# Grafana - installation and configuraton with InfluxDB and CollectD on Debian/Ubuntu

DevFeed: [Grafana - installation and configuraton with InfluxDB and CollectD on Debian/Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/grafana-installation-and-configuraton-with-influxdb-and-collectd-on-debian-ubuntu-27633.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://gagor.pro/2016/01/grafana-installation-and-configuraton-with-influxdb-and-collectd-on-debian-ubuntu/>)

Author: Tom

Published: 2016-01-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tomasz Gągor](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tomasz-gagor.md>)

Topics: [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debian.md>), [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>)

Tags: [apt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apt.md>), [collectd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collectd.md>), [debian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debian.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [https](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/https.md>), [influxdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/influxdb.md>), [installation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/installation.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [packages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packages.md>), [permissions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/permissions.md>), [play](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/play.md>), [port](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/port.md>), [scripted](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scripted.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubuntu.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on installing and configuring Grafana with InfluxDB and CollectD on Debian or Ubuntu. It covers configuring the Grafana package repository, installing Grafana, choosing SQLite or configuring MySQL, connecting to Grafana on port 3000, and adding InfluxDB source data.

## Source excerpt

Now when you have CollectD and InfluxDB installed you may configure Grafana 😃 First configure repo with current Grafana version (select your distro): curl https://packagecloud.io/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - deb https://packagecloud.io/grafana/testing/debian/ wheezy main Now install package (on wheezy I needed to install apt-transport-https to allow installation of packages from repo via HTTPS): apt-get update apt-get install -y apt-transport-https apt-get install -y grafana By default Grafana will use sqlite database to keep information about users, etc: