How To Install netdata 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 netdata

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install netdata

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

What is netdata 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 netdata 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 netdata 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 netdata using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install netdata

Install netdata on CentOS 8 using yum

Because netdata 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 netdata package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install netdata

How to upgrade (update) a single package netdata using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update netdata

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade netdata

How to Upgrade netdata 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 netdata

How To remove netdata from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the netdata package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove netdata

Extra info and code examples

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).

Conclusion

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

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