Introduction

This tutorial covers How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (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 12 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 Install Prometheus and Grafana on SLES 12. For more SLES 12 tutorials, see our full SLES 12 series.