How To Install Prometheus in Linux from binaries

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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


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