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Warning

NetData was a nice tool, easy to install, easy to configure and was a moderate resource consumer. This is not true any more.

Monitoring using netdata

This probably useless for your laptop !

netdata is a scalable, distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring solution for Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS. It is open-source too.

Installation

Prerequisites

# install all the packages needed to build and run netdata
curl -Ss 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firehol/netdata-demo-site/master/install-required-packages.sh' >/tmp/kickstart.sh

sudo bash /tmp/kickstart.sh -i netdata

press ENTER or Y as instructed

There is other options can be check using:

sudo bash /tmp/kickstart.sh --help

Launch installation

# download netdata
cd /usr/src
sudo git clone https://github.com/firehol/netdata.git --depth=1

cd netdata
sudo ./netdata-installer.sh

Documentation

Main informations

netdata by default listens on all IPs on port 19999, so you can access it with: http://this.machine.ip:19999/

To stop netdata run:

  systemctl stop netdata

To start netdata run:

  systemctl start netdata

Uninstall script: ./netdata-uninstaller.sh Update script : ./netdata-updater.sh

Configuration file is location: /etc/netdata/netdata.conf

Permissions:

  • netdata user : netdata
  • netdata group : netdata
  • web files user : netdata
  • web files group : netdata
  • root user : root

Directories:

  • netdata conf dir : /etc/netdata
  • netdata log dir : /var/log/netdata
  • netdata run dir : /var/run
  • netdata lib dir : /var/lib/netdata
  • netdata web dir : /usr/share/netdata/web
  • netdata cache dir: /var/cache/netdata

Files:

  • logrotate file : /etc/logrotate.d/netdata

Configuration

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