Grafana Installation

Grafana is a leading graph and dashboard builder for visualizing time series infrastructure and application metrics. This also provides a elegant way to create,explore and share dashboards ,data with other teams. In this article we will see how we can install grafana server

Installing grafana is quite straight ward. All we have to do is to add a Repo and run the “yum install grafana-server” command.

1. Create a yum grafana.repo  file under “/etc/yum.repos.d/” and add the below contents to the file

         [grafana]

name=grafana

baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/grafana/stable/el/6/$basearch

repo_gpgcheck=1

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/gpg.key       https://grafanarel.s3.amazonaws.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-grafana

sslverify=1

sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

2. Install grafana

    Yum install grafana

3. Reload the daemons and start the grafana server

   Systemctl daemon-reload

   Systemctl start grafane-server

4. Enable the grafana server to get that started by systemctl command

    Systemctl enable grafane-server

Access the grafana Server using the “http://<IP address>:3000/”. The default credentials are “admin/admin”.