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. 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.telemetrytv.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.
In most cases you simply need to download, extract, configure, and run the compiled binary for your platform. We offer a list of downloadable binaries on our releases page.
You will need a working install of Go 1.5 and GIT on your local platform in order to build the Agent from source. goxc is an additional requirement if you need to cross compile. A .goxc.json config file is included for producing 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.