Quick Start to Using Influxdb on Macos - sheldonhull.com

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Quick Start to Using Influxdb on Macos

https://www.sheldonhull.com/blog/quick-start-to-using-influxdb-on-macos/

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For macOS, this link shows how to create the environment variables with global scope.
I'll try this out and update the post if it works.

Setting Global Environment Variables

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Updated post with better information. I stuck with local conf, as the environment stuff was a bit too messy.

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Use powermetrics to get fan speed and thermal info with Telegraf on macOS. Note this requires root.

I applied the configuration shown in that article of:

# Fan Speed and CPU/GPU temp, reported to influx as "thermal"
# Example output: `thermal,host=mbp.local cpu=36.85,fan=2161,gpu=35 1594647603000000000`
[[inputs.exec]]
  commands = [
    "/bin/bash -c \"powermetrics --samplers smc --sample-count 1 -i 1 | grep -E '(Fan|temperature)' | sed -e 's/ die temperature//' -e 's/: /=/' -e 's/ .*$//' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | xargs | sed -e 's/ /,/g' -e 's/^/thermal /'\""
  ]

  timeout = "60s"
  data_format = "influx"

# Thermal throttling info, reported to influx as "thermal"
# Example output: `thermal,host=mbp.local cpu_available_cpus=8,cpu_scheduler_limit=100,cpu_speed_limit=100 1594647603000000000`
[[inputs.exec]]
  commands = [
    "/bin/bash -c \"/usr/bin/pmset -g therm | awk $'/=/{printf $1$2$3\\\",\\\"}' | sed -e 's/,$//' -e 's/^/thermal /' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'\""
  ]

  timeout = "60s"
  data_format = "influx"

This resulted in a new measurement series of thermal showing up.
Pretty slick! I believe credit for that is @plytro (correct me if the username is wrong, sorry!)