Input Data Formats

Telegraf contains many general purpose plugins that support parsing input data using a configurable parser into metrics. This allows, for example, the kafka_consumer input plugin to process messages in any of InfluxDB Line Protocol, JSON format, or Apache Avro format.

• Avro
• Binary
• Collectd
• CSV
• Dropwizard
• Form URL Encoded
• Graphite
• Grok
• InfluxDB Line Protocol
• JSON
• JSON v2
• Logfmt
• Nagios
• OpenMetrics
• OpenTSDB
• Parquet
• Prometheus
• PrometheusRemoteWrite
• Value, ie: 45 or "booyah"
• Wavefront
• XPath (supports XML, JSON, MessagePack, Protocol Buffers)

Any input plugin containing the data_format option can use it to select the desired parser:

[[inputs.exec]]
  ## Commands array
  commands = ["/tmp/test.sh", "/usr/bin/mycollector --foo=bar"]

  ## measurement name suffix (for separating different commands)
  name_suffix = "_mycollector"

  ## Data format to consume.
  data_format = "json"