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title: Telegraf plugins
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Telegraf is a plugin-driven agent that collects, processes, aggregates, and writes metrics.
It supports four categories of plugins including input, output, aggregator, and processor.
View and search all available Telegraf plugins.
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Telegraf is a plugin-driven agent that collects, processes, aggregates, and writes metrics.
Telegraf supports four categories of plugins including input, output, aggregator, and processor.
> Telegraf plugins support parsers (input data formats) and serializers (output data formats), which can be added to Telegraf plugins that include the `data-format` option. For more information about parsers and serializers, see [Telgraf data formats](/telegraf/v1.14/data_formats/).
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**Jump to:**
- [Input plugins](#input-plugins)
- [Output plugins](#output-plugins)
- [Aggregator plugins](#aggregator-plugins)
- [Processor plugins](#processor-plugins)
## Input plugins
Telegraf input plugins are used with the InfluxData time series platform to collect
metrics from the system, services, or third party APIs.
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## Output plugins
Telegraf processor plugins write metrics to various destinations.
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## Aggregator plugins
Telegraf aggregator plugins create aggregate metrics (for example, mean, min, max, quantiles, etc.)
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## Processor plugins
Telegraf output plugins transform, decorate, and filter metrics.
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