How to Install Vigil Server on Debian Latest

Vigil is an open-source monitoring tool that provides detailed information on the performance of your infrastructure, applications, and services. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Vigil on the latest version of Debian.

Prerequisites

Before installing Vigil, ensure that you have met the following prerequisites:

• A virtual or physical machine running Debian Latest
• A user account with sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Rust Programming Language

Vigil is written in Rust Programming Language, and therefore, we need to install it on the system. To install Rust, run the following commands:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install curl
$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

The above command will install Rustup, a toolchain manager for Rust Programming Language.

Step 2: Install Vigil Server

Once Rust is installed, we can proceed to install Vigil. To install Vigil, run the following commands:

$ cargo install vigil-server

The above command will download and compile Vigil from cargo.io and install the executable binary file on our system.

Step 3: Start Vigil Server

After the installation is complete, we can start the Vigil server by running the following command:

$ vigil-server --config /path/to/config.toml

By default, Vigil listens on port 3030. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3030 to access the Vigil server dashboard.

Step 4: Configure Vigil Server

To configure Vigil, we need to create a configuration file /path/to/config.toml which contains the necessary details. The configuration file should contain the following:

[server]
address = "0.0.0.0"       # Vigil server IP address to listen on
port = 3030               # Vigil server port to listen on
workers = 4               # Number of Vigil worker threads

[logging]
level = "debug"           # Logging level i.e., debug, info, etc.

[deadman]
# deadman's snitch server configuration

Conclusion

That's it! We have successfully installed Vigil on Debian Latest and configured it to start monitoring our infrastructure. Vigil provides detailed information on the performance of our infrastructure, helps identify issues, and helps us take proactive measures to prevent downtime.

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