Installing Telegraf | InfluxData Documentation Archive

This page provides directions for installing, starting, and configuring Telegraf.

Requirements

Installation of the Telegraf package may require root or administrator privileges in order to complete successfully.

Networking

Telegraf offers multiple service input plugins that may require custom ports. All port mappings can be modified through the configuration file, which is located at /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf for default installations.

NTP

Telegraf uses a host’s local time in UTC to assign timestamps to data. Use the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize time between hosts; if hosts’ clocks aren’t synchronized with NTP, the timestamps on the data can be inaccurate.

Installation

Ubuntu & Debian RedHat & CentOS SLES & openSUSE FreeBSD/PC-BSD macOS Windows

For instructions on how to install the Debian package from a file, please see the downloads page.

Debian and Ubuntu users can install the latest stable version of Telegraf using the apt-get package manager.

Ubuntu: Add the InfluxData repository with the following commands:

wget curl

  wget -qO- https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key | sudo apt-key add -
  source /etc/lsb-release
  echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

  curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key | sudo apt-key add -
  source /etc/lsb-release
  echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

Debian: Add the InfluxData repository with the following commands:

wget curl

  # Before adding Influx repository, run this so that apt will be able to read the repository.

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

  # Add the InfluxData key

  wget -qO- https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key | sudo apt-key add -
  source /etc/os-release
  test $VERSION_ID = "7" && echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian wheezy stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list
  test $VERSION_ID = "8" && echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian jessie stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list
  test $VERSION_ID = "9" && echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stretch stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

  # Before adding Influx repository, run this so that apt will be able to read the repository.

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

  # Add the InfluxData key

  curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key | sudo apt-key add -
  source /etc/os-release
  test $VERSION_ID = "7" && echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian wheezy stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list
  test $VERSION_ID = "8" && echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian jessie stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list
  test $VERSION_ID = "9" && echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stretch stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

Then, install and start the Telegraf service:

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install telegraf
  sudo service telegraf start

Or if your operating system is using systemd (Ubuntu 15.04+, Debian 8+):

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install telegraf
  sudo systemctl start telegraf

For instructions on how to install the RPM package from a file, please see the downloads page.

RedHat and CentOS: Install the latest stable version of Telegraf using the yum package manager:

  cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/influxdb.repo
  [influxdb]
  name = InfluxDB Repository - RHEL \$releasever
  baseurl = https://repos.influxdata.com/rhel/\$releasever/\$basearch/stable
  enabled = 1
  gpgcheck = 1
  gpgkey = https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key
  EOF

Once repository is added to the yum configuration, install and start the Telegraf service by running:

  sudo yum install telegraf
  sudo service telegraf start

Or if your operating system is using systemd (CentOS 7+, RHEL 7+):

  sudo yum install telegraf
  sudo systemctl start telegraf

There are RPM packages provided by openSUSE Build Service for SUSE Linux users:

  # add go repository
  zypper ar -f obs://devel:languages:go/ go
  # install latest telegraf
  zypper in telegraf

Telegraf is part of the FreeBSD package system. It can be installed by running:

  sudo pkg install telegraf

The configuration file is located at /usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf with examples in /usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf.sample.

Users of macOS 10.8 and higher can install Telegraf using the Homebrew package manager. Once brew is installed, you can install Telegraf by running:

  brew update
  brew install telegraf

To have launchd start telegraf at next login:

  ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/telegraf/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

To load telegraf now:

  launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.telegraf.plist

Or, if you don’t want/need launchctl, you can just run:

  telegraf -config /usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf

Install Telegraf as a Windows service (Windows support is still experimental):

  telegraf.exe -service install -config <path_to_config>

Configuration

Create a configuration file with default input and output plugins.

Every plugin will be in the file, but most will be commented.

telegraf config > telegraf.conf

Create a configuration file with specific inputs and outputs

telegraf --input-filter <pluginname>[:<pluginname>] --output-filter <outputname>[:<outputname>] config > telegraf.conf

For more advanced configuration details, see the configuration documentation.