How to Install Cabot on Fedora CoreOS Latest

Cabot is an open-source and self-hosted alert monitoring system that helps to monitor the services and applications. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Cabot on Fedora CoreOS Latest system.

Prerequisites

  • A running instance of Fedora CoreOS Latest
  • A user account with sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Required Packages

Before installing Cabot, make sure that your system is up-to-date and install the required packages.

sudo dnf install -y python3 python3-devel postgresql postgresql-devel libxml2 libxslt-devel libffi-devel gcc openssl-devel```

## Step 2: Install pip3
Cabot requires pip3 to be installed, so we have to install pip3. Use the following command to install pip3.

```sudo dnf install -y python3-pip```

## Step 3: Install Cabot
Once all the prerequisites are installed, we can proceed to install Cabot. Run the following command to install Cabot.

```sudo pip3 install cabot-alerts cabot-checks celery django rq```

## Step 4: Configure PostgreSQL
Cabot uses PostgreSQL as the backend database. So, we have to create a new PostgreSQL database and user for Cabot. To install PostgreSQL server, run the following command.

```sudo dnf install -y postgresql-server```

Once the installation is completed, initialize the PostgreSQL database by running the following command.

```sudo postgresql-setup --initdb```

Now start the PostgreSQL service and set it to start at boot time.

```sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql```

Next, create a new PostgreSQL database and user for Cabot.

sudo su - postgres psql CREATE DATABASE cabot; CREATE USER cabot_user WITH PASSWORD 'password'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE cabot TO cabot_user; \q exit


## Step 5: Configure Cabot
Now it's time to configure Cabot. First, change to the `/opt` directory.

```cd /opt```

Next, create a new Cabot configuration file.

```sudo touch cabot.env```

Edit the file using your preferred text editor.

```sudo vi cabot.env```

Add the following lines to the file, replacing `password` with the actual password for the `cabot_user` you created earlier.

DATABASE_URL=postgres://cabot_user:password@localhost/cabot FROM_EMAIL=[email protected] CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0


Save and exit the file.

## Step 6: Start Cabot
We are now ready to start Cabot. Change to the Cabot installation directory.

```cd /opt```

Next, run the following command to sync the database.

```cabot syncdb -d```

This will ask you to create a new superuser account for Cabot. Provide the required details and continue.

Next, run the following command to start Cabot.

```sudo cabot run```

Cabot is now running and accessible at `http://<your-server-ip>:5000/`.

## Conclusion
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Cabot on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You can now start monitoring your services and applications with this self-hosted alert monitoring system.