How to Install Telegraf on Solaris

Telegraf is extremely powerful and one of the fastest adopted tools in the world for collecting, processing, and aggregating different metrics. It’s open source and written in the Go language.

Telegraf is not off-the-shelf supported by the Solaris 10 and 11 operating systems. We would need to compile Telegraf agents from customized source-code for the Solaris operating system.

Prerequisites

For the purpose of compilation, we would need gccgo (>=5.5.0) installed on the server with a few other libraries.

Installation Procedure for Telegraf Agent

Step 1: Download the latest release tar. Example command below.

wget https://github.com/vikramjakhr/telegraf-solaris/releases/download/v1.0.0/telegraf-solaris.tar.gz

Step 2: Extract the tar downloaded in step 1 in the /tmp directory by executing the below command. It will create a directory named telegraf-solaris in /tmp.

tar -zxvf telegraf-solaris.tar.gz -C /tmp

Step 3: Create user and group that has the name telegraf.

useradd telegraf

Step 4: Now copy the /tmp/telegraf-solaris/opt/csw directory to your Solaris server's /opt directory:

cp -r /tmp/telegraf-solaris/opt/csw /opt

Step 5: Copy telegraf binary and give it execute permission.

cp /tmp/telegraf-solaris/bin/telgraf /usr/bin/telgraf; chmod +x /usr/bin/telgraf

Step 6: Copy the Telegraf  init.d start/stop script:

cp /tmp/telegraf-solaris/script/telegraf /etc/init.d/telegraf ; chmod +x /etc/init.d/telegraf

Step 7: Create the Telegraf conf directory, /etc/telegraf, and the Telegraf conf file.

mkdir /etc/telegraf
cp /tmp/telegraf-solaris/conf/telegraf.conf /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf

Step 8: Start the Telegraf service.

/etc/init.d/telegraf start

Step 9: Verify if the service is running.

/etc/init.d/telegraf status

Step 10: Use the below command to enable the service in every boot:

ln -s /etc/init.d/telegraf /etc/rc3.d/S93telegraf