This tutorial will guide you on how to install Diamond on FreeBSD Latest from GitHub. Diamond is a Python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to various metrics backends.
Ensure that Git and Pip are installed on your FreeBSD machine. If they are not already installed, run the following commands to install them:
pkg install git
pkg install py36-pip
Next, clone the Diamond repository to your FreeBSD latest machine.
git clone https://github.com/python-diamond/Diamond.git
Use Pip to install Diamond on your FreeBSD latest machine. Pip will install all required dependencies.
pip install Diamond/
Once Pip has installed Diamond on your system, you need to configure it. Create the default configuration file for Diamond:
cp Diamond/diamond.conf.example /etc/diamond/diamond.conf
To verify that Diamond is running correctly, run the following command:
diamond -l
This will start Diamond in the foreground and output log to the console. You can press Ctrl+C to stop Diamond.
The preferred method of running Diamond is to run it as a service. Create a diamond user and group for Diamond to run under and start the Diamond service:
pw add user diamond -c "Diamond monitoring user" -d /nonexistent -s /usr/sbin/nologin
pw add group diamond -g 5001
diamond --uid diamond --gid diamond start
You have now installed and configured Diamond on your FreeBSD Latest machine. Diamond will collect system metrics and forward them to the configured backends. You can now customize Diamond's configuration to fit your specific requirements.
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