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* reorg batch 1 * remove duplicate cloud custom dashboard and agent dashboard * Simplify the root web/README * Merge streaming references * Make enable streaming the overall intro and the README the reference * Remove reference-streaming document * Update overview pages
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-#### Oxford comma
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-documentation. See the section on [linking between documentation](#linking-between-documentation) for guidance on the
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-#### Contractions
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-| **
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-Recommended** | Use `edit-config` to edit Netdata's configuration by first navigating to your [Netdata config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`, then running `sudo edit-config netdata.conf`. |
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-#### `sudo`
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-| **
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+Check the Netdata [exporting documentation](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/export/external-databases.md) for configuring this.
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-| [`destination`](#destination) | ` ` | A space-separated list of parent nodes to attempt to stream to, with the first available parent receiving metrics, using the following format: `[PROTOCOL:]HOST[%INTERFACE][:PORT][:SSL]`. [Read more →](#destination) |
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-| `buffer size bytes` | `10485760` | The size of the buffer to use when sending metrics. The default `10485760` equals a buffer of 10MB, which is good for 60 seconds of data. Increase this if you expect latencies higher than that. The buffer is flushed on reconnect. |
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-| `health enabled by default` | `auto` | Whether alarms and notifications should be enabled for nodes using this `API_KEY`. `auto` enables alarms when the child is connected. `yes` enables alarms always, and `no` disables alarms. |
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## Netdata support for Prometheus
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-Before explaining the changes, we have to understand the key differences between Netdata and Prometheus.
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13
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+ scrape_interval: 5s # Set the scrape interval to every 5 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
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+ evaluation_interval: 5s # Evaluate rules every 5 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
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+ # scrape_timeout is set to the global default (10s).
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+# Here it's Prometheus itself.
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+ # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
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+ - job_name: 'prometheus'
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+ params:
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+ # You can use `prometheus_all_hosts` if you want Prometheus to set the `instance` to your hostname instead of IP
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+ format: [ prometheus ]
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+ #
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+ # default is: average
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+ #source: [as-collected]
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+ # for Netdata to uniquely identify it
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+ #server: ['prometheus1']
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+### Prometheus alerts for Netdata metrics
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+The following is an example of a `nodes.yml` file that will allow Prometheus to generate alerts from some Netdata sources.
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+Save it at `/opt/prometheus/nodes.yml`, and add a _- "nodes.yml"_ entry under the _rule_files:_ section in the example prometheus.yml file above.
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+
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+ expr: sum(sum_over_time(netdata_system_cpu_percentage_average{dimension=~"(user|system|softirq|irq|guest)"}[10m])) by (job) / sum(count_over_time(netdata_system_cpu_percentage_average{dimension="idle"}[10m])) by (job) > 70
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+ for: 1m
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+ annotations:
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+ description: '{{ $labels.job }} on ''{{ $labels.job }}'' CPU usage is at {{ humanize $value }}%.'
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+ summary: CPU alert for container node '{{ $labels.job }}'
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+
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+ expr: 100 / sum(netdata_system_ram_MB_average) by (job)
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+ * sum(netdata_system_ram_MB_average{dimension=~"free|cached"}) by (job) < 30
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+ annotations:
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+ description: '{{ $labels.job }} memory usage is {{ humanize $value}}%.'
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+ summary: Memory alert for container node '{{ $labels.job }}'
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+ expr: 100 / sum(netdata_disk_space_GB_average{family="/"}) by (job)
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+ * sum(netdata_disk_space_GB_average{family="/",dimension=~"avail|cached"}) by (job) < 20
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+ for: 1m
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+ annotations:
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+ description: '{{ $labels.job }} root filesystem space is {{ humanize $value}}%.'
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+ summary: Root filesystem alert for container node '{{ $labels.job }}'
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+ - alert: node_root_filesystem_fill_rate_6h
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+ expr: predict_linear(netdata_disk_space_GB_average{family="/",dimension=~"avail|cached"}[1h], 6 * 3600) < 0
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+ for: 1h
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+ labels:
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+ annotations:
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+ description: Container node {{ $labels.job }} root filesystem is going to fill up in 6h.
