_errors for all errors emitted by inputs.
Use the official docker SDK.
Add AMQP consumer input plugin.
Add pprof tool.
Support DEAD(X) state in the system input plugin.
Add support for MongoDB client certificates.
Support adding SNMP table indexes as tags.
Add Elasticsearch 5.x output plugin.
Add json timestamp units configurability.
Add support for Linux sysctl-fs metrics.
Support to include/exclude docker container labels as tags.
Add DMCache input plugin.
Add support for precision in HTTP Listener input plugin.
Add message_len_max option to the Kafka consumer input plugin.
Add collectd parser.
Simplify plugin testing without outputs.
Check signature in the GitHub webhook input plugin.
Add papertrail support to webhooks.
Change jolokia input plugin to use bulk requests.
Add DiskIO input plugin for Darwin.
Add use_random_partitionkey option to the Kinesis output plugin.
Add tcp keep-alive to Socket Listener input plugin and Socket Writer output plugin.
Add Kapacitor input plugin.
Use Go (golang) 1.8.1.
Add documentation for the RabbitMQ input plugin.
Make the Logparser input plugin check for newly-created files.

Bugfixes

Allow @ symbol in password for the ipmi_sensor plugin.
Fix arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type int in SQL Server input.
Flush jitter can inhibit metric collection.
Add missing fields for HAproxy input.
Handle null startTime for stopped pods for the Kubernetes input.
Fix cpu input panic when /proc/stat is empty.
Fix telegraf swallowing panics in –test mode.
Create pidfile with 644 permissions & defer file deletion.
Fix install/remove of telegraf on non-systemd Debian/Ubuntu systems.
Fix for reloading telegraf freezes prometheus output.
Fix when empty tag value causes error on InfluxDB output.
buffer_size field value is negative number from “internal” plugin.
Missing error handling in the MySQL plugin leads to segmentation violation.
Fix type conflict in windows ping plugin.
logparser: regexp with lookahead.
Telegraf can crash in LoadDirectory on 0600 files.
Iptables input: document better that rules without a comment are ignored.
Fix win_perf_counters capping values at 100.
Exporting Ipmi.Path to be set by config.
Remove warning if parse empty content.
Update default value for Cloudwatch rate limit.
create /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d directory in tarball.
Return error on unsupported serializer data format.
Fix Windows Performance Counters multi instance identifier.
Add write timeout to Riemann output.
fix timestamp parsing on prometheus plugin.
Fix deadlock when output cannot write.
Fix connection leak in postgresql.
Set default measurement name for snmp input.
Improve performance of diskio with many disks.
The internal input plugin uses the wrong units for heap_objects.
Fix ipmi_sensor config is shared between all plugin instances.
Network statistics not collected when system has alias interfaces.
Sysstat plugin needs LANG=C or similar locale.
File output closes standard streams on reload.
AMQP output disconnect blocks all outputs.
Improve documentation for redis input plugin.

v1.2.1 [2017-02-01]

Bugfixes

Fix segfault on nil metrics with InfluxDB output.
Fix negative number handling.

Features

Go (golang) version update 1.7.4 -> 1.7.5

v1.2 [2017-01-24]

Release Notes

The StatsD plugin will now default all “delete_” config options to “true”. This will change te default behavior for users who were not specifying these parameters in their config file.
The StatsD plugin will also no longer save it’s state on a service reload. Essentially we have reverted PR #887. The reason for this is that saving the state in a global variable is not thread-safe (see #1975 & #2102), and this creates issues if users want to define multiple instances of the statsd plugin. Saving state on reload may be considered in the future, but this would need to be implemented at a higher level and applied to all plugins, not just statsd.

Features

Fix improper calculation of CPU percentages
Use RFC3339 timestamps in log output.
Non-default HTTP timeouts for RabbitMQ plugin.
“Discard” output plugin added, primarily for testing purposes.
The JSON parser can now parse an array of objects using the same configuration.
Option to use device name rather than path for reporting disk stats.
Telegraf “internal” plugin for collecting stats on itself.
Update GoLang version to 1.7.4.
Support a metric.Split function.
Elasticsearch “shield” (basic auth) support doc.
Fix over-querying of cloudwatch metrics
OpenTSDB basic auth support.
RabbitMQ Connection metrics.
HAProxy session limit metric.
Accept strings for StatsD sets.
Change StatsD default “reset” behavior.
Enable setting ClientID in MQTT output.
MongoDB input plugin: Improve state data.
Ping input: add standard deviation field.
Add GC pause metric to InfluxDB input plugin.
Added response_timeout property to prometheus input plugin.
Pulling github.com/lxn/win’s pdh wrapper into Telegraf.
Support negative statsd counters.
Elasticsearch cluster stats support.
Change Amazon Kinesis output plugin to use the built-in serializer plugins.
Hide username/password from elasticsearch error log messages.
Configurable HTTP timeouts in Jolokia plugin.
Allow changing jolokia attribute delimiter.

