How to install Monitorix on Ubuntu 22.04

To Install Monitorix On Ubuntu 22.04

Introduction

Monitorix is an open-source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production UNIX/Linux servers, but due to its simplicity and small size, many use it on embedded devices as well.

Procedure Steps

Step – 1 : At first, check the Os version

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

Step – 2 : Before installing monitorix need to update repository by using following command

root@linuxhelp:~# apt update 
Ign:1 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge InRelease                                                         
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease                                                             
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                              
Hit:4 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release                                     
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease   
Hit:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Hit:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/cubic-wizard/release/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
105 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Step – 3 : Now install monitorix with its dependencies by using following command

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install monitorix rrdtool perl libwww-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-lite-perl librrds-perl libdbi-perl libxml-simple-perl libhttp-server-simple-perl libconfig-general-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl -y
Reading package lists... Done
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 libconfig-general-perl all 2.63-1 [53.9 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libdbi-perl amd64 1.643-3build3 [741 kB]
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libcgi-pm-perl all 4.54-1 [188 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 libhttp-server-simple-perl all 0.52-1.1 [23.2 kB]
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.6) ...

Step – 4 : Now check the monitorix version

root@linuxhelp:~# monitorix -v
Monitorix version 3.14.0 (18-Jan-2022)
by Jordi Sanfeliu <jordi@fibranet.cat>
https://www.monitorix.org/

Step – 5 : Then enable monitorix by using following command

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl enable --now monitorix
Synchronizing state of monitorix.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable monitorix

Step – 6 : After enabling check the status of the monitorix

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl status monitorix
● monitorix.service - Monitorix
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/monitorix.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2024-03-30 08:04:22 IST; 1min 20s ago
       Docs: man:monitorix(8)
   Main PID: 5532 (/usr/bin/monito)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 4554)
     Memory: 78.6M
        CPU: 2.719s
     CGroup: /system.slice/monitorix.service
             ├─5532 "/usr/bin/monitorix -c /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf -p /run/monitorix.pid"
             └─5595 "monitorix-httpd listening on 8080"

Mar 30 08:04:22 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Starting Monitorix...
Mar 30 08:04:22 linuxhelp systemd[1]: Started Monitorix.

Step – 7 : Now go to the brower and search with the following url http://server-ip:8080/monitorix for accessing monitorix dashboard.

Step – 8 : Then click ok button you will see the server status on the next page

Conclusion :

We have reached the end of this article. In this guide, we have walked you through the steps required to Installation of Monitorix on Ubuntu 22.04. Your feedback is much welcome.