Setup Grafana in your local environment on AWS EC2

Day 73 of #90DaysOfDevOps

Follow the below steps to setup and launch Grafana in your local environment.

Step #1: Launch and connect to an EC2 instance

Wait for the running and status check complete.

After completing, connect to the instance.

Step #2: Install required tools

On the Debian and Ubuntu devices perform the below commands one by one.

sudo apt-get update
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

First, it will update the system. Second, it will install apt-transport-https. Third, it will install software-properties-common and wget. Last, it will get the installation key for the Grafana tool.

Step #3: Add stable Grafana release to apt repository

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

sudo apt-get update #Update the system

Step #4: Install Grafana

sudo apt-get install grafana -y

Grafana is installed.

Start the Grafana:

sudo /bin/systemctl start grafana-server

You can enable the Grafana with the command:

sudo /bin/systemctl enable grafana-server

Check the status withthe command:

sudo /bin/systemctl status grafana-server

Step #5: Allow the port

As Grafana works on port number 3000; in the security group, add 3000 in the inbound rule. For the safety purpose, I enabled it for my IP only. If you want you can open it for everywhere(0.0.0.0/0).