From 3501b65f7c3c4c3e0214d55fcc0b7b01c55983da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick O'Keeffe <patricktokeeffe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 16:32:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Improve fail2ban use_sudo docs (#3852)

---
 etc/telegraf.conf | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/telegraf.conf b/etc/telegraf.conf
index b09ff3912..ab4eeaa63 100644
--- a/etc/telegraf.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf.conf
@@ -1301,6 +1301,9 @@
 # # Read metrics from fail2ban.
 # [[inputs.fail2ban]]
 #   ## Use sudo to run fail2ban-client
+#   ## Generally the fail2ban-client requires root access but running telegraf
+#   ## as root is not recommended. Learn more here:
+#   ## https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/fail2ban
 #   use_sudo = false