How To Install carbon-c-relay on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install carbon-c-relay on Kali Linux.

What is carbon-c-relay

carbon-c-relay is:

This project provides a multithreaded relay which can address multiple targets and clusters for each and every metric based on pattern matches.

Consistent-hash routing compatible with the original carbon’s implementation is also provided. This relay also supports aggregation, failover of backend servers and more.

Carbon is graphite’s default storage backend and supports different protocols for receiving metrics, this project aims to be a replacement of graphite’s original carbon-relay component and supports “plaintext” protocol metrics.

There are three methods to install carbon-c-relay on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install carbon-c-relay Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install carbon-c-relay using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install carbon-c-relay

Install carbon-c-relay Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install carbon-c-relay using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install carbon-c-relay

Install carbon-c-relay Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install carbon-c-relay using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install carbon-c-relay

How To Uninstall carbon-c-relay on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the carbon-c-relay package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove carbon-c-relay

Uninstall carbon-c-relay And Its Dependencies

To uninstall carbon-c-relay and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove carbon-c-relay

Remove carbon-c-relay Configurations and Data

To remove carbon-c-relay configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge carbon-c-relay

Remove carbon-c-relay configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove carbon-c-relay configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge carbon-c-relay

Dependencies

carbon-c-relay have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libssl1.1
• adduser

References

• carbon-c-relay website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install carbon-c-relay package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.