Publication date: 2020-12-29
Link local addresses need a scope identifier to denote the interface to be used. The notation looks like this under Linux:
ping6 fe80::1%eth0
For many applications (like rsync over ssh), the address and scope identifier need to be enclosed by square brackets like this:
[fe80::c%tlwg_mgmt]
However, this notation does not work for ingesting Telegraf data into InfluxDB.
In URLs, the scope identifier needs to be encoded according to RFC 6874. This notation works for Telegraf:
[[outputs.influxdb]]
urls = ["http://[fe80::1%25tlwg_mgmt]:8086"]