Telegraf is a collection agent that is used to collect and report data from various sources. It is an open-source project created by InfluxData. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of installing Telegraf on Void Linux.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
To ensure that our system is up to date, we will run the following command:
sudo xbps-install -Syu
Telegraf requires an up-to-date version of the Go programming language as well as several development libraries. To install these dependencies, run the following command:
sudo xbps-install -y go gcc make
We will now download the latest version of Telegraf from GitHub and install it on our system. To do this, we will run the following commands:
wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.20.2_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar xvfz telegraf-1.20.2_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv telegraf-1.20.2 /opt/
sudo ln -s /opt/telegraf-1.20.2/usr/bin/telegraf /usr/local/bin/telegraf
Now that we have installed Telegraf on Void Linux, we will start and enable the Telegraf service. To do this, run the following commands:
sudo mkdir /etc/telegraf
sudo cp /opt/telegraf-1.20.2/usr/share/telegraf/telegraf.conf /etc/telegraf/
sudo systemctl enable telegraf.service
sudo systemctl start telegraf.service
You have successfully installed Telegraf on your Void Linux system! You can now start collecting data from various sources and store it in your InfluxDB database.
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