To open a shell session in the container running Telegraf run the following: - kubectl exec -i -t --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} $(kubectl get pods --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} -l app={{ template "fullname" . }} -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') /bin/sh To tail the logs for a Telegraf pod run the following: - kubectl logs -f --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} $(kubectl get pods --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} -l app={{ template "fullname" . }} -o jsonpath='{ .items[0].metadata.name }') {{- if empty .Values.config.outputs.influxdb.urls }} Need to set an InfluxDB url for either s daemonset to deploy this instance: .Values.config.outputs.influxdb.urls {{- end }}