This article is a step-by-step guide on how to install Grafana software on CentOS 8 server. Grafana is a popular open-source visualization and analytics monitoring software. It renders graphs, charts, and alerts when connected to supported data sources. It is commonly used with time series databases like Prometheus, SQL databases like MySQL logging, and document databases like Loki, etc. You can additionally install hundreds of plugins and dashboards from the official library.

Installation

As always, it is recommended to update our servers software before any new tool is installed. If the server has not been updated for some time, it may take a couple of minutes to update all the packages. Through this installation process, I will be signed in as a root user and you should be to.

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