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Use Telegraf to write data	Use the Telegraf agent to collect and write data	101	Use Telegraf to collect and write data to InfluxDB. Create Telegraf configurations in the InfluxDB UI or manually configure Telegraf.	/influxdb3/cloud-dedicated/collect-data/advanced-telegraf /influxdb3/cloud-dedicated/collect-data/use-telegraf /influxdb3/cloud-dedicated/write-data/no-code/use-telegraf/	influxdb3_cloud_dedicated name parent Use Telegraf Write data	cloud /influxdb/cloud/write-data/no-code/use-telegraf/

Telegraf is a no-code data collection agent for collecting and reporting metrics. Its vast library of input plugins and "plug-and-play" architecture lets you quickly and easily collect metrics from many different sources.

For a list of available plugins, see Telegraf plugins.

Requirements

• Telegraf 1.9.2 or greater. For information about installing Telegraf, see the Telegraf Installation instructions.

Basic Telegraf usage

Telegraf is a plugin-based agent with plugins that are enabled and configured in your Telegraf configuration file (telegraf.conf). Each Telegraf configuration must have at least one input plugin and one output plugin.

Telegraf input plugins retrieve metrics from different sources. Telegraf output plugins write those metrics to a destination.

Use the outputs.influxdb_v2 plugin to write metrics collected by Telegraf to {{% product-name %}}.

# ...

[[outputs.influxdb_v2]]
  urls = ["https://{{< influxdb/host >}}"]
  token = "${INFLUX_TOKEN}"
  organization = ""
  bucket = "DATABASE_NAME"

# ...

See how to Configure Telegraf.

Use Telegraf with InfluxDB

{{< children >}}

{{< influxdbu "telegraf-102" >}}