What is it Telegraf, InfluxDB & Grafana?

Telegraf

Telegraf Is a tool that allows you to monitor a server.

It gets information about disk, memory, cpu, etc.

InfluxDb

Influxdb is a timebase database for storing information.

In this case is used to store the metrics of a sytsem.

Grafana

Grafana is a tool to visualizae data. It allows multiple data sources. Influxdb is one of them.

Instaling the software

This is an instalation in Unbutu.

Instaling Telegraf

wget -q -O - https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/ubuntu bionic stable"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install telegraf

Instaling InfluxDb

sudo apt-get install influxdb
sudo apt-get install influxdb-client

Instaling Grafana

wget -q -O - https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q -O - https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grafana

Lauching services

To lauch or know the status of a service you shout use the omand service

>sudo service
Usage: service < option > | --status-all | [ service_name [ command | --full-restart ] ]

sudo service influxdb start
sudo service grafana-server start
sudo service telegraf start