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Trig Input Plugin

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Trig Input Plugin

This plugin is for demonstration purposes and inserts sine and cosine values as metrics.

Introduced in: Telegraf v0.3.0 Tags: testing 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

toml
# Inserts sine and cosine waves for demonstration purposes
[[inputs.trig]]
  ## Set the amplitude
  amplitude = 10.0

Metrics

  • trig
    • fields:
      • cosine (float)
      • sine (float)

Example Output

text
trig,host=MBP15-SWANG.local cosine=10,sine=0 1632338680000000000
trig,host=MBP15-SWANG.local sine=5.877852522924732,cosine=8.090169943749473 1632338690000000000
trig,host=MBP15-SWANG.local sine=9.510565162951535,cosine=3.0901699437494745 1632338700000000000