How To Install Prometheus in Linux from binaries

Creating Service Users

• Create these two users, and use the --no-create-home and --shell /bin/false options so that these users can't log into the server.

sudo useradd --no-create-home --shell /bin/false prometheus

sudo useradd --no-create-home --shell /bin/false node_exporter

• Before we download the Prometheus binaries, create the necessary directories for storing Prometheus' files and data. Following standard Linux conventions, we'll create a directory in /etc for Prometheus' configuration files and a directory in /var/lib for its data.

sudo mkdir /etc/prometheus

sudo mkdir /var/lib/prometheus

• Now, set the user and group ownership on the new directories to the prometheus user.

sudo chown prometheus:prometheus /etc/prometheus

sudo chown prometheus:prometheus /var/lib/prometheus

Downloading Prometheus

• First, download and unpack the current stable version of Prometheus into your home directory.

curl -LO https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.0.0/prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz

• Now, unpack the downloaded archive.

tar xvf prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz

• This will create a directory called prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64 containing two binary files (prometheus and promtool), consoles and console_libraries directories containing the web interface files, a license, a notice, and several example files.

Copy the two binaries to the /usr/local/bin directory.

sudo cp prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64/prometheus /usr/local/bin/

sudo cp prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64/promtool /usr/local/bin/

• Set the user and group ownership on the binaries to the prometheus user created in Step 1.

sudo chown prometheus:prometheus /usr/local/bin/prometheus

sudo chown prometheus:prometheus /usr/local/bin/promtool

• Copy the consoles and console_libraries directories to /etc/prometheus.

sudo cp -r prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64/consoles /etc/prometheus

sudo cp -r prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64/console_libraries /etc/prometheus

• Set the user and group ownership on the directories to the prometheus user. Using the -R flag will ensure that ownership is set on the files inside the directory as well.

sudo chown -R prometheus:prometheus /etc/prometheus/consoles

sudo chown -R prometheus:prometheus /etc/prometheus/console_libraries

• Lastly, remove the leftover files from your home directory as they are no longer needed.

rm -rf prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64

See also

• Monitoring: On call, Monitoring software, Monitoring services, Resource monitoring, Metric colletion tools, network monitoring, SLA Management Monitoring Tools, Alarm/Alert, Resource starvation, Alerts and notifications, Monitoring Kubernetes, VictoriaMetrics, Sensu, LogicMonitor, Distributed tracing, Datadog Monitors

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