How To install Netdata to monitor your Linux Environment

In this tutorial we will cover the steps to set up Netdata to monitor in real-time, of everything happening on your systems and applications, CPU, RAM, disk usage, traffic bandwidth … , with stunning, interactive web dashboards and powerful performance and health alarms..

1./ Install Required Packages

– Before we install anything, make sure the system is up to date using the following command:

# Debian / Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
 
# CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
# sudo yum update # Centos 7 / RHEL 7

– Use the following command to install the required packages:

# Debian / Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libmnl-dev gcc make git autoconf autoconf-archive autogen automake pkg-config curl
 
# CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
# sudo yum install autoconf automake curl gcc git libmnl-devel libuuid-devel lm_sensors make MySQL-python nc pkgconfig python python-psycopg2 PyYAML zlib-devel

2./ Install Netdata

– To install Netdata, we have to clone the Netdata repository from github:

# git clone https://github.com/firehol/netdata.git --depth=1

– Move to Netdata directory and run the netdata-installer.sh shell script to install Netdata:

# cd netdata
# run script with root privileges to build, install, start netdata
# sudo ./netdata-installer.sh

– Starting netdata at System boot:

# stop netdata
killall netdata
 
# copy netdata.service to systemd
cp system/netdata.service /etc/systemd/system/
 
# let systemd know there is a new service
systemctl daemon-reload
 
# enable netdata at boot
systemctl enable netdata
 
# start netdata
systemctl start netdata

– When the installation is done, open the browser http://server_ip:19999/ to access Netdata web interface.

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