NAME

       netdata - real-time performance monitoring

SYNOPSIS

       netdata  [-c  OPTIONS]  [-D|-d] [-P FILENAME] [-i IP] [-p PORT] [-s PATH] [-t SECONDS] [-u
       USERNAME]

       netdata -h netdata -v|-V

DESCRIPTION

       netdata is distributed, real-time, performance  and  health  monitoring  for  systems  and
       applications.  It  provides  insights of everything happening on the systems it runs using
       interactive web dashboards.

       It can run autonomously without any third party components or  it  can  be  integrated  to
       existing monitoring tool chains (Prometheus, Graphite, OpenTSDB, Kafka, Grafana, etc).

OPTIONS

       The  netdata  daemon  is usually started by the systemd service, the following options are
       available:

       -c FILENAME
           Configuration file to load.
           Default: /etc/netdata/netdata.conf.

       -D  Do not fork. Run in the foreground.
           Default: run in the background

       -d  Fork. Run in the background.
           Default: run in the background

       -h  Display this help message.

       -P FILENAME
           File to save a pid while running.
           Default: do not save pid to a file

       -i IP
           The IP address to listen to.
           Default: all IP addresses IPv4 and IPv6

       -p PORT
           API/Web port to use.
           Default: 19999

       -s PATH
           Prefix for /proc and /sys (for containers).
           Default: no prefix

       -t SECONDS
           The internal clock of netdata.
           Default: 1

       -u USERNAME
           Run as user.
           Default: netdata

       -v, -V
           Print netdata version and exit.

       -W OPTIONS
           See Advanced options below.

   ADVANCED OPTIONS
       -W stacksize=N
           Set the stacksize (in bytes).

       -W debug_flags=N
           Set runtime tracing to debug.log.

       -W unittest
           Run internal unittests and exit.

       -W createdataset=N
           Create a DB engine dataset of N seconds and exit.

       -W stresstest=A,B,C,D,E,F
           Run a DB engine stress test for A seconds, with B writers and C readers, with  a  ramp
           up  time  of D seconds for writers, a page cache size of E MiB, an optional disk space
           limit of F MiB and exit.

       -W set SECTION OPTION VALUE
           Set netdata.conf option from the command line.

       -W simple-pattern PATTERN STRING
           Check if string matches pattern and exit.

       -W 'claim -token=TOKEN -rooms=ROOM1,ROOM2'
           Claim the agent to the workspace rooms pointed to by TOKEN and ROOM*.

SIGNALS

       HUP Close and reopen log files.

       USR1
           Save internal DB to disk.

       USR2
           Reload health configuration.

FILES

       /etc/netdata
           Configuration file.

       /usr/share/doc/netdata
           Upstream documentation.

HOMEPAGE

       More information about netdata can be found on the homepage at <https://my-netdata.io> and
       in the manual at <https://docs.netdata.cloud>.

AUTHOR

       netdata was written by Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr>.

       This  manual  page  was  written  by Federico Ceratto <federico@debian.org> for the Debian
       project and may be used by others.