Setup Grafana in your local environment on AWS EC2 (01) : Day 56

step 1 : Go to the AWS console, and create an EC2 instance named “Grafana”.

step 2 : Now, allow the inbound port 3000 from the “Security Group”.

step 3 : Now, login into the machine.

step 4 : Now, Run the below commands to Install Grafana on Ubuntu.

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

step 5 : For the Stable release :

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

step 6 : run update command:

sudo apt-get update

step 7 : install Grafana :

sudo apt-get install grafana

step 8 : Start Grafana-server:

sudo /bin/systemctl start grafana-server

step 9 : The installation of the Grafana repo is finished and ready to use.

step 10 : Now, check the status.

sudo systemctl status grafana-server

step 11 : Now, check public_IP_of_EC2:3000 on new tab, that takes you to the Grafana dashboard.

step 12 : Enter your username & password as - admin, and later set your new password.

This will take you to the Grafana Dashboard.

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Setup Grafana in your local environment on AWS EC2 (01) : Day 56

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