# Systemd-Logind monitoring with Netdata Monitors active sessions, users, and seats tracked by `systemd-logind` or `elogind`. It provides the following charts: 1. **Sessions** Tracks the total number of sessions. - Graphical: Local graphical sessions (running X11, or Wayland, or something else). - Console: Local console sessions. - Remote: Remote sessions. 2. **Users** Tracks total number of unique user logins of each type. - Graphical - Console - Remote 3. **Seats** Total number of seats in use. - Seats ## Enable the collector The `logind` collector is disabled by default. To enable it, use `edit-config` from the Netdata [config directory](/docs/configure/nodes.md), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`, to edit the `python.d.conf` file. ```bash cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different sudo ./edit-config python.d.conf ``` Change the value of the `logind` setting to `yes`. Save the file and restart the Netdata Agent with `sudo systemctl restart netdata`, or the appropriate method for your system, to finish enabling the `logind` collector. ## Configuration This module needs no configuration. Just make sure the `netdata` user can run the `loginctl` command and get a session list without having to specify a path. This will work with any command that can output data in the _exact_ same format as `loginctl list-sessions --no-legend`. If you have some other command you want to use that outputs data in this format, you can specify it using the `command` key like so: ```yaml command: '/path/to/other/command' ``` Edit the `python.d/logind.conf` configuration file using `edit-config` from the Netdata [config directory](/docs/configure/nodes.md), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`. ```bash cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different sudo ./edit-config python.d/logind.conf ``` ## Notes - This module's ability to track logins is dependent on what PAM services are configured to register sessions with logind. In particular, for most systems, it will only track TTY logins, local desktop logins, and logins through remote shell connections. - The users chart counts _usernames_ not UID's. This is potentially important in configurations where multiple users have the same UID. - The users chart counts any given user name up to once for _each_ type of login. So if the same user has a graphical and a console login on a system, they will show up once in the graphical count, and once in the console count. - Because the data collection process is rather expensive, this plugin is currently disabled by default, and needs to be explicitly enabled in `/etc/netdata/python.d.conf` before it will run. --- [](<>)