Grafana Setup

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Setup grafana monitoring with promethus on ubuntu linux

Grafana is a powerful open-source platform used for monitoring and visualizing time-series data. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to install and set up Grafana on an Ubuntu system (20.04/22.04 LTS).

Prerequisites

  • Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 (64-bit)
  • A user with sudo privileges
  • Internet access

✅ Install Prometheus

1️⃣ Create a Prometheus User

sudo useradd --no-create-home --shell /bin/false prometheus

2️⃣ Download Prometheus

Get the latest version from https://prometheus.io/download/

wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.52.0/prometheus-2.52.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz

3️⃣ Extract & Move Binaries

tar -xvzf prometheus-2.52.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz

cd prometheus-2.52.0.linux-amd64

sudo mv prometheus /usr/local/bin/

sudo mv promtool /usr/local/bin/

4️⃣ Move Configuration & Setup Directories

sudo mkdir /etc/prometheus

sudo mkdir /var/lib/prometheus

sudo mv consoles /etc/prometheus

sudo mv console_libraries /etc/prometheus

sudo mv prometheus.yml /etc/prometheus

5️⃣ Set Ownership

sudo chown -R prometheus:prometheus /etc/prometheus /var/lib/prometheus

6️⃣ Create Prometheus Systemd Service

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/prometheus.service

[Unit]

Description=Prometheus Monitoring

Wants=network-online.target

After=network-online.target

[Service]

User=prometheus

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prometheus \

--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \

--storage.tsdb.path=/var/lib/prometheus/ \

--web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles \

--web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

7️⃣ Start & Enable Prometheus

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl start prometheus

sudo systemctl enable prometheus

Check status:

sudo systemctl status prometheus

Access at: http://your-server-ip:9090

✅ Install Grafana

1️⃣ Add Grafana APT Repo

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

sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main"

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

2️⃣ Install Grafana

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install grafana

3️⃣ Start & Enable Grafana

sudo systemctl start grafana-server

sudo systemctl enable grafana-server

Access at: http://your-server-ip:3000

✅Go to http://your-server-ip:3000

  1. Login with admin/admin
  2. Go to Configuration → Data Sources → Add data source
  3. Choose Prometheus
  4. Set URL to http://localhost:9090
  5. Click Save & Test

Connect Prometheus to Grafana

Access the Grafana web UI by visiting http://localhost:3000 in your web browser.

2. Log in to Grafana with the default credentials (username: admin, password: admin).

3. You should see the Grafana password change screen. Change your default password and click on the Submit button. You should see the Grafana dashboard on the following screen:

Conclusion
In this post, You have now installed and set up Grafana on Ubuntu. You can start exploring its features and creating your own dashboards to visualize your data.

Mahesh Wabale
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