Hi, I’m trying to setup Telegraf (1.21.4) with InfluxDB (2.1.1) to capture some statistics from the Telegraf ping and internet_speed plugins. However, I seem to be repeatedly hitting permissions issues trying to write to the InfluxDB2 instance. Here is my telegraf configuration: [[outputs.influx…

401 Unauthorised with Telegraf and InfluxDB - database creation failed - even with All Access API tokens?

victorhooi March 27, 2022, 10:57pm 2

Answering this myself - this was PEBKAC…

It appears the InfluxDB 1.x section in my Telegraf configuration was uncommented somehow - so the error messages were coming from that. However, the InfluxDB 2.x output for Telegraf is functioning correctly.

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401 Unauthorised with Telegraf and InfluxDB - database creation failed - even with All Access API tokens?

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