Update telegraf snmp agents simply and in bulk

[Dan_Denson]

There is another similar request, but it was marked answered without a great solution

How can I add thousands of SNMP agent to telegraf

Hello, I am wondering how to add multiple agent to telegraf easily. We’re adding like one router per day, and my team and I don’t wanna go to the config file to add a router to telegraf. I’ve been thinking of using an environment variable, but there is a size limit. Or creating a php website to add or delete an ip adress. Or a bash script It has to be userfriendly a bit To add more context, I am a student and i have the project of replace my company monitoring solutions with grafana and te…

I would like to be able to populate the agent’s list via database entry and have telegraf query that. Is this possible? Google has returned nothing for me. That or an existing tool that can iterate through a list of IPs to hit with SNMP and then update the file?

Thanks

[Jay_Clifford]

Hi @Dan_Denson,
So looking at the previous blog there seems to be a two-part discussion here. One of the best practices of building an SNMP config with Telegraf. The second is how to generate a config which dynamically contains the snmp endpoint.
For the first question I highly recommend checking out this best practice blog: Telegraf Best Practices: SNMP Plugin | InfluxData

The second question is a bit more difficult and will take some effort on your part. Telegraf is not built to dynamically generate configs that is something you would have to conceive. One of the primary methods developers use is the environment variable feature. This works if the changes so creating a bash script to update the environment variables and restarting telegraf to collect the new env changes. The second option is writing a script to build the telegraf config file.

[Dan_Denson]

That’s what I’m seeing. I’m surprised someone hasn’t made a utility for this, seems it would be a pretty common need.

[Jay_Clifford]

Hi @Dan_Denson,
You would be surprised a lot of community build their own deployment scripts to fit their individual needs. It’s hard for us to standardise on a way for building configs from other sources. If you would like to contribute code to the idea though that would be awesome.