docs-v2/content/telegraf/v1.14/plugins/plugin-list.md

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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.

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Jump to:

• Input plugins
• Output plugins
• Aggregator 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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