docs-v2/content/telegraf/v1/output-plugins/discard/_index.md

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Telegraf plugin for sending metrics to Discard
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output_plugins_reference Discard output-discard
Discard
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v1.2.0 freebsd, linux, macos, solaris, windows
/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/
https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.36.1/plugins/outputs/discard/README.md, Discard Plugin Source

Discard Output Plugin

This plugin discards all metrics written to it and is meant for testing purposes.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.2.0 Tags: testing OS support: all

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Send metrics to nowhere at all
[[outputs.discard]]
  # no configuration