Grafana is an open-source data visualization and monitoring suite. It offers help for Graphite, Elasticsearch, Included, Prometheus, and much more databases. The application offers a stunning dashboard and metric analytics, with the potential to manage and create your personal dashboard to possess apps or infrastructure performance monitoring.

Here at Ibmi Media, as part of our Server Management Services, we regularly help our Customers to perform related System Monitoring queries on Linux machines.

In this context, we shall look into the process of installing Grafana on a Linux Mint 20 system.

Steps to Install Grafana on Linux Mint

To get Grafana installed on a Linux Mint 20 machine, you will have to perform the following steps.

1. Perform system update

To begin, you need to get your system updated with the below command:

$ sudo apt update

2. Install Software Prerequisite / Packages

Next, you have to install some required packages with the following command:

$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https software-properties-common wget

3. Import the GPG Key for Grafana:

After that, you need to import the GPG key for Grafana by running the below command:

$ wget –qO- https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add –

The "OK" response in the output will represent a successful execution of this command.

4. Check if the GPG Key for Grafana has been imported successfully or not:

You can also confirm whether the GPG key for Grafana has been imported successfully or not by executing the following command:

$ echo “deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main” | sudo tee –a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list

5.  Perform system update Again

You need to update the system again with the following command:

$ sudo apt update

6. Install Grafana 

Now, you need to install Grafana on your system with the below command:

$ sudo apt install grafana

7. Reload the System Daemon

Now, you need to reload your system's daemon with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload

8. Enable the Grafana Server

After that, you need to enable the Grafana server with the below command:

$ sudo systemctl enable grafana-server

9. Start the Grafana Server

Finally, after enabling the Grafana server, you need to start it by running the following command:

$ sudo systemctl start grafana-server

10. Check the Status of the Grafana Server

You can confirm whether the Grafana server is running actively or not by executing the below command:

$ sudo systemctl status grafana-server

Now you will see that the Grafana server is running actively on our Linux Mint 20 system.

How to Uninstall Grafana from Linux Mint 20 ?

If you want to remove the Grafana server from your system, then you can execute the below command:

$ sudo apt-get purge --autoremove grafana

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