Monitoring with Grafana

Grafana Intro

Grafana is a multi-paltform open source analytics and interactive visulization web application. It provides:

• Charts
• graphs
• alerts

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Installation Process

First of all, you need to add the Grafana APT repositories in order to be able to install packages from them.

sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https

sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common wget

In order to retrieve Grafana packages in a secure way, you need to add the GPG key to your trusted set of keys.

wget -q -O - https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

Now that everything is configured, you can add the Grafana repositories to the custom APT repositories of your server.

echo "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list

update your distribution packages.

sudo apt-get update

To install Grafana, use the apt-get install command.

sudo apt-get install grafana

start the grafana server

sudo systemctl start grafana-server

check the status of grafana server

sudo systemctl status grafana-server

check in which port grafana is running by using this command

sudo lsof -i -P

then browse

http:\\localhost:Grafana_port_number