I am doing the same thing . so you need to define it in line protocol,
e.g
test1,tag1=value1 value=1

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Mark Rushakoff <m...@influxdb.com> wrote:

> It looks like the entire line emitted is:
>
> C:\Windows\system32>echo mytest value=1
>
> That isn't valid line protocol, so that's why you're seeing the parse
> error. You want it to be only
>
> mytest value=1
>
> But I don't know enough about Windows to say what you can change to omit
> the path piece.
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:07 PM, <digivalu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We try to use a custom made script for telegraf on a Windows 10 host.
>>
>> The executable is C:\Program Files\telegraf\telegraf.exe
>>
>>
>>
>> The configuration file is C:\Program Files\telegraf\telegraf.conf
>>
>> (...begining of file not displayed...)
>>
>> [[inputs.exec]]
>> commands = ["C:/test.bat"]
>> timeout = "5s"
>> name_suffix = "_mycollector"
>> data_format = "influx"
>> We just removed every other [[inputs.xxx]], and specified the server
>> address and database name.
>>
>>
>> C:\test.bat
>> echo  mytest   value=1
>>
>>
>> But this only lead to an error in C:\Program Files\telegraf\telegraf.log
>> 2017-02-15T23:49:40Z E! ERROR in input [inputs.exec]: Errors encountered:
>> [ metric parsing error, reason: [invalid field format], buffer: [C:\
>> Windows\system32>echo mytest value=1 ], index: [29]]
>>
>>
>> A very similar setup works fine on Linux.
>> What do we do wrongly?
>>
>>
>>
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