Use the Telegraf Builder

The Telegraf Builder is a visual interface for managing and configuring Telegraf plugins in a configuration. The builder is available when creating or updating a configuration.

The Telegraf builder is divided into two main panes:

• Plugin Library pane: Search for and add supported plugins
• Configuration pane: Manage agent and plugin settings

Plugin Library pane

The Plugin Library pane provides a list of all Telegraf plugins supported in the builder grouped by plugin type.

• Search plugins: Use the search bar in the Plugin Library pane to search for Telegraf plugins. Search by plugin name, identifier, or description.
• Add plugins to your configuration: Click next to the plugin to add it to your configuration.

Configuration pane

The Configuration pane lets you manage agent and plugin-specific settings. Configuration options and plugins are each represented by “cards”. Click on a card or expand or hide its contents.

Each configuration has at least two cards: Agent Settings and Global Tags.

Agent settings

Agent settings are those that specify how the agent runs rather than plugin-specific settings. Agent settings only need to be included in a configuration when they vary from the default Telegraf agent settings.

To include agent settings in your configuration:

1. On the Agent Settings card, enable the Include in config toggle.
2. Define custom settings for any of the available Telegraf agent settings.

Global tags

Telegraf applies global tags to all metrics that it emits. Global tags are not required and only need to be included in a configuration when set.

To include global tags in your configuration:

1. On the Global Tags card, enable the Include in config toggle.
2. Click Add Global Tag.
3. Provide a key and a value for the global tag.
4. Repeat steps 2-3 for additional global tags.

Plugin cards

The Telegraf Builder represents each Telegraf plugin as a card. Plugin cards have three tabs:

• Plugin: Plugin-specific settings
• Customize: Plugin customization options
• Filter: Plugin metric filters

Plugin

The Plugin tab in a plugin card lets you customize settings specific to that plugin.

Customize

The Customize tab in a plugin card lets you apply plugin customizations including the following:

• Add a plugin alias: Aliases help to identify plugins in your configuration. They are especially helpful when you have more than one of the same plugin. When you define a plugin alias, the builder uses the alias as the plugin name on the plugin card.

• Add configuration labels: Telegraf configuration labels let you label and select what plugins to run when starting Telegraf. For more information about using labels and selectors, see Plugin selection via labels and selectors

• Other customizations specific to the plugin type

Filter

The Filter tab on a plugin card lets you add metric filters to the plugin. These filters include namepass, namedrop, tagpass, tagdrop, and others.

For more information about using Telegraf plugin filters, see Metric filtering.

Remove a plugin from the configuration

To remove a plugin from the configuration, click the icon on the plugin card.