Grafana is an open-source analytics and monitoring platform that allows you to query, visualize, alert and understand metrics no matter where they are stored. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Grafana on Alpine Linux latest.
Before we start with the installation process, make sure you have the following requirements:
Before we install Grafana, we need to make sure that the following dependencies are installed on the system. Run the following command to install the dependencies:
apk update && apk upgrade && apk add libc6-compat curl
Now that the dependencies are installed, we can proceed with the Grafana installation. We will download the binary from the Grafana official website. Run the following command to download the binary:
curl -L -O https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana-7.4.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
In this command, we download the latest version of Grafana. You can visit the Grafana website to check for any latest release.
After downloading the Grafana binary, we need to extract it using the following command:
tar -zxvf grafana-7.4.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
This command will extract the archive to the current directory.
Next, we need to configure Grafana. We can add a new user for Grafana by running the following command:
adduser -D grafana
The "-D" option instructs adduser to create a system-level user.
To start Grafana, we need to run the following command:
./grafana-7.4.1/bin/grafana-server web
This command will start the Grafana server, and we can now access it using a web browser.
Now that the Grafana server is running, we can access the web interface on port 3000. Open a web browser and enter the following URL:
http://<IP_address>:3000
Replace "IP_address" with the IP address of your Alpine Linux instance.
You should now see the Grafana login page. Log in using the default username and password, which is "admin" for both.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Grafana on Alpine Linux latest by following these six simple steps. You can now use Grafana to visualize and monitor metrics from various data sources.
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