Bugfixes

Fix the Value data format not trimming null characters from input.
Fix windows .net plugin.
Cache & expire metrics for delivery to prometheus
Fix potential panic in aggregator plugin metric maker.
Add optional ability to define PID as a tag.
Fix win_perf_counters not gathering non-English counters.
Fix panic when file stat info cannot be collected due to permissions or other issue(s).
Graylog output should set short_message field.
Hddtemp always put the value in the field temperature.
Properly collect nested jolokia struct data.
Fix puppetagent inputs plugin to support string for config variable.
Fix docker input plugin tags when registry has port.
Fix tail input when reading from a pipe.
MongoDB plugin always shows 0 replication lag.
Consul plugin: add check_id as a tag in metrics to avoid overwrites.
Partial fix: logparser CLF pattern with IPv6 addresses.
Fix thread-safety when using multiple instances of the statsd input plugin.
Docker input: interface conversion panic fix.
SNMP: ensure proper context is present on error messages.
OpenTSDB: add tcp:// prefix if no scheme provided.
Influx parser: parse line-protocol without newlines.
InfluxDB output: fix field type conflict blocking output buffer.

v1.1.2 [2016-12-12]

Bugfixes

Make snmptranslate not required when using numeric OID.
Add a global snmp translation cache.

v1.1.1 [2016-11-14]

Bugfixes

Fix issue parsing toml durations with single quotes.

v1.1.0 [2016-11-07]

Release Notes

Telegraf now supports two new types of plugins: processors & aggregators.
On systemd Telegraf will no longer redirect it’s stdout to /var/log/telegraf/telegraf.log. On most systems, the logs will be directed to the systemd journal and can be accessed by journalctl -u telegraf.service. Consult the systemd journal documentation for configuring journald. There is also a logfile config option available in 1.1, which will allow users to easily configure telegraf to continue sending logs to /var/log/telegraf/telegraf.log.

Features

Processor & Aggregator plugin support.
Adding the tags in the graylog output plugin.
Telegraf systemd service, log to journal.
Allow numeric and non-string values for tag_keys.
Adding Gauge and Counter metric types.
Remove carraige returns from exec plugin output on Windows
Elasticsearch input: configurable timeout.
Massage metric names in Instrumental output plugin
Apache Mesos improvements.
Add Ceph Cluster Performance Statistics
Ability to configure response_timeout in httpjson input.
Add additional redis metrics.
Added capability to send metrics through HTTP API for OpenTSDB.
iptables input plugin.
Add filestack webhook plugin.
Add server hostname for each Docker measurements.
Add NATS output plugin.
HTTP service listener input plugin.
Add database blacklist option for Postgresql
Add Docker container state metrics to Docker input plugin output
Add support to SNMP for IP & MAC address conversion.
Add support to SNMP for OID index suffixes.
Change default arguments for SNMP plugin.
Apach Mesos input plugin: very high-cardinality mesos-task metrics removed.
Logging overhaul to centralize the logger & log levels, & provide a logfile config option.
HAProxy plugin socket glob matching.
Add Kubernetes plugin for retrieving pod metrics.

