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Trig Input Plugin

This plugin is for demonstration purposes and inserts sine and cosine values as metrics.

Introduced in: Telegraf v0.3.0 Tags: testing 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

# Inserts sine and cosine waves for demonstration purposes
[[inputs.trig]]
  ## Set the amplitude
  amplitude = 10.0

Metrics

  • trig
    • fields:
      • cosine (float)
      • sine (float)

Example Output

trig,host=MBP15-SWANG.local cosine=10,sine=0 1632338680000000000
trig,host=MBP15-SWANG.local sine=5.877852522924732,cosine=8.090169943749473 1632338690000000000
trig,host=MBP15-SWANG.local sine=9.510565162951535,cosine=3.0901699437494745 1632338700000000000

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