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Telegraf Dashboard

This is a dashboard for the telegraf service. It shows metrics collected, graphs errors, and shows throughput rates for inputs, outputs, and time spent collecting and writing metrics.

Provided by: Steven Soroka

Telegraf Dashboard Screenshot

Quick Install

InfluxDB UI

In the InfluxDB UI, go to Settings->Templates and enter this URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/telegraf/manifest.yml

Influx CLI

If you have your InfluxDB credentials configured in the CLI, you can install this template with:

influx apply -u https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/telegraf/manifest.yml

Included Resources

  • 1 Dashboard: Telegraf
  • 1 Bucket: Telegraf - 7 day retention
  • 1 Telegraf config - Internal metrics collection and InfluxDB v2 output

Setup Instructions

General instructions on using InfluxDB Templates can be found in the use a template document.

This Telegraf dashboard assumes you've enabled a the inputs.internal plugin in Telegraf, and that you're collecting them to a bucket named Telegraf in your Influx Cloud account.

Example telegraf.conf

[[inputs.internal]]
  ## If true, collect telegraf memory stats.
  collect_memstats = true

[[outputs.influxdb_v2]]	
  ## influx cloud URL
  urls = ["${INFLUX_HOST}"]

  ## Token for authentication.
  token = "${INFLUX_TOKEN}"

  ## Organization is the name of the organization you wish to write to
  organization = "${INFLUX_ORG}"

  ## Destination bucket to write into.
  bucket = "${TELEGRAF_BUCKET}"

Required Environment variables

# Replace this with your cloud account URL. You may not be in the same region
INFLUX_HOST="https://us-west-2-1.aws.cloud2.influxdata.com"
INFLUX_TOKEN="your-influx-cloud-token-here"
INFLUX_ORG="your-influx-org-identifier"
TELEGRAF_BUCKET="Telegraf"

Installation

See How to use a Template for detailed instructions on how to load a template.

example

export TELEGRAF_MANIFEST_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/telegraf/manifest.yml

influx apply --url $TELEGRAF_MANIFEST_URL \
             --org $INFLUX_ORG \
             --host $INFLUX_HOST \
             --token $INFLUX_TOKEN

Contact

Author: Steven Soroka

Github: @ssoroka

Influx Community Slack: @Steven Soroka