How To Install collectd on Fedora 34
collectd is Statistics collection daemon for filling RRD files
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd on Fedora 34.
What is collectd
collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd.
Install collectd on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install collectd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd
Install collectd on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install collectd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd
How To Uninstall collectd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the collectd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd
collectd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/collectd.conf
/etc/collectd.d
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References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
