When we first started using the v2 & telegraf input plugins, there was no problem, but restarting the system suddenly the getting this error ([inputs.docker] Error in plugin: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get “http://%2Fvar%…

Hi @Aritra666B , Ah, my apologies I should have asked if you were using docker. Can you send along your docker-compose? Did you mount the socket to the container? Here is the raw docker run command: docker run -d --name=telegraf \ --net=influxdb \ -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/dock…

Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket

Telegraf

Jay_Clifford January 13, 2022, 10:52am 2

Hi @Aritra666B,
Can you trying running:

sudo usermod -aG docker telegraf

Then restart the telegraf service?

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Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket

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