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| author | Fotis Voutsas <fotis@netdata.cloud> | 2023-04-20 19:02:07 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-04-20 09:02:07 -0700 |
| commit | f5c969eaf517ea531adfffde90ab6955397a3d5c (patch) | |
| tree | cc51ed2c4612ec3203c1ba13ad9fdd4d46f6f58a /collectors | |
| parent | 058b7e11dce56f85bca5f17b2b04e2ab53130868 (diff) | |
Add a description to proc.plugin/README.md (#14935)
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| -rw-r--r-- | collectors/proc.plugin/README.md | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/collectors/proc.plugin/README.md b/collectors/proc.plugin/README.md index 2c22b00e5c..6c1335a708 100644 --- a/collectors/proc.plugin/README.md +++ b/collectors/proc.plugin/README.md @@ -1,14 +1,11 @@ -<!-- -title: "OS provided metrics (proc.plugin)" -custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/collectors/proc.plugin/README.md" -sidebar_label: "OS provided metrics (proc.plugin)" -learn_status: "Published" -learn_topic_type: "References" -learn_rel_path: "Integrations/Monitor/System metrics" ---> - # OS provided metrics (proc.plugin) +`proc.plugin` gathers metrics from the /proc and /sys folders in Linux systems, along with a few other endpoints, and is responsible for the bulk of the system metrics collected and visualized by Netdata. + +This plugin is not an external plugin, but one of Netdata's threads. + +In detail, it collects metrics from: + - `/proc/net/dev` (all network interfaces for all their values) - `/proc/diskstats` (all disks for all their values) - `/proc/mdstat` (status of RAID arrays) |