Telegraf Agent Setup for Windows Server

Step 1 – Download Agent in Windows

• https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads/

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.21.1_windows_amd64.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile telegraf-1.21.1_windows_amd64.zip
Expand-Archive .\telegraf-1.21.1_windows_amd64.zip -DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf'Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Step 2 – Configuring Telegraf

PS> mkdir 'C:\Program Files\telegraf\conf'
PS> cd 'C:\Program Files\telegraf\conf'
# Create inputs.conf
# Create output.confCode language: PHP (php)

Detailed

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.1/write-data/no-code/use-telegraf/

Step 3 – Start Telegraf

PS> telegraf --service install --config-directory 'C:\Program Files\telegraf\conf'Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Example of Telegraf.conf

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