How To Install python-prometheus-client on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-prometheus-client on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-prometheus-client
python-prometheus-client is:
This library provides an API for exporting metrics from a Python application. It provides classes for the metric types, and an HTTP server to expose the metrics to Prometheus.
When using Linux, the process CPU, RAM, file descriptor usage and start time will also be exported.
Along with the HTTP server to expose metrics, you can also write the metrics to a text file to be exported by the prometheus-node-exporter, or push them to the prometheus-pushgateway.
This library also includes support for re-exporting Graphite metrics to Prometheus, custom collectors to proxy metrics for other systems and a parser for the Prometheus text format.
There are three methods to install python-prometheus-client on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-prometheus-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-prometheus-client using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-prometheus-client
Install python-prometheus-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-prometheus-client using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-prometheus-client
Install python-prometheus-client 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-prometheus-client using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-prometheus-client
How To Uninstall python-prometheus-client on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-prometheus-client package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-prometheus-client
Uninstall python-prometheus-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-prometheus-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-prometheus-client
Remove python-prometheus-client Configurations and Data
To remove python-prometheus-client configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-prometheus-client
Remove python-prometheus-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-prometheus-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-prometheus-client
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-prometheus-client package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
