# influxdata/telegraf

Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.

Repository: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/telegraf
Homepage: https://influxdata.com/telegraf
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: telegraf, monitoring, time-series, metrics, golang, influxdb, json, kafka, logs, modbus, mqtt, opcua, windows-eventlog, xpath, hacktoberfest, t, telemetry-collection
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:55:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 97, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4172, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 23, "gap_med": 20, "n_releases_24m": 36}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 17767, forks 5837 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:20.399178+00:00)

## What it is
Telegraf is an open-source agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other telemetry data. It ships as a standalone static Go binary with 300+ input, output, and processor plugins connecting virtually any data source to any destination.

## Use cases
- collect system metrics like cpu, memory, and disk usage
- ship logs and metrics to influxdb or grafana
- collect iot sensor data via mqtt, modbus, or opc ua
- monitor docker and kubernetes clusters
- forward kafka or amqp messages to a time-series database
- scrape prometheus and opentelemetry endpoints
- collect windows event logs and performance counters
- monitor nvidia gpu metrics with nvidia-smi

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, dependency-free agent to gather telemetry from servers, containers, or edge devices
- you want to pipe metrics from many heterogeneous sources into influxdb, prometheus, or other time-series stores
- you need industrial protocol support like OPC UA, Modbus, or SNMP
- you want a single agent that handles collection, processing, and output with TOML configuration

## When to avoid
- you need full distributed tracing spans rather than metrics and logs
- you prefer a managed SaaS agent bundled with a commercial observability platform
- you need heavy stream processing or complex transformations better suited to a stream processor like Flink

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: monitoring, logging, etl, streaming
- domain: monitoring, iot, time-series
- platform: windows, cross-platform, go
- tags: telemetry-collection, metrics-agent, influxdb, plugin-architecture, edge, opentelemetry, mqtt, modbus, opcua, devops, data-engineering, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- influxdata/telegraf (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:20.399178+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:02:27.701760+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:20.399178+00:00, sha 5eb55a9ebb12)
  - homepage: https://influxdata.com/telegraf (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.003000+00:00, sha 4ccca1d74526)
  - site_page: https://docs.influxdata.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.011707+00:00, sha 7aaddebdcffd)
  - site_page: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.031250+00:00, sha c32718c08e73)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/products/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.006217+00:00, sha 734a7cf1e1fd)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/influxdb-pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.028287+00:00, sha c0415ed9995a)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/integrations/ctrlx (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.034877+00:00, sha f5910c74ada8)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/integrations/google_cloud_storage (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.057273+00:00, sha 4d94e7725ee1)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/integrations/nvidia_smi (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.060451+00:00, sha db4412c55b47)
  - site_page: https://www.influxdata.com/integrations/grafana (fetched 2026-08-29T08:00:58.062411+00:00, sha 802356da9b4d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.