How to Install Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04

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Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus, and InfluxDB. As an example, when using InfluxDB as your data source,data stored on InfluxDB will be visualized using Grafana Graphs.

First, check for any pending system upgrade

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Let's update software packages first. To perform updates, run the following command:

apt update

Add the Grafana APT Repository on Ubuntu 24.04

apt install -y gnupg2 curl software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key|sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/grafana.gpg

Install the Grafana CE on Ubuntu 24.04

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

Install Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04

apt -y install grafana

Output:

 sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
 sudo /bin/systemctl enable grafana-server
### You can start grafana-server by executing
 sudo /bin/systemctl start grafana-server
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3) ...
Scanning processes...
Scanning candidates...
Scanning linux images...

Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.

Restarting services...
 /etc/needrestart/restart.d/systemd-manager
 systemctl restart cron.service packagekit.service polkit.service rsyslog.service ssh.service systemd-journald.service
Service restarts being deferred:
 systemctl restart ModemManager.service
 /etc/needrestart/restart.d/dbus.service
 systemctl restart networkd-dispatcher.service
 systemctl restart systemd-logind.service
 systemctl restart unattended-upgrades.service
 systemctl restart user@0.service

To Start and grafana-server

systemctl enable --now grafana-server

Output:

root@vps:~# systemctl status grafana-server.service
● grafana-server.service - Grafana instance
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-11-21 17:26:04 UTC; 8s ago
       Docs: http://docs.grafana.org
   Main PID: 32650 (grafana-server)
      Tasks: 8 (limit: 2241)
     Memory: 40.4M
        CPU: 1.191s
     CGroup: /system.slice/grafana-server.service
             └─32650 /usr/sbin/grafana-server --config=/etc/grafana/grafana.ini --pidfile=/run/grafana/grafana-server.pid --packa>

Allow Ports on Firewall

apt -y install ufw

To enable the firewall service:

ufw enable

To Open the port on the firewall:

ufw allow ssh
ufw allow 3000/tcp

Output:

root@vps:~# sudo ufw allow 3000/tcp
Rule added
Rule added (v6)

To restrict access to a specific subnet, use:

sudo ufw allow from yourserver.ip.address/24 to any port 3000

Accessing Grafana

Now open the IP address or Domain name from your browser, this will redirect you to the Appwrite.

http://server.ip.address:3000/login

Replace the server.ip.address with the actual IP or domain configured on the server.

The default logins are defined as,

Username: admin Password: admin

Follow the below steps:

This concludes the Installation and Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04.