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+ summary: Disk fill alert for Swarm node '{{ $labels.job }}'
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+```
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-sidebar_label: "Health monitoring"
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-learn_rel_path: "Concepts"
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--->
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-# Health monitoring
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+# Alerts and notifications
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The Netdata Agent is a health watchdog for the health and performance of your systems, services, and applications. We've
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worked closely with our community of DevOps engineers, SREs, and developers to define hundreds of production-ready
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#### Agent user interface
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To access the UI provided by the locally installed agent, open a browser and navigate to `http://NODE:19999`, replacing `NODE` with either `localhost` or
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-the hostname/IP address of the remote node. You can also read more about [how the agent dashboard works](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/how-dashboard-works.md).
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+the hostname/IP address of the remote node. You can also read more about
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+[the agent dashboard](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/web/gui/README.md).
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#### Configuration
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# Streaming and replication reference
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-Each Netdata node is able to replicate/mirror its database to another Netdata node, by streaming the collected
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-[data archiving to third party time-series databases](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/README.md).
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-The nodes that send metrics are called **child** nodes, and the nodes that receive metrics are called **parent** nodes.
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-When one Netdata node streams metrics another, the receiving instance can use the data for all features of a typical Netdata node, for example:
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This document contains advanced streaming options and suggested deployment options for production.
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-## Supported configurations
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-### Netdata without a database or web API (headless collector)
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+## Configuration
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-A local Netdata Agent (child), **without any database or alarms**, collects metrics and sends them to another Netdata node
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-The same parent can collect data for any number of child nodes and serves alerts for each child.
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+There are two files responsible for configuring Netdata's streaming capabilities: `stream.conf` and `netdata.conf`.
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-The node menu shows a list of all "databases streamed to" the parent. Clicking one of those links allows the user to
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+From within your Netdata config directory (typically `/etc/netdata`), [use `edit-config`](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md) to
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+open either `stream.conf` or `netdata.conf`.
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+```
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+sudo ./edit-config stream.conf
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+sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf
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+```
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-In a headless setup, the child acts as a plain data collector. It spawns all external plugins, but instead of maintaining a
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+### `stream.conf`
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-This setup works great to reduce the memory footprint. Depending on the enabled plugins, memory usage is between 6 MiB and 40 MiB. To reduce the memory usage as much as
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-possible, refer to the [performance optimization guide](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/guides/configure/performance.md).
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+The `stream.conf` file contains three sections. The `[stream]` section is for configuring child nodes.
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+The `[API_KEY]` and `[MACHINE_GUID]` sections are both for configuring parent nodes, and share the same settings.
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+`[API_KEY]` settings affect every child node using that key, whereas `[MACHINE_GUID]` settings affect only the child
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+node with a matching GUID.
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-### Database Replication
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+The file `/var/lib/netdata/registry/netdata.public.unique.id` contains a random GUID that **uniquely identifies each
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+node**. This file is automatically generated by Netdata the first time it is started and remains unaltered forever.
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-The local Netdata Agent (child), **with a local database (and possibly alarms)**, collects metrics and
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+#### `[stream]` section
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-The user can use all the functions **at both** `http://child-ip:child-port/` and
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+| Setting | Default | Description |
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+| :---------------------------------------------- | :------------------------ | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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+| `enabled` | `no` | Whether this node streams metrics to any parent. Change to `yes` to enable streaming. |
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+| [`destination`](#destination) | ` ` | A space-separated list of parent nodes to attempt to stream to, with the first available parent receiving metrics, using the following format: `[PROTOCOL:]HOST[%INTERFACE][:PORT][:SSL]`. [Read more →](#destination) |
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+| `ssl skip certificate verification` | `yes` | If you want to accept self-signed or expired certificates, set to `yes` and uncomment. |
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+| `CApath` | `/etc/ssl/certs/` | The directory where known certificates are found. Defaults to OpenSSL's default path. |
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+| `CAfile` | `/etc/ssl/certs/cert.pem` | Add a parent node certificate to the list of known certificates in `CAPath`. |
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+| `api key` | ` ` | The `API_KEY` to use as the child node. |
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+| `timeout seconds` | `60` | The timeout to connect and send metrics to a parent. |
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+| `default port` | `19999` | The port to use if `destination` does not specify one. |
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+| [`send charts matching`](#send-charts-matching) | `*` | A space-separated list of [Netdata simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern/README.md) to filter which charts are streamed. [Read more →](#send-charts-matching) |
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+| `buffer size bytes` | `10485760` | The size of the buffer to use when sending metrics. The default `10485760` equals a buffer of 10MB, which is good for 60 seconds of data. Increase this if you expect latencies higher than that. The buffer is flushed on reconnect. |
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+| `reconnect delay seconds` | `5` | How long to wait until retrying to connect to the parent node. |
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+| `initial clock resync iterations` | `60` | Sync the clock of charts for how many seconds when starting. |
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-The child and the parent may have different data retention policies for the same metrics.
