---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for sending metrics to Instrumental
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/output-plugins/instrumental/
estimated_tokens: 932
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v0.13.1+

# Instrumental Output Plugin

This plugin writes metrics to the [Instrumental Collector API](https://instrumentalapp.com/docs/tcp-collector) and requires a project-specific API token.

Instrumental accepts stats in a format very close to Graphite, with the only difference being that the type of stat (gauge, increment) is the first token, separated from the metric itself by whitespace. The `increment` type is only used if the metric comes in as a counter via the [statsd input plugin](/telegraf/v1/plugins/#input-statsd).

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v0.13.1 **Tags:** applications **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.

## Secret-store support

This plugin supports secrets from secret-stores for the `api_token` option. See the [secret-store documentation](/telegraf/v1/configuration/#secret-store-secrets) for more details on how to use them.

## Configuration

```toml
# Configuration for sending metrics to an Instrumental project
[[outputs.instrumental]]
  ## Project API Token (required)
  api_token = "API Token"  # required
  ## Prefix the metrics with a given name
  prefix = ""
  ## Stats output template (Graphite formatting)
  ## see https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_OUTPUT.md#graphite
  template = "host.tags.measurement.field"
  ## Timeout in seconds to connect
  timeout = "2s"
  ## Debug true - Print communication to Instrumental
  debug = false
```

#### Related

-   [Configure plugins](/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/)
-   [Instrumental Plugin Source](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.38.4/plugins/outputs/instrumental/README.md)