# pmm client on FreeBSD?

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-on-freebsd/5209>\
**Category:** PMM 1.x\
**Created:** [November 14, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-on-freebsd/5209 "2016-11-14T11:24:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![beckzg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@beckzg](https://forums.percona.com/u/beckzg)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-on-freebsd/5209/1 "2016-11-14T11:24:07Z")

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Hi All,

is there a way to install pmm client on FreeBSD or how can I monitor a MySQL server running on FreeBSD from remote?

Kind Regards,  
bzg

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**Author:** ![weber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/da6949/32.png) [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-on-freebsd/5209/2 "2016-11-14T15:06:39Z")

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Hello,

Unfortunately, we didn’t test pmm-client on FreeBSD, I think it won’t work out of the box.  
We may add support for FreeBSD if there is a demand.

Currently, you can monitor if from Linux box, however not system metrics (called linux:metrics) as it requires local filesystem access.  
You can monitor mysql:queries with perfschema query source and mysql:metrics w/o problems.

Simply add those 2 services specifying --host flag pointing to remote machine.

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**Author:** ![beckzg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@beckzg](https://forums.percona.com/u/beckzg)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 9:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-on-freebsd/5209/3 "2016-11-21T09:25:34Z")

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I’ll give a try, thank you for help. The freebsd support would be more then great 🙂