Telegraf is a server-based agent that collects metrics from inputs—applications, databases, message queues, and more—and writes them into outputs, like New Relic’s Metric API. The New Relic output plugin for Telegraf allows users to send custom metrics to New Relic, providing a single platform for ingesting, analyzing, visualizing, and alerting on telemetry data from various sources. With its plugin-driven architecture and lightweight footprint, Telegraf is a popular tool for collecting metrics from diverse input sources, with over 200 integrations available. The example configuration demonstrates how to ingest log data from a message queue and send it to New Relic as custom metrics using the Tail input plugin, JSON format, and the new New Relic output plugin.