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SquirrelDB Installation

Cassandra

Section titled “Cassandra”

SquirrelDB requires Cassandra to store its metrics.

You can follow the Cassandra installation documentation, or run it with Docker:

Terminal window
# The network is needed only if you run SquirrelDB with Docker.
docker network create squirreldb


docker run -d --name squirreldb-cassandra -p 127.0.0.1:9042:9042 --restart unless-stopped \
    -v cassandra:/var/lib/cassandra --net squirreldb cassandra

SquirrelDB

Section titled “SquirrelDB”

Docker

Section titled “Docker”

The preferred method to install SquirrelDB is Docker.

Terminal window
# Set the address of your Cassandra servers here, separated by commas.
SQUIRRELDB_CASSANDRA_ADDRESSES=squirreldb-cassandra:9042


docker run -d --name squirreldb -p 127.0.0.1:9201:9201 --restart unless-stopped \
    --net squirreldb -e SQUIRRELDB_CASSANDRA_ADDRESSES bleemeo/squirreldb

Binary

Section titled “Binary”

You can install SquirrelDB binary using the latest Github release for your platform.

For example, if you are on a x86-64 platform:

Terminal window
sudo wget https://github.com/bleemeo/squirreldb/releases/latest/download/squirreldb-linux_x86_64.bin \
    -O /usr/local/bin/squirreldb
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/squirreldb