# Telegraf

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Telegraf is an agent written in Go for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics [1]. It is an open source application developed by InfluxData and closely integrated into the TICK Stack. It is highly customizable with plugins for different metrics and backends.

## Installation

Install the telegrafAUR or the telegraf-binAUR package. If you want to write your own plugins, it may be better to get it directly from github and compile it in your $GOPATH.

Enable and start the `telegraf` service.

## Configuration

All configuration is done in `/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf`. By default it expects you to have InfluxDB installed. To test the default output, run `telegraf --test`.

The configuration is well documented, but you can also ahve a look at their Documentation

## See also

- InfluxData
- Documentation
- Github

Category:

- Status monitoring and notification