XML input data format
Use the xml
input data format, provided by the XPath parser plugin, with XPath expressions to parse XML data into Telegraf metrics.
Configuration
[[inputs.file]]
files = ["example.xml"]
## Data format to consume.
## Each data format has its own unique set of configuration options, read
## more about them here:
## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md
data_format = "xml"
## Multiple parsing sections are allowed
[[inputs.file.xml]]
## Optional: XPath-query to select a subset of nodes from the XML document.
#metric_selection = "/Bus/child::Sensor"
## Optional: XPath-query to set the metric (measurement) name.
#metric_name = "string('example')"
## Optional: Query to extract metric timestamp.
## If not specified the time of execution is used.
#timestamp = "/Gateway/Timestamp"
## Optional: Format of the timestamp determined by the query above.
## This can be any of "unix", "unix_ms", "unix_us", "unix_ns" or a valid Golang
## time format. If not specified, a "unix" timestamp (in seconds) is expected.
#timestamp_format = "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z"
## Tag definitions using the given XPath queries.
[inputs.file.xml.tags]
name = "substring-after(Sensor/@name, ' ')"
device = "string('the ultimate sensor')"
## Integer field definitions using XPath queries.
[inputs.file.xml.fields_int]
consumers = "Variable/@consumers"
## Non-integer field definitions using XPath queries.
## The field type is defined using XPath expressions such as number(), boolean() or string(). If no conversion is performed the field will be of type string.
[inputs.file.xml.fields]
temperature = "number(Variable/@temperature)"
power = "number(Variable/@power)"
frequency = "number(Variable/@frequency)"
ok = "Mode != 'ok'"
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