How to Install and Use Grafana on Linux

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Grafana is a powerful open-source tool used for monitoring and observability. It allows users to query, visualize, alert, and understand metrics no matter where they are stored. Typically, Grafana is used to create dashboards and graphs to better understand refined metric data. In this comprehensive guide, we will learn the steps required to install and use Grafana on a Linux system.

Prerequisites

Before starting the installation, make sure that your system meets the following prerequisites:

• A Linux-based system (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.)
• Root or sudo privileges
• Basic knowledge of terminal commands
• Internet access to download Grafana packages

We will cover the installation of Grafana on two of the most widely used Linux distributions, Ubuntu and CentOS.

Step 1: Installing Grafana

On Ubuntu

Follow these steps to install Grafana on Ubuntu Systems.

1. First, update your system's package list using the following command:

sudo apt-get update

2. Next, install the required software properties, which will allow you to install software from third-party repositories:

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

3. Add Grafana's APT repository:

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

4. Then, add Grafana's GPG key to trust the repository:

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

5. Re-update your package list:

sudo apt-get update

6. Now, install Grafana using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install -y grafana

7. Start and enable the Grafana service so it starts on boot:

sudo systemctl start grafana-server 
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server

On CentOS

For CentOS systems, the installation steps are slightly different:

1. As always, make sure your system is up to date:

sudo yum update

2. Add the Grafana repository using yum:

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo 	
	
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