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author | Chris Akritidis <43294513+cakrit@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-11-12 21:34:59 +0100 |
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committer | Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2018-11-12 22:34:59 +0200 |
commit | 3aae8f6c2ceea7f74cde61a2044aa50c5f252fae (patch) | |
tree | 781412f323c0183c520e4ff1c9fdac53a900b463 /collectors/plugins.d | |
parent | a29b433526f56fe983d88dc4e86585bad65916c4 (diff) |
Htmldoc (#4607)
* First html documentation debug set
* Test 2
* Relative path changed
* Updated comments
* Cleanup, installation draft added
* fixes
* test
* test
* test
* First html documentation debug set
* Test 2
* Relative path changed
* Updated comments
* Cleanup, installation draft added
* fixes
* test
* test
* test
* First set of major cleanup/deduplication
* 2nd major cleanup
* update getting started structure
* Cleanup in using netdata
* Final cleanup/deduplication
* Added initial CONTRIBUTING.md, updated some info related to contributing on the orchestrators
* Removed Why-Netdata (included in new README in master), added link to CONTRIBUTING.md
* First html documentation debug set
* Updated Makefile.am to ignore the new md and htmldoc generation files
* Removing files from rebase
* First html documentation debug set
* Test 2
* Relative path changed
* Updated comments
* Cleanup, installation draft added
* fixes
* test
* test
* test
* First html documentation debug set
* Test 2
* Relative path changed
* Updated comments
* Cleanup, installation draft added
* test
* test
* First set of major cleanup/deduplication
* 2nd major cleanup
* update getting started structure
* Cleanup in using netdata
* Final cleanup/deduplication
* Added initial CONTRIBUTING.md, updated some info related to contributing on the orchestrators
* Removed Why-Netdata (included in new README in master), added link to CONTRIBUTING.md
* First html documentation debug set
* Updated Makefile.am to ignore the new md and htmldoc generation files
* Removing files from rebase
* Fixed Makefile.am
* Same line header and badges
* Fixed broken link
* CPU monitoring is in apps plugin
* Removed obsolete files
* Remove obsolete files
* - Make the Health API part of health/README.md new file web/api/health/README.md
- Make installer/LAUNCH.md part of deamon/README.md
- Move installer/MAINTAINERS.md to packaging/maintainers/README.md
- Move installer/DOCKER.md to docker/README.md
- Move system/README.md to daemon/config/README.md
- Move web/CUSTOM-DASHBOARDS.md to web/gui/custom/README.md
- Move web/CONFLUENCE-DASHBOARDS.md to web/gui/confluence/README.md
* Resolve codacy issue $(..) syntax instead of `..`
* Fix following warnings and add svgs to the data_structures/README.md
- CHANGELOG.md
- CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- CONTRIBUTORS.md
- REDISTRIBUTED.md
- diagrams/data_structures/README.md
- docker/README.md
WARNING - Documentation file 'README.md' contains a link to 'collectors/plugins.d' which does not exist in the documentation directory.
WARNING - Documentation file 'README.md' contains a link to 'collectors/statsd.plugin' which does not exist in the documentation directory.
WARNING - Documentation file 'CONTRIBUTING.md' contains a link to 'web/CUSTOM-DASHBOARDS.md' which does not exist in the documentation directory.
WARNING - Documentation file 'CONTRIBUTING.md' contains a link to 'web/CONFLUENCE-DASHBOARDS.md' which does not exist in the documentation directory.
* Wrong urls in data_structures/README.md svgs
* Fix svg URLs number 2
* Modify the first line of the main README.md, to enable proper static html generation. Executed after copying the file to htmldoc/src
* Added back Why Netdata
* Fixed link to registry in Why-Netdata.md
* Added Why-Netdata to buildyaml and to Makefile.am
* Replaced http links causing mixed content warnings
* Made buildhtml ignore the directory node_modules created by Netlify
* Corrected CONTRIBUTING.MD to CONTRIBUTING.md
Diffstat (limited to 'collectors/plugins.d')
-rw-r--r-- | collectors/plugins.d/README.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/collectors/plugins.d/README.md b/collectors/plugins.d/README.md index d3aa5b5b07..c5981803c6 100644 --- a/collectors/plugins.d/README.md +++ b/collectors/plugins.d/README.md @@ -374,23 +374,23 @@ or do not output the line at all. ## Modular Plugins -1. **python**, use `python.d.plugin`, there are many examples in the [python.d directory](../python.d.plugin) +1. **python**, use `python.d.plugin`, there are many examples in the [python.d directory](../python.d.plugin/) python is ideal for netdata plugins. It is a simple, yet powerful way to collect data, it has a very small memory footprint, although it is not the most CPU efficient way to do it. -2. **node.js**, use `node.d.plugin`, there are a few examples in the [node.d directory](../node.d.plugin) +2. **node.js**, use `node.d.plugin`, there are a few examples in the [node.d directory](../node.d.plugin/) node.js is the fastest scripting language for collecting data. If your plugin needs to do a lot of work, compute values, etc, node.js is probably the best choice before moving to compiled code. Keep in mind though that node.js is not memory efficient; it will probably need more RAM compared to python. -3. **BASH**, use `charts.d.plugin`, there are many examples in the [charts.d directory](../charts.d.plugin) +3. **BASH**, use `charts.d.plugin`, there are many examples in the [charts.d directory](../charts.d.plugin/) BASH is the simplest scripting language for collecting values. It is the less efficient though in terms of CPU resources. You can use it to collect data quickly, but extensive use of it might use a lot of system resources. 4. **C** Of course, C is the most efficient way of collecting data. This is why netdata itself is written in C. - ---- + +## Properly Writing Plugins ## Writing Plugins Properly @@ -470,3 +470,4 @@ There are a few rules for writing plugins properly: 3. If you are not sure of memory leaks, exit every one hour. Netdata will re-start your process. 4. If possible, try to autodetect if your plugin should be enabled, without any configuration. + |