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Telegraf namespace missing from metrics?
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Philip Lewis
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Hi,
I was looking at our Grafana instance with the intent to add a new graph for an existing VM but when I got to the 'metric namespace' dropdown I could only see the 'Microsoft Compute-Virtual Machines' option? I know the VM in question is sending telegraf metrics to azure and I can see the 'Telegraf/disk' namespace in the dropdown of another graph for the same machine?
I went on to azure portal and in Monitor I chose the same VM and again I could not see Telegraf under the metrics namespace dropdown only the 'Virtual Machine Host' option.
I then tried the azure console and ran the command
az monitor metrics list-namespaces --resource-uri
with the VM resource id and the result only showed the 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines' namespace name?
Any thoughts. The Telegraf Metrics must be still in there somewhere as on the existing graphs the data is still appearing and the values are changing inline with the activity on the VM. Yet I can't locate them in the Metrics system and nor can Grafana see the Telegraf namespace???
Help!
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bharathn-msft 5,106 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator2021-09-30T01:34:58.59+00:00 @Philip Lewis - Welcome to Microsoft Q&A and thank you for your query.
Could you please help confirm if you had a chance to review this document and following through but still don't see the 'Telegraf/disk' namespace ?
Looking forward to hear back from you. Thank you
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Philip Lewis 51 Reputation points
2021-09-30T11:04:52.447+00:00 Thanks bharathn-msft
I ran through the link you supplied. (out of interest the instructions on that page are missing the step to actually install telegraf they only have the setting up the repository and starting telegraf steps)
Anyway once it was install I started it and I have the same issue no Telegraf/ namespace
In telegraf log it says
2021-09-30T10:53:21Z D! [agent] Successfully connected to outputs.azure_monitor
and then periodically says
2021-09-30T10:54:02Z D! [outputs.azure_monitor] Wrote batch of 64 metrics in 422.947708ms
but if I look in the metrics through the portal there is no Telegraf/ namespace in the namespace dropdown and if I run
az monitor metrics list-namespaces --resource
against the resource I see only
[
{
"classification": "Platform",
"id": "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/ZZZ-METRIC-TEST/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/zzz-metrics-test/providers/microsoft.insights/metricNamespaces/Microsoft.Compute-virtualMachines",
"name": "Microsoft.Compute-virtualMachines",
"properties": {
"metricNamespaceName": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines"
},
"resourceGroup": "ZZZ-METRIC-TEST",
"type": "Microsoft.Insights/metricNamespaces"
}
]Any thoughts?
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