Netdata is a complete, comprehensive, graphical performance monitoring system for Linux. Netdata provides an easier and fun way to monitor your server via web browser easily. This tutorial is going to show you how to install Netdata on CentOS 7 server. You may want to check how to install CentOS 7 Core first before attempting to install Netdata on it. Netdata system monitoring is available to monitor the following sections of your server:
- CPU
- Memory
- Disks
- Network
Each main sections are divided into several sub sections.
Steps to install netdata on CentOS 7
A. Install dependency files
CentOS system must have some packages in order to run Netdata. Use this command to install all the dependency packages:
yum install zlib-devel gcc make git autoconf autogen automake pkgconfig
B. Download Netdata package
git clone https://github.com/firehol/netdata.git –depth=1
C. Install Netdata
cd netdata
./netdata-installer.sh
Follow installation instruction shown on your screen. When finished, open a web browser from other computer and type the server ip address with the following format:
http://ip-address:19999
Enjoy.