Grafana on AWS EC2 Instance
what is grafana
Grafana is an open-source web application for visualizing data. Its primary use is as a data monitoring and alerting tool. It allows us to create charts, graphs, and data tables that we want to visualize. It uses a query-based system to build custom visuals from our dataset. It also allows alerts to be set, which trigger when a particular condition is achieved. Furthermore, it monitors our data in real time and allows for monitoring.
Setup grafana on AWS EC2.
Go to the AWS console and Launch an EC2 instance
Open port 3000 in your EC2 instance’s security group to allow external access to Grafana.
Once the instance is launched, connect the instance.
Then, follow the instructions provided by Grafana to install it on your system;
Download the GPG keys and add them to the trusted keys list.
wget -q -O — https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add
Now, add it to the Grafana repository.
sudo add-apt-repository “deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main”
Once it has been added, we need to update the system.
sudo apt update
Install Grafana using command
sudo apt install grafana
Start Grafana: After Grafana is installed, you can start it by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start grafana-server
You can also configure Grafana to start automatically on boot by running:
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
Check the status of grafana by running following command:
sudo systemctl status grafana-server
can access the Grafana web interface by navigating to the IP address of your EC2 instance in your web browser, followed by the default Grafana port (3000).
For example-
http://<EC2-instance-IP-address>:3000
log in to Grafana using the default credentials (admin/admin) and start creating your first dashboards.
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