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title: Telegraf Controller release notes
description: Important features, bug fixes, and changes in Telegraf Controller releases.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/controller/reference/release-notes/
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product: Telegraf
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# Telegraf Controller release notes

#### 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)

## v0.0.7-beta

[Download Telegraf Controller v0.0.7-beta](/telegraf/controller/install/#download-and-install-telegraf-controller)

#### Breaking change: Only allow endpoint authorization control on startup

The `disabledAuthEndpoints` setting has been removed from the API and Settings UI. Authentication bypass is now controlled exclusively via the `DISABLED_AUTH_ENDPOINTS` environment variable or the `--disable-auth-endpoints` command line flag, read once at startup and immutable at runtime.

**Why:** Runtime-configurable authentication bypass was a security weakness. Anyone with admin access to the UI or API or direct access to the underlying database could disable authentication on critical endpoints without restarting the service or leaving an infrastructure-level audit trail. Auth policy now belongs to whoever deploys the service, not whoever logs into it.

**Action required:** By default, authentication is required on all endpoints. If you previously relied on the old `*` default or disabled specific endpoints via the UI, set `DISABLED_AUTH_ENDPOINTS` in your deployment environment before upgrading.

### Features

-   Preserve in raw TOML in code editor mode. TOML is no longer reformatted on save when using the code editor.
-   Redesign the configuration detail page to be more compact and make **Use this configuration** more prominent.
-   Add plugin support to the Telegraf Builder UI:
    -   Libvirt (`inputs.libvirt`)
    -   Linux CPU (`inputs.linux_cpu`)
    -   Linux Sysctl FS (`inputs.linux_sysctl_fs`)
    -   LogQL (`inputs.logql`)
    -   Logstash (`inputs.logstash`)
    -   Lustre2 (`inputs.lustre2`)
    -   LVM (`inputs.lvm`)
    -   Mailchimp (`inputs.mailchimp`)
    -   MarkLogic (`inputs.marklogic`)
    -   MAVLink (`inputs.mavlink`)
    -   Mcrouter (`inputs.mcrouter`)
    -   Mdstat (`inputs.mdstat`)
    -   Memcached (`inputs.memcached`)
    -   Mesos (`inputs.mesos`)
    -   Minecraft (`inputs.minecraft`)
    -   Mock (`inputs.mock`)
    -   Modbus (`inputs.modbus`)
    -   MongoDB (`inputs.mongodb`)
    -   Monit (`inputs.monit`)

### Security

-   Only allow endpoint authorization control on startup using the `DISABLED_AUTH_ENDPOINTS` environment variable or `--disable-auth-endpoints` command flag. *For more information, see the [breaking change](#breaking-change-only-allow-endpoint-authorization-control-on-startup).*

### Bug fixes

-   Add missing permission resources to the token creation UI.

## v0.0.6-beta

#### Updated End User License Agreement (EULA)

This release includes an updated [EULA for Telegraf Controller](/telegraf/controller/reference/eula/). After upgrading to this release, **you are required to accept the updated EULA** before Telegraf Controller starts. For information about different ways to accept the updated EULA, see [Install Telegraf Controller–Review the EULA](https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/controller/install/#review-the-eula).

### Features

-   Separate managed and external configurations on the agent detail page.
-   Enhance Heartbeat plugin with HTTP client configuration options for transport, TLS, OAuth2, and Cookie Auth.
-   Add plugin support to the Telegraf Builder UI:
    -   Intel PMU (`inputs.intel_pmu`)
    -   Intel PowerStat (`inputs.intel_powerstat`)
    -   Intel RDT (`inputs.intel_rdt`)
    -   Internal (`inputs.internal`)
    -   Internet Speed (`inputs.internet_speed`)
    -   Interrupts (`inputs.interrupts`)
    -   IPMI Sensor (`inputs.ipmi_sensor`)
    -   Ipset (`inputs.ipset`)
    -   Iptables (`inputs.iptables`)
    -   Jenkins (`inputs.jenkins`)
    -   Jolokia2 Agent (`inputs.jolokia2_agent`)
    -   JTI OpenConfig Telemetry (`inputs.jti_openconfig_telemetry`)
    -   Kafka Consumer (`inputs.kafka_consumer`)
    -   Kapacitor (`inputs.kapacitor`)
    -   Kernel Vmstat (`inputs.kernel_vmstat`)
    -   IPVS (`inputs.ipvs`)
    -   Kibana (`inputs.kibana`)
    -   Kinesis Consumer (`inputs.kinesis_consumer`)
    -   KNX Listener (`inputs.knx_listener`)
    -   Kubernetes (`inputs.kubernetes`)
    -   Kubernetes Inventory (`inputs.kube_inventory`)
    -   Lanz (`inputs.lanz`)
    -   LDAP (`inputs.ldap`)
    -   LeoFS (`inputs.leofs`)

