The Telegraf Monitoring Template is an InfluxDB template that provides a premade dashboard for monitoring Telegraf plugins in your architecture. Telegraf is an open-source server agent that collects metrics from stacks, sensors, and systems, making it a great choice for metrics collection due to its minimal memory footprint, Go programming language, and 200+ plugins written by subject matter experts. The template offers advantages such as easy installation and customization of the input configuration to better serve your needs, allowing you to proactively track Telegraf plugin performance and identify potential issues before they impact your system's health. By using this template, users can quickly define their entire monitoring configuration in one easily-shared text file that can be imported into InfluxDB with a single command.