How to Install a Monitoring Dashboard in Under 5 Minutes Using InfluxData

I have my trusty MacBook Pro on which I do just about everything, so that’s what I’m going to install this dashboard on. Here’s what I’m working with:

I installed and configured InfluxDB, Chronograf, Telegraf, and Kapacitor and set up a quick system monitoring dashboard to keep track of some system stats — all in under five minutes.

Here’s the proof!

Here’s how I did it:

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Davids-MacBook-Pro:~ davidgs$ brew install influxdb 
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    /usr/local/Cellar/influxdb/1.3.6: 9 files, 56.4MB 
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    /usr/local/Cellar/telegraf/1.4.2: 8 files, 43.2MB 
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    /usr/local/Cellar/kapacitor/1.3.3: 6 files, 79.0MB 
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    /usr/local/Cellar/chronograf/1.3.9.0: 4 files, 21.2MB 
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==>Successfully started `influxdb` (label: homebrew.mxcl.influxdb)
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That’s it! A total of seven commands: three to install the entire TICK stack (because Chronograf has a dependency on Kapacitor, so it gets installed automatically) and four to start all the services and make sure that they start across reboots.

It just doesn’t get any more simple than that!