Announcing Telegraf, a metrics collector for InfluxDB

Also, as soon as this PR is merged, there will be a Homebrew recipe available on OSX: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/40878

> TICK stack: for building applications around time series data

> [...]

> The name TICK is a reference to what people in finance refer to as a single point in a time series. We’ll be announcing more on the TICK stack soon.

I'm intrigued; I've been algotrading on the side and use InfluxDB, so any additions helping on this area is really welcome, like *MAs and related functions.

So this means you could potentially simplifiy your monitoring infrastructure down to:

Telegraf => InfluxDB => Grafana

If I'm reading this correctly, the above will be awesome instead of:

A whole bunch of shit => StatsD => InfluxDB => Grafana

And you wouldn't need to patch statsd to support tagging.

Hmm,I'm sure collectd could / does do this with minimal fuss, why reinvent?