Basic requirements for servers

Hardware

These are the minimum hardware requirements:

• CPU Core: 4
• Memory: 16 GB
• Storage: it depends on the pre-configured retention time, the number of agents and the collection intervals

Operating System

The used software components were successfully tested on CentOS/RHEL v7.4 or later.

DNS entries

For the following services a dedicated DNS record is required:

• InfluxDB: Time-Series DB
• Kapacitor: Alarming, Aggregation
• WebUI: Grafana (visualization engine) and Chronograf (Admin dashboard)

Certificates

Internal CA signed or trusted CA signed certificates for:

• InfluxDB: Time-Series DB
• Kapacitor: Alarming, Aggregation
• WebUI: Grafana (visualization engine) and Chronograf (Admin dashboard)

One single wildcard certificate or SAN (subject alternative names) can be used.