CHANGELOG.md



v0.12.1 [unreleased]

Features


#976: Reduce allocations in the UDP and statsd inputs.

#979: Reduce allocations in the TCP listener.


Bugfixes


#968: Processes plugin gets unknown state when spaces are in (command name)

#969: ipmi_sensors: allow : in password. Thanks @awaw!

#972: dovecot: remove extra newline in dovecot command. Thanks @mrannanj!

#645: docker plugin i/o error on closed pipe. Thanks @tripledes!


v0.12.0 [2016-04-05]

Features


#951: Parse environment variables in the config file.

#948: Cleanup config file and make default package version include all plugins (but commented).

#927: Adds parsing of tags to the statsd input when using DataDog's dogstatsd extension

#863: AMQP output: allow external auth. Thanks @ekini!

#707: Improved prometheus plugin. Thanks @titilambert!

#878: Added json serializer. Thanks @ch3lo!

#880: Add the ability to specify the bearer token to the prometheus plugin. Thanks @jchauncey!

#882: Fixed SQL Server Plugin issues

#849: Adding ability to parse single values as an input data type.

#844: postgres_extensible plugin added. Thanks @menardorama!

#866: couchbase input plugin. Thanks @ljosa!

#789: Support multiple field specification and field* in graphite templates. Thanks @chrusty!

#762: Nagios parser for the exec plugin. Thanks @titilambert!

#848: Provide option to omit host tag from telegraf agent.

#928: Deprecating the statsd "convert_names" options, expose separator config.

#919: ipmi_sensor input plugin. Thanks @ebookbug!

#945: KAFKA output: codec, acks, and retry configuration. Thanks @framiere!


Bugfixes


#890: Create TLS config even if only ssl_ca is provided.

#884: Do not call write method if there are 0 metrics to write.

#898: Put database name in quotes, fixes special characters in the database name.

#656: No longer run lsof on linux to get netstat data, fixes permissions issue.

#907: Fix prometheus invalid label/measurement name key.

#841: Fix memcached unix socket panic.

#873: Fix SNMP plugin sometimes not returning metrics. Thanks @titiliambert!

#934: phpfpm: Fix fcgi uri path. Thanks @rudenkovk!

#805: Kafka consumer stops gathering after i/o timeout.

#959: reduce mongodb & prometheus collection timeouts. Thanks @PierreF!


v0.11.1 [2016-03-17]

Release Notes

Primarily this release was cut to fix #859


Features


#747: Start telegraf on install & remove on uninstall. Thanks @pierref!

#794: Add service reload ability. Thanks @entertainyou!


Bugfixes


#852: Windows zip package fix

#859: httpjson plugin panic


v0.11.0 [2016-03-15]

Release Notes

Features


#692: Support InfluxDB retention policies

#771: Default timeouts for input plugns. Thanks @PierreF!

#758: UDP Listener input plugin, thanks @whatyouhide!

#769: httpjson plugin: allow specifying SSL configuration.

#735: SNMP Table feature. Thanks @titilambert!

#754: docker plugin: adding docker info metrics to output. Thanks @titilambert!

#788: -input-list and -output-list command-line options. Thanks @ebookbug!

#778: Adding a TCP input listener.

#797: Provide option for persistent MQTT consumer client sessions.

#799: Add number of threads for procstat input plugin. Thanks @titilambert!

#776: Add Zookeeper chroot option to kafka_consumer. Thanks @prune998!

#811: Add processes plugin for classifying total procs on system. Thanks @titilambert!

#235: Add number of users to the system input plugin.

#826: "kernel" linux plugin for /proc/stat metrics (context switches, interrupts, etc.)

#847: ntpq: Input plugin for running ntp query executable and gathering metrics.


Bugfixes


#748: Fix sensor plugin split on ":"

#722: Librato output plugin fixes. Thanks @chrusty!

#745: Fix Telegraf toml parse panic on large config files. Thanks @titilambert!

#781: Fix mqtt_consumer username not being set. Thanks @chaton78!

#786: Fix mqtt output username not being set. Thanks @msangoi!

#773: Fix duplicate measurements in snmp plugin. Thanks @titilambert!