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+### `[API_KEY]` and `[MACHINE_GUID]` sections
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+| Setting | Default | Description |
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+| :---------------------------------------------- | :------------------------ | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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+| `enabled` | `no` | Whether this API KEY enabled or disabled. |
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+| [`allow from`](#allow-from) | `*` | A space-separated list of [Netdata simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern/README.md) matching the IPs of nodes that will stream metrics using this API key. [Read more →](#allow-from) |
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+| `default history` | `3600` | The default amount of child metrics history to retain when using the `save`, `map`, or `ram` memory modes. |
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+| [`default memory mode`](#default-memory-mode) | `ram` | The [database](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/database/README.md) to use for all nodes using this `API_KEY`. Valid settings are `dbengine`, `map`, `save`, `ram`, or `none`. [Read more →](#default-memory-mode) |
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+| `health enabled by default` | `auto` | Whether alarms and notifications should be enabled for nodes using this `API_KEY`. `auto` enables alarms when the child is connected. `yes` enables alarms always, and `no` disables alarms. |
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+| `default postpone alarms on connect seconds` | `60` | Postpone alarms and notifications for a period of time after the child connects. |
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+| `default proxy enabled` | ` ` | Route metrics through a proxy. |
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+| `default proxy destination` | ` ` | Space-separated list of `IP:PORT` for proxies. |
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+| `default proxy api key` | ` ` | The `API_KEY` of the proxy. |
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+| `default send charts matching` | `*` | See [`send charts matching`](#send-charts-matching). |
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-In order for custom chart names on the child to work correctly, follow the form `type.name`. The parent will truncate the `type` part and substitute the original chart `type` to store the name in the database.
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+#### `destination`
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-### Netdata proxies
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+A space-separated list of parent nodes to attempt to stream to, with the first available parent receiving metrics, using
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-The local Netdata Agent(child), with or without a database, collects metrics and sends them to another
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+- `PROTOCOL`: `tcp`, `udp`, or `unix`. (only tcp and unix are supported by parent nodes)
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+- `HOST`: A IPv4, IPv6 IP, or a hostname, or a unix domain socket path. IPv6 IPs should be given with brackets
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+- `SSL`: To enable TLS/SSL encryption of the streaming connection.
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+To enable TCP streaming to a parent node at `203.0.113.0` on port `20000` and with TLS/SSL encryption:
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+```
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+#### `send charts matching`
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+A space-separated list of [Netdata simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern/README.md) to filter which charts are streamed.
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+To send only a few charts, list them explicitly, or list a group using a wildcard. To send _only_ the `apps.cpu` chart
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+A space-separated list of [Netdata simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern/README.md) matching the IPs of nodes that
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+```
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+To allow all IPs starting with `10.*`, except `10.1.2.3`:
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-The new file `stream.conf` contains streaming configuration for a sending and a receiving Netdata node.
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+```
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+> If you set specific IP addresses here, and also use the `allow connections` setting in the `[web]` section of
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-2. Authorize the communication between a pair of sending-receiving Netdata nodes using the generated API key.
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-Once the communication is authorized, the sending Netdata node can push metrics for any number of hosts.
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+#### `default memory mode`
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-3. To edit `stream.conf`, run `/etc/netdata/edit-config stream.conf`
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+The [database](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/database/README.md) to use for all nodes using this `API_KEY`. Valid settings are `dbengine`, `ram`,
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-The following sections describe how you can configure sending and receiving Netdata nodes.
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+- `dbengine`: The default, recommended time-series database (TSDB) for Netdata. Stores recent metrics in memory, then
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+- `ram`: Stores metrics _only_ in memory, which means metrics are lost when Netdata stops or restarts. Ideal for
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+ streaming configurations that use ephemeral nodes.
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+- `save`: Stores metrics in memory, but saves metrics to disk when Netdata stops or restarts, and loads historical
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+- `map`: Stores metrics in memory-mapped files, like swap, with constant disk write.
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+- `none`: No database.
