help needed to build the code

[ramprasadgk]

Relevant telegraf.conf:

System info:

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Steps to reproduce:

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Expected behavior:

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happen to download latest telegraf code, installed go, now how do i build the code and test it? i need to make customized changes to some of the plugins and use it

thanks for the help
cheers

[prydin]

Hi! Below is the "building from source section" from the readme file. Let me know if you have any specific questions. You need to have the dep tool installed. What platform are you on?

Telegraf requires golang version 1.9 or newer, the Makefile requires GNU make.

1. Install Go >=1.9 (1.10 recommended)
2. Install dep ==v0.5.0
3. Download Telegraf source:

   go get -d github.com/influxdata/telegraf
   

4. Run make from the source directory

   cd "$HOME/go/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
   make
   

[ramprasadgk]

thanks for the reply, i am on rhel7

[ramprasadgk]

hi,

unable to find right install for my linux version can you help

Linux 3.8.13-118.24.2.el6uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Wed Sep 12 16:58:43 PDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[ramprasadgk]

*unable to find right dep install

[prydin]

Here's what it looks like setting it up on a clean Linux machine with only go and git installed:

Create a Go environment

pontus@pontus-telegraf-01:~$ mkdir -p ~/go/src/github.com/influxdata
pontus@pontus-telegraf-01:~$ mkdir ~/go/bin
pontus@pontus-telegraf-01:~$ export GOPATH=~/go/src/github.com/influxdata
pontus@pontus-telegraf-01:~$ cd ~/go/src/github.com/influxdata

Get latest source from git

pontus@pontus-telegraf-01:~/go/src/github.com/influxdata$ git clone https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf.git
Cloning into 'telegraf'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
remote: Total 31080 (delta 2), reused 2 (delta 2), pack-reused 31076
Receiving objects: 100% (31080/31080), 20.27 MiB | 18.89 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (17054/17054), done.

Install dep

pontus@pontus-telegraf-01:~/go/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golang/dep/master/install.sh | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  5110  100  5110    0     0  21291      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 21291
ARCH = amd64
OS = linux
Will install into /home/pontus/go/bin
Fetching https://github.com/golang/dep/releases/latest..
Release Tag = v0.5.0
Fetching https://github.com/golang/dep/releases/tag/v0.5.0..
Fetching https://github.com/golang/dep/releases/download/v0.5.0/dep-linux-amd64..
Setting executable permissions.
Moving executable to /home/pontus/go/bin/dep

Build the code

pontus@pontus-telegraf-01:~/go/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf$ make
dep ensure -vendor-only
go build -ldflags " -X main.commit=19a338b9 -X main.branch=master" ./cmd/telegraf

Run it!

pontus@pontus-telegraf-01:~/go/src/github.com/influxdata/telegraf$ ./telegraf -config /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf -config-directory /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d
2018-11-05T15:09:23Z I! Starting Telegraf 
2018-11-05T15:09:23Z I! Loaded inputs: inputs.cpu inputs.disk inputs.kernel inputs.mem inputs.processes inputs.swap inputs.system inputs.net inputs.vsphere inputs.vsphere inputs.vsphere inputs.vsphere inputs.internal
2018-11-05T15:09:23Z I! Loaded aggregators: 
2018-11-05T15:09:23Z I! Loaded processors: 
2018-11-05T15:09:23Z I! Loaded outputs: wavefront
2018-11-05T15:09:23Z I! Tags enabled: host=pontus-telegraf-0

[ramprasadgk]

looks like office VPN has blocked access to git,will try it on another machine and revert, thanks for all the help.

is there any way i can install without directly connecting form github, i can copy code to the host but cannot directly connect to github

[prydin]

You could always run the procedure I just described on a machine outside the network, zip up the entire go directory and move it to the machine that can't access github.

[glinton]

thanks @prydin. closing as a full explanation has been provided and it is now only a network issue.