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LM Sensors Input Plugin

This plugin collects metrics from hardware sensors using lm-sensors.

This plugin requires the lm-sensors package to be installed on the system and sensors to be executable from Telegraf.

Introduced in: Telegraf v0.10.1 Tags: hardware, system OS support: linux

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

# Monitor sensors, requires lm-sensors package
# This plugin ONLY supports Linux
[[inputs.sensors]]
  ## Remove numbers from field names.
  ## If true, a field name like 'temp1_input' will be changed to 'temp_input'.
  # remove_numbers = true

  ## Timeout is the maximum amount of time that the sensors command can run.
  # timeout = "5s"

Metrics

Fields are created dynamically depending on the sensors. All fields are float.

  • sensors:
    • tags:
      • chip
      • feature
    • fields:
      • depending on the available sensor information (float)

Example Output

Default

sensors,chip=power_meter-acpi-0,feature=power1 power_average=0,power_average_interval=300 1466751326000000000
sensors,chip=k10temp-pci-00c3,feature=temp1 temp_crit=70,temp_crit_hyst=65,temp_input=29,temp_max=70 1466751326000000000
sensors,chip=k10temp-pci-00cb,feature=temp1 temp_input=29,temp_max=70 1466751326000000000
sensors,chip=k10temp-pci-00d3,feature=temp1 temp_input=27.5,temp_max=70 1466751326000000000
sensors,chip=k10temp-pci-00db,feature=temp1 temp_crit=70,temp_crit_hyst=65,temp_input=29.5,temp_max=70 1466751326000000000

With remove_numbers=false

sensors,chip=power_meter-acpi-0,feature=power1 power1_average=0,power1_average_interval=300 1466753424000000000
sensors,chip=k10temp-pci-00c3,feature=temp1 temp1_crit=70,temp1_crit_hyst=65,temp1_input=29.125,temp1_max=70 1466753424000000000
sensors,chip=k10temp-pci-00cb,feature=temp1 temp1_input=29,temp1_max=70 1466753424000000000
sensors,chip=k10temp-pci-00d3,feature=temp1 temp1_input=29.5,temp1_max=70 1466753424000000000
sensors,chip=k10temp-pci-00db,feature=temp1 temp1_crit=70,temp1_crit_hyst=65,temp1_input=30,temp1_max=70 1466753424000000000

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