Monitor a Linux server in Grafana Cloud
Welcome to the Grafana learning path that provides best practices for monitoring your Linux server.
This journey involves implementing an integration that provides helpful alerts and pre-built dashboards to monitor metrics and logs for Linux servers. Grafana’s Linux Server integration collects metrics related to the operating system running on a node, including aspects like CPU usage, load average, memory usage, and disk and networking I/O using node_exporter integration. In addition, the integration provides a three-tier view of Linux nodes with dashboard types — fleet view, node-specific overview, and drill down dashboards.
While this journey only focuses on configuring the Linux server integration on one machine, the following image shows the kind of data you’ll see when you monitor multiple machines.
The value of the Linux server integration
While Grafana is capable of great flexibility and customization, it also provides an out-of-the-box solution for Linux server monitoring. After you’ve deployed the Linux server integration, it starts collecting the most relevant logs and metrics from your Linux systems. The collected data is available in a set of dashboards and alerts that enable you to see and be notified of what’s happening in a single node or across the entire fleet. The pre-built dashboards and alerts represent industry best practices that let you monitor your infrastructure the right way.
While these dashboards provide you most of what you need, you always have the option of creating your own, custom dashboards.
Here’s what to expect
When you complete this journey, you’ll be able to:
- Describe the benefits of using Grafana Cloud as your observability solution
- Set up a Linux server integration and view telemetry data from your Linux server
- Use pre-built dashboards and alerts to identify and troubleshoot problems in your environment
Troubleshooting
If you get stuck, we’ve got your back! Where appropriate, troubleshooting information is just a click away.
More to explore
We understand you might want to explore other capabilities not strictly on this path. We’ll provide you opportunities where it makes sense.
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*.grafana.net.