cState is a lightweight and customizable HTTP microservice monitoring agent. It can be used to monitor HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, and DNS servers. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install cState on macOS.
Homebrew is a free and open-source package manager for macOS. It makes it easy to install software packages on your computer. If you don't have Homebrew installed on your system, you can install it by running the following command in your terminal:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Before installing cState, we need to install Go. Go is a programming language that is used to build cState. We can install Go using Homebrew by running the following command in your terminal:
brew install go
Now that we have installed Go, we can download and install cState by following these steps:
Open your terminal.
Create a directory for cState by running the following command:
mkdir cstate
cd cstate
Download the source code of cState:
curl -L -o cstate.tar.gz https://github.com/erming/cstate/archive/refs/tags/v1.1.1.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file:
tar -xzf cstate.tar.gz
Change to the extracted directory:
cd cstate-1.1.1
Build cState using the following command:
go build -o cstate
After the build is complete, move the cstate executable to a location in your PATH:
sudo mv cstate /usr/local/bin/
To verify that cState has been installed successfully, run the following command in your terminal:
cstate -version
If cState is installed correctly, you should see output similar to the following:
cState v1.1.1
Congratulations! You have successfully installed cState on your macOS system. You can now use cState to monitor your HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, and DNS servers.
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