How To Install carbon-c-relay on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install carbon-c-relay on CentOS 7.
What is carbon-c-relay
Carbon-like Graphite line mode relay. This project aims to be a replacement of the original Carbon relay. The main reason to build a replacement is performance and configurability. Carbon is single threaded, and sending metrics to multiple consistent-hash clusters requires chaining of relays. This project provides a multithreaded relay which can address multiple targets and clusters for each and every metric based on pattern matches.
We can use yum or dnf to install carbon-c-relay on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install carbon-c-relay.
Install carbon-c-relay on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install carbon-c-relay using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install carbon-c-relay
Install carbon-c-relay on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install carbon-c-relay using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install carbon-c-relay
How To Uninstall carbon-c-relay on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the carbon-c-relay package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove carbon-c-relay
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install carbon-c-relay on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
