grafana/docs/sources/installation/rpm.md

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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)

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.RPM for Fedora / RHEL / CentOS Linux	grafana-2.0.0_beta3-1.x86_64.rpm

Install

To install the package

$ wget https://grafanarel.s3.amazonaws.com/builds/grafana-2.0.0_beta3-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo yum install initscripts fontconfig
$ sudo rpm -Uvh grafana-latest-1.x86_64.rpm

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 grafana user (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

Start the server (via systemd)

$ systemctl daemon-reload
$ systemctl start grafana-server
$ systemctl status grafana-server

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

Configuration

The configuration file is located at /etc/grafana/grafana.ini. Go the Configuration page for details on all those options.

Adding data sources

• Graphite
• InfluxDB
• OpenTSDB