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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2019-02-08 07:30:37 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2019-02-08 07:30:37 +0000
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parentNew upstream version 1.11.1+dfsg (diff)
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Adding upstream version 1.12.0.upstream/1.12.0
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ To do this, edit `/etc/netdata/netdata.conf` and find this section:
```
[plugin:apps]
# update every = 1
- # command options =
+ # command options =
```
Uncomment the line `update every` and set it to a higher number. If you just set it to ` 2 `,
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ For the **Applications** section, only groups configured in this file are report
All other processes will be reported as `other`.
For each process given, its whole process tree will be grouped, not just the process matched.
-The plugin will include both parents and children.
+The plugin will include both parents and children. If including the parents into the group is
+undesirable, the line `other: *` should be appended to the `apps_groups.conf`.
The process names are the ones returned by:
@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ Exactly like `top`, `htop` is providing an incomplete breakdown of the system CP
```
CPU[||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Tasks: 27, 11 thr; 2 running
- Mem[||||||||||||||||||||85.4M/993M] Load average: 1.16 0.88 0.90
+ Mem[||||||||||||||||||||85.4M/993M] Load average: 1.16 0.88 0.90
Swp[ 0K/0K] Uptime: 3 days, 21:37:03
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command
@@ -305,10 +306,10 @@ MEM [ 23.7%] user: 30.9% total: 993M total: 0 1 min: 1.18
SWAP [ 0.0%] system: 67.8% used: 236M used: 0 5 min: 1.08
idle: 0.0% free: 757M free: 0 15 min: 1.00
-NETWORK Rx/s Tx/s TASKS 75 (90 thr), 1 run, 74 slp, 0 oth
+NETWORK Rx/s Tx/s TASKS 75 (90 thr), 1 run, 74 slp, 0 oth
eth0 168b 2Kb
-eth1 0b 0b CPU% MEM% PID USER NI S Command
-lo 0b 0b 13.5 0.4 12789 root 0 S -bash
+eth1 0b 0b CPU% MEM% PID USER NI S Command
+lo 0b 0b 13.5 0.4 12789 root 0 S -bash
1.6 2.2 7025 root 0 R /usr/bin/python /u
DISK I/O R/s W/s 1.0 0.0 9 root 0 S rcuos/0
vda1 0 4K 0.3 0.2 7024 netdata 0 S /usr/libexec/netda
@@ -370,3 +371,5 @@ It is even trickier, because walking through the entire process tree takes some
if you sum the CPU utilization of all processes, you might have more CPU time than the reported
total cpu time of the system. netdata solves this, by adapting the per process cpu utilization to
the total of the system. [Netdata adds charts that document this normalization](https://london.my-netdata.io/default.html#menu_netdata_submenu_apps_plugin).
+
+[![analytics](https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&aip=1&t=pageview&_s=1&ds=github&dr=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fnetdata%2Fnetdata&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-netdata.io%2Fgithub%2Fcollectors%2Fapps.plugin%2FREADME&_u=MAC~&cid=5792dfd7-8dc4-476b-af31-da2fdb9f93d2&tid=UA-64295674-3)]()