---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from Mailchimp
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/input-plugins/mailchimp/
estimated_tokens: 1284
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v0.2.4+

# Mailchimp Input Plugin

This plugin gathers metrics from the [Mailchimp](https://mailchimp.com) service using the [Mailchimp API](https://developer.mailchimp.com/).

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v0.2.4 **Tags:** cloud, web **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
# Gathers metrics from the /3.0/reports MailChimp API
[[inputs.mailchimp]]
  ## MailChimp API key
  ## get from https://admin.mailchimp.com/account/api/
  api_key = "" # required

  ## Reports for campaigns sent more than days_old ago will not be collected.
  ## 0 means collect all and is the default value.
  days_old = 0

  ## Campaign ID to get, if empty gets all campaigns, this option overrides days_old
  # campaign_id = ""
```

## Metrics

-   mailchimp
    -   tags:
        -   id
        -   campaign\_title
    -   fields:
        -   emails\_sent (integer, emails)
        -   abuse\_reports (integer, reports)
        -   unsubscribed (integer, unsubscribes)
        -   hard\_bounces (integer, emails)
        -   soft\_bounces (integer, emails)
        -   syntax\_errors (integer, errors)
        -   forwards\_count (integer, emails)
        -   forwards\_opens (integer, emails)
        -   opens\_total (integer, emails)
        -   unique\_opens (integer, emails)
        -   open\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   clicks\_total (integer, clicks)
        -   unique\_clicks (integer, clicks)
        -   unique\_subscriber\_clicks (integer, clicks)
        -   click\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   facebook\_recipient\_likes (integer, likes)
        -   facebook\_unique\_likes (integer, likes)
        -   facebook\_likes (integer, likes)
        -   industry\_type (string, type)
        -   industry\_open\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   industry\_click\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   industry\_bounce\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   industry\_unopen\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   industry\_unsub\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   industry\_abuse\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   list\_stats\_sub\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   list\_stats\_unsub\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   list\_stats\_open\_rate (double, percentage)
        -   list\_stats\_click\_rate (double, percentage)

## Example Output

```text
mailchimp,campaign_title=Freddie's\ Jokes\ Vol.\ 1,id=42694e9e57 abuse_reports=0i,click_rate=42,clicks_total=42i,emails_sent=200i,facebook_likes=42i,facebook_recipient_likes=5i,facebook_unique_likes=8i,forwards_count=0i,forwards_opens=0i,hard_bounces=0i,industry_abuse_rate=0.00021111996110887,industry_bounce_rate=0.0063767751251474,industry_click_rate=0.027431311866951,industry_open_rate=0.17076777144396,industry_type="Social Networks and Online Communities",industry_unopen_rate=0.82285545343089,industry_unsub_rate=0.001436957032815,list_stats_click_rate=42,list_stats_open_rate=42,list_stats_sub_rate=10,list_stats_unsub_rate=20,open_rate=42,opens_total=186i,soft_bounces=2i,syntax_errors=0i,unique_clicks=400i,unique_opens=100i,unique_subscriber_clicks=42i,unsubscribed=2i 1741188555526302348
```

#### Related

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