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diff --git a/docs/guides/configure/performance.md b/docs/guides/configure/performance.md index 5f93a8cd4..8e0108979 100644 --- a/docs/guides/configure/performance.md +++ b/docs/guides/configure/performance.md @@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ All the settings are found in the `[global]` section of `netdata.conf`: dbengine multihost disk space = 256 ``` +Metric retention is not important in certain use cases, such as: + - Data collection nodes stream collected metrics collected to a centralization point. + - Data collection nodes export their metrics to another time series DB, or are scraped by Prometheus + - Netdata installed only during incidents, to get richer information. +In such cases, you may not want to use the dbengine at all and instead opt for memory mode `memory mode = ram` or `memory mode = none`. + ## Run Netdata behind Nginx A dedicated web server like Nginx provides far more robustness than the Agent's internal [web server](/web/README.md). |