I don't think there's any way to retrieve the latest state from Telegraf. It would be possible to enable Kapacitor for this, but that would introduce more complexity.
We'd be very interested in an output plugin that solves your issue. If you want to start a PR I'm sure we could give guidance on it. On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, we are currently investigating the use of Telegraf in our > environment. For the most part it appears to be a great fit as we have a > central location that aggregates data from a number of various hosts. > > There's one complication, however. We have some uses cases where we need > to retrieve current, runtime metric value on the hosts being monitored. > Making a host go to a central server just to ask for its own data seems > weird and I'd like to avoid installing something like InfluxDB locally > because a) more things to manage and b) hosts do not have a need for > historical data; they just need current values. > > Is there a built-in mechanism to do this query? I was considering adding a > custom output plugin that would simply open a socket and keep latest > metrics values directly in it's own data structure. Did quick search but > couldn't find such a plugin, so asking here. > > -- > Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "InfluxDB" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/815a6bfb-de1b-41a3-8c69-fdaa6f120172%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sean Beckett Director of Support and Professional Services InfluxDB -- Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CALGqCvMh%2B3jE8H3xy59z2n7GLFW8y7HOW-3T_RO78e3Ozx_F6A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
