#influxdb

Hm, so can I make one Telegraf instance poll data from another Telegraf? Or parse input from files that appear in a directory

I see there is a socket_listener plugin, but that kind of goes the wrong direction for me :p

anyone run telegraf inside a container.

No, but I was thinking about running it outside on the host and having containers all send to it...

Mostly curious about what other peoples deployments look like

does Telegraf cope with clock jumps, for example if running on a laptop that gets suspended?

i am curious about the container also.

I run it in LXC containers and in the host

some of the information is redundant

eg. load average is the same measured in the host or in any of the containers :P

i see

so, what is the best way to get metrics of a container. I am on a platform as a service enviornment, so I don't have access to the underlying host.

ah, then run it on the container yeah

why not :p

I am trying to log a status string using the Discrete plugin, but I am unsure how to get the string text status into influxdb using telegraf. The exec plugin only supports numerical values

does Telegraf cope with clock jumps, for example if running on a laptop that gets suspended?

Im not sure but I think so. it just has missing data in the InfluxDB. Grafana can be told to make missing bits null or 0

as long as it doesn't send 3600 samples when it wakes up after an hour :D

pretty sure it won't do that