telegraf/plugins/inputs/exec

Exec Plugin

The exec plugin can execute arbitrary commands which output JSON. Then it flattens JSON and finds all numeric values, treating them as floats.

For example, if you have a json-returning command called mycollector, you could setup the exec plugin with:

[[exec.commands]]
command = "/usr/bin/mycollector --output=json"
name = "mycollector"
interval = 10

The name is used as a prefix for the measurements.

The interval is used to determine how often a particular command should be run. Each time the exec plugin runs, it will only run a particular command if it has been at least interval seconds since the exec plugin last ran the command.

Sample

Let's say that we have a command named "mycollector", which gives the following output:

{
    "a": 0.5,
    "b": {
        "c": "some text",
        "d": 0.1,
        "e": 5
    }
}

The collected metrics will be:

exec_mycollector_a value=0.5
exec_mycollector_b_d value=0.1
exec_mycollector_b_e value=5