Hi,

Can you specify which Jenkins and plugin versions you are using?

Aleksi Simell Updated issue

With quick checks I cannot reproduce this (with an older Jenkins version). It seems that for some reason the Influx Target is evaluated before the actual InfluxDbPublisher step. I have 2 possible root causes for this, but I'm not sure whether either is correct:

1) The Jenkins version is too new. It is possible that the newer versions of Jenkins produced some backwards incompatibility and the plugin doesn't support it yet.

2) Your pipeline script actually has a nested step where the plugin is called. I have a feeling this would be easier to spot in the pipeline script.

I'm somewhat confident it's not either of those, but those options came first to my mind. Need to look deeper into this.

Aleksi Simell The second option is "impossible" as this step is being called in the top-most post block.

But I will try to run this in repos with less complicated Jenkinsfiles

Yes, I was pretty confident it is not the second option. I will need some time to investigate this.

It looks like I am experiencing this same problem as well. Jenkins core v2.60.2 and the latest version of the influxdb plugin (v1.13.2).

I should have probably mentioned that we haven't put influxdb into production yet and are just testing the Jenkins integration in our sandbox currently when we hit this error.

For reference, we are using a simple prototype Jenkins pipeline script for testing this, which is more-or-less based on some comments / examples I found in the source code for your plugin. See below:

node () {
    stage ('inject data') {
        def myDataMap = [:]
        myDataMap['myKey'] = 'myValue'
        step([$class: 'InfluxDbPublisher',
            customData: myDataMap,
            target: 'my_data_source'])
    }
}

Aleksi Simell Any progress with this? Is there anything we can do to help?  It would be really useful to get stats sent to grafana from Jenkins and without this we're unable to do that

Timo Sand Kevin Phillips, I can't reproduce this error with the code snippets you gave me. The error could be with your plugin/influxdb configuration. Can you double check your plugin configuration from Jenkins system config that there isn't anything funny there?

Aleksi Simell I've added list of all enabled plugins and a screenshot of the Influxdbb config

Timo Sand Looking at your configuration the only thing I can think of is that you have http://localhost:8186 instead of http://127.0.0.1:8186 as your url.

I have tried to reproduce this with different Jenkins versions without success and if Kevin Phillips is experiencing the same with 2.60.2, then I don't believe this issue is Jenkins version dependant.

Aleksi Simell Yet that does not explain why the target object has been preparsed and thus passed in the wrong format to the constructor.

Yes, I know that. But I still haven't been able to reproduce this issue. Do you first assign the target as a variable and pass it to the plugin step (I am aware you have the quotation marks around 'telegraf')? I'm just guessing here, since I have never encountered this before.

I'm having the same issue here : the Jenkins build info is sent to the Influx DB but not the specified custom data.

Pipeline config :

node {
     try {
         stage('Build') {
             ...
        }
         stage('Report') {
             def myData = [:]
             myData['customdata'] = '1'
             step([$class: 'InfluxDbPublisher', customData: myData, customDataMap: null, customPrefix: 'prefix', target: 'Grafana'])
        }
     } catch (Exception e) {
         currentBuild.result = "FAILURE"
         step([$class: 'InfluxDbPublisher', customData: null, customDataMap: null, customPrefix: null, target: 'Grafana'])
    }
 }

In the build log, no complaint :

[InfluxDB Plugin] Publishing data to: [url=http://localhost:8086, description=Grafana, username=myusername, password=*****, database=mydatabase]
[InfluxDB Plugin] Custom data found. Writing to InfluxDB...
[InfluxDB Plugin] Completed.

In the database, the custom data is missing :

> select * from jenkins_custom_data where build_number=58;
 name: jenkins_custom_data
 time                build_number build_time customdata prefix project_name     project_name_1
 ----                ------------ ---------- ---------- ------ ---------------- ----------------
 1521104722529000000 58           157485                prefix prefix_myproject prefix_myproject

Jenkins logs are attached (influxdb_log.txt), with similar "do not know how to categorize attributes" errors.

Jenkins version : 2.89.4

Plugin version : 1.14

Aleksi Simell Did you manage to reproduce this issue with the information that I provided?

