Prometheus : Install

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Published on September 20, 2020 1:00:37 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVZBCU7rEwM

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Documentation : https://sbcode.net/prometheus/install-prometheus/

We will setup a dedicated Prometheus server.

Before you start, you will need a Linux server. Preferably an unrestricted Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server with root access, since all the commands demonstrated in this course were executed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server. I can can recommend using Digital Ocean for your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Link https://m.do.co/c/23d277be9014

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You can use other operating systems, such as Centos, but all commands in the course are prepared for Ubuntu 20, so you will experience some differences in syntax or equivalent commands which you may need to research yourself if I can't help you.

Once you have an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server ready, you can start.

SSH onto your server, on windows I use Putty as my SSH client.

# sudo apt install prometheus

This will have installed 2 services being Prometheus and the Prometheus Node Exporter. You can verify there status using the commands. (Press Ctrl-C to exit the status log)

# sudo service prometheus status
# sudo service prometheus-node-exporter status

The install also created a user called Prometheus. You can see which processes it is running by using the command,

# ps -u prometheus