Bloonix is an open-source monitoring solution designed to provide monitoring for various infrastructures such as servers, networks, applications, and more. In this tutorial, we will install Bloonix on macOS.
Before starting with the installation, ensure that you have the following:
Before we can install Bloonix, we need to install some dependencies required by Bloonix. Open the Terminal application and execute the following command to install the dependencies:
brew install apache2 curl libapache2-mod-wsgi gcc pkg-config libssl-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libjpeg-turbo wget git all-dev autoconf automake libtool
Bloonix requires Python 2.x or 3.x to be installed on the system.
To check if Python is already installed, open the Terminal and execute the command:
python3 --version
If Python is not installed, execute the following command to install Python:
brew install python3
After installing the dependencies and Python, we can proceed with the installation of Bloonix.
Execute the following commands on your Terminal:
git clone https://github.com/bloonix/bloonix.git bloonix
cd bloonix
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
After installing Bloonix, we need to configure it.
Execute the following command to create a configuration file:
cp bloonix.conf.example bloonix.conf
Next, we need to run the following commands:
python3 bloonix-api/manage.py makemigrations
python3 bloonix-api/manage.py migrate
Finally, execute the following command to start the Bloonix server:
python3 bloonix-api/manage.py runserver
After starting the Bloonix server, open a web browser and enter the URL http://localhost:8000 to access the Bloonix dashboard.
In this tutorial, we installed Bloonix on macOS by installing the dependencies and Python, cloning the Bloonix repository, configuring it and accessing it via the web browser. You can now use Bloonix to monitor your infrastructure.
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