How To Install collectd-zookeeper on CentOS 8

collectd-zookeeper is Zookeeper plugin for collectd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-zookeeper on CentOS 8.

What is collectd-zookeeper

This is a collectd plugin that reads data from Zookeeper’s MNTR command.

We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-zookeeper on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-zookeeper.

Install collectd-zookeeper 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-zookeeper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install collectd-zookeeper

Install collectd-zookeeper 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-zookeeper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install collectd-zookeeper

How To Uninstall collectd-zookeeper on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the collectd-zookeeper package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove collectd-zookeeper

collectd-zookeeper Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/e952cc837047ff2a56c40edb4faa2f5d42498a
/usr/lib64/collectd/zookeeper.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-zookeeper on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.