### Bug fixes

-   Fix typo in TOML parsing rename configuration.

## v0.0.5-beta

### Important changes

This release introduces user and account management, API token authentication, and configurable authentication options. By default, authentication is required to interact with all API endpoints. If you have agents reading configurations from and reporting heartbeats to Telegraf Controller, they will begin to fail with authorization errors.

**To avoid agent authorization errors:**

1. Temporarily disable authentication on the **Heartbeat** and **Configs** APIs. You can use either the `--disable-auth-endpoints` command flag or the `DISABLED_AUTH_ENDPOINTS` environment variable when starting Telegraf Controller.
    
    <!-- Tabbed content: Select one of the following options -->
    
    
    **Command flags:**
    
    ```bash
    telegraf_controller --disable-auth-endpoints=configs,heartbeat
    ```
    
    
    
    **Environment Variables:**
    
    ```bash
    export DISABLED_AUTH_ENDPOINTS="configs,heartbeat"
    
    telegraf_controller --disable-auth-endpoints=configs,heartbeat
    ```
    
    
    
    <!-- End tabbed content -->
    
2. [Create an API token](/telegraf/controller/tokens/create/) with read permissions on the **Configs** API and write permissions on the **Heartbeat** API.
    
3. Use the `INFLUX_TOKEN` environment variable to define the `token` option in your heartbeat output plugin configuration:
    
    ```toml
    [[outputs.heartbeat]]
    # ...
    token = "${INFLUX_TOKEN}"
    ```
    
4. Define the `INFLUX_TOKEN` environment variable in your Telegraf environment:
    
    ```bash
    export INFLUX_TOKEN=YOUR_TELEGRAF_CONTROLLER_TOKEN
    
    telegraf --config "https://localhost:8888/api/configs/..."
    ```
    
    Replace `YOUR_TELEGRAF_CONTROLLER_TOKEN` with your Telegraf Controller API token.
    
    It’s important to use the `INFLUX_TOKEN` environment variable. When present, Telegraf uses this specific variable to set the token used in the `Authorization` header when requesting the configuration.
    
5. Navigate to the **Settings** page in Telegraf Controller and reenable authentication on the Configs and Heartbeat APIs. Save your changes.
    

