How To Install systemtap-exporter on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-exporter on Rocky Linux 8. systemtap-exporter is Systemtap-prometheus interoperation mechanism

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-exporter on Rocky Linux 8.

What is systemtap-exporter

This package includes files for a systemd service that manages systemtap sessions and relays prometheus metrics from the sessions to remote requesters on demand.

We can use yum or dnf to install systemtap-exporter on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install systemtap-exporter.

Install systemtap-exporter on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install systemtap-exporter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install systemtap-exporter

Install systemtap-exporter on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install systemtap-exporter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install systemtap-exporter

How To Uninstall systemtap-exporter on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the systemtap-exporter package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove systemtap-exporter

systemtap-exporter Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/stap-exporter
/etc/stap-exporter/EXAMPLE
/etc/stap-exporter/EXAMPLE-BPF
/etc/stap-exporter/EXAMPLE_NOERROR
/etc/stap-exporter/autostart-also_ran.stp
/etc/stap-exporter/errno.stp
/etc/stap-exporter/syscallerrorsbypid.stp
/etc/stap-exporter/syscalllatency.stp
/etc/stap-exporter/syscallsbypid.stp
/etc/stap-exporter/syscallsrw.stp
/etc/stap-exporter/timeout.stp
/etc/stap-exporter/topsys.stp
/etc/sysconfig/stap-exporter
/usr/lib/systemd/system/stap-exporter.service
/usr/sbin/stap-exporter
/usr/share/man/man8/stap-exporter.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-exporter on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.