How to Install Bosun on Manjaro

Bosun is a monitoring and alerting system developed by Stack Exchange. It provides a flexible and efficient way to monitor your systems and applications. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Bosun on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

Before we begin the installation process, ensure that:

  • You have a Manjaro system up and running.
  • You have administrative privileges on the system.

Install Dependencies

Before we can install Bosun, we need to install the following dependencies:

sudo pacman -S rsyslog git golang
  • rsyslog: Bosun uses rsyslog to receive data over syslog.
  • git: Required to download the source code.
  • golang: Required to build and run the Bosun daemon.

Download Bosun

Once the dependencies are installed, we can download the Bosun source code:

git clone https://github.com/bosun-monitor/bosun.git

This will create a new directory called bosun in the current working directory.

Build Bosun

Next, we need to build the Bosun binary. To do this, navigate to the bosun directory and execute the following commands:

cd bosun/cmd/bosun
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
go get -v

This will download and install all the required Go packages.

Now, execute the following command to build the Bosun binary:

go build -o bosun .

This will create a new binary file called bosun in the bosun/cmd/bosun directory.

Configure Bosun

Before we can use Bosun, we need to configure it. Bosun uses a configuration file called bosun.toml.

You can create a new Bosun configuration file using the following command:

cp bosun.example.toml bosun.toml

Edit the bosun.toml file and modify the [listen] section to configure the IP address and port number to listen on:

[listen]
addr = "0.0.0.0:8070"

Run Bosun

Now that Bosun is configured, we can run it using the following command:

./bosun -c bosun.toml

This will start the Bosun daemon, and it will start listening on the configured IP address and port number.

Conclusion

That's it! You have learned how to install and configure Bosun on Manjaro. Bosun is now ready to start monitoring your systems and applications.