Use Telegraf to write data
Telegraf is a no-code data collection agent for collecting and reporting metrics. Its vast library of input plugins and “plug-and-play” architecture lets you quickly and easily collect metrics from many different sources.
For a list of available plugins, see Telegraf plugins.
Requirements
- Telegraf 1.9.2 or greater. For information about installing Telegraf, see the Telegraf Installation instructions.
Basic Telegraf usage
Telegraf is a plugin-based agent with plugins that are enabled and configured in
your Telegraf configuration file (telegraf.conf).
Each Telegraf configuration must have at least one input plugin and one output plugin.
Telegraf input plugins retrieve metrics from different sources. Telegraf output plugins write those metrics to a destination.
Use the outputs.influxdb_v2 plugin to write metrics collected by Telegraf to InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated.
# ...
[[outputs.influxdb_v2]]
urls = ["https://cluster-id.a.influxdb.io"]
token = "${INFLUX_TOKEN}"
organization = ""
bucket = "DATABASE_NAME"
# ...
See how to Configure Telegraf.
Use Telegraf with InfluxDB
Configure Telegraf for InfluxDB
Telegraf is a plugin-based agent with plugins that are enabled and configured in your Telegraf configuration file (telegraf.conf). Update existing or create new Telegraf configurations to use the influxdb_v2 output plugin to write to InfluxDB. Start Telegraf using the custom configuration.
Dual write to InfluxDB OSS and InfluxDB Cloud
Configure Telegraf to write data to both InfluxDB OSS and InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated simultaneously.
Data Collection with Telegraf
Learn how to use Telegraf to make data time series data collection easy in this free InfluxDB University course.
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