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

Check Grafana logging

Note the permissions are limited to user grafana and root.

$ cd /var/log/grafana

$ ls -l
total 1244
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana  16573 Aug 19 09:42 grafana.log
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana  71306 Aug 12 23:55 grafana.log.2025-08-13.001
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana  47961 Aug 13 23:55 grafana.log.2025-08-14.001
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana 162097 Aug 14 23:55 grafana.log.2025-08-15.001
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana  68198 Aug 15 23:55 grafana.log.2025-08-16.001
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana  60519 Aug 16 23:55 grafana.log.2025-08-17.001
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana 729009 Aug 17 23:54 grafana.log.2025-08-18.001
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana  70638 Aug 18 23:51 grafana.log.2025-08-19.001
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