In this tutorial we will show you how to install Grafana on CentOS 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Grafana is an open source data visualization and tracking suite. It offers support for Graphite, Elasticsearch, Included, Prometheus, and a lot more databases. The application gives a beautiful dashboard and metric analytics, with capability to control and create your own dashboard to your own apps or infrastructure performance monitoring.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Grafana on CentOS 8 server.
Install Grafana on CentOS 8
Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.
1 | sudodnfupdate |
Step 2. Installing Grafana on CentOS 8.
Now we add the official Grafana repositories to your local YUM allowed repositories:
1 | sudonano/etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | [grafana] name=grafana baseurl=https://packages.grafana.com/oss/rpm repo_gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key sslverify=1 sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt |
Once the repos are in place, run the command below to install latest Grafana:
1 2 | sudodnfupdate sudodnfinstallgrafana |
To start your Grafana server, simply run the following command:
1 2 | sudosystemctlstartgrafana-server sudosystemctlstatusgrafana-server |
Grafana uses the port 3000 for Web Administration, as a consequence, the web interface may be inaccessible if you don’t open this port:
1 2 | sudofirewall-cmd--add-port=3000/tcp--permanent sudofirewall-cmd--reload |
Grafana will be available on HTTP port 3000 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com:3000 and complete the required the steps to finish the installation.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Grafana. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Grafana open source data visualization on CentOS 8 systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Grafana website.
