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author | Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2018-10-18 17:31:52 +0300 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-10-18 17:31:52 +0300 |
commit | e76aac74e69c7dd03060e800e206eee777661a0c (patch) | |
tree | fa8e082b99d4d85c950f3d5d25385f9d14980c6f /collectors/plugins.d | |
parent | 15408ace0c2a81986026dd66446bb216c9b96eb6 (diff) |
moved related wiki pages into the repo (#4428)
* moved related wiki pages into the repo
* updated web server docs
* fixed typos
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-rw-r--r-- | collectors/plugins.d/README.md | 12 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/collectors/plugins.d/README.md b/collectors/plugins.d/README.md index 130833aac1..eda3abfa65 100644 --- a/collectors/plugins.d/README.md +++ b/collectors/plugins.d/README.md @@ -3,17 +3,6 @@ `plugins.d` is the netdata internal plugin that collects metrics from external processes, thus allowing netdata to use **external plugins**. -netdata supports plugins written in **any language**. The only requirement netdata has from its plugins, is to be able to print data at their output. - -Plugins can be written in the appropriate language for their job. For example: - -- You can collect data from JMX, using a java application -- You can collect data from a REST API, using a node.js application -- You can collect data from a system command, using a shell script -- etc. - -Many of these languages can run their code efficiently, but they require a lot of resources when they are initialized. netdata suggests that plugins will be **initialized once and run forever** (until stopped by netdata). This way, the expensive part of their execution, their initialization, is eliminated. - ## Provided External Plugins plugin|language|O/S|description @@ -33,6 +22,7 @@ Each of these modular plugins has each own methods for defining modules. Please This plugin allows netdata to use **external plugins** for data collection: 1. external data collection plugins may be written in any computer language. + 2. external data collection plugins may use O/S capabilities or `setuid` to run with escalated privileges (compared to the netdata daemon). The communication between the external plugin and netdata is unidirectional |