So you’ve got some simple data, and you need it to send it towards influxdb

Really, there are libraries for this.

• libraries don’t work if you have no internet
• Or maybe you want portability

Using telegraf, we can parse many simple input formats, including:

• Value

  a single value

• CSV

  a line of delimited values

• Influx Line Protocol

  a line of metrics, separated into tags and fields and ready for storage

• JSON

  a mixed bag - could be separated, could be just random. The biggest and slowest of the four.

Each with their own advantages and disadvantages.

Influx Line protocol is my preferred - easy to read on a screen or from a file, and easy to grep through.

Some pain in escaping characters if building it yourself.