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title: Telegraf Controller documentation
description: Documentation for Telegraf Controller, the application for managing Telegraf deployments at scale. Create and manage Telegraf configurations, monitor the health of your agents, and more.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/controller/
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product: Telegraf
version: v1
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# Telegraf Controller documentation

#### Telegraf Controller is in Public Beta

Telegraf Controller is in public beta and will be part of the future Telegraf Enterprise offering. While in beta, Telegraf Controller is **not meant for production use**. The Telegraf Controller documentation is a work in progress, and we are actively working to improve it. If you have any questions or suggestions, please [submit an issue](https://github.com/influxdata/docs-v2/issues/new?labels=Telegraf%20Controller). We welcome any and all contributions.

Beta expectations

-   **No configuration or agent limits**  
    While in beta, Telegraf Controller doesn't place any limits on the number of configurations you can store or the number of Telegraf agents you can track. However, upon being generally available, the free distribution of Telegraf Controller will have limits introduced, with the option to increase limits through a Telegraf Enterprise license.
-   **Potential breaking changes**  
    While in beta, we will do our best to no longer make breaking changes to Telegraf Controller, however, they may be necessary. The majority of changes we make will be additive and non-breaking, and include any necessary migrations. When we do need to make breaking changes, we will do our best to communicate them clearly and in advance to minimize disruption.
-   **Flexible release schedule**  
    While in beta, we will continue to create new releases of Telegraf Controller, but likely at irregular intervals. We will provide [Telegraf Controller release notes](/telegraf/controller/reference/release-notes/) to make it easy to track updates.

Provide beta feedback

-   Use the **Feedback** feature in the Telegraf Controller UI.
-   [Join the InfluxDB Community Slack](https://influxdata.com/slack) and post feedback in the **#telegraf-enterprise-alpha** channel.
-   Post feedback in the [InfluxData Community](https://community.influxdata.com).

Join our public channels

-   [InfluxDB Community Slack *(Preferred)*](https://influxdata.com/slack)
-   [InfluxData Community](https://community.influxdata.com)
-   [InfluxDB Subreddit](https://reddit.com/r/influxdb)

**Telegraf Controller** is a centralized application for managing Telegraf deployments at scale. Use it to define configurations once and apply them consistently across fleets of agents. Monitor agent health and roll out updates without manually editing individual agents.

## Key features

-   Create and manage agent configurations
-   Connect agents to Telegraf Controller
-   Monitor the overall health of your agent deployment
-   Roll out changes safely and verify agent status
-   Apply custom logic to agents to identify when they are considered “not reporting”

![Telegraf Controller agent summary](/img/telegraf/controller-agents-list.png)

## Configuration and agent workflow

-   Create and store Telegraf configurations in Telegraf Controller
-   Start a Telegraf agent, pulling its configuration from Telegraf Controller, and have it regularly check for configuration updates.
-   Agents use the [Telegraf Heartbeat output plugin](/telegraf/v1/output-plugins/heartbeat/) (available with Telegraf v1.37+) to report their status back to Telegraf Controller
-   Telegraf Controller provides agent-specific and deployment-wide health information.
-   When you update a configuration, agents see the change and load the updated configuration.

## [Install Telegraf Controller](/telegraf/controller/install/)

Download and install Telegraf Controller on Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems.

## [Manage Telegraf configurations](/telegraf/controller/configs/)

Use Telegraf Controller to create, update, and delete Telegraf configurations.

## [Manage Telegraf agents](/telegraf/controller/agents/)

Use Telegraf Controller to monitor the Telegraf agents that report through the heartbeat output plugin, view their details, and manage reporting rules.

## [Manage users](/telegraf/controller/users/)

Manage user accounts in Telegraf Controller, including creating, updating, disabling, and deleting users.

## [Manage API tokens](/telegraf/controller/tokens/)

Create and manage API tokens for authenticating API requests and Telegraf agent connections to Telegraf Controller.

## [Manage settings](/telegraf/controller/settings/)

Configure login security and password policies in Telegraf Controller.

## [Telegraf Controller reference documentation](/telegraf/controller/reference/)

Reference documentation for Telegraf Controller, the application that centralizes configuration management and provides information about the health of Telegraf agent deployments.