How to Install Alerta on Linux Mint Latest

Alerta is an open-source alert monitoring software that provides flexible alert routing, centralized alert management, and real-time alert visualization. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Alerta on your Linux Mint latest version.

Prerequisites

• A Linux Mint latest version with sudo access.
• A non-root user with sudo privileges configured on the server.
• Python 2.7, 3.5 or later, and pip installed on your system.

Step 1: Install Dependencies

To begin, open your terminal or SSH into the server you want to install Alerta on and ensure that it is up-to-date with the latest packages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Next, install the dependencies required to build the Alerta application:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-setuptools

Step 2: Install MongoDB

Alerta uses MongoDB as its backend database. To install MongoDB on your Linux Mint system, perform the following commands:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian buster/mongodb-org/4.0 main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.0.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mongodb-org
sudo systemctl start mongod
sudo systemctl enable mongod

Step 3: Install Alerta

Now that you have installed all the necessary dependencies, it's time to install Alerta on your Linux Mint system. To install Alerta, perform the following commands:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install alerta-server alerta

Step 4: Configuration

After installing Alerta, you need to configure it by creating a configuration file. Here's the sample configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/alertad.conf

Copy the following configuration settings:

DEBUG = False

DATABASE_URL = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/alerta'

SECRET_KEY = 'CHANGE ME'

PLUGINS = ['reject', 'test']

ALLOWED_ENVIRONMENTS = ['Production', 'Staging']

CUSTOMER_VIEWS = True

SMTP_USE_SSL = True
SMTP_PORT = 465
SMTP_PASSWORD = 'secret'
SMTP_SERVER = 'smtp.gmail.com'
SMTP_USERNAME = 'youremail@gmail.com'

Save and exit the file.

Step 5: Start the Alerta Server

After configuring Alerta, you can start the Alerta server by running:

sudo alertad run

This will start the Alerta server and you can access it by going to the localhost on the browser:

http://localhost:8080

Conclusion

Now you have successfully installed Alerta on your Linux Mint latest version. You can start monitoring your system alerts more efficiently and effectively.

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