InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database with no external dependencies. In this documentation, I will show how to install InfluxDB on CentOS 6.

Download InfluxDB

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/influxdb/influxdb-latest-1.x86_64.rpm

Install InfluxDB

sudo rpm -ivh influxdb-latest-1.x86_64.rpm

Enable and start InfluxDB service

sudo chkconfig influxdb on
sudo service influxdb start

Reference: http://influxdb.com/download/

Fluentd is an open source data collector, which lets you unify the data collection and consumption for a better use and understanding of data. In this documentation, I will show how to install fluentd (td-agent) on CentOS 6.

Pre-installation: increase number of maximum file descriptors

ulimit -n
sudo vi /etc/security/limits.conf

*               soft    nofile          65535
*               hard    nofile          65535
root            soft    nofile          unlimited
root            hard    nofile          unlimited

sudo reboot

Pre-installation: network kernel optimization

Elasticsearch is a distributed restful search and analytics. In this documentation, I will show how to install Elasticsearch on CentOS 6.

Install Oracle Java

wget --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u31-b13/server-jre-8u31-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /opt/jre
sudo tar zxf server-jre-8u31-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt/jre
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jre/jdk1.8.0_31/bin/java 2000
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jre/jdk1.8.0_31/bin/javac 2000
sudo update-alternatives --display java
sudo update-alternatives --display javac

Import Elasticsearch GPG key

sudo rpm --import https://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

Add Elasticsearch repository

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture. In this documentation, I will show how to install Varnish 4 on CentOS 6.

For first installation install Varnish repository

RVM is a command-line tool which allows you to easily install, manage, and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems. In this documentation I will show how to install RVM on CentOS 6.6.

Install Development Tools

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Install mpapis public key

sudo gpg2 --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3

or if failed

curl -sSL https://rvm.io/mpapis.asc | sudo gpg2 --import -

Install RVM for multiuser installation

Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value cache and store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps and hyperloglogs. In this documentation, I will show how to install Redis on CentOS 6.

Install Development Tools

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Download and extract latest Redis package from http://redis.io/

wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.19.tar.gz
tar zxf redis-2.8.19.tar.gz

Go to redis directory and run make