ceilometer-collector software package provides ceilometer collector service, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ceilometer-collector
ceilometer-collector is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ceilometer-collector package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ceilometer-collector *
You will get with ceilometer-collector package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Python |
| Package | ceilometer-collector |
| Version | 1:6.0.0-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | ceilometer collector service |
| Sub Section | Python |