Agents Guide

We support a variety of ways to collect and forward system performance metrics from your running instances and servers. Some of these agents also have plugins compatible with other 3rd party services.

• The Hosted Graphite Agent

  • Our agent made specifically for Hosted Graphite, with an easy 1-click installation

• Telegraf

  • The recommended agent because of it's many input plugins for 3rd party technologies

• StatsD

  • Commonly used for application monitoring and can also be used as a pre-aggregator

• Collectd

  • A well documented agent that also supports a wide range of 3rd party plugins

• Diamond

  • A reliable agent that we use for our own internal monitoring