Installing Prometheus on Ubuntu 20.04

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit used for storing, querying, and visualizing time-series data. It is widely used for monitoring containerized applications and microservices architectures.

Installation Steps:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade

$ wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.29.2/prometheus-2.29.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

$ tar xvf prometheus-2.29.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

$ cd prometheus-2.29.2.linux-amd64

$ ./prometheus --config.file=prometheus.yml

Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:9090 to access the Prometheus Web UI.

1. Update system packages:
2. Download the Prometheus tarball:
3. Extract the tarball:
4. Move into the extracted directory:
5. Start Prometheus:
6. Access Prometheus Web UI:

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Prometheus on Ubuntu 20.04.