{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/issues/618","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/issues/618/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/issues/618/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/issues/618/events","html_url":"https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/618","id":129878053,"number":618,"title":"Strait forward way to get the latest release","user":{"login":"hryamzik","id":1643962,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1643962?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik","html_url":"https://github.com/hryamzik","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hryamzik/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-01-29T20:45:54Z","updated_at":"2016-01-29T21:02:17Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Can we get any simple way to get the latest stable release (and betas too)? If it already exists please let me know. =)\r\n\r\nThe common way on github is to put files in releases but these two links are useless:\r\nhttps://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/releases\r\nhttps://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/release/latest\r\n\r\n[Tags](https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/tags) have some info:\r\n\r\n```json\r\n  {\r\n    \"name\": \"v0.10.1\",\r\n    \"zipball_url\": \"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/zipball/v0.10.1\",\r\n    \"tarball_url\": \"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/tarball/v0.10.1\",\r\n    \"commit\": {\r\n      \"sha\": \"3a64a01f919233ffca85a5941940f0d4a3826ba3\",\r\n      \"url\": \"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/commits/3a64a01f919233ffca85a5941940f0d4a3826ba3\"\r\n    }\r\n  }\r\n```\r\n\r\nBut the real deb url is http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_0.10.1-1_amd64.deb. It's the same for rpm.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/issues/comments/176968397","html_url":"https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/618#issuecomment-176968397","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdata/telegraf/issues/618","id":176968397,"user":{"login":"sparrc","id":7155926,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7155926?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc","html_url":"https://github.com/sparrc","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sparrc/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-29T21:02:17Z","updated_at":"2016-01-29T21:02:17Z","body":"@hryamzik In general we just use Amazon S3 to store our releases, I haven't done any investigation into using github for it but it would require us to modify the build process across the InfluxData products. Could you explain why the s3 links (get.influxdb.org) don't work for you?\r\n\r\ncc @rossmcdonald "}}