I wanted/needed some statistics on few my machines. I saw earlier grafana and was impressed so this was starting point. Then I started reading about graphite, carbon and whisper, and then… I found InfluxDB. Project is young but looks promising.
Installation of collectd is easy on Debian because packages are in default repo. One problem is that packages may be old, ex. on wheezy it version 5.1. But in backports/backports-sloppy you may find current 5.5, so enable backports first:
echo "deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
echo "deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports-sloppy main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
Install package:
apt-get update
apt-get install -y -t backports-sloppy collectd collectd-utils
# or on recent system just
apt-get install -y collectd collectd-utils
Now edit configuration /etc/collectd/collectd.conf and add network section:
LoadPlugin network
<Plugin "network">
Server "localhost" "8096"
</Plugin>
Use your InfluxDB hostname:port.
Now select and add enable some plugins - list here and restart service:
service collectd restart
That’s all - now install InfluxDB .
Sources
https://anomaly.io/collectd-metrics-to-influxdb/
http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/