Cabot is a free, open-source, self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing and monitoring services, systems, and applications. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Cabot on Linux Mint Latest.
First, update the system and all installed packages to their latest stable version. Open a terminal and run the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Cabot requires Python 2.7, Git, and several Python packages to be installed on the system. To install these dependencies, run the following command on the terminal:
sudo apt install python python-pip python-dev git build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-setuptools
Once the installation is completed, verify the version of Python with the following command:
python --version
To install Cabot, clone the Cabot repository from GitHub using Git in the home directory:
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/arachnys/cabot.git
After cloning the repository, navigate to the Cabot directory:
cd cabot/
Now, use pip to install Cabot's requirements:
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
Cabot requires a PostgreSQL or MySQL database to be installed on the system. Here, we will use PostgreSQL as the database server.
To install PostgreSQL, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
After installing PostgreSQL, create a new database and user:
sudo su - postgres
psql
CREATE DATABASE cabot;
CREATE USER cabotuser WITH PASSWORD 'cabotpassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE cabot TO cabotuser;
\q
exit
Copy the sample configuration file:
cp conf/development.env.example conf/development.env
Open the conf/development.env file in your preferred text editor:
nano conf/development.env
Enter the PostgreSQL database and user credentials:
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://cabotuser:cabotpassword@localhost/cabot
Cabot uses Django as its web framework and database migrations are managed through Django's command-line utility.
To migrate the database, run the following command in the terminal:
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate
Finally, start the Cabot server using the following command:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080
Now, you can visit the Cabot dashboard using your web browser by navigating to http://localhost:8080.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Cabot on Linux Mint Latest. You can now use Cabot to manage and monitor your infrastructure.
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