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title: Manage Telegraf agents at scale
description: Use Telegraf Controller to centrally manage configurations, monitor agent health, and organize a fleet of Telegraf agents.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/administer/manage-at-scale/
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product: Telegraf Enterprise
version: v1
publisher: InfluxData
canonical: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/administer/manage-at-scale/
date: '2026-08-14T12:27:55-06:00'
lastmod: '2026-08-14T12:27:55-06:00'
---

Managing more than a handful of Telegraf agents by editing configuration
files on each host doesn’t scale well.[Telegraf Controller](/telegraf/controller/) is a centralized application
for managing Telegraf deployments across your infrastructure.

Telegraf Controller provides:

* **Centralized configuration management**: store configurations in one
  place and serve them to agents over a URL.
  Agents load them with the `--config` flag.
  See [Load configuration from a URL](/telegraf/v1/configuration/file/#load-configuration-from-a-url).
* **Agent status and monitoring**: agents running the[heartbeat output plugin](/telegraf/v1/output-plugins/heartbeat/) report
  health and a self-evaluated status back to Telegraf Controller.
  See [Monitor Telegraf](/telegraf/v1/administer/monitor/).
* **Labels and organization**: group and find agents and configurations
  across environments.

Telegraf Controller has a free tier, and additional capabilities are
available with [Telegraf Enterprise](/telegraf/v1/enterprise/), including
higher limits, audit logging, and LDAP and OIDC authentication.

To get started, see the[Telegraf Controller documentation](/telegraf/controller/).

#### Related

* [Telegraf Controller documentation](/telegraf/controller/)
* [Telegraf Enterprise](/telegraf/v1/enterprise/)
* [Monitor Telegraf](/telegraf/v1/administer/monitor/)
* [Select Telegraf plugins with labels and selectors](/telegraf/v1/configuration/labels-selectors/)