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diff --git a/system/telegraf/README b/system/telegraf/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5603c0571c --- /dev/null +++ b/system/telegraf/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +telegraf (An Open-Source Collecting & Reporting Agent) + +It is part of the TICK stack and is a plugin-driven server agent for +collecting and reporting metrics. Telegraf has plugins or integrations +to source a variety of metrics directly from the system it’s running +on, pull metrics from third-party APIs, or even listen for metrics via +a StatsD and Kafka consumer services. It also has output plugins to +send metrics to a variety of other datastores, services, and message +queues, including InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Datadog, Librato, +Kafka, MQTT, NSQ, and many others. + +Groupname and Username + +You must have the "telegraf" group and user to run this script, for example: + + groupadd -g 349 telegraf + useradd -u 349 -s /bin/false -d /dev/null -g telegraf telegraf |