Cabot is an open-source, self-hosted monitoring tool that provides an easy to use web interface for monitoring services, workflows, and metrics. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Cabot on Manjaro, a popular Linux distribution.
Before we start, ensure that your Manjaro system is up to date and you have sudo access to install packages.
Cabot requires a few packages to be installed before installation. Run the following command to update your package index and install the required packages.
sudo pacman -Syu curl python3 python-pip libffi libffi-devel openssl
Once the required packages are installed, we can now proceed to install Cabot. You can use either pip or Docker to install Cabot. In this tutorial, we will use pip to install Cabot.
Run the following command to install Cabot, including its dependencies.
sudo pip install cabot
After Cabot is installed, we need to configure various settings. You can do this by creating a configuration file. Run the following command to generate the configuration file.
sudo cabot initialize_config
This command will create a default ~/.cabot/conf/production.env configuration file. You can edit this file and modify it with your details.
sudo nano ~/.cabot/conf/production.env
In this file, look for the following settings and set them up accordingly:
SECRET_KEY: This key is used to encrypt cookies and is required for authentication. Set a strong and unique secret key.
ALLOWED_HOSTS: This setting allows connections from specific hosts. Set it to * to allow connections from any host.
DATABASE_URL: Cabot uses PostgreSQL as its database backend. You can change this setting to connect to your database. By default, it uses an SQLite database.
Once the configuration is complete, you can start Cabot using the following command:
sudo cabot run
Once Cabot starts, you can access it on your web browser at http://localhost:5000/. From here, you can configure checks, services, and alerts.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Cabot on Manjaro. Cabot is a powerful monitoring tool that helps maintain your services, workflows, and applications. You can now set up and configure Cabot based on your needs.
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