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| author | Joel Hans <joel@netdata.cloud> | 2021-01-07 09:53:10 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-01-07 09:53:10 -0700 |
| commit | 0bb7a429b619bc68104983691e4f957482630787 (patch) | |
| tree | 040bc96ddd98ac59d7e83235f2babccc01ecb636 /exporting | |
| parent | 3adf54ff452fbe8216b64dfce9c7ec04bc7a270b (diff) | |
Small updates, improvements, and housekeeping to docs (#10405)
* Fix Berkeley mentions
* Add new collectors to list
* Tweak Prometheus/OpenMetrics phrasing
* Fix heading depth in performance guide
* Clarify that exporting starts with Agent start
* Clarify usage of edit-config with new files
* Update images
* service -> systemctl
* Reverse systemctl order
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| -rw-r--r-- | exporting/README.md | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/exporting/README.md b/exporting/README.md index 8f490cc2ff..d10ea32aa8 100644 --- a/exporting/README.md +++ b/exporting/README.md @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ databases](/docs/export/external-databases.md), or jump in to [enabling a connec The exporting engine has a modular structure and supports metric exporting via multiple exporting connector instances at the same time. You can have different update intervals and filters configured for every exporting connector instance. +When you enable the exporting engine and a connector, the Netdata Agent exports metrics _beginning from the time you +restart its process_, not the entire [database of long-term metrics](/docs/store/change-metrics-storage.md). + The exporting engine has its own configuration file `exporting.conf`. The configuration is almost similar to the deprecated [backends](/backends/README.md#configuration) system. The most important difference is that type of a connector should be specified in a section name before a colon and an instance name after the colon. Also, you can't use |