Installing and configuring Ceph Metrics with the Grafana dashboard

You have used ceph-ansible to set up your cluster, and you can use the same ceph-ansible virtual machine to install cephmetrics to take advantage of the inventory file—/etc/ansible/hosts.

How to do it...

We will use the following commands for configuring Ceph Metrics in ceph-node1:

1. In this book, ceph-ansible virtual machine is ceph-node1. Perform the following steps in ceph-node1. This will install repositories which include the cephmetrics packages and its dependencies.

        sudo su -
        mkdir ~/cephmetrics
        curl -L -o /etc/yum.repos.d/cephmetrics.repo 
        http://download.ceph.com/cephmetrics/rpm-
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