---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from File statistics
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/input-plugins/filestat/
estimated_tokens: 836
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v0.13.0+

# 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

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
# 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

```text
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
```

#### Related

-   [Configure plugins](/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/)
-   [File statistics Plugin Source](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.38.4/plugins/inputs/filestat/README.md)