How to install MQTT plugin for Telegraf

[Eric]

I have telegraf and influxdb installed on a Pi3. In the <telegraf.conf>, I have one Input configured, and it’s an MQTT input. The one output is the influxDB.

When I run telegraf from console, I get this error after about a minute:

2017/11/09 00:18:16 E! Service for input inputs.mqtt_consumer failed to start, exiting
Network Error : dial tcp 198.105.244.23:0: i/o timeout

Is this because I didn’t install the plugin? I see the <mqtt_consumer.go> on github, but how are plugins installed? I read the doc but looks like it doesn’t mention how to actually install the plugins. Do you just download the .go file into <etc/telegraf> directory? OR maybe the <etc/telegraf/telegraf.d>?

I’m running v. 1.1.2.

[daniel]

All of Telegraf’s plugins are built in, so you only need to configure them. It looks like the plugin was just unable to connect to the MQTT server here.