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Updated 'inputs' docs #1715

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update 'inputs' docs to reflect changes made in #4406
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Added hyphen to "time-wait" under `netstat` input
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Expand Up @@ -96,10 +96,22 @@ The [Couchbase (`couchbase`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegra

The [CouchDB (`couchdb`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/couchdb) gathers metrics of CouchDB using `_stats` endpoint.

### [CPU (`cpu`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/cpu/README.md)

The [CPU (`cpu`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/cpu/README.md) gathers metrics about cpu usage.

### [Mesosphere DC/OS (`dcos`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/dcos)

The [Mesosphere DC/OS (`dcos`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/dcos) gathers metrics from a DC/OS cluster's [metrics component](https://docs.mesosphere.com/1.10/metrics/).

### [Disk (`disk`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/disk/README.md)

The [Disk (`disk`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/disk/README.md gathers metrics about disk usage by mount point.

### [DiskIO (`diskio`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/diskio/README.md)

The [DiskIO (`diskio`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/diskio/README.md) gathers metrics about disk IO by device.

### [Disque (`disque`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/disque)

The [Disque (`disque`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/disque) gathers metrics from one or more [Disque](https://github.com/antirez/disque) servers.
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The [Kapacitor (`kapacitor`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/kapacitor) will collect metrics from the given Kapacitor instances.

### [Kernel (`kernel`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/kernel/README.md)

The [Kernel (`kernel`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/kernel/README.md) gathers kernel statistics from `/proc/stat`.

### [Kernel VMStat (`kernel_vmstat`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/kernel_vmstat/README.md)

The [Kernel VMStat input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/kernel_vmstat/README.md) gathers kernel statistics from `/proc/vmstat`.

### [Kubernetes (`kubernetes`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/kubernetes)

>***Note:*** The Kubernetes input plugin is experimental and may cause high cardinality issues with moderate to
Expand All @@ -248,6 +268,10 @@ should configure this plugin to talk to its locally running kubelet.

The [LeoFS (`leofs`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/leofs) gathers metrics of LeoGateway, LeoManager, and LeoStorage using SNMP. See [System Monitoring](https://leo-project.net/leofs/docs/admin/system_admin/monitoring/) in the [LeoFS Documentation](https://leo-project.net/leofs/docs/) for more information.

### [Linux Sysctl FS (`linux_sysctl_fs`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/linux_sysctl_fs/README.md)

The [Linux Sysctl FS input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/linux_sysctl_fs/README.md) provides Linux `sysctl fs` metrics.

### [Lustre2 (`lustre2`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/lustre2)

Lustre Jobstats allows for RPCs to be tagged with a value, such as a job's ID. This allows for per job statistics.
Expand All @@ -266,6 +290,10 @@ The [Mailchimp (`mailchimp`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegra

The [mcrouter (`mcrouter`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/mcrouter) gathers statistics data from a mcrouter instance. [Mcrouter](https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter) is a memcached protocol router, developed and maintained by Facebook, for scaling memcached (http://memcached.org/) deployments. It's a core component of cache infrastructure at Facebook and Instagram where mcrouter handles almost 5 billion requests per second at peak.

### [Mem (`mem`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/mem/README.md)

The [Mem (`mem`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/mem/README.md) gathers metrics about memory usage.

### [Memcached (`memcached`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/memcached)

The [Memcached (`memcached`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/memcached) gathers statistics data from a Memcached server.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -301,10 +329,18 @@ The [NATS Server Monitoring (`nats`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata

The [NATS Consumer (`nats_consumer`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/nats_consumer) reads from specified NATS subjects and adds messages to InfluxDB. Messages are expected in the Telegraf Input Data Formats. A Queue Group is used when subscribing to subjects so multiple instances of Telegraf can read from a NATS cluster in parallel.

### [Net (`net`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/net/NET_README.md)

The [Net (`net`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/net/NET_README.md) gathers metrics about network interface usage (Linux only).

### [Network Response (`net_response`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/net_response)

The [Network Response (`net_response`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/net_response) tests UDP and TCP connection response time. It can also check response text.

### [Netstat (`netstat`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/net/NETSTAT_README.md)

The [Netstat (`netstat`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/net/NETSTAT_README.md) gathers TCP metrics such as established, time wait and sockets counts by using `lsof`.
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time wait needs a hyphen – time-wait


### [NGINX (`nginx`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/nginx)

The [NGINX (nginx) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/nginx) reads NGINX basic status information (`ngx_http_stub_status_module`).
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The [PowerDNS (`powerdns`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/powerdns) gathers metrics about PowerDNS using UNIX sockets.

### [Processes (`processes`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/processes/README.md)

The [Processes (`processes`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/processes/README.md) gets the number of processes and groups them by status.

### [Procstat (`procstat`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/procstat)

The [Procstat (`procstat`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/procstat) can be used to monitor system resource usage by an individual process using their `/proc` data.
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The [StatsD (`statsd`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/statsd) is a special type of plugin which runs a backgrounded `statsd` listener service while Telegraf is running.
StatsD messages are formatted as described in the original [etsy statsd](https://github.com/etsy/statsd/blob/master/docs/metric_types.md) implementation.

### [Swap (`swap`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/system/SWAP_README.md)
### [Swap (`swap`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/swap/README.md)

The [Swap (`swap`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/system/SWAP_README.md) collects system swap memory usage metrics. For more information about Linux swap spaces, see [All about Linux swap space](https://www.linux.com/news/all-about-linux-swap-space).
The [Swap (`swap`) input plugin](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.7/plugins/inputs/swap/README.md) gathers metrics about swap memory usage. For more information about Linux swap spaces, see [All about Linux swap space](https://www.linux.com/news/all-about-linux-swap-space)

### [Syslog (`syslog`)](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/syslog) -- NEW in v.1.7

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