File statistics Input Plugin

This plugin gathers metrics about file existence, size, and other file statistics.

Introduced in: Telegraf v0.13.0 Tags: system OS support: all

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Read stats about given file(s)
[[inputs.filestat]]
  ## Files to gather stats about.
  ## These accept standard unix glob matching rules, but with the addition of
  ## ** as a "super asterisk". See https://github.com/gobwas/glob.
  files = ["/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf", "/var/log/**.log"]

  ## If true, read the entire file and calculate an md5 checksum.
  md5 = false

Metrics

Measurements & Fields

• filestat
  • exists (int, 0 | 1)
  • size_bytes (int, bytes)
  • modification_time (int, unix time nanoseconds)
  • md5 (optional, string)

Tags

• All measurements have the following tags:
  • file (the path the to file, as specified in the config)

Example Output

filestat,file=/tmp/foo/bar,host=tyrion exists=0i 1507218518192154351
filestat,file=/Users/sparrc/ws/telegraf.conf,host=tyrion exists=1i,size=47894i,modification_time=1507152973123456789i  1507218518192154351