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| author | DanTheMediocre <djo@live.nl> | 2022-03-23 19:54:45 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-03-23 20:54:45 +0200 |
| commit | 83e13596cb458eff1591abfa1c67f497153295db (patch) | |
| tree | c4bdef398a2f998f113dd25bec3116975972f2bf /collectors/timex.plugin | |
| parent | 1023c3e196fafcc21c10bf3c3c95b88339b82f1a (diff) | |
Adjust timex.plugin information to be less cryptic (#12495)
Co-authored-by: Ilya Mashchenko <ilya@netdata.cloud>
Co-authored-by: Tina Luedtke <kickoke@users.noreply.github.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | collectors/timex.plugin/README.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/collectors/timex.plugin/README.md b/collectors/timex.plugin/README.md index e5c6a1dede..2956512f1d 100644 --- a/collectors/timex.plugin/README.md +++ b/collectors/timex.plugin/README.md @@ -6,13 +6,16 @@ custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/collectors/timex # timex.plugin -This plugin monitors the system clock synchronization state on Linux nodes. +This plugin monitors the system kernel clock synchronization state. This plugin creates two charts: -- System clock synchronization state +- System clock synchronization state according to the system kernel - Computed time offset between local system and reference clock +This is obtained from the information provided by the [ntp_adjtime()](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/adjtimex.2.html) system call. +An unsynchronized clock may indicate a hardware clock error, or an issue with UTC synchronization. + ## Configuration Edit the `netdata.conf` configuration file using [`edit-config`](/docs/configure/nodes.md#use-edit-config-to-edit-configuration-files) from the [Netdata config directory](/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`. |