How to graph the resource usage of servers?

Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf.

Telegraf is the agent you install on the host to push metrics into InfluxDB. Telegraf has a huge config file, but is very easy to configure. Grafana is the dashboard engine.

I installed all three on a Debian server last week and used Ansible to install Telegram on 4 VM’s. Then I configured Telegram. Had everything up an running within 20 minutes. I did, however, have to configure /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf to enable network interface monitoring and specify the name of the interface you want to monitor.

Here is the article I used to perform the install and configuration:

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