I am attempting to pull information from my UPS into InfluxDB. I can get various points of data using upsc <upsname> on the command line. This returns about 30-35 lines of data.
The examples I’ve found to build a custom plugin for telegraf uses the exec plugin, but it looks like this requires each individual command to return a single line of data.
How can I structure my plugin (written in python, if it matters) to return data for 35 different datapoints using the exec plugin?
In the plugin example provided by Influx, their command outputs a single echo’d line:
'example,tag1=a,tag2=b i=42i,j=43i,k=44i'
I need this sort of thing, but for each of these entries:
battery.charge: 100
battery.runtime: 2622
battery.voltage: 26.3
battery.voltage.nominal: 24.0
I would want to use various echo lines like this:
'ups,ups=ups1 battery.charge=100'
'ups,ups=ups1 battery.runtime=2662'
'ups,ups=ups1 battery.voltage=26.3'
'ups,ups=ups1 battery.nominal=24.0'
None of the examples I’ve found return more than a single line of data when using this exec plugin. Do I need an individual script for each data point or can I return multiple data points from a single script?
