setup the best light system matrix server with Telegraf + InfluxDB + Grafana

👤 68bac1f61151ad671cd0efa4 • 📅 April 5, 2026 • 👁️ 41 views • 🔄 Updated June 13, 2026

matrix server server setup

## 🖥️ 1. Central Server Setup (InfluxDB + Grafana) ``` sudo apt update sudo apt install influxdb influxdb-client -y sudo systemctl enable influxdb sudo systemctl start influxdb ``` Check status: ``` systemctl status influxdb ``` Create Database for Metrics ``` influx CREATE DATABASE telegraf CREATE USER telegraf WITH PASSWORD 'yourpassword' GRANT ALL ON telegraf TO telegraf EXIT ``` Install Grafana ``` sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https software-properties-common sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings/ wget -q -O - https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/grafana.gpg] https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grafana.list sudo apt update sudo apt install grafana -y sudo systemctl enable grafana-server sudo systemctl start grafana-server ``` Access Grafana: 👉 <http://your-central-server:3000> (Default login: `admin` / `admin`) \*Can setup a domain using caddy ## 🖥️ 2. Telegraf Setup on Each Server ### ``` sudo apt update sudo apt install telegraf -y sudo systemctl enable telegraf ``` 📄 Minimal Telegraf Config (`/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf`) ``` [agent] interval = "10s" round_interval = true metric_batch_size = 1000 metric_buffer_limit = 10000 collection_jitter = "0s" flush_interval = "10s" flush_jitter = "0s" precision = "" debug = false quiet = false logfile = "" ############################################################################### #OUTPUTS ############################################################################### [[outputs.influxdb]] urls = ["http://YOUR_CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:8086"] database = "telegraf" username = "telegraf" password = "yourpassword" ############################################################################### #INPUTS ############################################################################### #CPU metrics [[inputs.cpu]] percpu = true totalcpu = true collect_cpu_time = false report_active = true #Memory usage [[inputs.mem]] #Disk usage [[inputs.disk]] ignore_fs = ["tmpfs", "devtmpfs", "overlay"] #Network stats [[inputs.net]] #System load & uptime [[inputs.system]] ``` Save file → Restart Telegraf then Verify logs ``` sudo systemctl restart telegraf sudo journalctl -u telegraf -f ``` Successfully wrote metrics - should be the output.