In this tutorial we will guide you through the installation of Vigil on Arch Linux. Vigil is a Rust crate that provides a monitoring and alerting service for HTTP endpoints.
Before we start, make sure that your Arch Linux system is up to date by running:
sudo pacman -Syu
You will also need Rust and Cargo installed. You can install these by running:
sudo pacman -S rustup
rustup install stable
rustup default stable
First, we need to install the Vigil server. Vigil can easily be installed using Cargo, which is the Rust package manager.
Run the following command to install Cargo:
sudo pacman -S cargo
Next, run the following command to install Vigil:
cargo install vigil-server
The installation may take some time depending on your system's speed and internet connection. Once it's done, you can verify the installation by running:
vigil-server --version
This should output the current version of Vigil installed on your system.
After installation, create a configuration file for Vigil at /etc/vigil/config.yaml. You can copy the example configuration file from the installed package by running:
sudo mkdir /etc/vigil
sudo cp $(which vigil-server) /etc/vigil/vigil-server
Now you can edit the configuration file to fit your needs. Example configurations can be found on the official Vigil GitHub repository.
Finally, start Vigil by running:
vigil-server
By default, Vigil will listen on port 8080. You can now access the Vigil web interface by visiting http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we guided you through the installation of Vigil on Arch Linux. With Vigil installed and configured, you can now monitor HTTP endpoints and receive alerts when they go down.
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