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.