How To Install netdata on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install netdata on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 netdata using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install netdata

How To Uninstall netdata on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove netdata

Remove netdata Configurations and Data

To remove netdata configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• netdata-core
• netdata-plugins-bash
• netdata-web

References

• netdata website

Summary

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