# Configure Telegraf multi input and output instance **URL:** \ **Category:** Telegraf\ **Tags:** telegraf\ **Created:** [February 13, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/configure-telegraf-multi-input-and-output-instance/28588 "2023-02-13T17:53:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![renanmsampaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@renanmsampaio](https://community.influxdata.com/u/renanmsampaio)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/configure-telegraf-multi-input-and-output-instance/28588/1 "2023-02-13T17:53:43Z")
How can I configure telegraf to connect a VMware server and a SQL server and put the collected data to a diferent buckets? I have the different buckets configured, but I need to put telegraf at the same server (windows) and using the same config file to collect data from different servers (SQL and VMware). ---
**Author:** ![jpowers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jpowers/32/8569_2.png) [@jpowers](https://community.influxdata.com/u/jpowers)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/configure-telegraf-multi-input-and-output-instance/28588/2 "2023-02-13T17:57:27Z")
Take a look at [metric filtering](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/CONFIGURATION.md#metric-filtering), specifically the selectors. You can use them to send certain metric names to certain outputs. In your case, you will want to outputs, one for each bucket, and then have a selector on each of these to send the SQL to one and the VMware data to the other. ---
**Author:** ![renanmsampaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@renanmsampaio](https://community.influxdata.com/u/renanmsampaio)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 10:22am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/configure-telegraf-multi-input-and-output-instance/28588/3 "2023-02-14T10:22:42Z")
**Would it be something like below?** [agent] interval = “10s” round\_interval = true metric\_batch\_size = 1000 metric\_buffer\_limit = 10000 collection\_jitter = “0s” flush\_interval = “10s” flush\_jitter = “0s” precision = “” hostname = “” omit\_hostname = false [[outputs.influxdb\_v2]] urls = [“http s://url.local:8086”] token = “$INFLUX\_TOKEN1” organization = “ORG001” bucket = “SQL” **[outputs.influxdb.tagpass]** \*\* influxdb\_database = [“SQL”]\*\* [[inputs.sqlserver]] **[inputs.sqlserver.tags]** \*\* influxdb\_database = “SQL”\*\* servers = [ “Server=192.168.10.20;Port=1433;User Id=;Password=;app name=telegraf;log=1;”, ] database\_type = “SQLServer” include\_query = exclude\_query = [“SQLServerAvailabilityReplicaStates”, “SQLServerDatabaseReplicaStates”] [agent] interval = “10s” round\_interval = true metric\_batch\_size = 1000 metric\_buffer\_limit = 10000 collection\_jitter = “0s” flush\_interval = “10s” flush\_jitter = “0s” precision = “” hostname = “” omit\_hostname = false [[outputs.influxdb\_v2]] urls = [“[https://url.local:8086](https://url.local:8086)”] token = “$INFLUX\_TOKEN2” organization = “ORG001” bucket = “vmware” **[outputs.influxdb.tagpass]** \*\* influxdb\_database = [“VMware”]\*\* [[inputs.vsphere]] **[inputs.vmware.tags]** \*\* influxdb\_database = “VMware”\*\* vcenters = [“h ttps://vcenter.local”] username = “pass@local” password = “1q2w3e4r5t6t” vm\_metric\_include = [ “cpu.demand.average”, “cpu.idle.summation”, “cpu.latency.average”, “cpu.readiness.average”, “cpu.ready.summation”, “cpu.run.summation”, “cpu.usagemhz.average”, “cpu.used.summation”, “cpu.wait.summation”, “mem.active.average”, “mem.granted.average”, “mem.latency.average”, “mem.swapin.average”, “mem.swapinRate.average”, “mem.swapout.average”, “mem.swapoutRate.average”, “mem.usage.average”, “mem.vmmemctl.average”, “net.bytesRx.average”, “net.bytesTx.average”, “net.droppedRx.summation”, “net.droppedTx.summation”, “net.usage.average”, “power.power.average”, “virtualDisk.numberReadAveraged.average”, “virtualDisk.numberWriteAveraged.average”, “virtualDisk.read.average”, “virtualDisk.readOIO.latest”, “virtualDisk.throughput.usage.average”, “virtualDisk.totalReadLatency.average”, “virtualDisk.totalWriteLatency.average”, “virtualDisk.write.average”, “virtualDisk.writeOIO.latest”, “sys.uptime.latest”, ] host\_metric\_include = [ “cpu.coreUtilization.average”, “cpu.costop.summation”, “cpu.demand.average”, “cpu.idle.summation”, “cpu.latency.average”, “cpu.readiness.average”, “cpu.ready.summation”, “cpu.swapwait.summation”, “cpu.usage.average”, “cpu.usagemhz.average”, “cpu.used.summation”, “cpu.utilization.average”, “cpu.wait.summation”, “disk.deviceReadLatency.average”, “disk.deviceWriteLatency.average”, “disk.kernelReadLatency.average”, “disk.kernelWriteLatency.average”, “disk.numberReadAveraged.average”, “disk.numberWriteAveraged.average”, “disk.read.average”, “disk.totalReadLatency.average”, “disk.totalWriteLatency.average”, “disk.write.average”, “mem.active.average”, “mem.latency.average”, “mem.state.latest”, “mem.swapin.average”, “mem.swapinRate.average”, “mem.swapout.average”, “mem.swapoutRate.average”, “mem.totalCapacity.average”, “mem.usage.average”, “mem.vmmemctl.average”, “net.bytesRx.average”, “net.bytesTx.average”, “net.droppedRx.summation”, “net.droppedTx.summation”, “net.errorsRx.summation”, “net.errorsTx.summation”, “net.usage.average”, “power.power.average”, “storageAdapter.numberReadAveraged.average”, “storageAdapter.numberWriteAveraged.average”, “storageAdapter.read.average”, “storageAdapter.write.average”, “sys.uptime.latest”, ] datacenter\_metric\_include = datacenter\_metric\_exclude = [“\*”] insecure\_skip\_verify = false ---
**Author:** ![jpowers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jpowers/32/8569_2.png) [@jpowers](https://community.influxdata.com/u/jpowers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/configure-telegraf-multi-input-and-output-instance/28588/4 "2023-02-14T14:13:24Z")
That does look like one way to approach this.