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-##### Options for the sending node
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+When using `default memory mode = dbengine`, the parent node creates a separate instance of the TSDB to store metrics
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+from child nodes. The [size of _each_ instance is configurable](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/store/change-metrics-storage.md) with the `page
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+### `netdata.conf`
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- enabled = yes | no
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+| Setting | Default | Description |
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+| :----------------------------------------- | :---------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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+| **`[global]` section** | | |
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+| `memory mode` | `dbengine` | Determines the [database type](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/database/README.md) to be used on that node. Other options settings include `none`, `ram`, `save`, and `map`. `none` disables the database at this host. This also disables alarms and notifications, as those can't run without a database. |
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+| **`[web]` section** | | |
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+| `mode` | `static-threaded` | Determines the [web server](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/web/server/README.md) type. The other option is `none`, which disables the dashboard, API, and registry. |
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+| `accept a streaming request every seconds` | `0` | Set a limit on how often a parent node accepts streaming requests from child nodes. `0` equals no limit. If this is set, you may see `... too busy to accept new streaming request. Will be allowed in X secs` in Netdata's `error.log`. |
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-[API_KEY]
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+### Basic use cases
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| target|memory<br/>mode|web<br/>mode|stream<br/>enabled|exporting|alarms|dashboard|
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| proxy with db|not `none`|not `none`|`yes`|possible|possible|yes|
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| central netdata|not `none`|not `none`|`no`|possible|possible|yes|
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-For the options to encrypt the data stream between the child and the parent, refer to [securing the communication](#securing-streaming-communications)
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+### Per-child settings
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+While the `[API_KEY]` section applies settings for any child node using that key, you can also use per-child settings
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-##### Options for the receiving node
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+For example, the metrics streamed from only the child node with `MACHINE_GUID` are saved in memory, not using the
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-##### Allow from
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-`allow from` settings are [Netdata simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern/README.md): string matches
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-So: `allow from = !10.1.2.3 10.*` will allow all IPs in `10.*` except `10.1.2.3`. The order is
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-2017-02-25 01:57:44: netdata: ERROR: Failed to connect to '10.11.12.1', port '19999' (errno 111, Connection refused)
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-2017-02-25 01:57:44: netdata: ERROR: STREAM costa-pc [send to 10.11.12.1:19999]: failed to connect
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-2017-02-25 01:58:04: netdata: INFO : STREAM costa-pc [send to 10.11.12.1:19999]: initializing communication...
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-2017-02-25 01:58:04: netdata: INFO : STREAM costa-pc [send to 10.11.12.1:19999]: waiting response from remote netdata...
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-2017-02-25 01:58:14: netdata: INFO : STREAM costa-pc [send to 10.11.12.1:19999]: established communication - sending metrics...
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-2017-02-25 01:58:14: netdata: ERROR: STREAM costa-pc [send]: discarding 1900 bytes of metrics already in the buffer.
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-2017-02-25 01:58:04: netdata: INFO : STREAM [receive from [10.11.12.11]:33554]: new client connection.
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-2017-02-25 01:58:04: netdata: INFO : STREAM costa-pc [10.11.12.11]:33554: receive thread created (task id 7698)
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-2017-02-25 01:58:14: netdata: INFO : Host 'costa-pc' with guid '12345678-b5a6-11e6-8a50-00508db7e9c9' initialized, os: linux, update every: 1, memory mode: ram, history entries: 3600, streaming: disabled, health: enabled, cache_dir: '/var/cache/netdata/12345678-b5a6-11e6-8a50-00508db7e9c9', varlib_dir: '/var/lib/netdata/12345678-b5a6-11e6-8a50-00508db7e9c9', health_log: '/var/lib/netdata/12345678-b5a6-11e6-8a50-00508db7e9c9/health/health-log.db', alarms default handler: '/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh', alarms default recipient: 'root'
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-2017-02-25 01:58:14: netdata: INFO : STREAM costa-pc [receive from [10.11.12.11]:33554]: initializing communication...
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-2017-02-25 01:58:14: netdata: INFO : STREAM costa-pc [receive from [10.11.12.11]:33554]: receiving metrics...
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+support](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/web/server/README.md#enabling-tls-support) on the parent. With encryption enabled on the receiving side, you
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+need to instruct the child to use TLS/SSL as well. On the child's `stream.conf`, configure the destination as follows:
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+> While Netdata uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 to encrypt communications rather than the obsolete SSL protocol,
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+> it's still common practice to refer to encrypted web connections as `SSL`. Many vendors, like Nginx and even Netdata
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+> itself, use `SSL` in configuration files, whereas documentation will always refer to encrypted communications as `TLS`
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+> or `TLS/SSL`.
