Introduction

This tutorial covers How to Configure Prometheus Alerting Rules on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management.

Step 1 — Install Prometheus

zypper install -y golang-github-prometheus-prometheus

Step 2 — Start Prometheus

systemctl enable --now prometheus

Step 3 — Install Grafana

zypper addrepo -f https://packages.grafana.com/oss/rpm grafana
zypper install -y grafana

Step 4 — Start Grafana

systemctl enable --now grafana-server

AppArmor Considerations

Note: SLES 15 uses AppArmor for mandatory access control. Check AppArmor status with aa-status and enforce profiles with aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/<profile>.

Conclusion

You have successfully completed: How to Configure Prometheus Alerting Rules on SLES 15. For more SLES 15 tutorials, see our full SLES 15 series.