Collectd on Rocky 8?

Rocky Linux General
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We normally put collectd on our devices to monitor CPU, hard drive space, etc. In CentOS/RHEL it exists in the epel repo. I cannot find it anywhere in Rocky 8 repo’s. Am I missing it somewhere?

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Rocky is exactly like CentOS. collectd can be installed from EPEL.

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dnf install epel-release
dnf install collectd
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EPEL has collectd 5.9. CentOS Operational Tooling SIG had collectd 5.11, but they apparently build for CentOS Stream 8, not for RHEL 8.

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The RHEL way of doing this was previously to use ‘sar’ and more recently ‘pcp’; performacne co-pilot, which is in ‘appstream’ repo.

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Neither of which could compare with collectd…

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Yes we are all set up to parse collectd data. I had a problem with installing the EPEL repo which is why I didn’t see it. Thanks all.

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