Monitor a Linux server in Grafana Cloud
Welcome to the Grafana learning journey that provides best practices for monitoring your Linux server.
This journey involves implementing an integration that provides helpful alerts and pre-built dashboards to monitor metrics and logs for Linux servers. Grafana’s Linux Server integration collects metrics related to the operating system running on a node, including aspects like CPU usage, load average, memory usage, and disk and networking I/O using node_exporter integration. In addition, the integration provides a three-tier view of Linux nodes with dashboard types — fleet view, node-specific overview, and drill down dashboards.
While this journey only focuses on configuring the Linux server integration on one machine, the following image shows the kind of data you’ll see when you monitor multiple machines.
Here’s what to expect
When you complete this journey, you’ll be able to:
- Describe the benefits of using Grafana Cloud as your observability solution
- Set up a Linux server integration and view telemetry data from your Linux server
- Use pre-built dashboards and alerts to identify and troubleshoot problems in your environment
Troubleshooting
If you get stuck, we’ve got your back! Where appropriate, troubleshooting information is just a click away.
More to explore
We understand you might want to explore other capabilities not strictly on this path. We’ll provide you opportunities where it makes sense.
Before you begin
Before you begin installing an integration, ensure you have:
- A Grafana Cloud account. To create an account, see Grafana Cloud.
- A machine running Linux (or the OS of the integration you’re installing).
- Command line (terminal) access to the machine.
- Admin access to the Linux machine on which you are installing the integration
- Configured your firewall to allow outbound HTTPS (port 443) to *.grafana.net"