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Running Telegraf inside a docker container

Jun 23, 2016 3 minute read #telegraf, #tick, #influxdata, #monitoring, #docker

Telegraf is an application for collecting server and application telemetry and metrics and sending them to a time series datastore like InfluxDB. Like me you may prefer running all of your applications in Docker containers, however this means Telegraf will only collect data for the container. This article will cover the configuration options to allow Telegraf to collect host metrics from inside a container.

Running Telegraf inside a docker container