Memory Input Plugin
This plugin collects metrics about the system memory.
For an explanation of the difference between used and actual_used RAM, see Linux ate my ram.
Introduced in: Telegraf v0.1.5 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 metrics about memory usage
[[inputs.mem]]
# no configurationMetrics
Available fields are dependent on platform.
- mem
- fields:
- active (integer, Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD)
- available (integer)
- available_percent (float)
- buffered (integer, FreeBSD, Linux)
- cached (integer, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD)
- commit_limit (integer, Linux)
- committed_as (integer, Linux)
- dirty (integer, Linux)
- free (integer, Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD)
- high_free (integer, Linux)
- high_total (integer, Linux)
- huge_pages_free (integer, Linux)
- huge_page_size (integer, Linux)
- huge_pages_total (integer, Linux)
- inactive (integer, Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD)
- laundry (integer, FreeBSD)
- low_free (integer, Linux)
- low_total (integer, Linux)
- mapped (integer, Linux)
- page_tables (integer, Linux)
- shared (integer, Linux)
- slab (integer, Linux)
- sreclaimable (integer, Linux)
- sunreclaim (integer, Linux)
- swap_cached (integer, Linux)
- swap_free (integer, Linux)
- swap_total (integer, Linux)
- total (integer)
- used (integer)
- used_percent (float)
- vmalloc_chunk (integer, Linux)
- vmalloc_total (integer, Linux)
- vmalloc_used (integer, Linux)
- wired (integer, Darwin, FreeBSD, OpenBSD)
- write_back (integer, Linux)
- write_back_tmp (integer, Linux)
- fields:
Example Output
mem active=9299595264i,available=16818249728i,available_percent=80.41654254645131,buffered=2383761408i,cached=13316689920i,commit_limit=14751920128i,committed_as=11781156864i,dirty=122880i,free=1877688320i,high_free=0i,high_total=0i,huge_page_size=2097152i,huge_pages_free=0i,huge_pages_total=0i,inactive=7549939712i,low_free=0i,low_total=0i,mapped=416763904i,page_tables=19787776i,shared=670679040i,slab=2081071104i,sreclaimable=1923395584i,sunreclaim=157675520i,swap_cached=1302528i,swap_free=4286128128i,swap_total=4294963200i,total=20913917952i,used=3335778304i,used_percent=15.95004011996231,vmalloc_chunk=0i,vmalloc_total=35184372087808i,vmalloc_used=0i,wired=0i,write_back=0i,write_back_tmp=0i 1574712869000000000Was this page helpful?
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