Install telegraf on pfsense

March 06, 2019

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Install and configure telegraf on pfsense to provides system information to prometheus.

Install telegraf

At the System / Package menu install the telegraf service to the pfsense.
ssh to the pfsense server and open a shell

Example image

Install nano

pkg
pkg update
pkg install nano

Configure telegraf

cd /usr/local/etc

nano telegraf.conf
[[outputs.prometheus_client]]
 listen = ":9273"

echo "telegraf_enable="YES"" >> /etc/rc.conf

cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
./telegraf restart

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Install telegraf

Install nano

Configure telegraf

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