Day 73 - Grafana 🔥

Task 1: Setup Grafana in Your Local Environment on AWS EC2

• We'll follow the steps outlined in the Official Grafana Documentation

Step 1: Launch an AWS EC2 Instance

• Log in to your AWS Management Console.

• Navigate to the EC2 service.

• Click on "Launch Instance" to create a new instance.

• Select an appropriate Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for your EC2 instance. Choose an image that supports Grafana, like Amazon Linux or Ubuntu.

• Choose an instance type based on your requirements.

• Configure instance details such as the VPC, subnet, security group, and any other necessary settings.

• Add storage if needed, and configure tags and security settings as per your requirements.

• Review and launch the instance.

Step 2: Connect to Your EC2 Instance

• Once the instance is launched, select it from the EC2 dashboard.

• Click on "Connect" to get connection instructions.

• Follow the instructions to connect to your instance using your preferred method.

Step 3: Install Grafana

Complete the following steps to install Grafana from the APT repository:

• To install the required packages and download the Grafana repository signing key, run the following commands:

 sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
 sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common wget
 sudo wget -q -O /usr/share/keyrings/grafana.key https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key

• To add a repository for stable releases, run the following command:

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grafana.key] https://apt.grafana.com beta main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list

• Run the following command to update the list of available packages:

• To install Grafana OSS, run the following command:

 # Installs the latest OSS release:
 sudo apt-get install grafana

Step 4: Start and Enable Grafana Service

• Start the Grafana service:

 sudo systemctl start grafana-server

• Enable the Grafana service to start on boot:

 sudo systemctl enable grafana-server

Step 5: Access Grafana Web Interface

• By default, Grafana listens on port 3000. Open port 3000 in the security group associated with your EC2 instance to allow incoming traffic.

• Open your web browser and access Grafana using your EC2 instance's public IP address or DNS name, followed by port 3000 (e.g., http://your-ec2-public-ip:3000).

Step 6: Log in to Grafana

• On the sign-in page, enter admin for username and password.

• The first time you access Grafana, you will be prompted to set up an admin password.

• Set your admin password and log in with the default username "admin" and the password you just set.

Step 7: Explore Grafana

• Once you log in, you will be directed to the Grafana dashboard.

• Explore the Grafana interface and start creating your own dashboards to visualize and monitor data from various data sources.