I would love:

• Top 10 (or however many configured) list of system processes
• Running kernel (uname -r)

These all sound like reasonable requests to me. Currently I am focusing on statsd support but should have time to work on this later this month.

+1 on this. Would like to see more I/O-related stats using iostat perhaps, i.e queue depths.

+1
We really need metrics: process count, threads count, threads per process

+1, we will appreciate this too.

+1 !
Which one should be the first ?
Processes state count ? like https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Processes

closing this because processes, kernel, and ntpq plugins are now in master, and will be available in 0.11.0, which covers all metrics in the original request.

@mabushey you could get one-off string metrics like that currently by making a simple script like this and putting it in the exec plugin:

echo kernel_version value="`uname -r`"

I would like to also have a simple "value" be a parsable input format in general, so that you could do this:

[[inputs.exec]]
  commands = ["uname -r"]
  data_format = "value"
  data_type = "string"

and parse a simple string, float, or int from any command.

see #849

@mabushey wrote:

• Top 10 (or however many configured) list of system processes

@sparrc: Did support for this ever get implemented? I saw that #1932 was closed, but searching for top processes (or even just top) in the project hasn't shown me much other than that.

How can we gather this information? I can't sort out if the top n feature was implemented somewhere?

@douglasg14b The top n feature was implemented as a processor, you can use it with the procstat input: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/processors/topk