Telegraf debian package and configuration with url+token

Telegraf
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Hello,
assuming the new automatic configuration is done to semplify things I cannot understand how I can installl the telegraf debian/ubuntu package and use the url+token combo. Obviously I need it to start at boot.
Thanks,
Mario

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Hello Mario,
To install telegraf in ubuntu you can find instructions here and you can see from the plugin page how to configure the output.influxdb_v2

Thanks
Mirko

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Sorry reading again my message I understand I have not explained myself enough.
I know how to install telegraf. I am used to “old style” configuration where I have to put a local config file.
But so I have to deploy config file to all my servers.
New config seems very cool: the config file is on server and I can install a configless telegraf.
It seems “so simple”. But when you will try to really install and run at boot a telegraf with an url loaded config you see that is very difficult:

  • how you specify url?
  • where do you put secret key?
    And so on.
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I ask again. Imagine you have tried this:

telegraf --config http://10.1.0.28:8086/api/v2/telegrafs/06caa5ee98c57000

Now you want to put that in production, you want to start it automatically at boot on ubuntu/debian.
Which steps are needed?

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You need to create a service file to run it as a background startup service, like https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-systemd-service-unit-in-linux

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So it is incredible, so what is the purpose of debian package if I have to do it by hand?

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I do not think this is incredible.
The package is there to install all the required binaries in the right place and it has a service that starts at boot, looking for configuration files in /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/, which works fine.
If you need something to start at book that reads a custom URL, being this custom, you have a lot of different options, one of which is to create a dedicated service (but not limited to that).

What you are doing by hand is just the last (custom) part. Not all of it :wink:

Last, check this feature that is supposed to be in Telegraf 1.19 https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8987