How To Install netdata on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install netdata on Debian 12.
What is netdata
netdata is:
Netdata is distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. It provides insights of everything happening on the systems it runs using interactive web dashboards.
It can run autonomously without any third party components or it can be integrated to existing monitoring tool chains (Prometheus, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Kafka, Grafana, etc).
This package is a metapackage depending on the typical netdata components.
There are three methods to install netdata on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install netdata Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install netdata using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install netdata
Install netdata Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install netdata using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install netdata
Install netdata Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install netdata using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install netdata
How To Uninstall netdata on Debian 12
To uninstall only the netdata package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove netdata
Uninstall netdata And Its Dependencies
To uninstall netdata and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove netdata
Remove netdata Configurations and Data
To remove netdata configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge netdata
Remove netdata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove netdata configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge netdata
Dependencies
netdata have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install netdata package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