Aleksi Simell Glad that I can help you debug the issue. Keep us posted

I am able to send the data to influx nerveless i see this kind of error in Jenkins log:

INFO: [InfluxDB Plugin] Publishing data to: [url=http://XXX:8086, description=influxDB, username=jenkins, password=*****, database=jenkins]
Apr 18, 2018 12:23:36 PM org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel uninstantiate2
WARNING: Cannot create control version of class jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.InfluxDbPublisher using {target=[url=http://XXX:8086, description=influxDB, username=jenkins, password=*****, database=jenkins]}
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not instantiate {target=[url=http://XXX:8086, description=influxDB, username=jenkins, password=*****, database=jenkins]} for InfluxDbPublisher(target: String, customData?: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: do not know how to categorize attributes of type java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.Object>, customDataMap?: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: do not know how to categorize attributes of type java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.Object>>, customPrefix?: String, customProjectName?: String): java.lang.ClassCastException: jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.InfluxDbPublisher.target expects class java.lang.String but received class jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.models.Target
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.instantiate(DescribableModel.java:286)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.uninstantiate2(DescribableModel.java:572)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.uninstantiate2_(DescribableModel.java:646)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableParameter.uncoerce(DescribableParameter.java:196)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableParameter.inspect(DescribableParameter.java:142)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.uninstantiate2(DescribableModel.java:555)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.actions.ArgumentsAction.resolve(ArgumentsAction.java:308)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.actions.ArgumentsAction.getResolvedArguments(ArgumentsAction.java:295)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.nodes.StepAtomNode.getDelegateType(StepAtomNode.java:134)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.nodes.StepAtomNode.effectiveFunctionName(StepAtomNode.java:111)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.nodes.StepAtomNode.getTypeFunctionName(StepAtomNode.java:123)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.graph.FlowNode.getDisplayFunctionName(FlowNode.java:261)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.logNodeMessage(WorkflowRun.java:1113)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun.access$1000(WorkflowRun.java:142)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowRun$GraphL.onNewHead(WorkflowRun.java:1092)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsFlowExecution.notifyListeners(CpsFlowExecution.java:1413)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$3.run(CpsThreadGroup.java:412)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsVmExecutorService$1.run(CpsVmExecutorService.java:35)
        at hudson.remoting.SingleLaneExecutorService$1.run(SingleLaneExecutorService.java:131)
        at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$1.run(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:28)
        at jenkins.security.ImpersonatingExecutorService$1.run(ImpersonatingExecutorService.java:59)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.InfluxDbPublisher.target expects class java.lang.String but received class jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.models.Target
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.coerce(DescribableModel.java:416)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.buildArguments(DescribableModel.java:340)
        at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.instantiate(DescribableModel.java:281)
        ... 25 more

Apr 18, 2018 12:23:36 PM org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel uninstantiate2
WARNING: Cannot create control version of class org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.CoreStep using {delegate=$InfluxDbPublisher(customData=null,customDataMap=null,customPrefix=null,customProjectName=null,target=[url=http://XXXX:8086, description=influxDB, username=jenkins, password=*****, database=jenkins])}
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not instantiate {delegate=$InfluxDbPublisher(customData=null,customDataMap=null,customPrefix=null,customProjectName=null,target=[url=http://XXX:8086, description=influxDB, username=jenkins, password=*****, database=jenkins])}

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: do not know how to categorize attributes of type java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.Object>, customDataMap?: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: do not know how to categorize attributes of type java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.Object>>, customPrefix?: String, customProjectName?: String): java.lang.ClassCastException: jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.InfluxDbPublisher.target expects class java.lang.String but received class jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.models.

MY PLUGIN setup:

    post {
        success {
            script {
                currentBuild.result = 'SUCCESS'
                if( env.BRANCH_NAME == 'master' ){
                    step([$class: 'InfluxDbPublisher', customData: null, customDataMap: null, customPrefix: null, target: 'influxDB'])
                }
            }
        }

This is what i see in my influx:

name: jenkins_data
time                build_number build_result build_result_ordinal build_status_message build_successful build_time last_stable_build last_successful_build project_build_health project_name                        project_name_1

1524047016523000000 43           SUCCESS      0                    ?                    true             614961     42                42                    100                  feature%2Fjenkins_stats_to_influxdb feature%2Fjenkins_stats_to_influxdb

When I tried something like:

step([$class: 'InfluxDbPublisher', customData: test, customDataMap: null, customPrefix: null, target: 'influxDB'])

I tried to add custom_data and didn't work .

Thank you for help.

I have the same issue.

