Tutorial: How to Install Cabot on EndeavourOS Latest

Cabot is a free, open-source, self-hosted infrastructure monitoring platform. It provides a web interface for monitoring your applications, services, and systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Cabot on EndeavourOS latest.

Prerequisites

  • A Linux-based system (EndeavourOS Latest)
  • A user account with sudo access
  • Python3 installed
  • pip Package manager installed
  • Git installed

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Before installing Cabot, we need to install some dependencies that will be required during the installation process. To do this run the following command in the terminal:

sudo pacman -S libffi libjpeg-turbo libxml2 libxslt libyaml postgresql redis supervisor

Step 2: Install Cabot

Clone the cabot git repository from https://github.com/cabotapp/cabot.git using git command in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/cabotapp/cabot.git

Switch to the cabot directory:

cd cabot

Now we can install Cabot using pip. Run the following commands:

pip install virtualenv #install virtual environment
virtualenv -p python3 .cabotenv #create virtual environment 
source .cabotenv/bin/activate #activate virtual environment
pip install -r requirements.txt #install cabot requirements

Step 3: Setting up the Database

Before running Cabot, we need to create the PostgreSQL database and user. To do this, run the following commands:

sudo su - postgres
psql
create user cabot with password 'password';
create database cabot owner cabot;

Now we need to modify the config file by replacing DB_NAME, DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD in docker-compose.yml or docker-compose.dev.yml with the appropriate values:

environment:
      - SECRET_KEY='ch4ngeth1s'
      - DATABASE_URL='postgres://cabot:password@db:5432/cabotdb'

Step 4: Running Cabot

Once the database has been created and the configuration files have been modified, we can start Cabot. Run the following command in the cabot directory:

docker-compose up -d

The -d flag is used to start containers in the background.

Step 5: Access Cabot

Once the containers are up and running, you can access Cabot by navigating to http://localhost:5000 in your web browser.

You can now log in with the default username and password:

Username: admin Password: password

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have learnt how to install Cabot on EndeavourOS Latest. Cabot is a powerful monitoring platform that can help you keep track of all your important applications, services, and systems. Happy monitoring!