ahiyaz
August 6, 2020, 3:20pm
1
hi
ive installed a telegraf agent on win10. according to this guide Using Telegraf on Windows | InfluxData .
thanks
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PS C:\Program Files\telegraf> .\telegraf --config-directory 'C:\Program Files\telegraf\conf' --test
philb
August 6, 2020, 3:29pm
2
Hey @ahiyaz
this line in your log output 2020-08-06T14:22:08Z W! Telegraf is not permitted to read C:\Program Files\telegraf\conf" --test
suggests that Telegraf can’t read its config file.
When you run telegraf (looks like you’re running it from PowerShell?) are you running it with elevated privileges?
Try launching CMD or PowerShell as an administrator and see if that fixes the issue. Or, you could put the config file in a different location. I store mine in program data, but when i install Telegraf I install it as a windows service, it could be that the service account can read from program data anyways.
As already stated by @philb , I suggest you run telegraf with the --test flag in order to check for errors.
I would also suggest you change your configuration in order to have the most verbose error logging
[agent]
{...}
debug = true
quiet = false
## errors to console, but use a different error output if you prefer
logtarget = "stderr"
If no error is raised, maybe you are filtering out all the metrics.
If you do not see any error it might be useful to have a look at your configuration file
EDIT
PS C:\Program Files\telegraf> .\telegraf --config-directory ‘C:\Program Files\telegraf\conf’ --test
In order to run Telegraf you must always provide the --config parameter, otherwise it won’t work. I remember reading an issue about that.
If you don’t want to use an actual conf file, just create an empty one (empty.conf), and then run
PS C:\Program Files\telegraf> .\telegraf --config 'C:\Program Files\telegraf\empty.conf' --config-directory 'C:\Program Files\telegraf\conf' --test
philb
August 6, 2020, 4:15pm
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I’d not spotted the part about no providing the -config flag. that could be it.
Can definitely confirm though you need to at least provide at least an empty config file for that though, we ran into a similar issue when using multiple configurations.
Personally, for Windows agents I store configs in c:\programdata\telegraf\config (main config file in here) and then all other configs are in c:\programdata\telegraf\config\configd
passed to telegraf as
c:\programdata\telegraf\config\config.conf --config-directory c:\programdata\telegraf\config\configd
ahiyaz
August 6, 2020, 5:30pm
5
Giovanni_Luisotto:
logtarget = "stderr"
ive tried to run it in debug but got this error:
so ive marked out the “logtarget” line and run it again.
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PS C:\Program Files\telegraf> .\telegraf --config ‘C:\Program Files\telegraf\telegraf.conf’ --config-directory 'C:\Program Files\telegraf' --test
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ahiyaz
August 6, 2020, 5:31pm
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important to mention.
You still have a permission related error, you must fix that first
ahiyaz
August 6, 2020, 6:08pm
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I can’t really understand why i get this permission error. I use PS shell as administrator.
philb
August 7, 2020, 1:50pm
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Could you try installing Telegraf as a windows service and see if that changes anything?
ahiyaz
August 8, 2020, 7:20am
10
hi
but what is wired for me is that although i get this permission error i see input errors regarding inputs and agents from the config file, so it seems like it can access the file.
and just compliance of not able to pars the agents ip address.
attached my conf file and log.log.txt (12.2 KB) log.txt (12.2 KB) telegraf.conf.txt (4.2 KB)
ahiyaz
August 8, 2020, 7:45am
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ive found the issue in my file.
ive configured agents = [“udp://172.17.200.1:161”]
philb
August 10, 2020, 8:48am
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Awesome, glad you got it sorted.