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+#### Certificate verification
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+certificate can be verified via the default chain. In case you want to avoid this check, add the following to the
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-Auto-scaling is probably the most trendy service deployment strategy these days.
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+If you've enabled [certificate verification](#certificate-verification), you might see errors from the OpenSSL library
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+when there's a problem with checking the certificate chain (`X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY`). More
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-Auto-scaling detects the need for additional resources and boots VMs on demand, based on a template. Soon after they start running the applications, a load balancer starts distributing traffic to them, allowing the service to grow horizontally to the scale needed to handle the load. When demands falls, auto-scaling starts shutting down VMs that are no longer needed.
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+Given these known issues, you have two options. If you trust your certificate, you can set the options `CApath` and
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+For more details about these options, you can read about [verify
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-What a fantastic feature for controlling infrastructure costs! Pay only for what you need for the time you need it!
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+Before you changed your streaming configuration, you need to copy your trusted certificate to your child system and add
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+On most Linux distributions, the `update-ca-certificates` command searches inside the `/usr/share/ca-certificates`
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+directory for certificates. You should double-check by reading the `update-ca-certificate` manual (`man
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+update-ca-certificate`), and then change the directory in the below commands if needed.
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+If you have `sudo` configured on your child system, you can use that to run the following commands. If not, you'll have
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+First, you create a new directory to store your certificates for Netdata. Next, you need to change the extension on your
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+certificate from `.pem` to `.crt` so it's compatible with `update-ca-certificate`. Finally, you need to change
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-We recently made a significant improvement at the core of Netdata to support monitoring such setups.
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-1. **real-time performance monitoring**, collecting ***thousands of metrics per server per second***, visualized in interactive, automatically created dashboards.
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-### How it works
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+> Some Linux distributions have different methods of updating the certificate list. For more details, please read this
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+> guide on [adding trusted root certificates](https://github.com/Busindre/How-to-Add-trusted-root-certificates).
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+Once you update your certificate list, you can set the stream parameters for Netdata to trust the parent certificate.
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+With this configuration, the `CApath` option tells Netdata to search for trusted certificates inside `/etc/ssl/certs`.
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+The `CAfile` option specifies the Netdata parent certificate is located at `/etc/ssl/certs/parent_cert.pem`. With this
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+#### Expected behaviors
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+With the introduction of TLS/SSL, the parent-child communication behaves as shown in the table below, depending on the
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+ `^SSL=optional` directive on the port(s) used for streaming.
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+- **Child TLS (Yes/No)**: Whether the destination in the child's `stream.conf` has `:SSL` at the end.
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+- **Child TLS Verification (yes/no)**: Value of the child's `stream.conf` `ssl skip certificate verification`
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+| No | - | No | no | Legacy behavior. The parent-child stream is unencrypted. |
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+| Yes | force | No | no | The parent rejects the child connection. |
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+| Yes | -/optional | No | no | The parent-child stream is unencrypted (expected situation for legacy child nodes and newer parent nodes) |
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+| Yes | -/force/optional | Yes | no | The parent-child stream is encrypted, provided that the parent has a valid TLS/SSL certificate. Otherwise, the child refuses to connect. |
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+### Proxy
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+A proxy is a node that receives metrics from a child, then streams them onward to a parent. To configure a proxy,
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-API keys are just random GUIDs. Use the Linux command `uuidgen` to generate one. You can use the same API key for all your child nodes, or you can configure one API for each of them. This is entirely your decision.
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+Netdata proxies may or may not maintain a database for the metrics passing through them. When they maintain a database,
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+they can also run health checks (alarms and notifications) for the remote host that is streaming the metrics.
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-We suggest to use the same API key for each ephemeral node template you have, so that all replicas of the same ephemeral node will have exactly the same configuration.
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+In the following example, the proxy receives metrics from a child node using the `API_KEY` of
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+`66666666-7777-8888-9999-000000000000`, then stores metrics using `dbengine`. It then uses the `API_KEY` of
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+`11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555` to proxy those same metrics on to a parent node at `203.0.113.0`.
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+ api key = 11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555
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+```
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+Netdata can help you monitor ephemeral nodes, such as containers in an auto-scaling infrastructure, by always streaming
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+## Troubleshooting
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Both parent and child nodes log information at `/var/log/netdata/error.log`.
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-Another common problem in slow connections is the CHILD sending a partial message to the parent. In this case,
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-### 'Is this a Netdata node?'
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the parent is using SSL and the child tries to connect using plain text. You will also see this message when
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