This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Bosun, a monitoring and alerting system, on a Fedora Server.
Before you begin, you should have the following:
Bosun is written in Go, so you'll need to install the Go compiler before you proceed.
Open a terminal window on your Fedora Server.
Run the following command to install the Go compiler:
dnf install golang
Now that Go is installed, you can download and install Bosun.
Open a terminal window on your Fedora Server.
Run the following command to download the latest stable release of Bosun:
curl -L https://github.com/naveego/bosun/releases/latest/download/bosun-linux-amd64 -o bosun
This will download the bosun
binary to your current directory.
Move the bosun
binary to /usr/local/bin
with the following command:
sudo mv bosun /usr/local/bin/
Now that Bosun is installed, you need to configure it to use your data sources and alerting rules.
Open a terminal window on your Fedora Server.
Create a directory for your Bosun configuration files with the following command:
sudo mkdir /etc/bosun
Create a bosun.toml
configuration file in the /etc/bosun
directory with the following command:
sudo vi /etc/bosun/bosun.toml
Paste the following configuration into the bosun.toml
file:
[http]
bind = ":80"
[email]
smtp_host = "smtp.example.com"
smtp_port = 587
smtp_username = "user@example.com"
smtp_password = "secret"
[stanza]
uri = "nats://localhost:4222"
cluster = "stan"
durable = "bosun"
[opentsdb]
addr = "localhost:4242"
prefix = "bosun."
[[notification]]
name = "email"
type = "email"
subject = "Bosun Alert"
address = "admin@example.com"
Modify the email
section to use your SMTP settings and modify the opentsdb
section to use the address of your OpenTSDB instance.
Now that Bosun is configured, you can start it with the following command:
sudo bosun -c /etc/bosun/bosun.toml
Bosun will start up and listen on port 80 for incoming connections.
Finally, open a web browser and navigate to http://<your server's hostname or IP>
. You should see the Bosun web interface, which you can use to configure alerts and dashboards.
You have successfully installed Bosun on your Fedora Server and configured it to use your data sources and alerting rules. You can now use Bosun to monitor your infrastructure and receive alerts when something goes wrong.
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