How To Install collectd-postgresql on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-postgresql on CentOS 8.
What is collectd-postgresql
PostgreSQL querying plugin. This plugins provides data of issued commands, called handlers and database traffic.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-postgresql on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-postgresql.
Install collectd-postgresql on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install collectd-postgresql using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-postgresql
Install collectd-postgresql on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install collectd-postgresql using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-postgresql
How To Uninstall collectd-postgresql on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the collectd-postgresql package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-postgresql
collectd-postgresql Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/collectd.d/postgresql.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/497e85951d3022fc40584a8c7f1da380ff0f38
/usr/lib64/collectd/postgresql.so
/usr/share/collectd/postgresql_default.conf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-postgresql on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.