filecount input plugin timeout

[RomKimchi]

Use Case

filecount can very easily over stress a machine resources like CPU.

Expected behavior

It would be great if it will have a timeout mechanism so it wont count files until collection interval is reached.
i imagine it something like this

  [[inputs.filecount]]
    directories = ["D:/AidocData/Temp/IncomingDicoms"]
    name = "*.dcm"
    size = "0B"
    timeout = "10s"

or, another possible solution is setting a maximum of files it can collect and stopping after it (also adding a field that indicates that the maximum is reached)

  [[inputs.filecount]]
    directories = ["D:/Temp/IncomingData"]
    name = "*.txt"
    size = "0B"
    maximum_files = "1000000"

example:

filecount,directory=/var/cache/apt is_maximum_reached=true,count=1000000,size_bytes=7438336i,oldest_file_timestamp=1507152973123456789i,newest_file_timestamp=1507152973123456789i 1530034445000000000

Actual behavior

feature doesnt exist - telegraf cpu is spiking when dealing with tens of millions of files

Additional info

No response

[danWalt]

Agree!
I ran into a similar problem which is currently limiting me from widely deploying and using this