Installing Grafana 6 on Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 8

In this article we will show you how to install Grafana 6 on Ubuntu or Debian systems.
First, ensure that system is up to date.
```
sudo apt-get update
```
After executing above command it will ask for password,enter user password.
```
sudo apt-get upgrade
```
It will ask permission to fee the disk space,enter y
Restart the system.
```
sudo reboot
```
Add Grafana 6 APT repository, Adding Grafana gpg key which allows you to install signed packages.
```
curl https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
```
Then install Grafana APT repository:
```
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main"
```
It will ask for user password, enter user password

There is a separate repository if you want beta releases.

sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb beta main"

Once the repository is added, proceed to update your Apt repositories and install Grafana.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install grafana
```

Start and Enable Grafana service.

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

The grafana-service should now be running, and it look like this
Ensure the service is set to run on boot.
```
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
```
Once the service has been started, you can access its web dashboard by visiting the server IP on port 3000.
```
http://server_ip:3000
```
If you have an active firewall, mostly ufw, allow port 3000 on the firewall.
```
sudo ufw allow proto tcp from any to any port 3000
```
Default logins are:

Username: admin

Password: admin
After login change the password.