Instead of writing a new agent, maybe it is possible to adapt [Telegraf|https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/].

We hace added a Zabbix [output|https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3966], still not finished.

Currently Telegraf does not have a way to retrieve configuration from an external entity, but here is a POC of one of the maintainers of Telegraf to address that: https://github.com/danielnelson/tgconfig/tree/master/plugins/loaders/toml

Telgraf have more than 150 plugins to collect metrics from different software.

We will be glad to help.

Adrian, the idea behind the new Zabbix agent is to have much more advanced functionality not necessarily limited to data collection only.

I'm not a Go programmer, maybe it's not possible to do it in Go, but why not to use a real modular system? When you don't have to recompile a whole agent (and then distribute it across all your instances, or even worse, have tens of different agents compiled) but simply compile your module (i.e. module.so), put it in, i.e. /etc/zabbix/agent2.modules/, add this path to zabbix.cond (include /etc/zabbix/agent2.modules/*.so) and restart agent.

Denis, I am sure it will be implemented at some point in the future. This way we will give everyone a choice: compile it in or use a plugin as a standalone module.