# Day 73 - Grafana🔥Part-2   (Feb 7, 2024)

## **🙏 Introduction:**

In this blog, we will learn about open-source monitoring tool Grafana.

# **🎯Task: 1**

## **Setup grafana in your local environment on AWS EC2**

* Go to the AWS console and Launch an EC2 instance
    

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* Open port 3000 in your EC2 instance's security group to allow external access to Grafana.
    

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* Now we will SSH our instance
    

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* Download the GPG keys and add them to the trusted keys list
    

```plaintext
wget -q -O - https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add
```

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* Now, add it to the Grafana repository
    

```plaintext
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main"
```

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* Update our EC2 instance
    

```plaintext
sudo apt update -y
```

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* Install Grafana
    

```plaintext
sudo apt install grafana
```

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* Start & enable the Grafana server
    

```plaintext
sudo systemctl start grafana-server
sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
```

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* Check the status of Grafana server
    

```plaintext
sudo systemctl status grafana-server
```

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* Access Grafana server
    

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