In this tutorial we will show you how to install Monitorix on Debian 10. For those of you who didn’t know, Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor server, service and devices. It has been created to be used under production UNIX/Linux servers, but due to its simplicity and small size you may also use it on embedded devices as well.
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 Monitorix on a Debian 10 (Buster) server.
Install Monitorix on Debian 10 Buster
Step 1. Before we install any software, it’s important to make sure your system is up to date by running these following apt commands in the terminal:
1 2 | aptupdate aptupgrade |
Step 2. Installing Monitorix on Debian 10.
Install below prerequisite packages to Debian based system:
1 | aptinstallgnupg2sudo |
Next, install the GPG key:
1 2 | wget-qO-https://apt.izzysoft.de/izzysoft.asc | sudo apt-key add - echo"deb [arch=all] https://apt.izzysoft.de/ubuntu generic universe">/etc/apt/sources.list.d/monitorix.list |
Then, Install Monitorix on Debian system using following command:
1 | aptinstallmonitorix |
Verify installed version of Monitorix:
1 | monitorix-v |
Once Monitorix is installed, it is started and enabled to run on system boot by default:
1 2 3 | sudosystemctlstartmonitorx sudosystemctlenablemonitorx sudosystemctlrestartapache2 |
Once, you’ve started service, the program will start collecting system information according to configuration set in ‘/etc/monitorix.conf‘
1 | nano/etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | ... title=Debian10Buster-idroot-demo.us hostname=debian10.idroot-demo.us theme_color=black refresh_rate=160 iface_mode=graph ... |
Navigate your browser to http://localhost:8080/monitorix or http://IP-Address:8080/monitorix and choose the Graph and hit ok to view the graph. See the below screen shot for monitorix Home page.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Monitorix. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Monitorix on Debian 10 Buster system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Monitorix website.
