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Note:

• Telegraf 1.9.2 or later must be used
• Telegraf 1.9.x is required to use the https:// option.
• All plugins are not currently supported. Check back for additional plugin support!
• If you have a Telegraf agent (v. 1.8 or later) running, you can enable the InfluxDB v2 output plugin to "dual land" data using both your existing InfluxDB 1.x and InfluxDB 2.0 instances.

Create a Telegraf configuration

Follow the steps below to use the InfluxDB UI to create a Telegraf configuration for collecting time series data.

1. Open a web browser to access the InfluxDB 2.0 user interface (localhost:9999). The login screen appears.

2. Log in using your username and password. The Getting started with InfluxDB 2.0 screen appears.

3. To access the Telegraf Configurations page, you can use either of the following two paths:

   • Click Organizations in the navigation bar on the far left of the page, click on an organization, and then click the Telegraf tab.

   OR

   • Click Configure a Data Collector and then select the Telegraf tab.

4. Click Create Configuration. The Data Loading page appears with the heading "Select Telegraf Plugins to add to your bucket."

5. Select your predefined Bucket, select one or more of the available options (System, Docker, Kubernetes, NGINX, or Redis), and then click Continue. A page with Plugins to Configure appears.

6. Review the list of Plugins to Configure for any configuration requirements.

   • Plugins listed with a green checks in front require no additional configuration steps.
   • To configure a plugin or access plugin documentation, click the plugin name.
   • Click Continue repeatedly to cycle through information on each of the plugins and then continue to the next step. Alternatively, you can click Skip to Verify to immediately proceed to the next step.

7. On the Listen for Telegraf Data page, complete the three steps to install Telegraf, configure your API Token, and start Telegraf on your local instance.

8. Verify that you have correctly completed the steps by clicking Listen for Data (if you don't see this button, scroll down the internal frame or create a larger browser window). A Connection Found! message appears.

9. Click Finish. Your configuration name and the associated bucket name appears in the list of Telegraf connections.

You have configured Telegraf plugins that can collect data and add them to your InfluxDB buckets.

Next steps

Now that you have a bucket of data ready for exploration, you can:

• Query data. To get started querying the data stored in InfluxDB buckets using the InfluxDB user interface (UI) and the influx command line interface (CLI), see Query data in InfluxDB.

• Process data. To learn about creating tasks for processing and analyzing data, see Process data with InfluxDB tasks

• Visualize data. To learn how to build dashboards for visualizing your data, see Visualize data with the InfluxDB UI.