This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing tcollector on FreeBSD Latest.
Before we get started with the installation, make sure your system meets the following prerequisites:
tcollector requires Python to be installed on your system. If you haven't installed Python, you can do it by running the following command:
sudo pkg install python3
tcollector source code is hosted on Git. Therefore, Git needs to be installed on your system. You can do it by running the following command:
sudo pkg install git
Once Python and Git are installed, you can download tcollector using the following command:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/OpenTSDB/tcollector.git
The --depth=1 option specifies that only the latest version of tcollector needs to be cloned.
Change to the tcollector directory and edit the conf.py file to configure it according to your requirements:
cd tcollector
cp conf.py-dist conf.py
vi conf.py
At a minimum, you need to configure the OpenTSDB server address:
tsd_host = 'your-opentsdb-server.com'
tsd_port = 4242
If you want to use any collectors, you need to enable them in the COLLECTORS array.
You can run tcollector with the following command:
sudo python3 startstop.py start
By default, tcollector runs in the background and collects metrics every 60 seconds.
tcollector is now installed and running on your FreeBSD Latest system. You can verify if it's working correctly by checking the logs or OpenTSDB metrics. Further configuration and customization can be done by editing the conf.py file.
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