Monitor Your Fedora Server with Prometheus: A Setup Guide

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Monitor Your Fedora Server with Prometheus: A Setup Guide

Setting up Prometheus Monitoring on a Fedora Server

Prometheus is a monitoring and alerting system that allows you to track various server and application metrics. In this article, we'll look at how to set up Prometheus monitoring on a server running the Fedora operating system.

Before you begin installing and configuring Prometheus, make sure your server is running Fedora. If not, install it using the following command:

sudo dnf install fedora-release

After successfully installing the Fedora operating system, let's proceed with installing and configuring Prometheus. Use the following commands to install Prometheus:

sudo dnf install Prometheus

After installing Prometheus, you need to configure it to monitor the server. Create a Prometheus configuration file using the following command:

sudo nano /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

Open the created configuration file using a text editor and add the following code to monitor the server:

global: scrape_interval: 15s evaluation_interval: 15s scrape_configs: - job_name: 'node' static_configs: - targets: ['localhost:9100']

After configuring Prometheus, save and close the file. Restart the Prometheus service using the following command:

sudo systemctl restart Prometheus

Prometheus is now configured to monitor your Fedora server. You can open the Prometheus web interface by entering the following address in your browser: http://localhost:9090. Here you will find various graphs and metrics of your server.

Remember to configure alerts in Prometheus to stay informed about all changes and issues on your server. Happy monitoring!

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