Bugfixes

Fix NATS plug-ins reconnection logic.
Set required default values in udp_listener & tcp_listener.
Fix toml unmarshal panic in Duration objects.
Fix handling of non-string values for JSON keys listed in tag_keys.
Fix mongodb input panic on version 2.2.
Fix statsd scientific notation parsing.
Sensors plugin strconv.ParseFloat: parsing “”: invalid syntax.
Fix prometheus_client reload panic.
Fix Apache Kafka consumer panic when nil error is returned down errs channel.
Speed up statsd parsing.
Fix powerdns integer parse error handling.
Fix varnish plugin defaults not being used.
Fix Windows glob paths.
Fix issue loading config directory on Windows.
Windows remote management interactive service fix.
SQLServer, fix issue when case sensitive collation is activated.
Fix huge allocations in http_listener when dealing with huge payloads.
Fix translating SNMP fields not in MIB.
Fix SNMP emitting empty fields.
SQL Server waitstats truncation bug.
Fix logparser common log format: numbers in ident.
Fix JSON Serialization in OpenTSDB output.
Fix Graphite template ordering, use most specific.
Fix snmp table field initialization for non-automatic table.
cgroups path being parsed as metric.
Fix phpfpm fcgi client panic when URL does not exist.
Fix config file parse error logging.
Delete nil fields in the metric maker.
Fix MySQL special characters in DSN parsing.
Ping input odd timeout behavior.
Switch to github.com/kballard/go-shellquote.

v1.0.1 [2016-09-26]

Bugfixes

Prometheus output: Fix bug with multi-batch writes.
Fix unmarshal of influxdb metrics with null tags.
Add configurable timeout to influxdb input plugin.
Fix statsd no default value panic.

v1.0 [2016-09-08]

Release Notes

Breaking Change The SNMP plugin is being deprecated in it’s current form. There is a new SNMP plugin which fixes many of the issues and confusions of its predecessor. For users wanting to continue to use the deprecated SNMP plugin, you will need to change your config file from [[inputs.snmp]] to [[inputs.snmp_legacy]]. The configuration of the new SNMP plugin is not backwards-compatible.

Breaking Change: Aerospike main server node measurements have been renamed aerospike_node. Aerospike namespace measurements have been renamed to aerospike_namespace. They will also now be tagged with the node_name that they correspond to. This has been done to differentiate measurements that pertain to node vs. namespace statistics.

Breaking Change: users of github_webhooks must change to the new [[inputs.webhooks]] plugin.

This means that the default github_webhooks config:

# A Github Webhook Event collector
[[inputs.github_webhooks]]
  ## Address and port to host Webhook listener on
  service_address = ":1618"

should now look like:

# A Webhooks Event collector
[[inputs.webhooks]]
  ## Address and port to host Webhook listener on
  service_address = ":1618"

  [inputs.webhooks.github]
    path = "/"

Telegraf now supports being installed as an official windows service, which can be installed via > C:\Program Files\Telegraf\telegraf.exe --service install
flush_jitter behavior has been changed. The random jitter will now be evaluated at every flush interval, rather than once at startup. This makes it consistent with the behavior of collection_jitter.
PostgresSQL plugins now handle oid and name typed columns seamlessly, previously they were ignored/skipped.

Features

postgresql_extensible now handles name and oid types correctly.
Separate container_version from container_image tag.
Support setting per-device and total metrics for Docker network and blockio.
MongoDB input plugin: adding per DB stats from db.stats()
Add tls support for certs to RabbitMQ input plugin.
Webhooks input plugin.
Rollbar webhook plugin.
Mandrill webhook plugin.
docker-machine/boot2docker no longer required for unit tests.
cgroup input plugin.
Add input plugin for consuming metrics from NSQD.
Add ability to read Redis from a socket.
Breaking Change - Redis role tag renamed to replication_role to avoid global_tags override.
Fetching Galera status metrics in MySQL
Aerospike plugin refactored to use official client library.
Add measurement name arg to logparser plugin.
logparser: change resp_code from a field to a tag.
Implement support for fetching hddtemp data
statsd: do not log every dropped metric.
Add precision rounding to all metrics on collection.
Add support for Tengine.
Logparser input plugin for parsing grok-style log patterns.
ElasticSearch: now supports connecting to ElasticSearch via SSL.
Add graylog input pluging.
Consul input plugin.
conntrack input plugin.
vmstat input plugin.
Standardized AWS credentials evaluation & wildcard CloudWatch dimensions.
Add SSL config options to http_response plugin.
Graphite parser: add ability to specify multiple tag keys, for consistency with influxdb parser.
Make DNS lookups for chrony configurable.
Allow wildcard filtering of varnish stats.
Support for glob patterns in exec plugin commands configuration.
RabbitMQ input: made url parameter optional by using DefaultURL (http://localhost:15672) if not specified.
Limit AWS GetMetricStatistics requests to 10 per second.
RabbitMQ/Apache/InfluxDB inputs: made url(s) parameter optional by using reasonable input defaults if not specified.
Refactor of flush_jitter argument.
Add inactive & active memory to mem plugin.
Official Windows service.
Forking sensors command to remove C package dependency.
Add a new SNMP plugin.

