Installing Bloonix on Ubuntu Server

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Bloonix on your Ubuntu Server. Bloonix is a powerful open-source monitoring platform that can be used to monitor various systems, applications and services.

Prerequisites:

1. Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Or latest version) with sudo privileges
2. Root Access to the server

Let's get started.

Step 1: Installing necessary packages

First, we need to update the Ubuntu package repository and install the necessary packages to Bloonix.

Open Terminal or SSH into your server and execute the following command:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl gnupg2

Step 2: Adding Bloonix Signing Key

Next, we need to add the Bloonix signing key to our system.

Execute the following command to download the Bloonix signing key and add it to our system.

curl https://bloonix-monitoring.org/debian/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

Step 3: Adding Bloonix repository to Ubuntu

To install Bloonix, we need to add Bloonix repository into our Ubuntu system.

Execute the following command to add Bloonix repository and update the Ubuntu package repository.

echo "deb https://bloonix-monitoring.org/debian stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bloonix.list
sudo apt update

Now that we have added the Bloonix repository, let's install Bloonix.

Step 4: Installing Bloonix

To install Bloonix, run the following command:

sudo apt install bloonix bloonix-plugins nodewatcher-agent

This command will install Bloonix, Bloonix plugins, and nodewatcher-agent.

Step 5: Configuring Bloonix

After the installation is complete, Bloonix data will be stored in the "bloonix" database. To create a new database, execute the following command.

sudo bloonix-db-init

Enter the root password when you are prompted.

Now that we have created a new database, we need to restart the Bloonix service to ensure changes are applied.

sudo systemctl restart bloonix

Step 6: Accessing the Bloonix web interface

To access the Bloonix web interface, open your web browser and go to "http://:18080". Replace "" with your server IP address.

You will be prompted to enter the default username and password, which are:

Username: admin
Password: admin

Conclusion

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Bloonix on your Ubuntu server, and accessed the Bloonix web interface. Bloonix is a powerful monitoring platform that can greatly improve the productivity and reliability of your services. Happy Monitoring!

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