Inputs.snmp_trap file output

Telegraf
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[[inputs.snmp_trap]]
  service_address = "udp://:162"
  path = ["/usr/share/snmp/mibs/ericsson/"]

[[outputs.file]]
  data_format = "influx"
  files = ["/tmp/traps.out"]

I have simple snmp_trap config, which writes data into file. From what I see in file there is lots of data from inputs.snmp (I’m collecting this data also) any idea why it is there?

How can write only [[inputs.snmp_trap]] into to the file?

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You must also have configured a inputs.snmp somewhere in the configs…

Note that all loaded configs are concatenated as being one single file on startup.

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Yes, I have inputs.snmp file also in /telegraf.d/ folder for snmp data. Two separate files

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But both loaded in the same telegraf instance? Telegraf sends all metrics to all outputs by default, You need to apply some filtering if you don’t want this.

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Yes, it is the same telegraf instance, any example how can do filtering only for inputs.snmp_trap ?

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See the basic Metric filtering docs for selectors you can use. For example: namepass = ["snmp_trap"].