During a manual installation, it is common practice to create a dedicated system user, often named observium , to run the application and its cron jobs. After verifying that no processes are running under this user with ps -u observium , you can safely remove the user and its home directory.
Run ps aux | grep observium to ensure no orphaned polling processes are actively running in the background. Your Ubuntu server is now entirely free of Observium.
He watched the directories scroll by: rrd/ , logs/ , includes/ , html/ . All those custom alerts he’d written. All those graphs he’d tweaked. All gone. uninstall observium ubuntu
Delete the dedicated Observium database user. Check your original config.php if you forgot the exact username: DROP USER 'observium'@'localhost'; Use code with caution. Flush the privileges to apply changes and exit: FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT; Use code with caution. Step 3: Remove the Observium Installation Files
# Check if Observium was installed as a package dpkg -l | grep observium During a manual installation, it is common practice
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | grep observium
If you have custom logs or RRD paths outside /opt/observium (check your config.php before deletion), remove those as well. Common locations: Your Ubuntu server is now entirely free of Observium
Observium uses cron jobs to run periodic polling. Open the system cron directory or edit the crontab file where you added the Observium entries. If you used a dedicated cron file, delete it directly: sudo rm -f /etc/cron.d/observium Use code with caution.
