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authorAndrew Maguire <andrewm4894@gmail.com>2021-07-01 13:01:46 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-07-01 13:01:46 +0100
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servers.
- [SSH](https://github.com/Yaser-Amiri/netdata-ssh-module): Monitor failed authentication requests of an SSH server.
+If you wanted to install a third party collecotr into your Netdata agent you would do something like this (using [hamedbrd/netdata/tree/logparser](https://github.com/hamedbrd/netdata/tree/logparser) as an example):
+
+```bash
+# get the collector code
+sudo wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hamedbrd/netdata/logparser/collectors/python.d.plugin/logparser/logparser.chart.py" -P /usr/libexec/netdata/python.d/
+
+# get the collector conf file (which you can then edit as needed)
+sudo wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hamedbrd/netdata/logparser/collectors/python.d.plugin/logparser/logparser.conf" -P /etc/netdata/python.d/
+```
+
## Etc
- [checks.plugin](checks.plugin/README.md): A debugging collector, disabled by default.