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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.
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**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”

<img src="/img/telegraf/controller-agents-list.png" width="1300" alt="Telegraf Controller agent summary">

## 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.

## [Get started with Telegraf Controller](/telegraf/controller/get-started/)

Get started with Telegraf Controller by creating a configuration, generating an API token, starting a Telegraf agent, and verifying agent reporting.

## [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.

## [Authentication](/telegraf/controller/authentication/)

Configure how users sign in to Telegraf Controller. Choose between local username and password authentication, LDAP, and OIDC identity providers, or run multiple providers side by side.

## [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 public endpoints, login security, password policies, and audit log retention in Telegraf Controller.

## [Telegraf Enterprise licensing](/telegraf/controller/telegraf-enterprise/)

Apply and manage Telegraf Enterprise licenses in Telegraf Controller to unlock higher limits, audit logging, and enterprise authentication.

## [Audit logs](/telegraf/controller/audit-logs/)

Telegraf Controller records security-relevant events to a tamper-evident, append-only audit log. Use audit logs to investigate access, detect unauthorized changes, and demonstrate compliance.

## [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.