By Sajid Qureshi, Alibaba Cloud Tech Share Author. Tech Share is Alibaba Cloud's incentive program to encourage the sharing of technical knowledge and best practices within the cloud community.
Netdata is an open source performance and health monitoring system for Linux and MacOS. Metrics in Netdata are organized in collections called charts. Charts have a purpose and a scope. This makes Netdata extremely useful for learning the underlying technologies. It helps us to understand how things work and what is available. Real - time alarms are also supported in Netdata and these alarms can be setup on any metrics or any combination of them. Netdata is very resource efficient and you can control its resource consumption.
Before installing netdata on your CentOS server, we will have to install nginx web server. Nginx web server can be installed from epel repository. so first install EPEL repository using following command, if you do not have it.
yum -y install epel-release(You can switch from non root user to root user using sudo -i )
Now install nginx from following command.
yum -y install nginxOnce the installation is finished, start the service using the following command below.
systemctl start nginxNext, enable it to launch automatically at system boot using below command.
systemctl enable nginxNow you'll need to open HTTP and HTTPS ports using following commands, so execute following commands one-by-one.
firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
firewall-cmd --add-service=https --permanent
firewall-cmd --reloadIf in case you don't have firewalld services running then you can install it using below command.
yum -y install firewalldTo install netdata you'll have to enable 'stub_status' module and you can do that by editing the configuration file 'nginx.conf'. Go to the '/etc/nginx/' directory using following command.
cd /etc/nginx/Next, edit the configuration with any text editor. Here we are using nano text editor.
nano nginx.confIf in case you don't have it you can also install it using this command.
yum -y install nanoPaste the following content inside the 'server {}' block.
location /stub_status {
stub_status;
# Security: Only allow access from the IP below.
allow 127.0.0.1;
# Deny anyone else
deny all;
}Save the file and exit from the text editor.
Now, test the nginx configuration and make sure there is no error and to do so execute following command.
nginx -tNext, restart nginx using following command.
systemctl restart nginxNow we will install netdata to monitor nginx server. You'll need to install some required packages before installing netdata and you can do so using following command.
yum -y install zlib-devel libuuid-devel libmnl-devel gcc make git autoconf autogen automake pkgconfig curl jq nodejsNow download netdata source code from github using following git command.
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/firehol/netdata.git --depth=1Go to netdata directory using following cd command.
cd netdata/Next, run the Netdata installer script with sudo privileges and you can do so using following command.
sudo ./netdata-installer.shPress the Enter button to continue the netdata installation and complete the installation.
Netdata will run on port '19999' so you'll need to open this port using following command.
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=19999/tcpReload firewalld service to apply changes that we just configured.
sudo firewall-cmd --reloadNetdata provides a systemd services script, so you can manage Netdata using the systemctl command. Restart netdata and enable it to launch automatically every time at system boot. So execute following commands one by one.
systemctl restart netdata
systemctl enable netdataNext, make sure that port is opened to run netdata so execute following command and check if port 19999 on the 'LISTEN' state or NOT.
netstat -plntuAll the required packages have been installed and now we are ready to monitor our nginx server using netdata. To monitor system applications netdata provides modules. There are some applications like Apache, Nginx, MongoDB etc that use python modules for monitoring using Netdata.
Change your current directory to netdata 'python.d' directory using following command.
cd /etc/netdata/python.d/Now edit the nginx configuration file 'nginx.conf' using any text editor. Here we are using nano text editor.
nginx.confGo to the bottom line and make sure you have a configuration as shown below.
localhost:
name : 'local'
url : 'http://localhost/stub_status'Save the file and exit from text editor.
Finally restart the netdata service using following command.
systemctl restart netdataNetdata is successfully installed and running on your server. Open your favorite web browser to test it. Point your web browser to YourServerIP with port 19999.
http://YourServerIPAddress:19999Replace YourServerIPAddress with your actual server IP address and you will be redirected to netdata dashboard. You can manage netdata operations like Nginx active connections, requests, status and the connection rate from that dashboard.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Netdata on your server. Your Nginx services are being monitored using Netdata on your Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) CentOS 7 server.
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