Running the TICK Stack on a Raspberry Pi | TICK Satck on Raspberry Pi

15th April 2019 Harshvardhan Mishra

What is TICK Stack ?

The TICK Stack is an acronym for a platform of open source tools built to make collection, storage, graphing, and alerting on time series data incredibly easy. The “I” in TICK stands for InfluxDB. InfluxData provides a Modern Time Series Platform, designed from the ground up to handle metrics and events. InfluxData’s products are based on an open source core. This open source core consists of the projects Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor—collectively called the TICK Stack.

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Select Your Raspberry Pi

The first thing you’ll need to do is decide which Pi you’re going to use.

Model	Cores	Clock Speed	RAM
Zero	1, 32-bit	1000 MHz	512 MB
A/B/+	1, 32-bit	500 MHz	256 MB
2B	4, 32-bit	900 MHz	1024 MB
3B	4, 64-bit	1200 MHz	1024 MB
3B+	4, 64-bit	1400 MHz	1024 MB

There have been some significant architectural improvements over the years, and your best bet is to go with one of the model 3 boards, with quad-core, 64-bit CPUs for the database itself, although I’ve tested running the complete TICK Stack on the model 2 B, 3 B, and 3 B+. In addition, the single-core Zero makes a great platform for collecting sensor data with Telegraf.

Installation

The most common way to use a Pi is with the Raspbian operating system provided by the Raspberry Pi foundation.

Install from the Official InfluxData Repository

The easiest way to install the TICK Stack is to set up the InfluxData package repository (repo) and use your platform’s package manager, which on Raspbian is apt. Packages contain the application binaries themselves, as well as some information about where and how to install and configure the application on your system. That means you can get everything up and running with just a few commands, and InfluxData regularly publishes the latest versions of the TICK Stack to its repository, so applying updates is easy as well.

The first step is to set up the InfluxData repo. You’ll need to identify which version of Raspbian you’re running, which you can do by taking a look at the /etc/os-release file. Run the following command:

$ cat /etc/os-releases
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

We need the version codename, which you can find in the VERSION field, in parentheses. For the version I’m running, 9, the code name is stretch. We’ll use that when we set up our repo so that we can get the correct versions for our OS.

Next, add the repo’s GPG key and add the repo itself:

$ curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -

and then add the repository:

$ echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stretch stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list

Finally, run sudo apt-get update to refresh the package list with data from the new repository, and install the TICK Stack using

sudo apt-get install telegraf influxdb chronograf kapacitor.

If you want to only install some components of the stack, you can exclude the applications you don’t want from that command.

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