- Sign the CLA.
- Open a new issue to discuss the changes you would like to make. This is not strictly required but it may help reduce the amount of rework you need to do later.
- Make changes or write plugin using the guidelines in the following documents:
- Ensure you have added proper unit tests and documentation.
- Open a new pull request.
Input plugins written for internal Telegraf can be run as externally-compiled plugins through the Execd Input Plugin without having to change the plugin code.
Follow the guidelines of how to integrate your plugin with the Execd Go Shim to easily compile it as a separate app and run it from the inputs.execd plugin.
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Public interfaces for inputs, outputs, processors, aggregators, metrics, and the accumulator can be found in the GoDoc:
Adding a dependency:
Telegraf uses Go modules. Assuming you can already build the project, run this in the telegraf directory:
go get github.com/[dependency]/[new-package]
Unit Tests:
Before opening a pull request you should run the linter checks and the short tests.
make check
make test
Execute integration tests:
(Optional)
Running the integration tests requires several docker containers to be running. You can start the containers with:
docker-compose up
And run the full test suite with:
make test-all
Use make docker-kill to stop the containers.