Ubuntu 16.04

upgrade it

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y && sudo reboot now

install HBase(installation doc)

install JDK 8

sudo apt-get install -y default-jdk

Fetch and install the newest stable HBase binary

wget http://apache.claz.org/hbase/stable/hbase-1.4.10-bin.tar.gz
tar xzvf hbase-1.4.10.tar.gz
cd hbase-1.4.10

# JAVA_HOME has to be set in the HBase env config
echo 'export JAVA_HOME=/usr' >> conf/hbase-env.sh

# edit conf/hbase-site.xml with a minimal config
# other important configurations in https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#important_configurations
<configuration>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
    <value>file:///home/ubuntu/hbase</value>
  </property>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
    <value>/home/ubuntu/zookeeper</value>
  </property>
</configuration>

# start it
bin/start-hbase.sh

# Verify it 
./bin/hbase shell
hbase(main):001:0> status
1 active master, 0 backup masters, 1 servers, 0 dead, 2.0000 average load

install OpenTSDB(official docs)

fetch some dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y gnuplot build-essential python autoconf

download and install pkg

# https://github.com/OpenTSDB/opentsdb/releases
wget https://github.com/OpenTSDB/opentsdb/releases/download/v2.4.0/opentsdb-2.4.0_all.deb
dpkg -i opentsdb-2.4.0_all.deb

create the tables

vim /usr/share/opentsdb/tools/create_table.sh
create '$TSDB_TABLE',
  {NAME => 't', VERSIONS => 1, COMPRESSION => '$COMPRESSION', BLOOMFILTER => '$BLOOMFILTER', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => '$DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING', TTL => '$TSDB_TTL'}

==>>

create '$TSDB_TABLE',
  {NAME => 't', VERSIONS => 1, COMPRESSION => '$COMPRESSION', BLOOMFILTER => '$BLOOMFILTER', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => '$DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING'}

# run script to create tables
env COMPRESSION=NONE HBASE_HOME=path/to/hbase /usr/share/opentsdb/tools/create_table.sh

start OpenTSDB

/etc/init.d/opentsdb start

Tips

# enable auto_create_metrics by your request
tsd.core.auto_create_metrics = true