Installing on Debian / Ubuntu

    Example:

    1. sudo apt-get install -y adduser libfontconfig1
    2. sudo dpkg -i grafana_5.4.2_amd64.deb

    APT Repository

    The command add-apt-repository isn’t a default app on Debian 9 and requires

    1. apt-get install -y software-properties-common

    Install the repository for stable releases

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

    There is a separate repository if you want beta releases.

    Use the above line even if you are on Ubuntu or another Debian version. Then add our gpg key. This allows you to install signed packages.

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

    Update your Apt repositories and install Grafana

    1. sudo apt-get update
    2. sudo apt-get install grafana
    1. sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https

    Package details

    • Installs binary to /usr/sbin/grafana-server
    • Installs Init.d script to /etc/init.d/grafana-server
    • Creates default file (environment vars) to
    • Installs configuration file to /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
    • The default configuration sets the log file at /var/log/grafana/grafana.log
    • The default configuration specifies an sqlite3 db at /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db
    • Installs HTML/JS/CSS and other Grafana files at /usr/share/grafana

    Start Grafana by running:

    This will start the grafana-server process as the grafana user, which was created during the package installation. The default HTTP port is 3000 and default user and group is admin.

    Default login and password admin/ admin

    To configure the Grafana server to start at boot time:

    1. sudo update-rc.d grafana-server defaults

    Start the server (via systemd)

    To start the service using systemd:

    2. systemctl start grafana-server
    3. systemctl status grafana-server

    Enable the systemd service so that Grafana starts at boot.

    1. sudo systemctl enable grafana-server.service

    Environment file

    By default Grafana will log to /var/log/grafana

    The default configuration specifies a sqlite3 database located at /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db. Please backup this database before upgrades. You can also use MySQL or Postgres as the Grafana database, as detailed on the configuration page.

    The configuration file is located at /etc/grafana/grafana.ini. Go the page for details on all those options.

    Installing from binary tar file

    Download and extract it. This will extract into a folder named after the version you downloaded. This folder contains all files required to run Grafana. There are no init scripts or install scripts in this package.

    To configure Grafana add a configuration file named custom.ini to the conf folder and override any of the settings defined in conf/defaults.ini.

    Start Grafana by executing ./bin/grafana-server web. The binary needs the working directory to be the root install directory (where the binary and the public folder is located).

    Logging in for the first time