How to Install Netdata in Ubuntu

To install Netdata in Ubuntu

Netdata is an extremely light-weight, real time performance monitoring tool, which monitors system, applications, embedded devices, servers and many more. This tutorial will help you with the installation procedure of Netdata on your Ubuntu machine.

Installation of Netdata

The prior installation of the prerequisites are essential for installing Netdata. So, use the following command for the same.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libmnl-dev gcc make git autoconf autogen automake pkg-config curl jq nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
&hellip 
&hellip 
Setting up libmnl-dev (1.0.3-5) ...
Setting up nodejs (4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu4.1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/nodejs to provide /usr/bin/js (js) in auto mode
Setting up uuid-dev:amd64 (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

After installing the prerequisites, clone the Netdata files from git by issuing the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# cd /opt/
root@linuxhelp:/opt# git clone https://github.com/firehol/netdata.git --depth=1
Cloning into ' netdata' ...
remote: Counting objects: 419, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (389/389), done.
remote: Total 419 (delta 61), reused 149 (delta 17), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (419/419), 2.04 MiB | 211.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (61/61), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
root@linuxhelp:/opt# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Nov 14 00:42 ./
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Aug  2 15:09 ../
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Nov 14 00:43 netdata/

Now is the time to install Netdata. Invoke the following command for the same.

root@linuxhelp:/opt/netdata# ./netdata-installer.sh
^
  |.-.   .-.   .-.   .-.   .  netdata                                        
  |   ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    real-time performance monitoring, done right!  
  +----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---> 

  You are about to build and install netdata to your system.
By default netdata listens on all IPs on port 19999,
so you can access it with:
http://this.machine.ip:19999/
To stop netdata, just kill it, with:
  killall netdata
To start it, just run it:
 /usr/sbin/netdata
Uninstall script generated: ./netdata-uninstaller.sh
Update script generated   : ./netdata-updater.sh
 ^
  |.-.   .-.   .-.   .-.   .-.   .  netdata                          .-.   .-
  |   ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    is installed and running now!  -'    ' -'   
  +----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---> 
enjoy real-time performance and health monitoring...

To Access Netdata

Open the web browser and call your IP address along with the portnumber ' 19999' . Netdata can be used to view the following:

1. System Overview

2. System Load

3. Memory usage

4. Disk Usage

5. Network Interface