That is more or less how my employer worked around this glaring bug. That being said, we've worked together with Influx to fix some issues or add features to Telegraf and even have had their developers fix several of our issues found under excessive load (/me waves to Alex and Sebastian), Influx has a long way to go, but I've got faith that they're going in the right direction and things are getting a lot better. It is true this announcement is a bit too full of blatant marketing rhetoric, but the tech is good and if is getting better. If you've not tried it very recently, give it another shot.