I’m trying to “pipe” JSON between instances of Telegraf. Data in Telegraf’s JSON output standard format : { "fields": { "field_1": 30, "field_2": 4, "field_N": 59, "n_images": 660 }, "name": "my_measurement", "tags": { "tag_1": "bovik" }, …

Hi @john_gronska , So in the original JSON parser, you had to specify the string values like so: ## String fields is an array of keys that should be added as string fields. json_string_fields = [] Personally, for your use case, I would make use of the JSON V2 parser instead: [image] %…

Even more, why not using telegraf’s native influx format to pipe 1 telegraf to another?

[image] Jay_Clifford: Personally, for your use case, I would make use of the JSON V2 parser instead: How to Parse JSON with Telegraf into InfluxDB Cloud | InfluxData Thanks for your response. At the bottom of my admittedly long post, I wrote “Using json_v2 was even more of a time sink. In th…

[image] Hipska: Even more, why not using telegraf’s native influx format to pipe 1 telegraf to another? That makes sense, yes, but they’re connected via MQTT, and other services are potentially on that “message bus” (plus I already have a fleet of devices speaking JSON in the field).

Okay, that wasn’t clear initially. Nevermind what I said then…

Hey @john_gronska , did you try to use the xpath parser with data_format = "xpath_json" [[inputs.file.xpath]] metric_name = "/name" timestamp = "/timestamp" timestamp_format = "unix" field_selection = "fields/*" tag_selection = "tags/*"

Parsing Telegraf output json as input json

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This is related: Telegraf Dynamic Tag Parsing - Batch Style, except an array is used too.

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