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One more thing, if I want a webpage, I will just write plugin for this: https://github.com/netdata/netdata https://github.com/netdata/netdata It is meant as sy

by stiray 7y ago

One more thing, if I want a webpage, I will just write plugin for this: https://github.com/netdata/netdata https://github.com/netdata/netdata It is meant as system monitor but it can chew up preatty much anything. And it is fast and lean. Really fast.

djsumdog 7y ago
Have you found any tools for writing custom dashboard in netdata? The docs are really light and custom dashboards seems to involve hacking the default HTML and pulling out all the components (javascript/divs) you need. I thought about writing my own, but have too many projects already.
- stiray 7y ago
  Set up netdata, check which plugin serves the type of chart you want, find shortest of that type, make a copy and hack it untill it works. I was doing it a while back so I cant remember the details but it wasnt something special to do... Ignore the docs, existing plugins are all the documentation you need.
sneak 7y ago
Note well that it will silently send lots of information about your machine and browsing/usage to Google: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/7366 https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/7366 They added a tiny mention in the installer when I complained, but they still don’t mention how to opt out. The opt out doesn’t disable the spyware in the webpage, either. I have a patched version (sneak/netdata) on dockerhub, if you like. The issue is that it’s just not that great of a system monitor. Looking at, say, a “last 24h” chart is difficult. It’s a good and pretty replacement for top/htop/iptraf/iotop, but that’s pretty much it. You still need a graphite or prometheus or mrtg/rrdtool ultimately for serious understanding beyond “what happened in the last few minutes”.
- 314 7y ago
  There are 17 lines of text output to verify the installation choices, of them 5 are devoted to opting out of the anonymous telemetry. The wording seems clear. NOTE: Anonymous usage stats will be collected and sent to Google Analytics. To opt-out, pass --disable-telemetry option to the installer or export the enviornment variable DO_NOT_TRACK to a non-zero or non-empty value (e.g: export DO_NOT_TRACK=1).
  - sneak 7y ago
    Ahh, nice to see they updated it. Too bad they're still not actually getting consent.
    - 314 7y ago
      This message appears before a y/n confirmation prompt - i.e. explicit user consent.
      - sneak 7y ago
        The y/n is for install. It’s saying “do you want to install with telemetry, xor not install at all.” That’s like those EULAs on websites that say “by continuing to use our site, you agree never to sue us, to surrender your first born to us, and to never speak ill of us for any reason, et c.” That’s simply not affirmative consent. Imagine if you tried that in life! “Anyone who stays in this room after 5pm is consenting to be groped! Proceed at your own risk.” That’s not how any of this works. Stating your intentions to assume and potentially violate consent is not obtaining consent.
        314 7y ago
        I took another look, it's not a y/n prompt as I wrote before. It lists all the settings and asks for confirmation. Each of the other settings requires a trip to the docs to find out how to change before re-running. The telemetry is given special prominence with instructions about how to change before the prompt.
  - sneak 7y ago

by stiray 7y ago

djsumdog 7y ago

Have you found any tools for writing custom dashboard in netdata? The docs are really light and custom dashboards seems to involve hacking the default HTML and pulling out all the components (javascript/divs) you need. I thought about writing my own, but have too many projects already.

stiray 7y ago
Set up netdata, check which plugin serves the type of chart you want, find shortest of that type, make a copy and hack it untill it works. I was doing it a while back so I cant remember the details but it wasnt something special to do... Ignore the docs, existing plugins are all the documentation you need.

sneak 7y ago

Note well that it will silently send lots of information about your machine and browsing/usage to Google: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/7366 https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/7366 They added a tiny mention in the installer when I complained, but they still don’t mention how to opt out. The opt out doesn’t disable the spyware in the webpage, either. I have a patched version (sneak/netdata) on dockerhub, if you like. The issue is that it’s just not that great of a system monitor. Looking at, say, a “last 24h” chart is difficult. It’s a good and pretty replacement for top/htop/iptraf/iotop, but that’s pretty much it. You still need a graphite or prometheus or mrtg/rrdtool ultimately for serious understanding beyond “what happened in the last few minutes”.

314 7y ago
There are 17 lines of text output to verify the installation choices, of them 5 are devoted to opting out of the anonymous telemetry. The wording seems clear. NOTE: Anonymous usage stats will be collected and sent to Google Analytics. To opt-out, pass --disable-telemetry option to the installer or export the enviornment variable DO_NOT_TRACK to a non-zero or non-empty value (e.g: export DO_NOT_TRACK=1).
- sneak 7y ago
  Ahh, nice to see they updated it. Too bad they're still not actually getting consent.
  - 314 7y ago
    This message appears before a y/n confirmation prompt - i.e. explicit user consent.
    - sneak 7y ago
      The y/n is for install. It’s saying “do you want to install with telemetry, xor not install at all.” That’s like those EULAs on websites that say “by continuing to use our site, you agree never to sue us, to surrender your first born to us, and to never speak ill of us for any reason, et c.” That’s simply not affirmative consent. Imagine if you tried that in life! “Anyone who stays in this room after 5pm is consenting to be groped! Proceed at your own risk.” That’s not how any of this works. Stating your intentions to assume and potentially violate consent is not obtaining consent.
      - 314 7y ago
        I took another look, it's not a y/n prompt as I wrote before. It lists all the settings and asks for confirmation. Each of the other settings requires a trip to the docs to find out how to change before re-running. The telemetry is given special prominence with instructions about how to change before the prompt.
- sneak 7y ago