@errishma Telegraf does not expose ports by default. It will not expose ports unless you have a service plugin enabled. This sounds like an issue with something else running on on the box. Are you sure this is a telegraf issue?
Telegraf can also collect metrics via the following service plugins:
http_listener
kafka_consumer
mqtt_consumer
nats_consumer
nsq_consumer
logparser
statsd
socket_listener
tail
tcp_listener
udp_listener
webhooks
- filestack
- github
- mandrill
- rollbar
