Grafana on Brainy Pi – Raspberry pi Alternative

Grafana is an open source software that helps you monitor your system through interactive visualisation web application using graphs and charts. It’s open source and lets you see things like how speed of application, system resources consumption. We will be installing Grafana on Brainy pi – Raspberry pi Alternative .

The Brainy Pi is a small and affordable computer/edge hardware that can run many different apps, including Grafana.

The purpose of this blog is to describe Grafana Installation on Brainy so that one can keep an eye on their home’s conditions, such as temperature, humidity, and energy use. Continue reading the blog…..

Required Components to Install Grafana on Brainy pi:

You will need:

• • Brainy Pi

• • Ethernet/ WIFI

• • Keyboard and mouse for USB

• • SD card

Step 1: Upgrade Your System 

Do you need assistance with the Brainy Pi operating system installation? If you are computer literate, the regular Pi installation tutorial should get you through.

To install any new software, updating and upgrading the device is essential.

Installed, start your Pi, then type the following in the Terminal

sudo apt update 

sudo apt upgrade

Step 2: Grafana Installation on Brainy pi

1. The Grafana package repository must be included to install them on the Brainy Pi.

curl https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/grafana-archive-keyrings.gpg >/dev/null

2. Now, we can confidently add the repository to our Pi’s list of package sources.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/grafana-archive-keyrings.gpg] https://apt.grafana.com stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list

3. We must do an update since we changed our package list.

sudo apt update

4. Next, execute the following command to install the most recent version on your device.

sudo apt install grafana

5. We must activate Grafana before running the appropriate instructions to launch it.

sudo systemctl enable grafana-server
sudo systemctl start grafana-server

Step 3: Grafana Web Interface on Brainy pi

So, you have set up the Grafana, but it has yet to be ready to go live. As a first step, you will need to modify the software’s default username; next, you will need to set a static IP address.

1. To access the web interface, you must get your Brainy Pi’s IP address; you can use the command to get the IP address.

hostname -I

Suppose you get multiple IP addresses. You do not need to worry. That is because you have not set a static IP address. Instead, you can use any one of the IP addresses.

2. Now go to your favorite browser and search for

http://<IPADDRESS>:3000

When you initially launch Grafana, a login screen will appear.

username: admin

password: admin

The opportunity to modify the password will then be presented.

Endnotes:

Congratulations! The Brainy Pi – Raspberry pi Alternative is now running Grafana and will launch if the Brainy Pi is ever restarted or powered down and gets power again.

Grafana is far more advanced; this was only the beginning. You may see their sandbox installation here if you want to see the potential in its entirety. You can play around with it because it is the same interface, is freely available, and connects to many data sources.

Reference: Grafana Installation