Telegraf version: Telegraf v1.0.1
I have the following files:
/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf
main config file (which you create/get for free while installing telegraf). This file doesn't have any [[output.<plugin>]] stanza in it but does have valid default inputs.xx plugins enabled.
/etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/1-company-output-plugin.conf
(This file has valid outputs.<pluginname> plugin).
/etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/telegraf-additional-inputs-plugins.conf
(this file has additional inputs.<pluginname> plugins that I want to keep separate from the main conf file).
Running sudo service telegraf status shows Telegraf is running [OK]! and log file /var/log/telegrag/telegraf.log (looks good too without showing any errors).
If I make any changes to one of the above configuration files, I want to test those changes made (before I restart telegraf), so I'm running the following commands with -test or --test option but I'm getting the following error:
ubuntu@jenkins:~/test_aks_dir$ telegraf --config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf -test
2017/01/10 22:45:48 E! Error: no outputs found, did you provide a valid config file?
ubuntu@jenkins:~/test_aks_dir$ telegraf --config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf --test
2017/01/10 22:45:51 E! Error: no outputs found, did you provide a valid config file?
As you see above, both optons -test or --test worked but also gave a valid error message above.
As the above error was for not providing any configuration stanza for [[outputs.<plugin>]], I provided another --config file paramter for the file which contains the outputs plugin stanza, but now it gave an error for the missing inputs. file:
ubuntu@jenkins:~/test_aks_dir$ telegraf --config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf --config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/1-company-output-plugin.conf --test
2017/01/10 22:48:30 E! Error: no inputs found, did you provide a valid config file?
ubuntu@jenkins:~/test_aks_dir$
Note: The above command didn't error for providing multiple --config <someConfigFile> parameter values.
The same error comes if I want to test any change in the 3rd file : (/etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/telegraf-additional-inputs-plugins.conf)
How can I test an individual or selective configuration file changes using telegraf assuming I have multiple files here: /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/*.conf ?
this is not possible at the moment, the only way to do it would be to specify the entire config directory