How to Install Netdata Monitoring Tool on Pop OS

To Install Netdata Monitoring Tool Pop OS

Netdata is a monitoring tool created by firehol. Netdata grabs data from the Linux system on CPU, RAM, disk usage and more. It has a variety of plugin modules that support the following services. The installation of Netdata Monitoring Tool Pop OS is so simple and this tutorial covers the ground on the same method.

Features

• Redis
• Memcached
• Haproxy
• Varnish
• MySQL and MariaDB
• nginx
• Apache
• fail2ban

Installing Netdata Monitoring Tool

First, make sure you update your system by making use of the following command.

root@localhost:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
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Fetched 306 kB in 2s (153 kB/s)    
Reading package lists... Done

And then, you need to install the dependencies by making use of the following command.

root@localhost:~# apt-get install zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libmnl-dev gcc make git autoconf autogen automake pkg-config curl jq nodejs -y
Reading package lists... Done
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Setting up uuid-dev:amd64 (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

Once it is done, enter into the Home directory and git clone the Netdata.

root@localhost:~# cd ~
root@localhost:~# git clone https://github.com/firehol/netdata.git --depth=1
Cloning into ' netdata' ...
remote: Counting objects: 728, done.
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Resolving deltas: 100% (98/98), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

And then, enter the Netdata folder to run installer script.

root@localhost:~# cd netdata/
root@localhost:~/netdata# ./netdata-installer.sh

  ^
  |.-.   .-.   .-.   .-.   .  netdata                                        
  |   ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    real-time performance monitoring, done right!  
  +----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---> 
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 Press ENTER to build and install netdata to your system >  

 --- Run autotools to configure the build environment --- 
[/root/netdata]# ./autogen.sh 
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--- We are done! --- 
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  |.-.   .-.   .-.   .-.   .-.   .  netdata                          .-.   .-
  |   ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    ' -'    is installed and running now!  -'    ' -'   
  +----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---> 

  enjoy real-time performance and health monitoring...

Now, you need to kill the current Netdata process.

root@localhost:~/netdata# killall netdata

And copy over the Netdata systemd service.

root@localhost:~/netdata# cp system/netdata.service /etc/systemd/system/

You shall now enable and start the Netdata service by making use of the following command.

root@localhost:~/netdata# systemctl enable netdata
root@localhost:~/netdata# systemctl start netdata

To open browser and type URL http://< ip-address> :1999

With this, the installation of Netdata on Pop OS comes to an end.