This tutorial will guide you through installing Sensu on an Ubuntu server. Sensu is a monitoring tool that helps you monitor your infrastructure, applications, and services. With Sensu installed, you can easily monitor your system resources, detect and respond to issues and errors, and ensure that your services are running smoothly.
Before installing Sensu on Ubuntu, you will need to install some dependencies to ensure that Sensu can run correctly.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gnupg2 wget
Sensu provides an APT repository for Ubuntu, so you need to add it to the system. To do this, run the command below:
wget -q https://sensu.global.ssl.fastly.net/apt/pubkey.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://sensu.global.ssl.fastly.net/apt sensu main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sensu.list
Now that you have added the Sensu repository and key to your system, you can then install Sensu by running the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y sensu
After installing Sensu, you will need to configure some settings to ensure that it works correctly. The configuration files are located in the /etc/sensu/ directory.
If you want to configure Sensu as a server, you need to update the server.json file by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/sensu/conf.d/server.json
Add the following code to the file and save it:
{
"api": {
"host": "localhost",
"port": 4567
},
"dashboard": {
"host": "localhost",
"port": 3000
},
"redis": {
"host": "localhost",
"port": 6379
}
}
If you want to configure Sensu as an agent, you need to update the client.json file by running the following command:
sudo nano /etc/sensu/conf.d/client.json
Add the following code to the file and save it:
{
"client": {
"name": "hostname",
"address": "127.0.0.1",
"subscriptions": [
"default"
]
}
}
After configuring Sensu, you will need to start the services for it to work correctly. To do this, run the following command:
sudo systemctl start sensu-server sensu-api sensu-client
sudo systemctl enable sensu-server sensu-api sensu-client
To verify that Sensu is working correctly, you can check the logs or the web interface.
You can check the logs by running the following command:
sudo tail -f /var/log/sensu/sensu-server.log
You can check the web interface by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:3000.
Sensu is now installed on your Ubuntu server, and you can start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, and services. You can now configure handlers, checks, and subscriptions to get notifications when issues arise.
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