This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing VictoriaMetrics on your Ubuntu Server. VictoriaMetrics is an open source, high-performance, and highly scalable monitoring and time series database solution that is designed to handle big data.
Before you begin with the installation, you will need the following:
Before installing VictoriaMetrics, update the system by running the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
VictoriaMetrics offers official packages to install on Ubuntu systems. You can download the latest package from the VictoriaMetrics Github repository.
Run the following commands to download and install VictoriaMetrics:
wget https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/latest/download/victoria-metrics-ubuntu-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvfz victoria-metrics-ubuntu-amd64.tar.gz
cd victoria-metrics-*
sudo ./install.sh
This will install VictoriaMetrics on your Ubuntu system.
To verify the installation, start the VictoriaMetrics server by running the following command:
systemctl start victoria-metrics
Now, check the status of the service by running:
systemctl status victoria-metrics
If the service is running successfully, you should see a message similar to the following:
● victoria-metrics.service - VictoriaMetrics Service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/victoria-metrics.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-09-01 07:28:50 UTC; 7s ago
Main PID: 30777 (victoria-metrics)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 1137)
Memory: 2.2M
CPU: 2ms
CGroup: /system.slice/victoria-metrics.service
└─30777 /usr/local/bin/victoria-metrics-prod -config=/etc/victoria-metrics-prod/config.yaml -retentionPeriod=...
By default, VictoriaMetrics is installed with default settings. You can customize the configuration to suit your needs.
The configuration file for VictoriaMetrics is located in /etc/victoria-metrics-prod/config.yaml. You can edit this file to customize the configuration.
Once you're done with the configuration, restart the VictoriaMetrics service for changes to take effect:
systemctl restart victoria-metrics
Congratulations! You have successfully installed VictoriaMetrics on your Ubuntu System. You can now start monitoring your system and save time-series data on the VictoriaMetrics database.
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