Installing and configuring OpenTSDB
Although we will work with InfluxDB databases during the rest of this book, this section presents an alternative TSDB. The implementation of OpenTSDB can be laborious, so we will use a basic approach to it.
Installing OpenTSDB
To run OpenTSDB, you need these dependencies:
- Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or later
- HBase 0.92 or later
- gnuplot 4.2 or later (if you want to use its graphical interface)
For installing and running OpenTSDB you need HBase. HBase is an open source non-relational, distributed, scalable, and big data store.
Like OpenTSB, HBase runs on Java.
HBase is used for managing data of very large tables, offering fault-tolerant capabilities.
For full specifications and installation instructions, visit https://hbase.apache.org.
Unfortunately, there are no packages of OpenTSDB in the Linux repositories, so you will have to install it from the source.
Besides the requirements described earlier, you...