OpenTSDB is a distributed and scalable time series database. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install OpenTSDB on NixOS Latest.
The first step is to install Java on your NixOS system. OpenTSDB requires Java version 1.8 or higher. To install Java, run the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.jdk
This command will install the latest version of Java available in the NixOS package manager.
Next, download the latest version of OpenTSDB from the official website or GitHub repository. Once downloaded, extract the contents of the archive to a location of your choice, such as:
tar -zxvf opentsdb-<version>.tar.gz
cd opentsdb-<version>
OpenTSDB requires several dependencies to be installed on your NixOS system. You can install these dependencies using Nix:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.bzip2 nixos.gnuplot nixos.gzip nixos.make nixos.tar
These dependencies include:
Next, you need to configure OpenTSDB. Open the opentsdb.conf file located in the opentsdb-<version>/src directory and make the following changes:
tsd.storage.hbase.zk_quorum = localhost
tsd.storage.hbase.zk_basedir = /hbase
These lines configure OpenTSDB to use a single-node HBase installation running on the localhost.
Now you can build and install OpenTSDB on your NixOS system. Run the following commands from the opentsdb-<version> directory:
./build.sh
sudo ./src/create_table.sh
The first command will build OpenTSDB, and the second command will create tables in HBase for OpenTSDB to store its data.
Finally, you can start OpenTSDB using the following command:
sudo ./src/tsdb tsd --port=4242 --staticroot=staticroot --auto-metric
This command will start OpenTSDB on port 4242 with a static root directory and automatically generates metrics.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install OpenTSDB on NixOS Latest. With OpenTSDB, you can now store and analyze large amounts of time series data efficiently.
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