# CollectD - installation and configuration with InfluxDB on Debian/Ubuntu

DevFeed: [CollectD - installation and configuration with InfluxDB on Debian/Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/collectd-installation-and-configuration-with-influxdb-on-debian-ubuntu-27632.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://gagor.pro/2016/01/collectd-installation-and-configuration-with-influxdb-on-debianubuntu/>)

Author: Tom

Published: 2016-01-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tomasz Gągor](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tomasz-gagor.md>)

Topics: [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debian.md>), [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>)

Tags: [collectd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collectd.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [debian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debian.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [influxdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/influxdb.md>), [installation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/installation.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [packages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packages.md>), [repo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/repo.md>), [statistics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/statistics.md>), [ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubuntu.md>), [whisper](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/whisper.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on installing and configuring CollectD with InfluxDB on Debian or Ubuntu. It discusses package availability, backports for newer versions, configuration, plugins, and service restarting.

## Source excerpt

I wanted/needed some statistics on few my machines. I saw earlier grafana and was impressed so this was starting point. Then I started reading about graphite, carbon and whisper, and then... I found InfluxDB. Project is young but looks promising1. Installation of collectd is easy on Debian because packages are in default repo. One problem is that packages may be old, ex. on wheezy it version 5.1. But in backports/backports-sloppy2 you may find current 5.5, so enable backports first: