Yogesh Prasad

Hi @powersj Here is the file [metrics.out.zip](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/files/8777607/metrics.out.zip), it has data for more than 10 min and nearly 25% of data is duplicated. Some of the metrics: `"vsphere.vm.mem.usage.average" source="skajagar-win2008" 1653477360000 6.99...

@powersj Thanks for the analysis. as you mentioned for the below example everything is same except the value and that's the problem exactly. How it is possible for a resource...

- Running Telegraf as a Service ``` 2022-06-02T13:17:30Z I! Starting Telegraf 1.22.3 2022-06-02T13:17:30Z I! Loaded inputs: vsphere 2022-06-02T13:17:30Z I! Loaded aggregators: 2022-06-02T13:17:30Z I! Loaded processors: 2022-06-02T13:17:30Z I! Loaded outputs: file...

What version of vsphere are you running? > vSphere Client version 7.0.1.00200 If you exclude all the vm_metrics with vm_metric_exclude = [ "*" ] and delete the vm_metric_include array, do...

I disabled the VM metric as you mentioned and captured the result for 7 minutes and found nearly 33% of duplicate ``` Total Points: 30113 Duplicate points: 10008 Duplicate %:...

Please find the log file with debug enabled [out.log](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/files/8891649/out.log)

@powersj are we looking on it?

if you need any help please let me know I can add extra logs wherever you suggest and provide you with the output.

@powersj any idea on when are we prioritizing this? I have to communicate the same with the customers.

@powersj Thanks for having a look into it. I see other metrics also as duplicates. for me, the below line looks suspicious https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/vsphere/endpoint.go#L1121 as we know real-time metrics are available...