The disk input plugin, gathers the information about the disk usage of the running system every certain interval of time and reports them.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
Key
Description
Interval_Sec
Polling interval (seconds). default: 1
Interval_NSec
Polling interval (nanosecond). default: 0
Dev_Name
Device name to limit the target. (e.g. sda). If not set, in_disk gathers information from all of disks and partitions.
In order to get disk usage from your system, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:
In your main configuration file append the following Input & Output sections:
Note: Total interval (sec) = Interval_Sec + (Interval_Nsec / 1000000000).
e.g. 1.5s = 1s + 500000000ns