How to use fieldexclude?

Telegraf
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I’m trying to exclude a field called outletCycleTime from an SNMP table but the fieldexclude filter has no effect. Is there something wrong with my syntax here? I’m using Telegraf 1.29.2.

[agent]
  quiet = true
  omit_hostname = true
  snmp_translator = "gosmi"

[[inputs.snmp]]
  path = ["../mibs/"]
  agent_host_tag = "source"
  agents = ["10.37.155.163"]
  version = 2
  community = "public"

  [[inputs.snmp.table]]
    oid = "1.3.6.1.4.1.1418.6.5"
    name = "outletTable"

  fieldexclude = ["outletCycleTime"]

Output

$ telegraf --config telegraf_debug.conf --test
2024-01-20T01:50:31Z I! Loading config: telegraf_debug.conf
> outletTable,outletIndex=5,source=10.37.155.163 outletActualStatus=1i,outletControl=1i,outletCycleTime=10i,outletInitialState=2i,outletName="5-Mezzo-2",outletStatus=1i 1705715434000000000
> outletTable,outletIndex=6,source=10.37.155.163 outletActualStatus=1i,outletControl=1i,outletCycleTime=10i,outletInitialState=2i,outletName="6-Core110f",outletStatus=1i 1705715434000000000
> outletTable,outletIndex=7,source=10.37.155.163 outletActualStatus=1i,outletControl=1i,outletCycleTime=10i,outletInitialState=2i,outletName="Outlet-7",outletStatus=1i 1705715434000000000
> outletTable,outletIndex=8,source=10.37.155.163 outletActualStatus=1i,outletControl=1i,outletCycleTime=10i,outletInitialState=2i,outletName="8-Roku",outletStatus=1i 1705715434000000000
> outletTable,outletIndex=1,source=10.37.155.163 outletActualStatus=1i,outletControl=1i,outletCycleTime=10i,outletInitialState=2i,outletName="1-MacStudio",outletStatus=1i 1705715434000000000
> outletTable,outletIndex=2,source=10.37.155.163 outletActualStatus=1i,outletControl=1i,outletCycleTime=10i,outletInitialState=2i,outletName="2-Mezzo-1",outletStatus=1i 1705715434000000000
> outletTable,outletIndex=3,source=10.37.155.163 outletActualStatus=1i,outletControl=1i,outletCycleTime=10i,outletInitialState=2i,outletName="3-UltraStudio",outletStatus=1i 1705715434000000000
> outletTable,outletIndex=4,source=10.37.155.163 outletActualStatus=1i,outletControl=1i,outletCycleTime=10i,outletInitialState=2i,outletName="4-MP-60",outletStatus=1i 1705715434000000000
2

I figured it out, I had the config in the wrong order. fieldexclude = ["outletCycleTime"] needs to be above [[inputs.snmp.table]].

3

@llamafilm Thank youuuuuu so great that you figured it out!
Thanks for sharing