Learn how to – How to Install Telegraf on Fedora 37/36/35/34/33/32

Learn how to – How to Install Telegraf on Fedora 37/36/35/34/33/32.

In this guide, I’ll show you how to Install Telegraf on Fedora 37/36/35/34/33/32. Telegraf is an agent written in Go for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics to a time series database such as InfluxDB, Prometheus e.t.c.

The metrics collected by Telegraf agents running on servers will be pushed to InfluxDB. Below are some cool features of Telegraf:

• Support for a wide variety of inputs and outputs, including various databases, message queues, and APIs
• A plugin-based architecture that allows for easy customization and extension
• Built-in support for parsing common log formats, like syslog and JSON
• Support for both push- and pull-based metric collection
• Support for tagging and filtering data
• Built-in support for aggregation and processing of metrics, such as calculating running averages or histograms
• Support for running as a service and daemon on various operating systems

If you don’t have a running instance of InfluxDB, refer to our guides below on installing InfluxDB:

• How to Install InfluxDB on Fedora
• Install InfluxDB on Ubuntu / Debian
• Install Grafana and InfluxDB on CentOS 7

Below are the steps for installing InfluxDB on Fedora.

Step 1: Add Influxdata RPM repository

Influxdata provides the repository for installing Telegraf on Fedora. Add it to your system first by running the command below.

cat<<EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/influxdb.repo
[influxdb]
name = InfluxDB Repository - RHEL 
baseurl = https://repos.influxdata.com/rhel/8/x86_64/stable/
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key
EOF

Step 2: Install Telegraf on Fedora

Install Telegraf on Fedora by running below command in your terminal.

sudo dnf -y install telegraf

If you want to know the exact version of Telegraf installed, use:

$ rpm -qi telegraf
Name        : telegraf
Version     : 1.25.0
Release     : 1
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Wed 25 Jan 2023 11:47:09 AM UTC
Group       : default
Size        : 159761045
License     : MIT
Signature   : RSA/SHA512, Mon 12 Dec 2022 08:34:44 PM UTC, Key ID 684a14cf2582e0c5
Source RPM  : telegraf-1.25.0-1.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon 12 Dec 2022 07:45:45 PM UTC
Build Host  : b189682e450f
Relocations : /
Packager    : support@influxdb.com
Vendor      : InfluxData
....

Step 3: Start and configure Telegraf on Fedora

Start telegraf service:

sudo systemctl start telegraf
sudo systemctl enable telegraf

Well, you made it, the next phase will be the configuration of Telegraf to pull and push your desired system metrics to InfluxDB. For this, you’ll find our guide below useful.

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