Swap Input Plugin

This plugin collects metrics on the operating-system's swap memory.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.7.0 Tags: system OS support: all

Global configuration options <!-- @/docs/includes/plugin_config.md -->

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 for more details.

Configuration

# Read metrics about swap memory usage
[[inputs.swap]]
  # no configuration

Metrics

• swap
  • fields:
    • free (int, bytes): free swap memory
    • total (int, bytes): total swap memory
    • used (int, bytes): used swap memory
    • used_percent (float, percent): percentage of swap memory used
    • in (int, bytes): data swapped in since last boot calculated from page number
    • out (int, bytes): data swapped out since last boot calculated from page number

Example Output

swap total=20855394304i,used_percent=45.43883523785713,used=9476448256i,free=1715331072i 1511894782000000000