---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from Swap
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/input-plugins/swap/
estimated_tokens: 568
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v1.7.0+

# 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

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 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

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

#### Related

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