Install netdata – CentOS 7

With the EOL of the free tier of NewRelic’s Server monitoring service, we tried going commando for a while, meaning no server monitoring. We know bad – bad, idea.

NewRelics Server monitoring service was great but the free tier came with only 24 hours of data retention. We wanted something which would give us more flexibility, behold netdata.

Netdata claims real-time insights of more than 5000 metrics with interactive dashboards along with performance and health monitors, all this with very little or no configuration.

Let’s get started

Start off by installing the Epel repo

yum install epel-release

Install the development tools group package

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Now we need to install other pre-requisites:

yum install curl nodejs jq

Fetch the netdata  repo

# Navigate to your home directory
cd ~

# Fetch the repo
git clone https://github.com/firehol/netdata.git --depth=1

# Step into the fetched repo
cd netdata

It's now time to run the installer

# Run the installer
./netdata-installer.sh

For reference sake, these are the locations which netdata will be using

 - the daemon     at /usr/sbin/netdata
 - config files   in /etc/netdata
 - web files      in /usr/share/netdata
 - plugins        in /usr/libexec/netdata
 - cache files    in /var/cache/netdata
 - db files       in /var/lib/netdata
 - log files      in /var/log/netdata
 - pid file       at /var/run/netdata.pid
 - logrotate file at /etc/logrotate.d/netdata

To start netdata

service netdata start

# To stop
service netdata stop

Add netdata to startup

chkconfig netdata on

To access netdata, make sure the service is active and navigate to:

http://IP-OF-YOUR-MACHINE:19999

Note: You’ll need to open port 19999 if you’re running a firewall.