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page_title: Grafana Installation page_description: Install guide for Grafana.
page_keywords: grafana, installation, documentation
Installation
Grafana is easily installed via a Debian/Ubuntu package (.deb), via Redhat/Centos package (.rpm) or manually via a tar that contains all required files and binaries. If you can't find a package or binary for your platform you might be able to build one your self, read build from source instructions for more information.
- Installing on Debian / Ubuntu
- Installing on RPM-based Linux (CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, RedHat)
- Installing on Mac OS X
- Installing on Windows
- Installing on Docker
Dependencies
There are no dependencies with the default configuration. You can switch from a sqlite3 database to mysql or postgres but that is optional. For small to medium setups sqlite3 should suffice.
Install using provisioning
If you prefer to install grafana via Puppet, Ansible, Docker or Chef. This page has compiled a list of repositories for different provisioning systems
Configuration
The backend web server has a number of configuration options. Go the Configuration page for details on all those options.