How To Install fnordmetric-cli on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install fnordmetric

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install fnordmetric

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is fnordmetric-cli and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install fnordmetric-cli on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install fnordmetric-cli on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install fnordmetric-cli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fnordmetric

Install fnordmetric-cli on CentOS 8 using yum

Because fnordmetric-cli is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install fnordmetric-cli package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fnordmetric

How to upgrade (update) a single package fnordmetric-cli using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like fnordmetric-cli in this example you should use the following command:

yum update fnordmetric

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade fnordmetric

How to Upgrade fnordmetric-cli on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update fnordmetric

How To remove fnordmetric-cli from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fnordmetric-cli package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove fnordmetric

Extra info and code examples

FnordMetric has two components: FnordMetric ChartSQL allows you to write SQL queries that return charts instead of tables. The charts are rendered as SVG vector graphics and can easily be embedded into any website and customized with css in order to build beautiful dashboards. You can execute ChartSQL queries from the command line against a number of external sources like CSV files or a MySQL database Fnordmetric Server is a standalone HTTP server application. It exposes a web UI and a HTTP API to run ChartSQL queries and collect timeseries data. You can use fnordmetric-server as a one-stop solution for metric collection and charting. Since fnordmetric-server aims to be a StatsD+graphite competitor, it implements a wire compatible StatsD API. FnordMetric Server can store the collected timeseries data on local disk or in external storage (HBase)

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install fnordmetric-cli using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the fnordmetric-cli from CentOS 8.

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