Issue running Telegraf in docker desktop - complete noob

aep-sunlife · April 2, 2025, 5:00pm

Update: telegraf stops crashing once at least one valid (e.g. stdout) entry is customized for the outputs.file parameter.

github.com/influxdata/telegraf

Output to stdout by default

opened 04:58PM - 02 Apr 25 UTC

aep-sunlife

feature request

### Use Case Modern applications use an approach called zero configuration, in …which the default configuration file is 100% valid. Today, telegraf takes a more classical approach, requiring the user to customize configuration. Otherwise the application crashes. That's an awful out of the box experience. Instead of bombing out with generic parse error messages on the stock configuration file, telegraf should automatically set outputs.file to `["stdout"]`. By the way, the default configuration file has many gaps in terms of failing to mention the default configuration, for about half of the assorted fields. Many of the fields fail to nest comments, further complicating the default behavior. The documentation occasionally hints at a need to customize outputs, but that's still a far cry from zeroconf. ### Expected behavior Output to stdout by default, so that the `telegraf config` default configuration file finally becomes 100% valid. ### Actual behavior ```console $ telegraf config >telegraf.config $ telegraf -config telegraf.conf 2025-04-02T16:58:47Z I! Loading config: telegraf.conf 2025-04-02T16:58:47Z E! [telegraf] Error running agent: no outputs found, probably invalid config file provided ``` ### Additional info _No response_

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