Telegraf

Telegraf is a plugin-driven server agent written in Go for collecting metrics & data on the system.

Now you need to configure telegraf plugin to influxdb.

Best features on influx is you can write and query data using the programming language of your choice.

Download steps of telegraf:

wget -q https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key
echo '393e8779c89ac8d958f81f942f9ad7fb82a25e133faddaf92e15b16e6ac9ce4c influxdata-archive_compat.key' | sha256sum -c && cat influxdata-archive_compat.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdata-archive_compat.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdata-archive_compat.gpg] https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdata.list
sudo apt-get install telegraf

File upload

You can use these programming language to configure:

We can use different plugin as per our requirements:

Plugins sample of telegraf agent in influxdb

Prometheus config on telegraf:

Error found:

Let's fix the issue. Status = 401 means auth error.

Again come to the config file of prometheus. Token were not configured there.

Regenerate the token and follow this step again:

export INFLUX_TOKEN=ckURyEPM-Z0ZOVrEZ4F13xE8AKl757USDGuHCRdTtyj9rVFF-WGsa0V5GJgKbNFTNbjSMGd7leKluuywKRpksQ==
telegraf --config http://hostip:8086/api/v2/telegrafs/0c6897d0d83b5000

Now, the error is fixed:

Let's monitor on influxdb: