(Optional) Remove the specific database user created for Observium: DROP USER 'observium'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT; Use code with caution. Step 4: Delete the Observium Files
Observium likely has a virtual host file in Apache or Nginx. You should remove this to prevent errors when restarting your web server. For Apache:
sudo rm /etc/cron.d/observium
Observium is almost universally installed manually by unpacking a tarball into the /opt/observium directory. uninstall observium ubuntu
Located at /opt/observium/rrd/ Configuration: Located at /opt/observium/config.php
When you first set up Observium , you likely installed several prerequisite packages, such as PHP extensions, SNMP tools, and network graphing packages (e.g., graphviz , fping , rrdtool ).
Open your crontab for the user that runs Observium (usually root or a specific observium user): (Optional) Remove the specific database user created for
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/observium/rrd
Observium may not have been installed as a standard package repository, but there are several ways to uninstall the software and its dependencies. The most common approach is to the relevant packages.
Run sudo netstat -tulpn or sudo ss -tulpn to ensure that standard SNMP or custom ports are no longer being actively listened to by Observium background scripts. For Apache: sudo rm /etc/cron
sudo apt purge rrdtool snmp snmpd
If you created a specific system user for Observium during installation, you can remove it now: sudo deluser observium sudo delgroup observium Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard 6. Do You Need to Remove Dependencies? Observium requires several packages to run, such as mariadb-server If you are switching to another monitoring tool (like
To remove packages commonly installed alongside Observium that you may no longer need: