I’d like to remove the [[inputs.syslog]] part of the telegraf / prometheus-client configuration in VyOS 1.4. That creates way too much indexing in Prometheus, and we already are using a rsyslog service for log forwarding.
To do so, I commented out the required section in the /usr/share/vyos/templates/telegraf/telegraf.j2 template. But the section still shows in the /run/telegraf/telegraf.conf file when I set up the service. And logs are still in the metrics.
I also tried adding a custom config file /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/namedrop.conf, with :
[[outputs.prometheus_client]]
namedrop = [‘syslog_*’]
But that doesn’t work either.
Is it possible to modify the telegraf config file ? Am I just not doing it properly ?
Thanks in advance.