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    How to Install Grafana 6 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

    How to Install Grafana 6 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7


    In this article i'll demonstrate how to install grafana 6 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7. Grafana is an open source tool which allows you to query, visualize, alert on abnormalities. In Grafana 6 you'll find new Explore option. A new query focused workflow for ad-hoc data exploration and troubleshooting.


    There are several ways to install Grafana it, Let's Discuss them One by One:


    Download and Install:


    As the name suggest, You need to download the package from the grafana Download Page.
    Then Install the Package.


    yum install <rpm package url> i.e. yum install https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana-6.4.2-1.x86_64.rpm

    OR 


    wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana-6.4.2-1.x86_64.rpmyum localinstall grafana-6.4.2-1.x86_64.rpm


    How to Install Grafana 6 on ubuntu / Debian


    Install via YUM Repository :


    Add the following to a new file at /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo


    [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

    There is a separate repository if you want beta releases.


    [grafana]
    name=grafana
    baseurl=https://packages.grafana.com/oss/rpm-beta
    repo_gpgcheck=1
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key
    sslverify=1
    sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

    Then install Grafana via the yum command.


    yum install grafana




    Start the server (init.d service) : 


    You can start Grafana by running:


     service grafana-server start

    This will start the grafana-server process as the grafana user, which is created during package installation. The default HTTP port is 3000, and default user and group is admin.

    Default login and password admin/ admin

    To configure the Grafana server to start at boot time:


    /sbin/chkconfig --add grafana-server


    Start the server (via systemd):



    systemctl daemon-reload
    systemctl start grafana-server
    systemctl status grafana-server

    Enable the systemd service to start at boot


    systemctl enable grafana-server.service





    Access Grafana Dashboard: 

    Once the service has been started, you can access Grafana dashboard at http://[serverip|hostname]:3000



    grafana


    How to Install Grafana 6 on Ubuntu / Debian

    Grafana handy  Files: 



    1.     Installs binary to /usr/sbin/grafana-server
    2.     Copies init.d script to /etc/init.d/grafana-server
    3.     Installs default file (environment vars) to /etc/sysconfig/grafana-server
    4.     Copies configuration file to /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
    5.     Installs systemd service (if systemd is available) name grafana-server.service
    6.     The default configuration uses a log file at /var/log/grafana/grafana.log
    7.     The default configuration specifies an sqlite3 database at /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db
    8. Environment file /etc/sysconfig/grafana-server -- Here you can override log directory, data directory and other variables.

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