How To Install Prometheus On Ubuntu 22.04

To Install Prometheus On Ubuntu 22.04

Introduction

Prometheus is an open-source technology intended to deliver monitoring and alerting capabilities for cloud-native environments, such as Kubernetes. It is capable of collecting and storing metrics in the form of time-series data, systematically recording information with associated timestamps.

Procedure

Step – 1: 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 Prometheus, update the repository by using following command

root@linuxhelp:~# apt update -y
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [129 kB]
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [128 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [127 kB]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages [1,729 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main i386 Packages [524 kB]
Get:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages [1,948 kB]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main Translation-en [287 kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [43.2 kB]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main DEP-11 48x48 Icons [16.9 kB]     
Fetched 17.0 MB in 10s (1,658 kB/s)                                                                                                                
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
350 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Step – 3 : Now install Prometheus by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install prometheus prometheus-node-exporter -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libflashrom1 libftdi1-2 libllvm13
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fonts-glyphicons-halflings javascript-common libio-pty-perl libipc-run-perl libjs-bootstrap libjs-bootstrap4 libjs-d3
  libjs-eonasdan-bootstrap-datetimepicker libjs-jquery libjs-jquery-hotkeys libjs-moment libjs-moment-timezone libjs-mustache libjs-popper.js
  libjs-rickshaw libjs-sizzle libtime-duration-perl moreutils node-jquery prometheus-node-exporter-collectors smartmontools
Suggested packages:
  apache2 | lighttpd | httpd gsmartcontrol smart-notifier mailx | mailutils
Setting up prometheus (2.31.2+ds1-1ubuntu1.22.04.2) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/prometheus.service → /lib/systemd/system/prometheus.service.
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.13.1-4.2ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...

Step – 4 : Edit the Prometheus configuration file using vim editor

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml 
change the line from 
- targets: [localhost:9093']
to
- targets: ['<SERVER-IP>:9093']

Step – 5 : Restart the Prometheus to apply changes

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl restart prometheus

Step – 6 : Check the Prometheus status by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl status prometheus
● prometheus.service - Monitoring system and time series database
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/prometheus.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2024-08-19 03:43:01 IST; 17s ago
       Docs: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/
             man:prometheus(1)
   Main PID: 5470 (prometheus)
      Tasks: 9 (limit: 4556)
     Memory: 21.1M
        CPU: 963ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/prometheus.service
             └─5470 /usr/bin/prometheus

Step – 7 : Open the browser and search your ip address with 9090 port number http://:9090

Step – 8 : You will see the following dashboard page of the Prometheus monitoring tool.

Conclusion

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