Tcollector is an open-source tool that is used to collect, transform, and transport metric data from various sources to OpenTSDB. In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install tcollector which is available from http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/utilities/tcollector.html on Arch Linux.
Before you continue with this tutorial, you should have the following:
First, update your Arch Linux system to ensure that all packages are up-to-date. You can execute the following command to do so:
sudo pacman -Syyu
Tcollector requires a few dependencies to be installed on your system. Execute the following command to install these dependencies:
sudo pacman -S python2 python2-distribute python2-setuptools python2-yaml
Tcollector can be downloaded from http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/utilities/tcollector.html. Alternatively, you can use the following command to download tcollector:
wget http://opentsdb.net/downloads/tcollector-3.0.2.tar.gz
Once downloaded, extract tcollector using the following command:
tar -xzvf tcollector-3.0.2.tar.gz
To configure tcollector, navigate to the tcollector-3.0.2 directory and copy the configuration file template:
cd tcollector-3.0.2
cp etc/tcollector.conf.example etc/tcollector.conf
Then, edit the configuration file to match your environment using your preferred text editor:
nano etc/tcollector.conf
Once you have configured tcollector, you can start the tcollector service using the following command:
sudo ./tcollector start
This will start the tcollector service, and metric data will begin to be collected, transformed, and transported to OpenTSDB.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install tcollector on Arch Linux. By following these steps, you can now collect, transform, and transport metric data from various sources to OpenTSDB.
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