telegraf (An Open-Source Collecting & Reporting Agent) It is part of the TICK stack and is a plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics. Telegraf has plugins or integrations to source a variety of metrics directly from the system it’s running on, pull metrics from third-party APIs, or even listen for metrics via a StatsD and Kafka consumer services. It also has output plugins to send metrics to a variety of other datastores, services, and message queues, including InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Datadog, Librato, Kafka, MQTT, NSQ, and many others. Groupname and Username You must have the "telegraf" group and user to run this script, for example: groupadd -g 349 telegraf useradd -u 349 -s /bin/false -d /dev/null -g telegraf telegraf