Telegraf failed to start?

Telegraf
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I running a fresh install of Ubuntu and have installed influxDb and telegraf using the online tutorials.

For some reason I cannot get telegraf to start?

ubuntu@ubuntu-virtual-machine:~$ sudo systemctl start telegraf
ubuntu@ubuntu-virtual-machine:~$ sudo systemctl status telegraf
● telegraf.service - The plugin-driven server agent for reporting metrics into InfluxDB
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/telegraf.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-03-19 19:12:02 GMT; 8s ago
Docs: GitHub - influxdata/telegraf: The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.
Process: 4272 ExecStart=/usr/bin/telegraf -config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf -config-directory /etc/telegraf/telegraf
Main PID: 4272 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 19 19:12:02 ubuntu-virtual-machine systemd[1]: telegraf.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 19 19:12:02 ubuntu-virtual-machine systemd[1]: telegraf.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Mar 19 19:12:02 ubuntu-virtual-machine systemd[1]: telegraf.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 19 19:12:02 ubuntu-virtual-machine systemd[1]: Stopped The plugin-driven server agent for reporting metrics into Inf
Mar 19 19:12:02 ubuntu-virtual-machine systemd[1]: telegraf.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 19 19:12:02 ubuntu-virtual-machine systemd[1]: Failed to start The plugin-driven server agent for reporting metrics

Is there anyway of finding out why? Or reinstalling telegraf?

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Have you looked at the logs for telegraf? It’s often an issue in the telegraf.conf file, and the logs may have more than just using systemctl. Try journalctl -fu telegraf to follow the logs on startup.

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I ended up giving up using Ubuntu on a VM and installed Ubuntu directly onto the machine and the install was perfectly smooth. I think it has something to do with ESXi permission / configuration!

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I am seeing exactly the same issue. Looking in the syslog I see that there seems to be an issue with creating the following directories.
log extract below.
Aug 23 21:03:45 masternode telegraf[5979]: time=“2021-08-23T21:03:45+01:00” level=error msg=“failed to create cache directory. /etc/telegraf/.cache/snowflake, err: mkdir /etc/telegraf/.cache: permission denied. ignored\n” func=“gosnowflake.(*defaultLogger).Errorf” file=“log.go:120”
Aug 23 21:03:45 masternode telegraf[5979]: time=“2021-08-23T21:03:45+01:00” level=error msg=“failed to open. Ignored. open /etc/telegraf/.cache/snowflake/ocsp_response_cache.json: no such file or directory\n” func=“gosnowflake.(*defaultLogger).Errorf” file=“log.go:120”

All the searching I have found that the issue is with telegraf 1.19 and the suggestion is to revert to telegraf 1.18. I have found the earlier version, but I cannot find the file format to install onto a raspberry pi.

Any suggestions ?
Thanks
Lawrence