#708: packaging: build ARM package

#713: packaging: insecure permissions error on log directory

#816: Fix phpfpm panic if fcgi endpoint unreachable.

#828: fix net_response plugin overwriting host tag.

#821: Remove postgres password from server tag. Thanks @menardorama!


v0.10.4.1

Release Notes

Bug in the build script broke deb and rpm packages.


Bugfixes


#750: deb package broken

#752: rpm package broken


v0.10.4 [2016-02-24]

Release Notes

The pass/drop parameters have been renamed to fielddrop/fieldpass parameters,
to more accurately indicate their purpose.
There are also now namedrop/namepass parameters for passing/dropping based
on the metric name.
Experimental windows builds now available.


Features


#727: riak input, thanks @jcoene!

#694: DNS Query input, thanks @mjasion!

#724: username matching for procstat input, thanks @zorel!

#736: Ignore dummy filesystems from disk plugin. Thanks @PierreF!

#737: Support multiple fields for statsd input. Thanks @mattheath!


Bugfixes


#701: output write count shouldnt print in quiet mode.

#746: httpjson plugin: Fix HTTP GET parameters.


v0.10.3 [2016-02-18]

Release Notes

Users of the exec and kafka_consumer (and the new nats_consumer
and mqtt_consumer plugins) can now specify the incoming data
format that they would like to parse. Currently supports: "json", "influx", and
"graphite"
Users of message broker and file output plugins can now choose what data format
they would like to output. Currently supports: "influx" and "graphite"
More info on parsing incoming data formats can be found
here

More info on serializing outgoing data formats can be found
here

Telegraf now has an option flush_buffer_when_full that will flush the
metric buffer whenever it fills up for each output, rather than dropping
points and only flushing on a set time interval. This will default to true
and is in the [agent] config section.


Features


#652: CouchDB Input Plugin. Thanks @codehate!

#655: Support parsing arbitrary data formats. Currently limited to kafka_consumer and exec inputs.

#671: Dovecot input plugin. Thanks @mikif70!

#680: NATS consumer input plugin. Thanks @netixen!

#676: MQTT consumer input plugin.

#683: PostGRES input plugin: add pg_stat_bgwriter. Thanks @menardorama!

#679: File/stdout output plugin.

#679: Support for arbitrary output data formats.

#695: raindrops input plugin. Thanks @burdandrei!

#650: net_response input plugin. Thanks @titilambert!

#699: Flush based on buffer size rather than time.

#682: Mesos input plugin. Thanks @tripledes!


Bugfixes


#443: Fix Ping command timeout parameter on Linux.

#662: Change [tags] to [global_tags] to fix multiple-plugin tags bug.

#642: Riemann output plugin issues.

#394: Support HTTP POST. Thanks @gabelev!

#715: Fix influxdb precision config panic. Thanks @netixen!


v0.10.2 [2016-02-04]

Release Notes

Statsd timing measurements are now aggregated into a single measurement with
fields.
Graphite output now inserts tags into the bucket in alphabetical order.
Normalized TLS/SSL support for output plugins: MQTT, AMQP, Kafka

verify_ssl config option was removed from Kafka because it was actually
doing the opposite of what it claimed to do (yikes). It's been replaced by
insecure_skip_verify


Features


#575: Support for collecting Windows Performance Counters. Thanks @TheFlyingCorpse!

#564: features for plugin writing simplification. Internal metric data type.

#603: Aggregate statsd timing measurements into fields. Thanks @marcinbunsch!

#601: Warn when overwriting cached metrics.

#614: PowerDNS input plugin. Thanks @Kasen!

#617: exec plugin: parse influx line protocol in addition to JSON.

#628: Windows perf counters: pre-vista support


Bugfixes


#595: graphite output should include tags to separate duplicate measurements.

#599: datadog plugin tags not working.

#600: datadog measurement/field name parsing is wrong.

#602: Fix statsd field name templating.

#612: Docker input panic fix if stats received are nil.

#634: Properly set host headers in httpjson. Thanks @reginaldosousa!


v0.10.1 [2016-01-27]