Grafana Installation

Installing Grafana on a Debian based system.

From here: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/installation/debian/

Install prerequisites

$ sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https software-properties-common wget

Add Grafana’s GPG key

$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
$ wget -q -O - https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg > /dev/null

Add Grafana repo

$ echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg] https://apt.grafana.com stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list

Update package list

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Grafana OSS

$ sudo apt-get install grafana

Start and enable Grafana

$ sudo systemctl start grafana-server
$ sudo systemctl enable grafana-server

Test to see if Grafa is running. Open a browser tab and enter:

http://<server_ip_address>:3000

Login with the below credentials

• Login: admin
• Password: admin