Alerta is an open-source monitoring tool that helps you keep track of system events and alerts. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Alerta on your EndeavourOS Latest.
Before you proceed with the installation of Alerta, make sure you have the following:
First, you need to install some required packages on your EndeavourOS Latest system.
To do so, open the terminal and enter the following command:
sudo pacman -S python-pip python-setuptools python-wheel mongod
The above command will install Python-pip, Python-setuptools, Python-wheel, and MongoDB on your system.
In this step, you will install the Alerta monitoring tool on your EndeavourOS Latest system.
To install Alerta, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo pip install alerta-server alerta-cli
This command installs Alerta-Server and Alerta-CLI on your system.
In this step, you will configure MongoDB with Alerta.
To do so, create a new MongoDB user and database for Alerta. You can do this by running the following commands:
mongo
use alerta
db.createUser( { user: "alerta", pwd: "password", roles: [ { role: "readWrite", db: "alerta" } ] } )
exit
After creating the Alerta user and database in MongoDB, you need to configure Alerta to use the MongoDB database.
To do so, edit the Alerta configuration file using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/alertad.conf
Add the following lines to the configuration file:
DATABASE_URL = 'mongodb://alerta:password@localhost:27017/alerta'
DATABASE_NAME = 'alerta'
Save and close the file.
In this step, you will start the Alerta service.
To start Alerta, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo systemctl start alertad.service
You can check the status of the Alerta service by running the following command:
sudo systemctl status alertad.service
If everything is working correctly, you should see the following output:
● alertad.service - Alerta daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alertad.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2022-08-05 12:25:25 IST; 3s ago
Main PID: 10943 (alertad)
Tasks: 10 (limit: 23502)
Memory: 22.2M
CPU: 197ms
CGroup: /system.slice/alertad.service
In this step, you will access the Alerta web interface.
To access the Alerta web interface, open your web browser and enter the following URL:
http://localhost:8080
You should see the Alerta login screen. Log in using the default credentials:
Username: admin
Password: admin
After logging in, you will see the Alerta dashboard.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Alerta on your EndeavourOS Latest system.
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