Infra & metrics

Telegraf

InfluxData

Single-binary, plugin-driven metrics agent — one agent (300+ plugins) replaces node_exporter+cAdvisor and outputs to InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite and more.

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Category: Infra & metrics
License: Open source
Deployment: Self-hosted
Cost: Free
Free tier: Yes
Self-host effort: Moderate
Maturity: Established
Popularity: ≈17.6k GitHub stars

The catch

Vendor-steered toward InfluxDB, and the new fleet-management story (centralized config/health) is a paid "Telegraf Enterprise" upsell.

Monitors

MetricsServersCloudK8s

Protocols

SNMPPrometheus

Built for

SRE / DevOps

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