# Influxdb + Telegraf + Grafana
**URL:** https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-telegraf-grafana/11279
**Category:** Systems
**Created:** [September 18, 2019, 9:33am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-telegraf-grafana/11279 "2019-09-18T09:33:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@G0nz0uk](https://community.influxdata.com/u/G0nz0uk)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2019, 9:33am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-telegraf-grafana/11279/1 "2019-09-18T09:33:55Z")
Hello,
I’m currently using Prometheus with Grafana to capture server metrics and display on a nice Grafana Dashboard. However some dashboards you can import are built round Influxdb and Telegraf.
So I’ve installed Influx DB and then installed the Telegraf agent on a couple of VMs and the data is not being pulled into Grafana, all I see is the server name.
How can I check if the InfluxDB is receiving the data from the 2 servers?
Telegraf log file:
```
2019-09-18T09:41:00Z D! [outputs.influxdb] Wrote batch of 17 metrics in 27.28973ms
2019-09-18T09:41:00Z D! [outputs.influxdb] Buffer fullness: 6 / 10000 metrics
2019-09-18T09:41:04Z D! [agent] Stopping service inputs
2019-09-18T09:41:04Z D! [agent] Input channel closed
2019-09-18T09:41:04Z I! [agent] Hang on, flushing any cached metrics before shutdown
2019-09-18T09:41:04Z D! [outputs.influxdb] Wrote batch of 6 metrics in 1.72249ms
2019-09-18T09:41:04Z D! [outputs.influxdb] Buffer fullness: 0 / 10000 metrics
2019-09-18T09:41:04Z D! [agent] Closing outputs
2019-09-18T09:41:04Z D! [agent] Stopped Successfully
```
Thanks
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### Author:  [@daniel](https://community.influxdata.com/u/daniel)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-telegraf-grafana/11279/2 "2019-09-19T21:10:26Z")
Looks like at least some data is being written successfully.
You can explore the data in Grafana just by creating a new panel and editing the query, at a bare minimum you need to click on `measurement` and `field(value)` and select one of the choices.
Another option is to use the `influx` command to take a look from a terminal:
```auto
$ influx
Connected to http://localhost:8086 version 1.7.8
InfluxDB shell version: 1.7.8
> use telegraf
Using database telegraf
> show measurements
name: measurements
name
----
cpu
> select * from cpu where time > now() - 1m;
```
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### Author:  [@G0nz0uk](https://community.influxdata.com/u/G0nz0uk)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-telegraf-grafana/11279/3 "2019-09-21T15:26:18Z")
Measurements are coming through to Influx, I just get get Grafana to show them:
```
1569078730000000000 cpu-total svr-confluence 0 0 99.24736578011152 0.05017561465144254 0 0 0.050175614651469275 0 0.3010536879083878 0.35122930256092666
1569078730000000000 cpu0 svr-confluence 0 0 99.39698492464723 0 0 0 0.10050251256267649 0 0.20100502512521015 0.30150753768781524
1569078730000000000 cpu1 svr-confluence 0 0 99.19759277875312 0.10030090270840554 0 0 0 0 0.4012036108343972 0.3009027081249427
>
>
>
>
> show measurements
name: measurements
name
----
cpu
disk
diskio
kernel
mem
processes
swap
system
>
```
Lists in Grafana
I just can’t seem to get the metrics displayed, using any query.
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### Author:  [@daniel](https://community.influxdata.com/u/daniel)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-telegraf-grafana/11279/4 "2019-09-26T02:07:02Z")
Pick `cpu` and then on the SELECT line click on `value` in the `field(value)` box, there should be another dropdown with the available field names. After you pick one I believe at that point you should see some data.
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### Author:  [@got2boll](https://community.influxdata.com/u/got2boll)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-telegraf-grafana/11279/5 "2019-12-01T21:26:31Z")
Hello guys,
I have similar insallation but when I use “show measurements” function in the terminal I have no response.
Here is the result, does it mean no data is registered in the database ?
> SHOW MEASUREMENTS
> SHOW MEASUREMENTS
Here is the log of telegraf:
2019-11-29T22:11:00Z I! [inputs.mqtt\_consumer] Connected [tcp://127.0.0.1:1883]
2019-11-29T22:33:16Z I! [inputs.mqtt\_consumer] Connected [tcp://127.0.0.1:1883]
2019-11-29T22:34:57Z I! Loaded inputs: mqtt\_consumer
2019-11-29T22:34:57Z I! Loaded aggregators:
2019-11-29T22:34:57Z I! Loaded processors:
2019-11-29T22:34:57Z I! Loaded outputs: influxdb
2019-11-29T22:34:57Z I! Tags enabled: host=VM-BrokerABBFR
2019-11-29T22:34:57Z I! [agent] Config: Interval:10s, Quiet:false, Hostname:“VM-BrokerABBFR”, Flush Interval:10s
2019-11-29T22:34:57Z I! [inputs.mqtt\_consumer] Connected [tcp://127.0.0.1:1883]
2019-12-01T00:02:26Z I! [agent] Hang on, flushing any cached metrics before shutdown
2019-12-01T00:03:24Z I! Loaded inputs: mqtt\_consumer
2019-12-01T00:03:24Z I! Loaded aggregators:
2019-12-01T00:03:24Z I! Loaded processors:
2019-12-01T00:03:24Z I! Loaded outputs: influxdb
2019-12-01T00:03:24Z I! Tags enabled: host=VM-BrokerABBFR
2019-12-01T00:03:24Z I! [agent] Config: Interval:10s, Quiet:false, Hostname:“VM-BrokerABBFR”, Flush Interval:10s
2019-12-01T00:03:24Z I! [inputs.mqtt\_consumer] Connected [tcp://127.0.0.1:1883]
2019-12-01T21:09:45Z I! [agent] Hang on, flushing any cached metrics before shutdown
2019-12-01T21:09:51Z I! Loaded inputs: mqtt\_consumer
2019-12-01T21:09:51Z I! Loaded aggregators:
2019-12-01T21:09:51Z I! Loaded processors:
2019-12-01T21:09:51Z I! Loaded outputs: influxdb
2019-12-01T21:09:51Z I! Tags enabled: host=VM-BrokerABBFR
2019-12-01T21:09:51Z I! [agent] Config: Interval:10s, Quiet:false, Hostname:“VM-BrokerABBFR”, Flush Interval:10s
2019-12-01T21:09:51Z I! [inputs.mqtt\_consumer] Connected [tcp://127.0.0.1:1883]
2019-12-01T21:13:46Z I! [agent] Hang on, flushing any cached metrics before shutdown
2019-12-01T21:13:49Z I! Loaded inputs: mqtt\_consumer
2019-12-01T21:13:49Z I! Loaded aggregators:
2019-12-01T21:13:49Z I! Loaded processors:
2019-12-01T21:13:49Z I! Loaded outputs: influxdb
2019-12-01T21:13:49Z I! Tags enabled: host=VM-BrokerABBFR
2019-12-01T21:13:49Z I! [agent] Config: Interval:10s, Quiet:false, Hostname:“VM-BrokerABBFR”, Flush Interval:10s
2019-12-01T21:13:49Z I! [inputs.mqtt\_consumer] Connected [tcp://127.0.0.1:1883]
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### Author:  [@daniel](https://community.influxdata.com/u/daniel)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/influxdb-telegraf-grafana/11279/6 "2019-12-04T21:18:14Z")
Doesn’t look like anything is being collected, if you run Telegraf with `--debug` it will log how many metrics are sent. I also recommend enabling the `internal` input plugin, which will send metrics about Telegraf activity to InfluxDB.