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diff --git a/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/Makefile.inc b/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/Makefile.inc
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-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE Makefile
-# IT IS INCLUDED BY ITS PARENT'S Makefile.am
-# IT IS REQUIRED TO REFERENCE ALL FILES RELATIVE TO THE PARENT
-
-# install these files
-dist_charts_DATA       += example/example.chart.sh
-dist_chartsconfig_DATA += example/example.conf
-
-# do not install these files, but include them in the distribution
-dist_noinst_DATA       += example/README.md example/Makefile.inc
-
diff --git a/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/README.md b/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/README.md
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-<!--
-title: "Example"
-custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/README.md"
-sidebar_label: "example-charts.d.plugin"
-learn_status: "Published"
-learn_topic_type: "References"
-learn_rel_path: "Integrations/Monitor/Mock Collectors"
--->
-
-# Example
-
-If you want to understand how charts.d data collector functions, check out the [charts.d example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata/master/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/example.chart.sh). 
-
-
diff --git a/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/example.chart.sh b/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/example.chart.sh
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-# shellcheck shell=bash
-# no need for shebang - this file is loaded from charts.d.plugin
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-# netdata
-# real-time performance and health monitoring, done right!
-# (C) 2016 Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr>
-#
-
-# if this chart is called X.chart.sh, then all functions and global variables
-# must start with X_
-
-# _update_every is a special variable - it holds the number of seconds
-# between the calls of the _update() function
-example_update_every=
-
-# the priority is used to sort the charts on the dashboard
-# 1 = the first chart
-example_priority=150000
-
-# to enable this chart, you have to set this to 12345
-# (just a demonstration for something that needs to be checked)
-example_magic_number=
-
-# global variables to store our collected data
-# remember: they need to start with the module name example_
-example_value1=
-example_value2=
-example_value3=
-example_value4=
-example_last=0
-example_count=0
-
-example_get() {
-  # do all the work to collect / calculate the values
-  # for each dimension
-  #
-  # Remember:
-  # 1. KEEP IT SIMPLE AND SHORT
-  # 2. AVOID FORKS (avoid piping commands)
-  # 3. AVOID CALLING TOO MANY EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
-  # 4. USE LOCAL VARIABLES (global variables may overlap with other modules)
-
-  example_value1=$RANDOM
-  example_value2=$RANDOM
-  example_value3=$RANDOM
-  example_value4=$((8192 + (RANDOM * 16383 / 32767)))
-
-  if [ $example_count -gt 0 ]; then
-    example_count=$((example_count - 1))
-
-    [ $example_last -gt 16383 ] && example_value4=$((example_last + (RANDOM * ((32767 - example_last) / 2) / 32767)))
-    [ $example_last -le 16383 ] && example_value4=$((example_last - (RANDOM * (example_last / 2) / 32767)))
-  else
-    example_count=$((1 + (RANDOM * 5 / 32767)))
-
-    if [ $example_last -gt 16383 ] && [ $example_value4 -gt 16383 ]; then
-      example_value4=$((example_value4 - 16383))
-    fi
-    if [ $example_last -le 16383 ] && [ $example_value4 -lt 16383 ]; then
-      example_value4=$((example_value4 + 16383))
-    fi
-  fi
-  example_last=$example_value4
-
-  # this should return:
-  #  - 0 to send the data to netdata
-  #  - 1 to report a failure to collect the data
-
-  return 0
-}
-
-# _check is called once, to find out if this chart should be enabled or not
-example_check() {
-  # this should return:
-  #  - 0 to enable the chart
-  #  - 1 to disable the chart
-
-  # check something
-  [ "${example_magic_number}" != "12345" ] && error "manual configuration required: you have to set example_magic_number=$example_magic_number in example.conf to start example chart." && return 1
-
-  # check that we can collect data
-  example_get || return 1
-
-  return 0
-}
-
-# _create is called once, to create the charts
-example_create() {
-  # create the chart with 3 dimensions
-  cat << EOF
-CHART example.random '' "Random Numbers Stacked Chart" "% of random numbers" random random stacked $((example_priority)) $example_update_every '' '' 'example'
-DIMENSION random1 '' percentage-of-absolute-row 1 1
-DIMENSION random2 '' percentage-of-absolute-row 1 1
-DIMENSION random3 '' percentage-of-absolute-row 1 1
-CHART example.random2 '' "A random number" "random number" random random area $((example_priority + 1)) $example_update_every '' '' 'example'
-DIMENSION random '' absolute 1 1
-EOF
-
-  return 0
-}
-
-# _update is called continuously, to collect the values
-example_update() {
-  # the first argument to this function is the microseconds since last update
-  # pass this parameter to the BEGIN statement (see below).
-
-  example_get || return 1
-
-  # write the result of the work.
-  cat << VALUESEOF
-BEGIN example.random $1
-SET random1 = $example_value1
-SET random2 = $example_value2
-SET random3 = $example_value3
-END
-BEGIN example.random2 $1
-SET random = $example_value4
-END
-VALUESEOF
-
-  return 0
-}
diff --git a/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/example.conf b/collectors/charts.d.plugin/example/example.conf
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-# no need for shebang - this file is loaded from charts.d.plugin
-
-# netdata
-# real-time performance and health monitoring, done right!
-# (C) 2018 Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr>
-# GPL v3+
-
-# to enable this chart, you have to set this to 12345
-# (just a demonstration for something that needs to be checked)
-#example_magic_number=12345
-
-# the data collection frequency
-# if unset, will inherit the netdata update frequency
-#example_update_every=
-
-# the charts priority on the dashboard
-#example_priority=150000
-
-# the number of retries to do in case of failure
-# before disabling the module
-#example_retries=10