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Linux server integration

Linux server integration

The Linux server integration provides comprehensive host monitoring for Linux servers. It’s the foundation of infrastructure observability. If you’re running Linux, this is where you start.

What it’s forMonitoring health and performance of Linux servers
Who uses itDevOps, SREs, platform teams, anyone managing Linux infrastructure
Under the hoodUses node_exporter, the industry standard for Linux metrics

Metrics collected

The integration collects the core host metrics that show server health:

  • CPU: Usage, load average, per-core stats
  • Memory: Used, available, buffers, cache
  • Disk: Usage, I/O, latency, IOPS
  • Network: Bandwidth, packets, errors
  • Filesystem: Mount points, inodes

What to know

  • Prebuilt dashboards: fleet overview and host detail
  • Prebuilt alerts: CPU, memory, disk thresholds
  • Comprehensive host metrics: CPU, memory, disk, network
  • Industry-standard node_exporter under the hood

Set it up

Open this learning path in your Grafana Cloud stack for a fully interactive experience, or read through it to understand the process first.

Learning path

Monitor a Linux server

Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides the best practice for setting up your Linux server integration.

23 min
Beginner
Docs & blog posts

Open in Grafana Cloud

Complete this learning path directly in your Grafana Cloud stack with an interactive learning experience.

Open in Grafana Cloud
View on website

Script

The Linux server integration is a foundation of infrastructure monitoring, built on node_exporter, the industry standard for Linux metrics.

You get everything you need for host monitoring: CPU with per-core use and load averages, memory that separates real usage from cache, disk I/O with throughput, latency, and IOPS, plus network, filesystem, and process metrics.

The prebuilt dashboards give you both a fleet overview and a deep-dive view for troubleshooting specific hosts, and the included alerts catch the classics: high CPU, low memory, and disks filling up.

If you run Linux servers, this integration is your foundation.

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