This article from Codebase, a UC Berkeley student organization, describes their collaboration with InfluxData to add cloud-controlled configuration management features to Telegraf. The Telegraf Assistant is a tool that allows users to modify plugin configurations through HTTP operations without stopping the Telegraf service. It provides a unique identifier for each plugin and supports CRUD operations such as starting, stopping, updating, getting plugin details, and retrieving all available plugins. The assistant's source code can be found on the Codebase fork of the Telegraf GitHub branch, and InfluxData will review and merge it into the Telegraf product in production. The next challenge for the InfluxData engineering team is to get the Telegraf Assistant to work at scale in large enterprise environments.