Real time performance monitoring with Netdata

Netdata is a web based real time system performance monitoring tool. It's easy to configure as it does not have many dependencies & most of them are available in EPEL.
The developers have also provided scripts which takes care of the installation along with dependency requirements on the projects' github page.

I decided to install it the hard way without using scripts. So I installed the dependent packages by hand & downloaded the netdata source from github.

#yum install zlib-devel libuuid-devel libmnl-devel gcc make autoconf autoconf-archive autogen automake pkgconfig

[root@centdb /]# unzip netdata-master.zip
Archive:  netdata-master.zip
cd8c212e1ac9199eb6bd265ce6181f76f6d2625b
   creating: netdata-master/
  inflating: netdata-master/.gitignore
  inflating: netdata-master/.travis.yml
  inflating: netdata-master/CMakeLists.txt
  inflating: netdata-master/COPYING
  inflating: netdata-master/ChangeLog
  inflating: netdata-master/Dockerfile
  inflating: netdata-master/LICENSE.md
  inflating: netdata-master/Makefile.am
  inflating: netdata-master/README.md
   creating: netdata-master/ansible/
  inflating: netdata-master/ansible/netdata.yml
 extracting: netdata-master/autogen.sh
   creating: netdata-master/build/
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From the directory where the package is extracted, run autogen.sh script.

[root@centdb netdata-master]# ./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac:32: installing `./config.guess'
configure.ac:32: installing `./config.sub'
configure.ac:31: installing `./install-sh'
configure.ac:31: installing `./missing'
src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'

Now run the netdata-installer.sh script.

[root@centdb netdata-master]# ./netdata-installer.sh

Welcome to netdata!
The real-time performance monitoring system.

You are about to build and install netdata to your system.

It will be installed at these locations:

  - the daemon    at /usr/sbin/netdata
  - config files  at /etc/netdata
  - web files     at /usr/share/netdata
  - plugins       at /usr/libexec/netdata
  - cache files   at /var/cache/netdata
  - db files      at /var/lib/netdata
  - log files     at /var/log/netdata
  - pid file      at /var/run
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This script will do the complete configuration of netdata from start to finish

At the completion of the script, the following text will be displayed:


OK. NetData is installed and it is running.

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By default netdata listens on all IPs on port 19999,
so you can access it with:

http://this.machine.ip:19999/

To stop netdata, just kill it, with:
  killall netdata
To start it, just run it:
  /usr/sbin/netdata

Enjoy!
Uninstall script generated: ./netdata-uninstaller.sh


I took a look at the GUI & found it to be phenomenal. It was really cool.

Here are a couple of screenshots:

Enabling netdata to start on boot:

The directory where netdata was extracted had a sub-directory called system & it contained the init script netdata-init-d to /etc/init.d & then ran

[root@centdb init.d]# service netdata-init-d status
netdata (pid  7416) is running...
[root@centdb init.d]# chkconfig netdata-init-d on
[root@centdb init.d]# chkconfig netdata-init-d --list
netdata-init-d  0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
[root@centdb init.d]#