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[inputs.nvidia_smi] Unknown schema version "v13", using latest know schema for parsing #17482

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Relevant telegraf.conf

[global_tags]
  # dc = "us-east-1" # will tag all metrics with dc=us-east-1
  # rack = "1a"
  ## Environment variables can be used as tags, and throughout the config file
  # user = "$USER"

# Configuration for telegraf agent
[agent]
  interval = "10s"
  round_interval = true
  metric_batch_size = 1000
  metric_buffer_limit = 10000
  collection_jitter = "0s"
  flush_interval = "10s"
  flush_jitter = "0s"
  precision = "0s"

[[outputs.file]]
  files = ["stdout"]

[[inputs.nvidia_smi]]
#   ## Optional: path to nvidia-smi binary, defaults "/usr/bin/nvidia-smi"
#   ## We will first try to locate the nvidia-smi binary with the explicitly specified value (or default value),
#   ## if it is not found, we will try to locate it on PATH(exec.LookPath), if it is still not found, an error will be returned
#   # bin_path = "/usr/bin/nvidia-smi"
#
#   ## Optional: timeout for GPU polling
#   # timeout = "5s"

Logs from Telegraf

Aug 17 23:39:01 gpusrv systemd[1]: Started Telegraf.
Aug 17 23:39:10 gpusrv telegraf[18026]: 2025-08-17T23:39:10Z W! [inputs.nvidia_smi] Unknown schema version "v13", using latest know schema for parsing.
Aug 17 23:39:10 gpusrv telegraf[18026]:                 Please report this as an issue to https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf together
Aug 17 23:39:10 gpusrv telegraf[18026]:                 with a sample output of 'nvidia_smi -q -x'!

System info

Telegraf 1.35.3 (git: HEAD@b66e5091), Rocky Linux release 9.6 (Blue Onyx)

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Install latest nvidia drivers, driver version 580.65.06, CUDA version 13.0
  2. Install latest telegraf and start it
  3. Telegraf will complain in log about unknown schema version

Expected behavior

Should not complain about unknown schema version.

Actual behavior

It complains about unknown schema.

Additional info

Here is detail output of nvidia-smi log

nvidia-smi.log

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