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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2023-06-14 19:20:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2023-06-14 19:20:33 +0000 |
| commit | 6cf8f2d5174a53f582e61d715edbb88d6e3367cc (patch) | |
| tree | 78cec0fd8d09c4a6a052461d42f4b2be3af6d396 /collectors/perf.plugin/README.md | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 1.39.1. (diff) | |
| download | netdata-6cf8f2d5174a53f582e61d715edbb88d6e3367cc.tar.xz netdata-6cf8f2d5174a53f582e61d715edbb88d6e3367cc.zip | |
Adding upstream version 1.40.0.upstream/1.40.0
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/collectors/perf.plugin/README.md b/collectors/perf.plugin/README.md index e519be9c..a8bd4b0e 100644 --- a/collectors/perf.plugin/README.md +++ b/collectors/perf.plugin/README.md @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ the `perf_event_open()` system call. ## Important Notes +If you are using [our official native DEB/RPM packages](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/packaging/installer/methods/packages.md), you will need to install +the `netdata-plugin-perf` package using your system package manager. + Accessing hardware PMUs requires root permissions, so the plugin is setuid to root. Keep in mind that the number of PMUs in a system is usually quite limited and every hardware monitoring |