Akshay Moghe

References issue #390

This is a documentation change. Not sure why the checks should fail on this

thank you for the tip @ThomasWaldmann

Ditto for Ubuntu 16.04

We could also invoke `createPackagesGz` once when the process starts, so that it can pick up debs that may have been placed in the dir before the process starts. A...

Here are some more thoughts on this: Currently deb-simple wants to be a "full" featured apt repo server, which means it exposes multiple distros and archs. However, what I want...

Thanks for the link to the prepackaged deb files. I'd still like to build this locally, and here is what I did (following instructions from the wiki): 1. install build-essential,...

Pardon my naivete, but the fact that a datadog output plugin exists indicates to me that the mapping to statsd (or datadogs variant of the statsd protocol) should be possible....

Also, it looks like support for `Counter` and `Gauge` types was added in telegraf.ValueType. Maybe we could just support those two?

After some experimenting, it looks like reusing the `socket_writer` (udp) with a custom `serializer` seems to suffice. So it seems like we don't necessarily need a new output plugin, but...