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Grafana Installation

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Obtaining and installing the Grafana software is straightforward. The following notes provide a high level overview of the steps required. Note that these instructions are for Grafana version 6.7 (other versions may work, but have not been tested):

  • Visit the Grafana 6.7 installation guide at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/v6.7/. This provides acces to a wide variety of information about Grafanam including supported OS'es and platform concepts
  • To download the code and to see the commands required for installation on the server CLI, visit the following download page: https://grafana.com/grafana/download
    • Select the required version, Open Source edition and your OS (most likely a Linux variant)
    • Make a copy of the CLI commands provided to download and install the software for your OS
  • SSH to the server that will be used to host Grafana
  • Make sure your server has Internet connectivity (as it will need to pull down the required software)
  • On the CLI of your server, paste in the copied commands to kick-off the software download & install
  • Once installation is complete, start the InfluxDB processes with the server CLI command: sudo systemctl start grafana-server
  • Ensure that the service will be started in the server is rebooted with: sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
  • Check the software is installed and running by executing the following command on the server CLI: sudo systemctl status grafana-server (ensure the process is "active (running)" )

As a final check, ensure that the Grafana web GUI is available using the URL: http://<server_IP>:3000/ (Note that the default login/pwd is admin/admin)

Last update: July 17, 2020