How To Install telegraf on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telegraf on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is telegraf
telegraf is:
Telegraf is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.
Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.
Telegraf is plugin-driven and has the concept of 4 distinct plugin types:
Input Plugins collect metrics from the system, services, or 3rd party API
Processor Plugins transform, decorate, and/or filter metrics
Aggregator Plugins create aggregate metrics (e.g. mean, min, max, quantiles, etc.)
Output Plugins write metrics to various destinations
There are three methods to install telegraf on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install telegraf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install telegraf using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install telegraf
Install telegraf Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install telegraf using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install telegraf
Install telegraf Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install telegraf using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install telegraf
How To Uninstall telegraf on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the telegraf package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove telegraf
Uninstall telegraf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall telegraf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove telegraf
Remove telegraf Configurations and Data
To remove telegraf configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge telegraf
Remove telegraf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove telegraf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge telegraf
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telegraf package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
