Install prometheus

Download prometheus

# wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v3.0.1/prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
--2024-12-09 22:12:17--  https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v3.0.1/prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.113.4
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.113.4|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/6838921/d29591b9-3d89-4c1b-85d3-0c4c38069329?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=releaseassetproduction%2F20241209%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20241209T221217Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=6baf78ee0e923cc1f36128a8b4a85d8f03617a0804b49256d062adfbb0cd05fd&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dprometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following]
--2024-12-09 22:12:17--  https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/6838921/d29591b9-3d89-4c1b-85d3-0c4c38069329?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=releaseassetproduction%2F20241209%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20241209T221217Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=6baf78ee0e923cc1f36128a8b4a85d8f03617a0804b49256d062adfbb0cd05fd&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dprometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.111.133, 185.199.110.133, 185.199.109.133, ...
Connecting to objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.111.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 112995464 (108M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz’

prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz            100%[=================================================================================================>] 107.76M  63.1MB/s    in 1.7s    

2024-12-09 22:12:19 (63.1 MB/s) - ‘prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz’ saved [112995464/112995464]

 

tar over the package

# tar xvfz prometheus-*.tar.gz
prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64/
prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64/promtool
prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64/LICENSE
prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64/prometheus
prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64/prometheus.yml
prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64/NOTICE

Move to the directory and start prometheus

# cd prometheus-3.0.1.linux-amd64/

# ./prometheus --config.file=./prometheus.yml &

Confirm that Prometheus is running by navigating to http://localhost:9090