vsphere input field type conflict since telegraf version 1.10 #5565
Description
Relevant telegraf.conf:
#realtime stats
[[inputs.vsphere]]
## List of vCenter URLs to be monitored. These three lines must be uncommented
## and edited for the plugin to work.
vcenters = [ "https://redacted/sdk" ]
username = "redacted"
password = "redacted"
interval = "60s"
insecure_skip_verify = true
force_discover_on_init = true
# Exclude all historical metrics
datastore_metric_exclude = ["*"]
cluster_metric_exclude = ["*"]
datacenter_metric_exclude = ["*"]
collect_concurrency = 1
discover_concurrency = 1
## timeout applies to any of the api request made to vcenter
timeout = "10s"
#historical stats
[[inputs.vsphere]]
vcenters = [ "https://redacted/sdk" ]
username = "redacted"
password = "redacted"
interval = "300s"
insecure_skip_verify = true
force_discover_on_init = true
## the interval before (re)discovering objects subject to metrics collection (default: 300s)
object_discovery_interval = "600s"
host_metric_exclude = ["*"] # Exclude realtime metrics
vm_metric_exclude = ["*"] # Exclude realtime metrics
cluster_metric_exclude = ["*"] # Exclude cluster metrics
datacenter_metric_exclude = ["*"] # Exclude datacenter metrics
#max_query_metrics = 256
collect_concurrency = 1
## timeout applies to any of the api request made to vcenter
timeout = "120s"
System info:
telegraf 1.10 on Windows Server 2016
vSphere 6.7 update1
InfluxDB 1.7.4
Steps to reproduce:
upgraded telegraf.exe on windows from 1.9.4 tot 1.10.
Expected behavior:
no change in behavior.
Actual behavior:
seeing following entries in telegraf.log, alot of them for alot of metrics
2019-03-10T16:33:03Z E! [outputs.influxdb]: when writing to [https://redacted:8086]: received error partial write: field type conflict: input field "used_summation" on measurement "vsphere_vm_cpu" is type float, already exists as type integer dropped=921; discarding points
2019-03-10T16:34:02Z E! [outputs.influxdb]: when writing to [https://redacted:8086]: received error partial write: field type conflict: input field "datastoreWriteOIO_latest" on measurement "vsphere_host_datastore" is type float, already exists as type integer dropped=872; discarding points
2019-03-10T16:34:02Z E! [outputs.influxdb]: when writing to [https://redacted:8086]: received error partial write: field type conflict: input field "maxlimited_summation" on measurement "vsphere_vm_cpu" is type float, already exists as type integer dropped=948; discarding points
Additional info:
had to revert back to 1.9.4 to get my metrics back.