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Swap Input Plugin

This plugin collects metrics on the operating-system’s swap memory.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.7.0 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 swap memory usage
[[inputs.swap]]
  # no configuration

Metrics

  • swap
    • fields:
      • free (int, bytes): free swap memory
      • total (int, bytes): total swap memory
      • used (int, bytes): used swap memory
      • used_percent (float, percent): percentage of swap memory used
      • in (int, bytes): data swapped in since last boot calculated from page number
      • out (int, bytes): data swapped out since last boot calculated from page number

Example Output

swap total=20855394304i,used_percent=45.43883523785713,used=9476448256i,free=1715331072i 1511894782000000000

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