NAME

netdata - real-time performance monitoring

SYNOPSIS

netdata [-c OPTIONS] [-D|-d] [-P FILENAME] [-i IP] [-p PORT] [-s PATH] [-t SECONDS] [-u USERNAME]

netdata -h netdata -v|-V

DESCRIPTION

netdata is distributed, real-time, performance and health monitoring for systems and applications. It provides insights of everything happening on the systems it runs using interactive web dashboards.

It can run autonomously without any third party components or it can be integrated to existing monitoring tool chains (Prometheus, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Kafka, Grafana, etc).

OPTIONS

The netdata daemon is usually started by an initscript or a systemd service, the following options are available:

-c FILENAME

Configuration file to load.
Default: /etc/netdata/netdata.conf.

-D

Do not fork. Run in the foreground.
Default: run in the background

-d

Fork. Run in the background.
Default: run in the background

-h

Display this help message.

-P FILENAME

File to save a pid while running.
Default: do not save pid to a file

-i IP

The IP address to listen to.
Default: all IP addresses IPv4 and IPv6

-p PORT

API/Web port to use.
Default: 19999

-s PATH

Prefix for /proc and /sys (for containers).
Default: no prefix

-t SECONDS

The internal clock of netdata.
Default: 1

-u USERNAME

Run as user.
Default: netdata

-v, -V

Print netdata version and exit.

-W OPTIONS

See Advanced options below.

SIGNALS

HUP

Close and reopen log files.

USR1

Save internal DB to disk.

USR2

Reload health configuration.

FILES

/etc/netdata

Configuration file.

/usr/share/doc/netdata

Upstream documentation.

HOMEPAGE

More information about netdata can be found on the homepage at <https://my-netdata.io> and in the manual at <https://docs.netdata.cloud>.

AUTHOR

netdata was written by Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr>.

This manual page was written by Federico Ceratto <federico@debian.org> for the Debian project and may be used by others.