Simples way to install data source on local MacBook / see data in Grafana

Grafana
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I wish to have metrics from my personal MacBook in Grafana.

what’s the simplest way to this?

What I did and logged in to http://grafana.staged-by-discourse.com/datasources/new?gettingstarted

brew install grafana
Updating Homebrew…
(…)
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/grafana-4.2.0.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring grafana-4.2.0.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
==> Using the sandbox
==> Caveats
To have launchd start grafana now and restart at login:
brew services start grafana
Or, if you don’t want/need a background service you can just run:
grafana-server --config=/usr/local/etc/grafana/grafana.ini --homepath /usr/local/share/grafana cfg:default.paths.logs=/usr/local/var/log/grafana cfg:default.paths.data=/usr/local/var/lib/grafana cfg:default.paths.plugins=/usr/local/var/lib/grafana/plugins
==> Summary
:beer: /usr/local/Cellar/grafana/4.2.0: 5,050 files, 120.2MB

brew services start grafana
==> Tapping homebrew/services
Cloning into ‘/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services’…
remote: Counting objects: 10, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
remote: Total 10 (delta 0), reused 5 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.
Tapped 0 formulae (37 files, 50.9KB)
==> Successfully started grafana (label: homebrew.mxcl.grafana)

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Try installing prometheus and prometheus node exporter, it has some system metrics, not sure if node exporter works on Mac OS X t