---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from Azure Queue Storage
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/input-plugins/azure_storage_queue/
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product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v1.13.0+

# Azure Queue Storage Input Plugin

This plugin gathers queue sizes from the [Azure Queue Storage](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/queues) service, storing a large numbers of messages.

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v1.13.0 **Tags:** cloud **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
# Gather Azure Storage Queue metrics
[[inputs.azure_storage_queue]]
  ## Azure Storage Account name and shared access key (required)
  account_name = "mystorageaccount"
  account_key = "storageaccountaccesskey"

  ## Disable peeking age of oldest message (faster)
  # peek_oldest_message_age = true
```

## Metrics

-   azure\_storage\_queues
    -   tags:
        -   queue
        -   account
    -   fields:
        -   size (integer, count)
        -   oldest\_message\_age\_ns (integer, nanoseconds) Age of message at the head of the queue. Requires `peek_oldest_message_age` to be configured to `true`.

## Example Output

```text
azure_storage_queues,queue=myqueue,account=mystorageaccount oldest_message_age=799714900i,size=7i 1565970503000000000
azure_storage_queues,queue=myemptyqueue,account=mystorageaccount size=0i 1565970502000000000
```

#### Related

-   [Configure plugins](/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/)
-   [Azure Queue Storage Plugin Source](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.38.4/plugins/inputs/azure_storage_queue/README.md)