I’m no expert in AWS or Kinesis, so I can’t help you with that part. (I see shard_iterator_type is a config in the Kinesis input, but I don’t know what it does)
About Telegraf, you can’t see the data using Telegraf itself, you can use Chronograf and Grafana to visualize your data, or just query InfluxDB from the CLI but it’s not that nice to visualize data.
I don’t know what’s the data structure you get from the kinesis input, and what difference does it make “shard_iterator_type”.
does it return cumulative counters? or just the value in the current moment?
If you post a short sample of data I might be able to help
