Docs: Generate Telegraf docs from in-tree plugin markdown files about docs-v2 HOT 7 CLOSED

Probably do this only for those plugins maintained by InfluxData.

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Proposed plan:

1. review the current most frequently used plugins -- system, docker, InfluxDB, Kapacitor, statsD, MySQL, Prometheus, Redis, Exec, HTTP Listener, Socket Listener....
2. review common sections, content, and develop a template for plug-ins to follow
3. create variants for input, output, processors, aggregators

Publish new template to Telegraf repo... and advertise the update.

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Adding Daniel -- we've discussed doing this -- will look into this with him

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related: #3264

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Goal: Turn some GitHub readmes into full pages on pages in docs.influxdata.com. Pull directly from GitHub readme so when readme is updated so does the docs page.

GitHub pages to include:

• All plugins
• https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/CONFIGURATION.md

Use case:

• Better experience for users
  • some may get distracted when they go from docs to GitHub, end up giving up
  • create a cohesive influxdata experience
• Analytics: who's viewing the plugin readmes, which ones are giving users more trouble

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@popey Assigning this issue to you since you mentioned you could write the Hugo scripts

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