Installing Grafana

The following will walk you through how to install and configure Grafana. This should NOT be installed on a Couchbase node, but rather on a standalone server in the same network as your Couchbase cluster.

Configure Yum

Add a new file to your YUM repository using the method of your choice.

sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/grafana.repo

Add the following to the file and save it.

[grafana]
name=grafana
baseurl=https://packages.grafana.com/oss/rpm
repo_gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

If you would like to install using rpm visit https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/rpm/

Install Grafana with Yum

sudo yum install grafana -y

Install Grafana Binaries

These steps will install binaries in /usr/sbin/grafana-server:

• Installs default file (environment vars) to /etc/sysconfig/grafana-server
• Copies configuration file to /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
• Installs systemd service (if systemd is available) name /usr/lib/systemd/system/grafana-server.service
• The default configuration uses a log file at /var/log/grafana/grafana.log
• The default configuration specifies an sqlite3 database at /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db

Reload systemd and Start Grafana

Reload the systemd service to register the grafana service and start the grafana service.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start grafana-server

Check the grafana service status using the following command.

sudo systemctl status grafana-server

Configure grafana to start at boot

sudo systemctl enable grafana-server.service

Access Grafana UI

Now you will be able to access the Grafana UI on port 3000 of the server.

http://<grafana-ip>:3000

You should be able to see the following UI as shown below.

The default user and password is admin, you will be prompted to change this but you are not required to.