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Document service account setup for the elasticsearch output (influxda…
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Theoooooo authored and danielnelson committed Aug 10, 2019
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## Set the interval to check if the Elasticsearch nodes are available
## Setting to "0s" will disable the health check (not recommended in production)
health_check_interval = "10s"
## HTTP basic authentication details
## HTTP basic authentication details.
## If you are using authentication within your Elasticsearch cluster,
## you need to create a account and create a role with at least the manage role in the Cluster Privileges category.
## Overwise, your account will not be able to connect to your Elasticsearch cluster and send logs to your cluster.
## After that, you need to add "create_indice" and "write" permission to your specific index pattern.
# username = "telegraf"
# password = "mypassword"

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