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This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Netdata Monitoring on an Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver server.
Install Netdata Monitoring on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing Netdata Monitoring on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Install Netdata using following command:
sudo apt install netdata
Step 3. Configure Netdata Monitoring.
Run the following command to configuration file and bind the server IP address:
nano /etc/netdata/netdata.conf
Then change the line to bind to the IP address of the server and save the changes:
[global] run as user = netdata web files owner = root web files group = root # Netdata is not designed to be exposed to potentially hostile # networks.See https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/164 bind socket to IP = 127.0.0.1
After restart NetData service to apply the changes:
systemctl restart netdata
Step 4. Accessing Netdata Monitoring.
Netdata Monitoring will be available on HTTP port 19999 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com:19999 or http://server-ip:19999
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Netdata. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Netdata Monitoring on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Netdata web site.