Install Monitorix 3.14.0 on Ubuntu / Rocky Linux & Fedora

Monitorix is a free and Open-source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor services, system resources, and servers. It is similar to Zabbix, Nagios, and Cacti.

This tutorial will be helpful for the users to install Monitorix 3.14.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10, LinuxMint 20.3, Fedora 35, and Rocky Linux 8.

Monitorix team released a new version 3.14.0 on January 18, 2022.

What’s new in Monitorix 3.14.0?

- Newer version Introduces 3 modules: nvme.pm , nvidiagpu.pm, amdgpu.pm.

- Added support in redis.pm to connect to a socket file

- Added support for IPv6 addresses in traffacct.pm

- Added the option time_unit in system.pm to set the scale of the uptime graph

- Added the ability to view the website as web app in full screen mode

- Added legend customisation to ambsens.pm

- Fixed to honour the option on graphs 2 and 3 in disk.pm.

- Small cosmetic changes.

Refer to the URL for the complete changelog.

Install Monitorix 3.14.0 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint?

Step 1: Make sure the system is up to date

sudo apt update

Step 2: Install the Dependencies

sudo apt-get install rrdtool perl libwww-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-lite-perl librrds-perl libdbi-perl libxml-simple-perl libhttp-server-simple-perl libconfig-general-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl

Step 3: Download Monitorix package

wget https://www.monitorix.org/monitorix_3.14.0-izzy1_all.deb && sudo dpkg -i monitorix_3.14.0-izzy1_all.deb

Step 4: Access Monitorix

Once installation is completed, from your browser type the below URL to access the Monitorix dashboard. Replace COMPUTER_IP with your server IP address.

http://COMPUTER_IP:8080/monitorix

Install Monitorix 3.14.0 in Rocky Linux 8 / Fedora 35

Step 1: Make sure the system is up to date.

dnf update

Step 2: Install the EPEL Repository for Rocky Linux systems only and install Monitorix (Fedora users can skip the EPEL Repo installation)

dnf install epel-release

dnf install monitorix rrdtool-perl perl-Config-General perl-LWP-Protocol-https perl-LWP-UserAgent-Determined perl-HTTP-Server-Simple

Step 3: Start the Monitorix process

systemctl start monitorix.service && systemctl enable monitorix.service

Step 4: Cosmetic Changes

To modify the title, hostname, etc.. edit the configuration file /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf, also you can refer to the official document on configuring Monitorix

Conclusion

From this tutorial, you have learned how to download and install Monitorix on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Fedora 35, Rocky Linux 8, Linux Mint 8 AlmaLinux 8

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