Ubuntu (Because Ubuntu is life)
Install Current Version of Influx DB As of writing... 0.9 https://influxdb.com/download/index.html
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/influxdb/influxdb_latest_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i influxdb_latest_amd64.deb
Install telegraf https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf
wget http://get.influxdb.org/telegraf/telegraf_0.1.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i telegraf_0.1.1_amd64.deb
Something else awesome is Grafana. Easiest way to kick things off is probably with a docker container connecting to the host.
If you want to add telegraf to path, you'll have to do it manually. It's located at /opt/influxdb/telegraf
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Create config and run Details in telegraf repo here
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Link telegraf to influxdb in config and kick it off.