Installing InfluxDB and Grafana

install

# check latest version at https://packages.debian.org/sid/armhf/influxdb/download
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/influxdb/influxdb_1.1.1+dfsg1-4+b1_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i influxdb_1.1.1+dfsg1-4+b1_armhf.deb

# download Grafana via https://github.com/fg2it/grafana-on-raspberry/
wget https://bintray.com/fg2it/deb/download_file?file_path=main%2Fg%2Fgrafana_4.3.2_armhf.deb -O grafana.deb
sudo dpkg -i grafana.deb

# it might fail (was in my case) with the error 'Package libfontconfig is not installed'
# install it with
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig

# when you get the error 'libfontconfig1 : Depends: fontconfig-config (>= 2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1) but it is not going to be installed'
# enter the following to force the install
sudo apt-get -f install

# now try again installing Grafana

# in the log you see;
### NOT starting on installation, please execute the following statements to configure grafana to start automatically using systemd
 sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
 sudo /bin/systemctl enable grafana-server
### You can start grafana-server by executing
 sudo /bin/systemctl start grafana-server