Jenkins version: 2.125

InfluxDB plugin version: 1.15

Jun 19, 2018 4:53:29 PM org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel uninstantiate2
WARNING: Cannot create control version of class jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.InfluxDbPublisher using {target=[url=https://metrics.mobbtech.com/, description=Int_Tests_Monitoring, username=jenkins, password=*****, database=jenkins]}
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not instantiate {target=[url=https://metrics.mobbtech.com/, description=Int_Tests_Monitoring, username=jenkins, password=*****, database=jenkins]} for InfluxDbPublisher(target: String, customData?: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: do not know how to categorize attributes of type java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.Object>, customDataMap?: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: do not know how to categorize attributes of type java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.Object>>, customDataMapTags?: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: do not know how to categorize attributes of type java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.String>>, customDataTags?: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: do not know how to categorize attributes of type java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.String>, customPrefix?: String, customProjectName?: String): java.lang.ClassCastException: jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.InfluxDbPublisher.target expects class java.lang.String but received class jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.models.Target
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.instantiate(DescribableModel.java:286)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.uninstantiate2(DescribableModel.java:572)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.uninstantiate2_(DescribableModel.java:646)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableParameter.uncoerce(DescribableParameter.java:196)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableParameter.inspect(DescribableParameter.java:142)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.uninstantiate2(DescribableModel.java:555)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.actions.ArgumentsAction.resolve(ArgumentsAction.java:308)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.actions.ArgumentsAction.getResolvedArguments(ArgumentsAction.java:295)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.nodes.StepAtomNode.getDelegateType(StepAtomNode.java:134)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.nodes.StepAtomNode.effectiveFunctionName(StepAtomNode.java:111)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.nodes.StepAtomNode.getTypeFunctionName(StepAtomNode.java:123)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.graph.FlowNode.getDisplayFunctionName(FlowNode.java:261)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.support.actions.LogActionImpl$1.onNewHead(LogActionImpl.java:92)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsFlowExecution.notifyListeners(CpsFlowExecution.java:1438)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.notifyNewHead(CpsThreadGroup.java:400)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.FlowHead.setNewHead(FlowHead.java:147)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeStep(DSL.java:195)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeMethod(DSL.java:153)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.invokeMethod(CpsScript.java:122)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.println(CpsScript.java:221)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.print(CpsScript.java:216)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor553.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1213)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1022)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.invokePogoMethod(InvokerHelper.java:925)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.invokeMethod(InvokerHelper.java:908)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsClosure2.print(CpsClosure2.java:59)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor476.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1213)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1022)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.invokePogoMethod(InvokerHelper.java:925)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.invokeMethod(InvokerHelper.java:908)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsClosure2.print(CpsClosure2.java:59)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor476.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1213)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1022)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.call(PogoMetaClassSite.java:42)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$1.call(Checker.java:157)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.GroovyInterceptor.onMethodCall(GroovyInterceptor.java:23)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.SandboxInterceptor.onMethodCall(SandboxInterceptor.java:133)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$1.call(Checker.java:155)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:159)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.sandbox.SandboxInvoker.methodCall(SandboxInvoker.java:17)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationGroup.methodCall(ContinuationGroup.java:57)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatchOrArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:109)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:82)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor341.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.LocalVariableBlock$LocalVariable.get(LocalVariableBlock.java:39)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.LValueBlock$GetAdapter.receive(LValueBlock.java:30)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.LocalVariableBlock.evalLValue(LocalVariableBlock.java:28)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.LValueBlock$BlockImpl.eval(LValueBlock.java:55)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.LValueBlock.eval(LValueBlock.java:16)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Next.step(Next.java:83)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable$1.call(Continuable.java:174)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable$1.call(Continuable.java:163)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GroovyCategorySupport$ThreadCategoryInfo.use(GroovyCategorySupport.java:122)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GroovyCategorySupport.use(GroovyCategorySupport.java:261)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable.run0(Continuable.java:163)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.access$101(SandboxContinuable.java:34)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.lambda$run0$0(SandboxContinuable.java:59)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.GroovySandbox.runInSandbox(GroovySandbox.java:108)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.run0(SandboxContinuable.java:58)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThread.runNextChunk(CpsThread.java:174)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.run(CpsThreadGroup.java:332)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.access$200(CpsThreadGroup.java:83)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:244)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:232)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsVmExecutorService$2.call(CpsVmExecutorService.java:64)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at hudson.remoting.SingleLaneExecutorService$1.run(SingleLaneExecutorService.java:131)
at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$1.run(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:28)
at jenkins.security.ImpersonatingExecutorService$1.run(ImpersonatingExecutorService.java:59)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.InfluxDbPublisher.target expects class java.lang.String but received class jenkinsci.plugins.influxdb.models.Target
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.coerce(DescribableModel.java:416)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.buildArguments(DescribableModel.java:340)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.instantiate(DescribableModel.java:281)
... 93 more

I am facing the same issue when running the following versions.

Jenkins - 2.128

Influx Plugin - 1.16

It works fine though when i downgrade Influx Plugin version to 1.12.1 but that is causing another error due to HttpEntity . I need to upgrade to get out of these issues,

I managed to get rid of these log errors by changing the

@DataBoundConstructor

to a parameterless InfluxDbPublisher. Need still to run a few checks if that change actually removed all errors from logs.

Aleksi Simell We've noticed that the plugin works even though it spams these errors. They are just annyoing in filling up logs

Changing the DataboundConstructor got rid of the error logs. Fix available in next release.