Installing Grafana

Installing Grafana

  1. Connecting Grafana-Server instance using PuTTY

    • Copy Public IPv4 address and enter it in PuTTY
    • Save sessions with the name GrafanaServer
    • Also use the generated keypair to connect

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  2. EC2 instance connection successful

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  3. Since this is our first time accessing EC2 Instance we need to install the latest updates.

sudo yum update -y

Install Grafana

  1. Then add YUM repository to download Grafana.
sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo
  • Add the content below to the file grafana.repo.
[grafana]
name=grafana
baseurl=https://rpm.grafana.com
repo_gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://rpm.grafana.com/gpg.key
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

Install Grafana

  • Check the content of the grafana.repo file.
cat /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo

Install Grafana

  1. Install Grafana.
sudo yum install grafana
  • There are about 3 times the system requires entering Y to download all Grafana packages.

Install Grafana Install Grafana

  1. Reload the systemd service to load the new settings. Launch Grafana Server, then check the status.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Install Grafana

  1. Run Grafana Server.
sudo systemctl start grafana-server

Install Grafana

  1. Check the status of Grafana Server. The output status will indicate that grafana-server is active (running).
sudo systemctl status grafana-server

Install Grafana

  1. Run the command below to make sure Grafana will always launch itself every time you restart your Amazon Linux 2 instance.
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server.service

Install Grafana

  1. Use Public IPv4 address of Grafana-Server instance and access port 3000

    • Run in browser. Example: 34.227.68.13:3000

    • We will access the login interface of Grafana

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  2. In the Grafana interface

    • Email or username, enter admin
    • Password, enter admin
    • Select Log in

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  3. After log in Grafana

    • New password, enter the password you want to set
    • Confirm new password, re-enter the password you set
    • Select Submit

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  4. So we have finished logging in to the Grafana interface

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Make EC2 connection using MobaXterm