HG-CLI

Our recommended command line tool that's fun and easy-to-use - for installing and configuring agents in your systems.

Contents

• Intstallation

  • Quick Install

  • Homebrew

  • Linux

  • Windows (PowerShell)

  • Golang

• HG-CLI Commands

• Metrics and Visualizations

Our HG command line tool is an interactive way to install an agent on your system, without ever needing to touch a configuration file! This tool currently supports Telegraf installation and OpenTelemetry with more features on the roadmap, like Telegraf Plugin Configuration.

Once you've installed HG-CLI, you can run it as a TUI (Terminal User Interface) or in CLI (Command Line Interface) mode. See our list of commands below for all available installation options and command examples.

See our handy blog article HERE for step-by-step details on how to get this up in running in just a couple of minutes.

Installation

You can find all current releases on GitHub.

Quick Install

Run this command in your terminal (Linux/MacOS/Windows).

curl -s "https://www.hostedgraphite.com/scripts/hg-cli/installer/" | sudo sh

This will install the latest released version's binaries into your /usr/local/bin directory.

Homebrew

You can use Homebrew to tap and install the HG-CLI packages for MacOS/Linux. This method supports AMD64/ARM64 architectures and the official GitHub tap can be found HERE.

Add tap:

brew tap hostedgraphite/hgcli

Install:

brew install hg-cli

Linux

Locate the official release assets HERE, and below are some example installation commands:

Ubuntu/Debian

AMD64

curl -LO https://github.com/hostedgraphite/hg-cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/hg-cli_0.2.0_linux_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i hg-cli_0.2.0_linux_amd64.deb

ARM64

curl -LO https://github.com/hostedgraphite/hg-cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/hg-cli_0.2.0_linux_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i hg-cli_0.2.0_linux_arm64.deb

RedHat/CentOS/Fedora

AMD64

curl -LO https://github.com/hostedgraphite/hg-cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/hg-cli_0.2.0_linux_amd64.rpm
sudo rpm -i hg-cli_0.2.0_linux_amd64.rpm

ARM64

curl -LO https://github.com/hostedgraphite/hg-cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/hg-cli_0.2.0_linux_arm64.rpm
sudo rpm -i hg-cli_0.2.0_linux_arm64.rpm

Windows (PowerShell)

Locate the official release assets HERE, and below are some example installation commands:

AMD64

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/hostedgraphite/hg-cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/hg-cli_0.2.0_windows_amd64.zip" -OutFile "hg-cli.zip"
Expand-Archive -Path "hg-cli.zip" -DestinationPath "C:\Program Files\hg-cli"

ARM64

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/hostedgraphite/hg-cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/hg-cli_0.2.0_windows_arm64.zip" -OutFile "hg-cli.zip"
Expand-Archive -Path "hg-cli.zip" -DestinationPath "C:\Program Files\hg-cli"

[Optional] Add to system PATH:

$env:BACKUPPATH = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "Machine")
$env:NEWPATH = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "Machine")
$env:NEWPATH += ";C:\Program Files\hg-cli"
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:NEWPATH, "Machine")
Update-SessionEnvironment

Golang

Install using go install

go install github.com/hostedgraphite/hg-cli

Manual (Binaries)

To manually install, download a preferred version releases page (that matches your OS & ARCH), extract and move the binary file into a desired install location.

Example:

curl -L https://github.com/hostedgraphite/hg-cli/releases/download/<version>/hg-cli_<version>_<os>_<arch>.tar.gz
tar -xf hg-cli_<version>_<os>_<arch>.tar.gz
mv hg-cli /install/path (eg. /usr/local/bin)

Perform Checksum

Optional Step

Download the checksum.txt file from the releases listed assets.

Linux

sha256sum --ignore-missing --check checksums.txt

MacOS

shasum -a 256 --ignore-missing --check checksums.txt

HG-CLI Commands

Once HG-CLI is installed, you can run it as a TUI application, or in CLI mode (for automated installs). Below are all available options and command examples for using this tool.

Run the interactive TUI application (recommended):

hg-cli tui

Run it in CLI mode with the default configuration:

hg-cli agent install telegraf --api-key <HG-API-KEY>

CLI mode for a custom install - to specify which plugins you want:

hg-cli agent install telegraf --api-key <HG-API-KEY> --plugins cpu,disk,mem

CLI mode to update an API key in an existing config (telegraf):

hg-cli agent update-apikey telegraf --api-key <HG-API-KEY> --config <config path>

To uninstall an agent (telegraf):

hg-cli agent uninstall telegraf

Available flags for CLI mode:

• --api-key (required)

• --plugins (plugins to be added during installation)

• --config (config path for updating apikey - required)

• --list (list available monitoring agents)

hg-cli TUI Demonstration

Metrics and Visualizations

Once you have run the HG-CLI and installed an agent, the terminal output will show you that the installation was successful, which plugins were enabled, where your configuration file is located, and the command needed to start the service (required for collecting and forwarding metrics to your HG account).

HG-CLI Successful Output

Once the agent service has been started, you'll be able to locate your system metrics in our Metrics Search UI (with the telegraf prefix). Once telegraf.* or otel.* metrics have been sent to your account, a Telegraf/OpenTelemetry dashboard will be automatically created and can be located in your HG account (Dashboards ⇒ Telegraf/OpenTelemetry). This auto-dash offers a great starting point and can be customized further!

Telegraf Auto-Dash

OpenTelemetry Auto-Dash

If you need help enabling additional plugins or have feedback on the HG-CLI tool, please send a message to [e-mail]

If you don't already have a Hosted Graphite account, you can start a 14-day free trial here.

You can also schedule a product demo here to speak with a knowledgeable member of our team who can provide support and advice on getting up and running quickly.