Attempt 2: Trying to post data to InfluxDB

InfluxDB 2
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I have a synology NAS that I am trying to post HDD temperatures to an influxDB container. The container is working fine and is getting data from two TrueNAS Servers via scripts I didn’t wite - so I am trying to emulate that on the Synology.

Data I have is:

Nas Name: (BackupNAS)
Disk Designation: (sda, sdb etc) - there are 10 disks
Disk Temperature: (34, 35, 36)
I also have a timestamp - but consider to be irrelavent and am happy with the influxdb timestamp - I believe its optional
I am trying to write individually NAS Name, Disk, DiskTemp so I can chart using influxdb or grafana

The command I am using is:

curl -i -XPOST 'http://192.168.38.189:8086/api/v2/write?org=home&bucket=synology-test' \
  	          --header 'Authorization: Token YaddaYaddaYadda==' \
			  --data-binary 'server=BackupNAS,disk=$var value=$disk_temp'

But I am getting as a result:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
X-Influxdb-Version: v2.6.1
X-Platform-Error-Code: invalid
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:18:28 GMT
Content-Length: 109

{"code":"invalid","message":"unable to parse 'server=BackupNAS,disk=$var value=$disk_temp': invalid boolean"}

Its clear that I don’t understand how the data should be formatted and written. Can anyone correct me?

2

What is this script? Can you post here? Maybe it is simple enough that Telegraf or NodeRED would work.

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is getting data from two TrueNAS Servers via scripts I didn’t wite"

3

I probably shouldn’t post the script as I haven’t written it.
But I can link to another forum - you are looking for post 60

As for my script - on the third line I had to change the ’ for " and it works. It still generates an error (below) but there is data in influxdb.

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
X-Influxdb-Version: v2.6.1
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 03:00:41 GMT

Now I shall tidy it up with some environment variables - assuming I can get that to work

4

I have no idea what that script does, so probably will give up here.

I did come across this, which may help (if you have not already gone through it).

5

The script I linked to just takes a snapshot of all the HDD’s and SSD’s on a TrueNAS Scale or Core box and posts those to InfluxDB. Its written in perl and I have no idea what some of the lines even mean