# Unable to see metrics in the influx CLI

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/unable-to-see-metrics-in-the-influx-cli/28000>\
**Category:** InfluxDB 2\
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/unable-to-see-metrics-in-the-influx-cli/28000 "2023-01-04T20:20:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![dghate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@dghate](https://community.influxdata.com/u/dghate)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/unable-to-see-metrics-in-the-influx-cli/28000/1 "2023-01-04T20:20:37Z")

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Hi,

I cannot see any metrics in the influx CLI.  
I have Telegraf plugin output to influxd and Telegraf input is the gnmi client -[https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/gnmi/](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/gnmi/)

Some debugging:

1. I have logs turned on both telegraf and influxd.

2. I see a new tsm file in the /var/lib/influxdb/data/telegraf/autogen (output of ls -al–\> -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1025107 Jan 4 18:20 000000004-000000002.tsm

3. I also see that telegraf has written some data into the influxd.  
log snippet from telegraf:  
01-04T18:22:14Z D! [outputs.influxdb] Wrote batch of 1 metrics in 971.334µs  
2023-01-04T18:22:14Z D! [outputs.influxdb] Buffer fullness: 0 / 10000 metrics

4. Logs in the influxd show data written from telegraf in the database that I created:  
snippet:  
[httpd] 127.0.0.1 - - [04/Jan/2023:18:21:18 +0000] "POST /write?db=telegraf-deepali HTTP/1.1 " 204 0 “-” “Telegraf/1.24.3 Go/1.19.3” 9538aae8-8c5c-11ed-805f-fa163ec08e36 5470

5. I also printed statements inside the telegraf accumulator AddMetric() function and in the func (g \*SeriesGrouper) Add(…) to check if the expected metrics is added. I see that the grouper has added the expected measurement and key to the accumulator and AddMetric returnms no error.

Problem: The influx CLI does not show the added metrics.  
influx -database ‘telegraf-deepali’ -host ‘127.0.0.1’ -port ‘8086’ -format=json -pretty  
Connected to [http://127.0.0.1:8086](http://127.0.0.1:8086) version 1.8.10  
InfluxDB shell version: 1.8.10

> show field keys  
> {  
> “results”: [  
> {}  
> ]  
> }
> 
> show series  
> {  
> “results”: [  
> {}  
> ]  
> }