### Features

-   Add user authentication and session management with login and setup pages.
-   Add user management with invite system, password reset, and password complexity validation.
-   Add token management with create workflow and management pages.
-   Add account management page with ownership transfer flow.
-   Add settings page.
-   Add application version retrieval and display.
-   Enhance Heartbeat plugin with logs, status configurations, and agent status checks.
-   Add dynamic parsing component support for Exec and Google Cloud PubSub Push plugins.
-   Add plugin support to the Telegraf Builder UI:
    -   Aerospike (`inputs.aerospike`)
    -   Alibaba Cloud Monitor Service (Aliyun) (`inputs.aliyuncms`)
    -   Amazon Elastic Container Service (`inputs.ecs`)
    -   AMD ROCm System Management Interface (SMI) (`inputs.amd_rocm_smi`)
    -   AMQP Consumer (`inputs.amqp_consumer`)
    -   Apache (`inputs.apache`)
    -   APC UPSD (`inputs.apcupsd`)
    -   Apache Aurora (`inputs.aurora`)
    -   Azure Queue Storage (`inputs.azure_storage_queue`)
    -   Bcache (`inputs.bcache`)
    -   Beanstalkd (`inputs.beanstalkd`)
    -   Beat (`inputs.beat`)
    -   BIND 9 Nameserver (`inputs.bind`)
    -   Bond (`inputs.bond`)
    -   Burrow (`inputs.burrow`)
    -   Ceph Storage (`inputs.ceph`)
    -   chrony (`inputs.chrony`)
    -   Cisco Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT) (`inputs.cisco_telemetry_mdt`)
    -   ClickHouse (`inputs.clickhouse`)
    -   Google Cloud PubSub Push (`inputs.cloud_pubsub_push`)
    -   Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams (`inputs.cloudwatch_metric_streams`)
    -   Netfilter Conntrack (`inputs.conntrack`)
    -   Hashicorp Consul (`inputs.consul`)
    -   Hashicorp Consul Agent (`inputs.consul_agent`)
    -   Bosch Rexroth ctrlX Data Layer (`inputs.ctrlx_datalayer`)
    -   Mesosphere Distributed Cloud OS (`inputs.dcos`)
    -   Device Mapper Cache (`inputs.dmcache`)
    -   Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) (`inputs.dpdk`)
    -   Elasticsearch (`inputs.elasticsearch`)
    -   Ethtool (`inputs.ethtool`)
    -   Exec (`inputs.exec`)
    -   Fibaro (`inputs.fibaro`)
    -   File (`inputs.file`)
    -   Filecount (`inputs.filecount`)
    -   File statistics (`inputs.filestat`)
    -   Fireboard (`inputs.fireboard`)
    -   AWS Data Firehose (`inputs.firehose`)
    -   Fluentd (`inputs.fluentd`)
    -   Fritzbox (`inputs.fritzbox`)
    -   GitHub (`inputs.github`)
    -   gNMI (gRPC Network Management Interface) (`inputs.gnmi`)
    -   Google Cloud Storage (`inputs.google_cloud_storage`)
    -   GrayLog (`inputs.graylog`)
    -   HAProxy (`inputs.haproxy`)
    -   HDDtemp (`inputs.hddtemp`)
    -   HTTP (`inputs.http`)
    -   HTTP Listener v2 (`inputs.http_listener_v2`)
    -   HueBridge (`inputs.huebridge`)
    -   Hugepages (`inputs.hugepages`)
    -   Icinga2 (`inputs.icinga2`)
    -   InfiniBand (`inputs.infiniband`)
    -   InfluxDB (`inputs.influxdb`)
    -   InfluxDB Listener (`inputs.influxdb_listener`)
    -   InfluxDB V2 Listener (`inputs.influxdb_v2_listener`)
    -   Intel Baseband Accelerator (`inputs.intel_baseband`)
    -   Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (`inputs.intel_dlb`)
    -   Intel® Platform Monitoring Technology (`inputs.intel_pmt`)

### Bug fixes

-   Fix default Heartbeat plugin configuration and environment variable exports.

## v0.0.4-alpha

### Features

-   Require InfluxData EULA acceptance before starting the server.
-   Add plugin support to the Telegraf Builder UI and TOML parser:
    -   ActiveMQ (`inputs.activemq`)
    -   Vault (`secretstores.vault`)
    -   All parsers
    -   All serializers
-   Add support for custom logs directory.
-   Reduce binary size.

### Bug fixes

-   Fix question mark position in deletion popup.

## v0.0.3-alpha

### Features

-   Add linux-arm64 binary support.
-   Add build validation for missing plugins.
-   Add local file handling for configurations.

## v0.0.2-alpha

### Features

-   Identify external configurations for Telegraf agents.
-   Add SSL support for backend connections.
-   Add health check status API endpoint.
-   Add `Last-Modified` header to GET TOML API response and remove duplicate protocol handling.
-   Compile native Rust NAPI server for heartbeat service.

### Bug fixes

-   Fix default parsing unit to use seconds.
-   Fix command line string generation.

## v0.0.1-alpha

*Initial alpha build of Telegraf Controller.*