Grafana Primer

Install InfluxDB

Add the influxdb repository

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/influxdb.repo
[influxdb]
name = InfluxDB Repository - RHEL \$releasever
baseurl = https://repos.influxdata.com/rhel/\$releasever/\$basearch/stable
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key
EOF

Install influxdb via yum

sudo yum install -y influxdb

Start influxdb

sudo service influxdb start

Enable influxdb on boot

sudo systemctl enable influxdb

Install Grafana

sudo yum install https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/grafana-releases/release/grafana-4.6.3-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum install initscripts fontconfig freetype* urw-fonts
sudo rpm -Uvh grafana-4.6.3-1.x86_64.rpm

Start the service

sudo service grafana-server start

Enable the service on boot

sudo systemctl enable grafana-server