Hello,
I have installed Telegraf on a server and I’m trying to pull metrics from myVMware vSphere - Overview | Grafana Labs
But the vSphere Input Plugin start and nothing happens, i don’t have any data on my dashboard
Here is Telegraf’s log :
2020-04-02T16:19:15Z I! Starting Telegraf 1.14.0,
I edited telegraf.conf to
add influxdb localhost IP + username and password :
adding vsphere input plugin like said in the dashboard documentation :
I’m running influx / telegraf / grafana on docker containers that are on the same network as the vCenter
How can i do to make it work ?
Thanks
I have the same issue. Did you ever solve this?
same situation, anything help??
Hi Daniel,
I’d suggest starting with the following:
Check your vCenter URL is correct and accessible from the server where Telegraf is running.
Update your telegraf.conf file and set debug = true for your [agent] section.
Check your connectivity ability, including firewall settings.
Pete
Hi Pete,https://10.91.xxx.yyy/sdk ”: EOF
Danieldvv:
EOF
Getting an EOF error could mean a lot of different things.
In terms of the network, some network connection might have gone down or a proxy between you and the vsphere server could be cutting off the connection. The proxy scenario is the most likely if this is constantly repeatable and not intermittent.
From the remote server, it might not be up or rejected the request due to credentials.
i dont have Proxy in the middle.
What do you advise me to continue trying and solve my problem?
thanks in advance
What version of vsphere are you using?
What version of Telegraf?
I am going to assume that you always get the EOF error and the plugin never works? It would be good to get the full logs, not just two lines as well.
Vmware vcenter server version 6.0.0
telegraf --version
May 22 19:31:08 bumvmonlnx01 systemd[1]: Starting Telegraf…https://10.91.xxx.yyy/sdk ”: EOF
thanks very much
This could be the reason, 6, including 6.5 and 6.7 are EOL. The library used may not be responding to vsphere 6 correctly anymore.
vsphere (2x)
You have two vsphere plugins defined? Is this what you expected? Are both failing?
I’ve seen EOL errors come up before in the library Telegraf uses with vsphere:
The only one that looks relevant would be the first:
Not specifying /sdk in the path, which you have unless a second is configured incorrectly?
Not talking to the sdk itself
Josh, Thank you for your time and availability.
I had two input.vspheres, I deleted the second one (which had captures every 300 seconds) and left only the 60 second one. but I still get the error.
Unfortunately, not directly. You could try writing your own code to collect whatever you want from the API directly and pass it to Telegraf, but that could be a larger endeavor.
