Add command-line option descriptions for apps.plugin (#6738)
Vladimir Kobal committed
Sep 2, 2019 at 13:25 UTC
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collectors/apps.plugin/README.md
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@@ -142,6 +142,13 @@ ones at the top. Processes not matched by any row, will inherit it from their pa
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The order also controls the order of the dimensions on the generated charts (although applications started
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after apps.plugin is started, will be appended to the existing list of dimensions the `netdata` daemon maintains).
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+There are a few command line options you can pass to `apps.plugin`. The list of available options can be acquired with the `--help` flag. The options can be set in the `netdata.conf` file. For example, to disable user and user group charts you should set
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+
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+```
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+[plugin:apps]
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+ command options = without-users without-groups
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+```
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## Permissions
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`apps.plugin` requires additional privileges to collect all the information it needs.
collectors/apps.plugin/apps_plugin.c
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" without-files enable / disable reporting files, sockets, pipes\n"
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" (default is enabled)\n"
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"\n"
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+ " without-users disable reporting per user charts\n"
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+ "\n"
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+ " without-groups disable reporting per user group charts\n"
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+ "\n"
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#ifndef __FreeBSD__
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" fds-cache-secs N cache the files of processed for N seconds\n"
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" caching is adaptive per file (when a file\n"