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| author | Costa Tsaousis (ktsaou) <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2015-09-22 01:36:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Costa Tsaousis (ktsaou) <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2015-09-22 01:36:26 +0300 |
| commit | fb8d32b90307379f5d46fb04521398948260f04b (patch) | |
| tree | c4f6cabf0a03fa25335382de47363e2f819410d4 /README.md | |
| parent | 9fc41905d100bbdfd603500e8b12726f787e9b25 (diff) | |
updated readme
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@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ netdata ======= -linux real time system monitoring over the web +### Linux real time system monitoring, over the web! -Netdata is a daemon that collects system information from a linux system and presents a web site to view the data. +**Netdata** is a daemon that collects system information from a linux system and presents a web site to view the data. The presentation is full of charts that precisely render all system values, in realtime, for a short time (1 hour by default). You can use it to monitor all your servers, linux PCs or linux embedded devices, without the need to ssh to them. -Also, you can view a short history of all collected values. +Also, you can view a short history of all collected values, so if something happens you can use **netdata** to find out what and when. Check it live at: @@ -149,9 +149,12 @@ cd netdata.git Once you run it, the file conf.d/netdata.conf will be created. You can edit this file to set options for each graph. To apply the changes you made, you have to run netdata.start again. +If you run `netdata.start` as `root`, netdata will start by default as `nobody`. Otherwise it will run as the user that started it. If you run it as `root`, you can set the user you want it to run in the config file `conf.d/netdata.conf`. + To access the web site for all graphs, go to: ``` http://127.0.0.1:19999/ ``` +You can get the running config file at any time, by accessing `http://127.0.0.1:19999/netdata.conf`. |