---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from Raindrops Middleware
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/input-plugins/raindrops/
estimated_tokens: 884
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v0.10.3+

# Raindrops Middleware Input Plugin

This plugin collects statistics for [Raindrops middleware](http://raindrops.bogomips.org/Raindrops/Middleware.html) instances.

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v0.10.3 **Tags:** server **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 raindrops stats (raindrops - real-time stats for preforking Rack servers)
[[inputs.raindrops]]
  ## An array of raindrops middleware URI to gather stats.
  urls = ["http://localhost:8080/_raindrops"]
```

## Metrics

-   raindrops
    -   tags:
        -   server
        -   port
    -   fields:
        -   calling (integer, count)
        -   writing (integer, count)
-   raindrops\_listen
    -   tags:
        -   ip (IP only)
        -   port (IP only)
        -   socket (unix socket only)
    -   fields:
        -   active (integer, bytes)
        -   queued (integer, bytes)

## Example Output

```text
raindrops,port=8080,server=localhost calling=0i,writing=0i 1455479896806238204
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=8080 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806561938
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=8081 active=1i,queued=0i 1455479896806605749
raindrops_listen,ip=127.0.0.1,port=8082 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806646315
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=8083 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806683252
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=8084 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806712025
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=3000 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806779197
raindrops_listen,socket=/tmp/listen.me active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806813907
```

#### Related

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