Install and Start Grafana 7

Grafana is the analytics platform for all your metrics. Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored.

In this tutorial, I will manually install Grafana on an Ubuntu 20.04, and then start it.

In this course all my examples are executed on an unrestricted Ubuntu 20. You can get minimal Ubuntu 20 servers from cloud providers. In this course I used Digital Ocean, with this discount link https://m.do.co/c/23d277be9014. The offer changes, but usually yo will get $50 credit for 30 days, where you can create and delete as many virtual machines as you wish.

With a new install of your operating system, I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, SSH onto your new server. On Windows I can use Putty, as my SSH client. SSH means ‘Secure Shell’.

Download and Install Putty, and add your server ip address to the Session configuration page.

Once you have connected, on Ubuntu, make sure your package lists are updated.

sudo apt update

Then ensure that the dependencies for Grafana are installed.

sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1

Now to download the binary, and run the Debian package manager.

wget…