In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps for installing Diamond, a Python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite.
Diamond can be installed on various operating systems, including Manjaro. We will be using the Terminal to install Diamond from its Github repository.
We assume that Manjaro is already installed on your computer, and you have access to the Terminal.
Before installing Diamond, you need to install Python and Pip, the package manager for Python.
Ctrl + Alt + T.sudo pacman -S python
sudo pacman -S python-pip
Once Python and Pip are installed, you can proceed to install Diamond.
sudo pip install diamond
This will download and install Diamond and its dependencies.
After installing Diamond, you need to configure it to monitor your system metrics.
sudo nano /etc/diamond/diamond.conf
[server]
hostname = myhost.example.com
[collectors]
enabled = cpu, loadavg, memory, network, vmstat
[handlers]
enabled = diamond.handler.graphite.GraphiteHandler
host = graphite.example.com
port = 2003
Ctrl + X, then Y.Once you have configured Diamond, you can start the daemon using the following command:
sudo diamond
This will start Diamond and begin collecting system metrics.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and configure Diamond on Manjaro. You can now use Diamond to monitor various system metrics and publish them to Graphite.
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