How To Install netdata on Kali Linux

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install netdata

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is netdata and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Kali Linux. This guide was written specifically with a server running Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux. 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 using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install netdata using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install netdata

Install netdata using apt

Because netdata is available in Kali Linux’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install netdata using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install netdata

Install netdata 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install netdata by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install netdata

How to upgrade (update) a single package netdata using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the netdata, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install netdata

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install netdata

How To Uninstall netdata from Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove netdata

Uninstall netdata and all its dependencies

To uninstall netdata and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove netdata

Remove netdata with all configurations and data

To remove netdata configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge netdata

Remove netdata completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to netdata package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge 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 apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the netdata from Kali Linux.

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