Hi Camero,

I understand this is not optimal , was wondering is we already the option 
to setup the tags in telegraf is present then let the user choose non sting 
as well. For me i need to write a different consumer application just 
because of this.

It will be great to have the option build in in telegraf . 

Hope this makes sense.

Regards,
Catalin 

On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 10:22:24 AM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi Catalin, the JSON parser currently does not support this, but there is 
> no reason that it couldn't be modified to support it. 
>
> But just to be clear, non-string tags are NOT supported by influxdb 
> line-protocol, so the integers would need to be converted into strings. 
>
> Converting integers or floats into string tags is a bit dangerous in terms 
> of series cardinality. InfluxDB does not support unlimited unique string 
> tags, so each additional unique string will increase your memory 
> consumption. In the case of integers and floats, there are obviously an 
> infinite number of possible values, so you would need to be careful that 
> your particular use-case does not have the possibility of infinite values. 
>
> On Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 5:40:54 PM UTC+1, Catalin Petrescu wrote: 
> > hi all, 
> > 
> > Wondering if there is any plan to support non string values as tags in 
> telegraf kafka_consumers. 
> > 
> > My issue is i have the following kafka message in json: 
> > { 
> >  "tos": 192, 
> >  "as_dst": 1, 
> >  "as_src": 1, 
> >  "mask_dst": 32, 
> >  "local_pref": 0, 
> >  "net_dst": "10.1.1.2", 
> >  "as_path": "", 
> >  "peer_ip_dst": "", 
> >  "peer_as_src": 0, 
> >  "mask_src": 32, 
> >  "net_src": "10.1.1.1", 
> >  "peer_as_dst": 0, 
> >  "peer_ip_src": "10.255.255.3", 
> >  "iface_in": 526, 
> >  "packets": 4, 
> >  "bytes": 306 
> > } 
> > 
> > and need to set tags for non string values ( example: "as_src": 1,  
> "peer_as_src": 0 ) . 
> > 
> > Looking at : 
> https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/DATA_FORMATS_INPUT.md 
> , strings are ignored unless specified as a tag_key . Any reason integers 
> cannot be used as tags. 
> > 
> > Regards, 
> > Catalin 
>
>

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