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MongoDB Output Plugin

This plugin writes metrics to MongoDB automatically creating collections as time series collections if they don’t exist.

This plugin requires MongoDB v5 or later for time series collections.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.21.0 Tags: datastore OS support: all

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Secret-store support

This plugin supports secrets from secret-stores for the username and password option. See the secret-store documentation for more details on how to use them.

Configuration

# A plugin that can transmit logs to mongodb
[[outputs.mongodb]]
  # connection string examples for mongodb
  dsn = "mongodb://localhost:27017"
  # dsn = "mongodb://mongod1:27017,mongod2:27017,mongod3:27017/admin&replicaSet=myReplSet&w=1"

  # overrides serverSelectionTimeoutMS in dsn if set
  # timeout = "30s"

  # default authentication, optional
  # authentication = "NONE"

  # for SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication
  # authentication = "SCRAM"
  # username = "root"
  # password = "***"

  # for x509 certificate authentication
  # authentication = "X509"
  # tls_ca = "ca.pem"
  # tls_key = "client.pem"
  # # tls_key_pwd = "changeme" # required for encrypted tls_key
  # insecure_skip_verify = false

  # database to store measurements and time series collections
  # database = "telegraf"

  # granularity can be seconds, minutes, or hours.
  # configuring this value will be based on your input collection frequency.
  # see https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/timeseries-collections/#create-a-time-series-collection
  # granularity = "seconds"

  # optionally set a TTL to automatically expire documents from the measurement collections.
  # ttl = "360h"

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