Telegraf with vsphere vm metrics for only single cluster

Telegraf
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Is it possible to have telegraf ONLY collect vm/host metrics from a single cluster in a vCenter?
Per the documentation , this does not work:

We can extend this to looking at a cluster level: /DC0/host/Cluster1/*/hadoop*. This selects any VM matching “hadoop*” on any host in Cluster1.

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Can you share what you tried?

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Not sure what I may be doing wrong, I’ve tried:

cluster_include = [ "/DC01/host/clu01/**"]
cluster_include = [ "/DC02/host/clu02/*/*"]
cluster_include = [ "/*/host/clu01/*/*"]
cluster_include = [ "/**/host/clu01/**"]
cluster_include = [ "/*/*/host/clu01/**"]
cluster_include = [ "/*/*/host/clu01/*/*"]
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Is that your entire vsphere configuration?

I would suggest looking at the vsphere readme where it calls out a variety of *_include and *_exclude options. If some of these options are not included, there is a default set of metrics that are collected, which may be causing you to collect more than you think.

Also take a look at the inventory-paths of the readme.

If those sections do not help resolve your issue can you be sure to include your full vpshere config + some example output?

Thanks!