---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for aggregating metrics using Minimum-Maximum
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/aggregator-plugins/minmax/
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product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v1.1.0+

# Minimum-Maximum Aggregator Plugin

This plugin aggregates the minimum and maximum values of each field it sees, emitting the aggrate every `period` seconds with field names suffixed by `_min` and `_max` respectively.

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v1.1.0 **Tags:** statistics **OS support:** all

## Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See [CONFIGURATION.md](/telegraf/v1/configuration/#plugins) for more details.

## Configuration

```toml
# Keep the aggregate min/max of each metric passing through.
[[aggregators.minmax]]
  ## General Aggregator Arguments:
  ## The period on which to flush & clear the aggregator.
  # period = "30s"

  ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
  ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
  # drop_original = false
```

## Measurements & Fields

-   measurement1
    -   field1\_max
    -   field1\_min

## Tags

No tags are applied by this aggregator.

## Example Output

```text
system,host=tars load1=1.72 1475583980000000000
system,host=tars load1=1.6 1475583990000000000
system,host=tars load1=1.66 1475584000000000000
system,host=tars load1=1.63 1475584010000000000
system,host=tars load1_max=1.72,load1_min=1.6 1475584010000000000
system,host=tars load1=1.46 1475584020000000000
system,host=tars load1=1.39 1475584030000000000
system,host=tars load1=1.41 1475584040000000000
system,host=tars load1_max=1.46,load1_min=1.39 1475584040000000000
```

#### Related

-   [Configure plugins](/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/)
-   [Minimum-Maximum Plugin Source](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.38.4/plugins/aggregators/minmax/README.md)