Machine telemetry Last updated: 01-Dec-2020 Rate this article: Telegraf is a plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics. :info: InfluxDB You will need to setup your own InfluxDB server InfluxDB server to collect telemetry. Telegraf metrics The metrics in the data model contain four main components: Measurement name: Description and namespace for the metric. Tags: Key/Value string pairs and usually used to identify the metric. Fields: Key/Value pairs that are typed and usually contain the metric data. Timestamp: Date and time associated with the fields. Figure 1.1 - platform-telegraf collects metrics and component-telegraf sends the data to your organization InfluxDB server. Rate this article: