Add notice to eBPF documentation about incompatibility with static builds (#9418)
* Add notice about static builds and GA tag * Fix link
Joel Hans committed
Jun 25, 2020 at 08:41 UTC
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collectors/ebpf.plugin/README.md
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## Enable the collector on Linux
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-**The eBPF collector is installed and enabled by default on new nightly installations of the Agent**. eBPF monitoring
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-only works on Linux systems and with specific Linux kernels, including all kernels newer than `4.11.0`, and all kernels
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-on CentOS 7.6 or later.
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+**The eBPF collector is installed and enabled by default on most new installations of the Agent**. The eBPF collector
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+does not currently work with [static build installations](/packaging/installer/methods/kickstart-64.md), but improved
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+support is in active development.
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+eBPF monitoring only works on Linux systems and with specific Linux kernels, including all kernels newer than `4.11.0`,
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+and all kernels on CentOS 7.6 or later.
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If your Agent is v1.22 or older, you may to enable the collector yourself. See the [configuration](#configuration)
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section for details.
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## Troubleshooting
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-If the eBPF collector does not work, you can troubleshoot it by running the `ebpf.plugin` command and investigating its output.
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+If the eBPF collector does not work, you can troubleshoot it by running the `ebpf.plugin` command and investigating its
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+output.
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```bash
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cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
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If you or your distribution compiled the kernel with the last combination, your system cannot load shared libraries
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required to run `ebpf.plugin`.
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