Issue #3911 Add telegraf version to User-Agent header for http requests

plugins/outputs/http/http.go

@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ func (h *HTTP) write(reqBody []byte) error {
 		req.SetBasicAuth(h.Username, h.Password)
 	}
 
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Telegraf "+internal.Version())
 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", defaultContentType)
 	if h.ContentEncoding == "gzip" {
 		req.Header.Set("Content-Encoding", "gzip")

plugins/outputs/http/http_test.go

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
+
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/serializers/influx"
@@ -422,3 +424,33 @@ func TestOAuthClientCredentialsGrant(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestDefaultUserAgent(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(http.NotFoundHandler())
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	u, err := url.Parse(fmt.Sprintf("http://%s", ts.Listener.Addr().String()))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	internal.SetVersion("1.2.3")
+
+	t.Run("default-user-agent", func(t *testing.T) {
+		ts.Config.Handler = http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+			require.Equal(t, "Telegraf 1.2.3", r.Header.Get("User-Agent"))
+			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+		})
+
+		client := &HTTP{
+			URL:    u.String(),
+			Method: defaultMethod,
+		}
+
+		serializer := influx.NewSerializer()
+		client.SetSerializer(serializer)
+		err = client.Connect()
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		err = client.Write([]telegraf.Metric{getMetric()})
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	})
+}

plugins/outputs/influxdb/http.go

@@ -27,10 +27,8 @@ const (
 )
 
 const (
-	defaultRequestTimeout = time.Second * 5
-	defaultDatabase       = "telegraf"
-	defaultUserAgent      = "telegraf"
-
+	defaultRequestTimeout          = time.Second * 5
+	defaultDatabase                = "telegraf"
 	errStringDatabaseNotFound      = "database not found"
 	errStringHintedHandoffNotEmpty = "hinted handoff queue not empty"
 	errStringPartialWrite          = "partial write"
@@ -138,7 +136,7 @@ func NewHTTPClient(config *HTTPConfig) (*httpClient, error) {
 
 	userAgent := config.UserAgent
 	if userAgent == "" {
-		userAgent = defaultUserAgent
+		userAgent = "Telegraf " + internal.Version()
 	}
 
 	var headers = make(map[string]string, len(config.Headers)+1)

plugins/outputs/influxdb/http_test.go

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/outputs/influxdb"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -246,6 +247,8 @@ func TestHTTP_Write(t *testing.T) {
 	u, err := url.Parse(fmt.Sprintf("http://%s", ts.Listener.Addr().String()))
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
+	internal.SetVersion("1.2.3")
+
 	tests := []struct {
 		name             string
 		config           *influxdb.HTTPConfig
@@ -295,6 +298,17 @@ func TestHTTP_Write(t *testing.T) {
 				w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			name: "default user agent",
+			config: &influxdb.HTTPConfig{
+				URL:      u,
+				Database: "telegraf",
+			},
+			queryHandlerFunc: func(t *testing.T, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+				require.Equal(t, r.Header.Get("User-Agent"), "Telegraf 1.2.3")
+				w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
+			},
+		},
 		{
 			name: "default database",
 			config: &influxdb.HTTPConfig{

plugins/outputs/influxdb_v2/http.go

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ const (
 	defaultRequestTimeout = time.Second * 5
 	defaultMaxWait        = 10 // seconds
 	defaultDatabase       = "telegraf"
-	defaultUserAgent      = "telegraf"
 )
 
 type HTTPConfig struct {
@@ -82,7 +81,7 @@ func NewHTTPClient(config *HTTPConfig) (*httpClient, error) {
 
 	userAgent := config.UserAgent
 	if userAgent == "" {
-		userAgent = defaultUserAgent
+		userAgent = "Telegraf " + internal.Version()
 	}
 
 	var headers = make(map[string]string, len(config.Headers)+2)