docs-v2/content/v2.0/reference/telegraf-plugins.md

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Telegraf plugins	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.	v2_0_ref	6

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.

• Input plugins
• Output plugins
• Aggregator plugins
• Processor plugins

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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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