Telegraf: Rename of field names

1

Hi,
I
I am using the CPU Plugin and want to set a custom name for the field “cpu_usage_idle”.

Any idea is welcome!

Thanks

Marcel

2

In the next release, 1.8, you can use the rename processor. You can test it out using the nightly builds but the full release is about a month away.

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3

Thanks for your reply.

Question: Is there a way to reference fields from a specific measurement for renaming like e.g. “cpu.usage_idle” -> “cpu.idle”?

4

You can use the measurement filtering options to control what passes through the processor, anything that doesn’t match skips to the next stage:

[[processors.rename]]
  namepass = "cpu"
  [[processors.rename.field]]
    from = "usage_idle"
    to = "idle"