Prometheus is a popular open-source monitoring solution that helps you to track metrics, collect time-series data, and alert on anomalies. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Prometheus which is available at http://prometheus.io/. We will be using Linux Mint Latest as our operating system.
The first step is to download the Prometheus release from the official website. You can download the tarball by visiting the following URL in your web browser:
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/latest
After you navigate to this page, download the tarball that corresponds to your operating system.
Once you have downloaded the tarball, you need to extract it to a directory where you want to install Prometheus. You can extract the tarball using the following command:
tar xvfz prometheus-X.Y.Z.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Here, replace X.Y.Z with the version number of the Prometheus release that you downloaded. After the extraction process completes, you will have a new directory named prometheus-X.Y.Z.linux-amd64 in your current working directory.
To run Prometheus, navigate to the prometheus-X.Y.Z.linux-amd64 directory that was extracted in the previous step and execute the prometheus binary:
cd prometheus-X.Y.Z.linux-amd64
./prometheus
Prometheus will now start up and listen on port 9090 by default.
Once Prometheus is running, you can access the web user interface by navigating to http://localhost:9090 in your web browser. You will be presented with the Prometheus expression browser where you can explore the metrics collected by Prometheus.
In this tutorial, we installed Prometheus on Linux Mint Latest. Prometheus is a powerful monitoring solution that can help you to monitor and alert on time-series data. Now that you have Prometheus installed, you can start exploring its features and integrating it into your infrastructure.
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