How To Install statsd on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install statsd in Fedora 36. statsd is A simple, lightweight network daemon to collect metrics over UDP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install statsd on Fedora 36.

What is statsd

A network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

We can use yum or dnf to install statsd on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install statsd.

Install statsd on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install statsd

Install statsd on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install statsd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install statsd

How To Uninstall statsd on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the statsd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove statsd

statsd Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/statsd
/etc/statsd/config.js
/usr/bin/statsd
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/backends
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/backends/console.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/backends/graphite.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/backends/repeater.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/bin
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/bin/statsd
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib/config.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib/helpers.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib/logger.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib/mgmt_console.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib/mgmt_server.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib/process_metrics.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib/process_mgmt.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/lib/set.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/node_modules
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/node_modules/generic-pool
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/package.json
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/proxy.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/servers
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/servers/tcp.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/servers/udp.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/stats.js
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/utils
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/utils/check_statsd.pl
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/utils/check_statsd_health
/usr/lib/node_modules/statsd/utils/statsd-timer-metric-counts.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/system/statsd.service
/usr/share/doc/statsd
/usr/share/doc/statsd/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/Changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/README.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/additional_tools.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/admin_interface.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/backend.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/backend_interface.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/client_implementations.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/cluster_proxy.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/graphite.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/graphite_pickle.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/history.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/metric_types.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/namespacing.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/protocol.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/server.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/server_implementations.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/docs/server_interface.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/exampleConfig.js
/usr/share/doc/statsd/exampleProxyConfig.js
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/Etsy
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/Etsy/StatsD.pm
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/README.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/StatsD.scala
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/StatsdClient.java
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/StatsdClient.jl
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/StatsdClient.kt
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/csharp_example.cs
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/go
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/go/README.md
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/go/doc.go
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/go/statsd.go
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/perl-example.pl
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/php-example.php
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/python_example.py
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/ruby_example.rb
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/ruby_example2.rb
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/statsd-client.sh
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/statsd.clj
/usr/share/doc/statsd/examples/statsd.erl
/usr/share/licenses/statsd
/usr/share/licenses/statsd/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install statsd on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).