The Telemetry Agent simplifies the process of creating daemon processes that feed data into one or more Telemetry flows.
Typical use-case scenarios include:
- Feeding data from existing infrastructure (e.g.: a MySQL database, Excel sheet, custom script written in your language of choice) to one or more Telemetry data flows
- Automatically creating boards for your customers
- Interfacing third-party APIs with Telemetry
The Agent is written in Go and has been built to run on most Linux distros, OS X, and Windows. We offer a list of downloadable binaries on our releases page. The Agent is designed to run on your infrastructure, and its only requirement is that it be able to reach the Telemetry API endpoint (https://api.telemetryapp.com) on port 443 via HTTPS. It can therefore happily live behind firewalls without posing a security risk.
Full documentation is available on the Telemetry Documentation website.
You will need a working install of Go 1.5 and GIT on your local platform in order to build the Agent from source.
The Agent is designed to cross compile using goxc and includes a .goxc.json
config file to produce a validated build for all compatible platforms.
You can also compile for your current platform by using the go build
command. Ensure that your packages are up to date by running go get -u
prior to building.