{"id":5211,"date":"2018-08-22T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T09:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2021-02-27T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T09:07:01","slug":"install-and-configure-grafana-in-ubuntu-and-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/install-and-configure-grafana-in-ubuntu-and-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"Install and Configure Grafana in Ubuntu and Debian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Install and Configure Grafana in Ubuntu and Debian<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1 &#8211; Download &amp; Install Grafana<\/strong><br \/>\nDownload Grafana RPM file RPM for Linux from https:\/\/grafana.com\/grafana\/download?platform=linux<\/p>\n<pre># Ubuntu &amp; Debian\r\n$ wget https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/grafana-releases\/release\/grafana_5.2.2_amd64.deb\r\n$ sudo dpkg -i grafana_5.2.2_amd64.deb<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step 2 &#8211; Understand Grafana Installation details in Ubuntu\/Debian<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Installs binary to \/usr\/sbin\/grafana-server<\/li>\n<li>Installs Init.d script to \/etc\/init.d\/grafana-server<\/li>\n<li>Creates default file (environment vars) to \/etc\/default\/grafana-server<\/li>\n<li>Installs configuration file to \/etc\/grafana\/grafana.ini<\/li>\n<li>Installs systemd service (if systemd is available) name grafana-server.service<\/li>\n<li>The default configuration sets the log file at \/var\/log\/grafana\/grafana.log<\/li>\n<li>The default configuration specifies an sqlite3 db at \/var\/lib\/grafana\/grafana.db<\/li>\n<li>Installs HTML\/JS\/CSS and other Grafana files at \/usr\/share\/grafana<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Step 3 &#8211; Start the server (init.d service)<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">$ sudo service grafana-server start<\/pre>\n<p>This will start the grafana-server process as the grafana user, which was created during the package installation. The default HTTP port is 3000 and default user and group is admin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4 &#8211; Configure the Grafana server to start at boot time<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">$ sudo update-rc.d grafana-server defaults\r\n$ systemctl daemon-reload\r\n$ systemctl start grafana-server\r\n$ systemctl status grafana-server\r\n$ sudo systemctl enable grafana-server.service<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step 5 &#8211; Grafana server Environment file<\/strong><br \/>\nThe systemd service file and init.d script both use the file located at \/etc\/default\/grafana-server for environment variables used when starting the back-end. Here you can override log directory, data directory and other variables.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 6 &#8211; Grafana server Log<\/strong><br \/>\nBy default Grafana will log to \/var\/log\/grafana<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 7 &#8211; Grafana Database<\/strong><br \/>\nThe default configuration specifies a sqlite3 database located at \/var\/lib\/grafana\/grafana.db.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use MySQL or Postgres as the Grafana database, as detailed on<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/docs.grafana.org\/installation\/configuration\/#database<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 7 &#8211; Grafana configuration<\/strong><br \/>\nThe configuration file is located at \/etc\/grafana\/grafana.ini. Go the Configuration page for details on all those options. You can add following data sources<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Graphite<\/li>\n<li>InfluxDB<\/li>\n<li>OpenTSDB<\/li>\n<li>Prometheus<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Step 8 &#8211; Server side image rendering<\/strong><br \/>\nServer side image (png) rendering is a feature that is optional but very useful when sharing visualizations, for example in alert notifications.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">$ yum install fontconfig\r\n$ yum install freetype*\r\n$ yum install urw-fonts<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step 9 &#8211; How to access the Grafana dashboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/13.232.27.156:3000\/<br \/>\nUser name &#8211; admin<br \/>\nPassword &#8211; admin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Install and Configure Grafana in Ubuntu and Debian Step 1 &#8211; Download &amp; Install Grafana Download Grafana RPM file RPM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5012],"tags":[254,701,5011,237,702],"class_list":["post-5211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grafana","tag-configure","tag-debian","tag-grafana","tag-install","tag-ubuntu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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