|Word|Meaning| |----|-------| |Tag|A string associated with a reading| |Dimension|A key-value pair associated with a reading| |Metadata|A combination of tags and dimensions associated with a reading| |Data Point|A combination of a name and a value, an example would be temperature and 24| |Reading|A combination of metadata and datapoints with a timestamp|
The Tusk agent consists of the main agent and a selection of plugins.
Input plugins provide a series of readings from a source.
Input plugins send a series of readings to a destination.
Pipelines are a series of processing steps connecting inputs and outputs that can transform or aggregate the data.