How to Install Netdata on Rocky Linux 9

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Netdata is an Open Source real-time server monitoring tool. It collects real-time data like CPU usage, RAM usage, Load, SWAP usage, Bandwidth usage, Disk usage, etc.

Check for System Updates

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First, we will update the system to the latest with the following commands,

dnf update

Installing EPEL Repo

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Install EPEL Repo by running the following command.

dnf install epel-release -y

Install required packages for Netdata

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Install required packages for Netdata by running the following command.

wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh

The script may prompt you for input before installing any packages, please input Y or Yes to accept the packages being installed.

Output:

 [root@server ~]# wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh --disable-telemetry

--2022-07-21 21:22:41--  https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh
Resolving my-netdata.io (my-netdata.io)... 188.114.97.3, 188.114.96.3, 2a06:98c1:3121::3, ...
Connecting to my-netdata.io (my-netdata.io)|188.114.97.3|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh’

/tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh                           [ <=>                                                                                                 ]  75.12K  --.-KB/s    in 0.001s

2022-07-21 21:22:41 (87.6 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh’ saved [76921]

 --- Using /tmp/netdata-kickstart-nGisWsmj1w as a temporary directory. ---
 --- Checking for existing installations of Netdata... ---
 --- No existing installations of netdata found, assuming this is a fresh install. ---
 --- Attempting to install using native packages... ---
 --- Checking for availability of repository configuration package. ---

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Thu Jul 21 09:24:22 PM CEST 2022 : INFO: netdata-updater.sh:  Auto-updating has been ENABLED through cron, updater script linked to /etc/cron.daily/netdata-updater\n
Thu Jul 21 09:24:22 PM CEST 2022 : INFO: netdata-updater.sh:  If the update process fails and you have email notifications set up correctly for cron on this system, you should receive an email notification of the failure.
Thu Jul 21 09:24:22 PM CEST 2022 : INFO: netdata-updater.sh:  Successful updates will not send an email.
Successfully installed the Netdata Agent.

Official documentation can be found online at https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/.

Looking to monitor all of your infrastructure with Netdata? Check out Netdata Cloud at https://app.netdata.cloud.

Join our community and connect with us on:
  - GitHub: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/discussions
  - Discord: https://discord.gg/5ygS846fR6
  - Our community forums: https://community.netdata.cloud/

Once the installation is complete, start and enable Netdata to start up automatically on boot/reboot and verify the application status using the commands below.

systemctl start netdata

systemctl enable netdata

systemctl status netdata

Firewall Configuration

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Netdata listens on port 19999 by default, enabling ports in the firewall to use Netdata from the browser.

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=19999/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload

Netdata Dashboard

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Enter the following URL on the browser to access the Netdata dashboard. By default, Netdata works on 19999 port.

http://<Enter Your IP Here>:19999/

The dashboard will look like this.