Merge branch 'master' into adjust-the-azure-monitor

.github/workflows/linter.yml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
       # Run Linter against code base #
       ################################
       - name: Lint Code Base
-        uses: super-linter/super-linter@v6.7.0
+        uses: super-linter/super-linter@v6.8.0
         env:
           VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE: false
           DEFAULT_BRANCH: master

docs/INPUTS.md

@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ Metric Tracking provides a system to be notified when metrics have been
 successfully written to their outputs or otherwise discarded.  This allows
 inputs to be created that function as reliable queue consumers.
 
+Please note that this process applies only to internal plugins. For external
+plugins, the metrics are acknowledged regardless of the actual output.
+
 To get started with metric tracking begin by calling `WithTracking` on the
 [telegraf.Accumulator][].  Add metrics using the `AddTrackingMetricGroup`
 function on the returned [telegraf.TrackingAccumulator][] and store the

docs/METRICS.md

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ before telling the metric source that the message was read. If Telegraf were to
 stop or the system running Telegraf to crash, this allows the messages that
 were not completely delivered to an output to get re-read at a later date.
 
+Please note that this process applies only to internal plugins. For external
+plugins, the metrics are acknowledged regardless of the actual output.
+
 ### Undelivered Messages
 
 When an input uses tracking metrics, an additional setting,

go.mod

@@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ require (
 	github.com/PaesslerAG/gval v1.2.2
 	github.com/SAP/go-hdb v1.9.10
 	github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go/v5 v5.11.0
-	github.com/alecthomas/units v0.0.0-20211218093645-b94a6e3cc137
+	github.com/alecthomas/units v0.0.0-20231202071711-9a357b53e9c9
 	github.com/alitto/pond v1.9.0
 	github.com/aliyun/alibaba-cloud-sdk-go v1.62.721
 	github.com/amir/raidman v0.0.0-20170415203553-1ccc43bfb9c9
 	github.com/antchfx/jsonquery v1.3.3
 	github.com/antchfx/xmlquery v1.4.1
 	github.com/antchfx/xpath v1.3.1
 	github.com/apache/arrow/go/v18 v18.0.0-20240716144821-cf5d7c7ec3cf
-	github.com/apache/iotdb-client-go v1.2.0-tsbs
+	github.com/apache/iotdb-client-go v1.3.2
 	github.com/apache/thrift v0.20.0
 	github.com/aristanetworks/goarista v0.0.0-20190325233358-a123909ec740
 	github.com/armon/go-socks5 v0.0.0-20160902184237-e75332964ef5
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/v2 v2.0.0-rc.3
 	github.com/gorcon/rcon v1.3.5
 	github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.1
-	github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.5.1
+	github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.5.3
 	github.com/gosnmp/gosnmp v1.37.0
 	github.com/grid-x/modbus v0.0.0-20240503115206-582f2ab60a18
 	github.com/gwos/tcg/sdk v0.0.0-20231124052037-1e832b843240
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb v1.7.2
 	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.59
 	github.com/moby/ipvs v1.1.0
-	github.com/multiplay/go-ts3 v1.1.0
+	github.com/multiplay/go-ts3 v1.2.0
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.10.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.36.0
 	github.com/netsampler/goflow2/v2 v2.1.5
@@ -161,12 +161,12 @@ require (
 	github.com/pborman/ansi v1.0.0
 	github.com/peterbourgon/unixtransport v0.0.4
 	github.com/pion/dtls/v2 v2.2.11
-	github.com/prometheus-community/pro-bing v0.4.0
+	github.com/prometheus-community/pro-bing v0.4.1
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.19.1
 	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.1
 	github.com/prometheus/common v0.55.0
 	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.15.1
-	github.com/prometheus/prometheus v0.48.1
+	github.com/prometheus/prometheus v0.53.1
 	github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go v1.10.0
 	github.com/rclone/rclone v1.67.0
 	github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.5.1
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/aristanetworks/glog v0.0.0-20191112221043-67e8567f59f3 // indirect
 	github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.4.1 // indirect
 	github.com/awnumar/memcall v0.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.53.7 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.53.16 // indirect
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/protocol/eventstream v1.6.3 // indirect
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/dynamodb/attributevalue v1.13.7 // indirect
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager v1.16.7 // indirect
@@ -332,9 +332,9 @@ require (
 	github.com/go-kit/log v0.2.1 // indirect
 	github.com/go-logr/logr v1.4.2 // indirect
 	github.com/go-logr/stdr v1.2.2 // indirect
-	github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.20.0 // indirect
-	github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.20.2 // indirect
-	github.com/go-openapi/swag v0.22.4 // indirect
+	github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.20.2 // indirect
+	github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.20.4 // indirect
+	github.com/go-openapi/swag v0.22.9 // indirect
 	github.com/go-stack/stack v1.8.1 // indirect
 	github.com/goburrow/modbus v0.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/goburrow/serial v0.1.1-0.20211022031912-bfb69110f8dd // indirect
@@ -354,11 +354,10 @@ require (
 	github.com/google/s2a-go v0.1.7 // indirect
 	github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy v0.3.2 // indirect
 	github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.13.0 // indirect
-	github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud v1.12.0 // indirect
 	github.com/gorilla/securecookie v1.1.2 // indirect
-	github.com/grafana/regexp v0.0.0-20221122212121-6b5c0a4cb7fd // indirect
+	github.com/grafana/regexp v0.0.0-20240518133315-a468a5bfb3bc // indirect
 	github.com/grid-x/serial v0.0.0-20211107191517-583c7356b3aa // indirect
-	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2 v2.16.0 // indirect
+	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2 v2.20.0 // indirect
 	github.com/gsterjov/go-libsecret v0.0.0-20161001094733-a6f4afe4910c // indirect
 	github.com/hailocab/go-hostpool v0.0.0-20160125115350-e80d13ce29ed // indirect
 	github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.1.0 // indirect
@@ -488,12 +487,12 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer v0.101.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/semconv v0.101.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc v0.49.0 // indirect
-	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp v0.49.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp v0.52.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.27.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.27.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.27.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.27.0 // indirect
-	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp v1.0.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp v1.2.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/atomic v1.11.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.24.0 // indirect