# no need for shebang - this file is loaded from charts.d.plugin # netdata # real-time performance and health monitoring, done right! # (C) 2016 Costa Tsaousis # GPL v3+ # # 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) )) [ $example_last -gt 16383 -a $example_value4 -gt 16383 ] && example_value4=$((example_value4 - 16383)) [ $example_last -le 16383 -a $example_value4 -lt 16383 ] && example_value4=$((example_value4 + 16383)) 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 <