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SignalFx Output Plugin

This plugin writes metrics to SignalFx.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.18.0 Tags: applications 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.

Secret-store support

This plugin supports secrets from secret-stores for the access_token option. See the secret-store documentation for more details on how to use them.

Configuration

# Send metrics and events to SignalFx
[[outputs.signalfx]]
  ## SignalFx Org Access Token
  access_token = "my-secret-token"

  ## The SignalFx realm that your organization resides in
  signalfx_realm = "us9"  # Required if ingest_url is not set

  ## You can optionally provide a custom ingest url instead of the
  ## signalfx_realm option above if you are using a gateway or proxy
  ## instance.  This option takes precedence over signalfx_realm.
  ingest_url = "https://my-custom-ingest/"

  ## Event typed metrics are omitted by default,
  ## If you require an event typed metric you must specify the
  ## metric name in the following list.
  included_event_names = ["plugin.metric_name"]

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