Review: Terraform Up & Running

Because of doing many project in the cloud, terraform is the tool which i use regularly. And to get better, i decided to read this book:

If you are working with a cloud of one of the hyperscalers, the you should take a look at terraform and perhaps you should read this book ;-)

If you are interested, take a look at my review at amazon.de (like all my reviews: written in german ;-).

Influxdb: colletcd database not created...

Yesterday i followed a tutorial for building a dashboard for my fritzbox with Grafana.

By follwoing the tutorial i had to setup collectd and influxdb.

My problem: i did not copy and paste the collectd config for influxdb.conf - i just uncommented the lines provided by the ubuntu package.

And there was /usr/local/share/collectd/types.db mentioned.

This caused the following problem:

zerberus influxd[16239]: run: open server: open service: Stat(): stat /usr/local/share/collectd/types.db: no such file or directory

So i justed touched this file, because i thought this is something where influxdb wants to store data.

But this was wrong and in /var/log/syslog i saw the following errors:

unable to find "current" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_errors" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_dropped" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_packets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_errors" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_dropped" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_packets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "if_errors" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_ops" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_time" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_io_time" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_ops" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_time" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_io_time" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_octets" in TypesDB
unable to find "disk_ops" in TypesDB

?

The solution: Search for types.db in /usr and use this as entry for

typesdb = "/usr/share/collectd/types.db"

inside the section [[collectd]] in influxdb.conf...