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diff --git a/collectors/profile.plugin/README.md b/collectors/profile.plugin/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1f200fc31..000000000 --- a/collectors/profile.plugin/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -# profile.plugin - -This plugin allows someone to backfill an agent with random data. - -A user can specify: - - - The number charts they want, - - the number of dimensions per chart, - - the desire update every collection frequency, - - the number of seconds to backfill. - - the number of collection threads. - -## Configuration - -Edit the `netdata.conf` configuration file using [`edit-config`](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#use-edit-config-to-edit-configuration-files) from the [Netdata config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`. - -Scroll down to the `[plugin:profile]` section to find the available options: - -``` -[plugin:profile] - update every = 5 - number of charts = 200 - number of dimensions per chart = 5 - seconds to backfill = 86400 - number of threads = 16 -``` - -The `number of threads` option will create the specified number of collection -threads. The rest of the options apply to each thread individually, eg. the -above configuration will create 3200 charts, 16000 dimensions in total, which will be -backfilled for the duration of 1 day. - -Note that all but the 1st chart created in each thread will be marked as hidden -in order to ease the load on the dashboard's UI. |