Hello,

 

I am using the atribe's Telgraf docker and am struggling with making connections to files. I have only had success for HTTP scrapping so far. 

 

I plan to use my weather api with the HTTP plugin to get daily weather from my station. I made a quick python script to download the last 2 years historical data which are currently saved as .JSONs. My next steps are I want to use starlark to change json to inline format but I am unable to find any files getting this error:

 

Error in plugin: could not find file: weather/20200830.json

 

What I have done so far is put all my JSONs in this folder:

/mnt/user/Python/weather_data/

 

I then added the path as below to telegraf

 

Then on my telgraf.conf, I have typed:

[[inputs.file]]

     files = ["/weather/20200830.json"]

     data_format = "value"

     data_type = "string"

 

Any guidance is appreciated, I am not 100% confident if I understand the file structure or how dockers "see" folders. From reading online it seems the dockers do not see unraid and you have to point it to the folder location which is what I attempted above. 

After playing around for a bit I found this to work.

 

container path = /mnt

host path = /mnt/

default value = /mnt/

 

I can now access files fine.