How to Install Grafana on a Raspberry Pi
What is Grafana? Grafana is the software that is used to graph and make pretty pictures out of all the data collected by Prometheus. It’s relatively straightforward to install and there’s an ARM version already built and ready for download on their website! First, do your usual updates: apt update apt upgrade Let’s install the […]
Read MoreInstalling Prometheus Agents via Saltstack
So now you’ve got your Prometheus server up-and-running and you want to monitor everything on the network. Understandable. You’ve installed a couple of agents on some sample targets to get a feel for how that goes. Time to write a saltstack state file to get the agent, node_exporter, installed on everything. Saltstack Server Preparation We […]
Read MoreHow to Run Prometheus on a Raspberry Pi
Prometheus is a network monitoring software to make sure the servers and services that you set up continue to run on your network. Monitoring can be a part of your home Raspberry Pi network! To get started, go to the Prometheus website https://prometheus.io/download/ and use the pulldowns to find the server software. I’m going to […]
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