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| Installing on RPM-based Linux | Grafana Installation guide for Centos, Fedora, Redhat. | grafana, installation, centos, fedora, opensuse, redhat, guide |
Installing on RPM-based Linux (CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, RedHat)
Download
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| .RPM for Fedora / RHEL / CentOS Linux | grafana-2.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm |
Install
You can install using yum
$ sudo yum install https://grafanarel.s3.amazonaws.com/builds/grafana-2.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm
Or manually using rpm
$ sudo yum install initscripts fontconfig
$ sudo rpm -Uvh grafana-2.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm
YUM Repository
Add the following to a new file at /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo
[grafana]
name=grafana
baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/grafana/stable/el/6/$basearch
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/gpg.key
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
There is also testing repository if you want beta or release candidates.
baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/grafana/testing/el/6/$basearch
Install Grafana
$ sudo yum install grafana
RPM GPG Key
The rpms are signed, you can verify the signature with this public GPG key.
Package details
- Installs binary to
/usr/sbin/grafana-server - Init.d script to
/etc/init.d/grafana-server - Default file (environment vars) to
/etc/sysconfig/grafana-server - Configuration file to
/etc/grafana/grafana.ini - Systemd service (if systemd is available) name
grafana-server.service - The default configuration specifies log file at
/var/log/grafana/grafana.log - The default configuration specifies sqlite3 db at
/var/lib/grafana/grafana.db
Start the server (init.d service)
- Start grafana by
sudo service grafana-server start - This will start the grafana-server process as the
grafanauser (created during package install) - Default http port is
3000, and default user is admin/admin - To configure grafana server to start at boot time:
sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add grafana-server
Start the server (via systemd)
$ systemctl daemon-reload
$ systemctl start grafana-server
$ systemctl status grafana-server
Enable the systemd service (so grafana starts at boot)
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server.service
Environment file
The systemd service file and init.d script both use the file located at /etc/sysconfig/grafana-server for
environment variables used when starting the backend. Here you can override log directory, data directory and other
variables.
Logging
By default grafana will log to /var/log/grafana
Database
The default configuration specifies a sqlite3 database located at /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db. Please backup
this database before upgrades. You can also use mysql or postgres as the Grafana database.
Configuration
The configuration file is located at /etc/grafana/grafana.ini. Go the Configuration page for details
on all those options.