How To Install carbon-c-relay on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install carbon-c-relay on Rocky Linux 8. carbon-c-relay is Enhanced C implementation of Carbon relay, aggregator and rewriter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install carbon-c-relay on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install carbon-c-relay

Install carbon-c-relay on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install carbon-c-relay

How To Uninstall carbon-c-relay on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove carbon-c-relay

carbon-c-relay Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/carbon-c-relay.conf
/etc/sysconfig/carbon-c-relay
/usr/bin/carbon-c-relay
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/891489a3ae9df96418a209e04704bb6bc95eb3
/usr/lib/systemd/system/carbon-c-relay.service
/usr/share/doc/carbon-c-relay
/usr/share/doc/carbon-c-relay/ChangeLog.md
/usr/share/doc/carbon-c-relay/carbon-c-relay.md
/usr/share/licenses/carbon-c-relay
/usr/share/licenses/carbon-c-relay/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man1/carbon-c-relay.1.gz

References

carbon-c-relay website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install carbon-c-relay on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.