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Telegraf contains many general purpose plugins that support parsing input data
using a configurable parser into metrics. This allows, for example, the
kafka_consumer input plugin to process messages in either InfluxDB Line
Protocol or in JSON format. Telegraf supports the following input data formats:
- InfluxDB Line Protocol
- collectd
- CSV
- Dropwizard
- Graphite
- Grok
- JSON
- logfmt
- Nagios
- Value, ie: 45 or “booyah”
- Wavefront
Any input plugin containing the data_format option can use it to select the
desired parser:
[[inputs.exec]]
## Commands array
commands = ["/tmp/test.sh", "/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"]
## measurement name suffix (for separating different commands)
name_suffix = "_mycollector"
## Data format to consume.
## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
## more about them here:
## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
data_format = "json"