---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for sending metrics to Yandex Cloud Monitoring
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/output-plugins/yandex_cloud_monitoring/
estimated_tokens: 686
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v1.17.0+

# Yandex Cloud Monitoring Output Plugin

This plugin writes metrics to the [Yandex Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.yandex.com/services/monitoring) service.

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v1.17.0 **Tags:** cloud **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
# Send aggregated metrics to Yandex.Cloud Monitoring
[[outputs.yandex_cloud_monitoring]]
  ## Timeout for HTTP writes.
  # timeout = "20s"

  ## Yandex.Cloud monitoring API endpoint. Normally should not be changed
  # endpoint_url = "https://monitoring.api.cloud.yandex.net/monitoring/v2/data/write"

  ## All user metrics should be sent with "custom" service specified. Normally should not be changed
  # service = "custom"
```

### Authentication

This plugin currently support only YC.Compute metadata based authentication.

When plugin is working inside a YC.Compute instance it will take IAM token and Folder ID from instance metadata.

Other authentication methods will be added later.

#### Related

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