Bugfixes

Fix make windows build target.
Fix error race conditions and partial failures.
nstat: fix inaccurate config panic.
jolokia: fix handling multiple multi-dimensional attributes.
Fix prometheus character sanitizing. Sanitize more win_perf_counters characters.
Add diskio io_time to FreeBSD & report timing metrics as ms (as linux does).
Fix covering Amazon Linux for post remove flow.
procstat missing fields: read/write bytes & count.
diskio input plugin: set ‘skip_serial_number = true’ by default to avoid high cardinality.
nil metrics panic fix.
Fix datarace in apache input plugin.
Add read_repairs statistics to riak plugin.
Fix memory/connection leak in Prometheus input plugin.
Trim BOM from config file for Windows support.
Prometheus client output panic on service reload.
Prometheus parser, protobuf format header fix.
Prometheus output, metric refresh and caching fixes.
Panic fix for multiple graphite outputs under very high load.
Instrumental output has better reconnect behavior.
Remove PID from procstat plugin to fix cardinality issues.
Cassandra input: version 2.x “column family” fix.
Shared WaitGroup in Exec plugin.
logparser: honor modifiers in “pattern” config.
logparser: error and exit on file permissions/missing errors.
Make the user able to specify full path for HAproxy stats.
Fix Redis url, an extra “tcp://” was added.
Fix exec plugin panic when using single binary.
Fixed incorrect prometheus metrics source selection.
Set default Zookeeper chroot to empty string.
Fix overall ping timeout to be calculated based on per-ping timeout.
Change “default” retention policy to “”.
Graphite output mangling ‘%’ character.
Prometheus input plugin now supports x509 certs authentication.
Fix systemd service.
Fix influxdb n_shards counter.
Fix potential kernel plugin integer parse error.
Fix potential influxdb input type assertion panic.
Still send processes metrics if a process exited during metric collection.
disk plugin panic when usage grab fails.
Removed leaked “database” tag on redis metrics.
Processes plugin: fix potential error with /proc/net/stat directory.
Fix rare RHEL 5.2 panic in gopsutil diskio gathering function.
Remove IF NOT EXISTS from influxdb output database creation.
Fix quoting with text values in postgresql_extensible plugin.
Fix win_perf_counter “index out of range” panic.
Fix ntpq panic when field is missing.
Sanitize graphite output field names.
Fix MySQL plugin not sending 0 value fields.

v1.8.3 [2018-10-30]

Bug fixes

v1.8.2 [2018-10-17]

Bug fixes

v1.8.1 [2018-10-03]

Bug fixes

v1.8 [2018-09-21]

New input plugins

New processor plugins

New aggregator plugins

New output plugins

New input data formats (parsers)

New output data formats (serializers)

Features

Bug fixes

v1.7.4 [2018-08-29]

Bug fixes

v1.7.3 [2018-08-07]

Bug fixes

v1.7.2 [2018-07-18]

Bug fixes

v1.7.1 [2018-07-03]

Bug fixes

v1.7 [2018-06-12]

Release notes

New input plugins

New processor plugins

New output plugins

Features

Bug fixes

v1.6.4 [2018-06-05]

Bugfixes

v1.6.3 [2018-05-21]

Bug fixes

v1.6.2 [2018-05-08]

Bug fixes

v1.6.1 [2018-04-23]

Bug fixes

v1.6 [2018-04-16]

Release notes

New input plugins

New processor plugins

New parsers

Features

Bug fixes

v1.5.3 [2018-03-14]

Bug fixes

v1.5.2 [2018-01-30]

Bug fixes

v1.5.1 [2017-01-10]

Bug fixes

v1.5 [2017-12-14]

New plugins

Input plugins

Aggregator plugins

Output plugins

Release notes

Features

Bug fixes

v1.4.5 [2017-12-01]

Bug fixes

v1.4.4 [2017-11-08]

Bug fixes

v1.4.3 [2017-10-25]

Bug fixes

v1.4.2 [2017-10-10]

Bug fixes

v1.4.1 [2017-09-26]

Bug fixes

v1.4.0 [2017-09-05]

Release Notes

New plugins

Features

Bug fixes

v1.3.5 [2017-07-26]

Bug fixes

v1.3.4 [2017-07-12]

Bug fixes

v1.3.3 [2017-06-28]