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Installation

Netdata is a monitoring agent. It is designed to be installed and run on all your systems: physical and virtual servers, containers, even IoT.

The best way to install Netdata is directly from source. Our automatic installer will install any required system packages and compile Netdata directly on your systems.

!!! warning You can find Netdata packages distributed by third parties. In many cases, these packages are either too old or broken. So, the suggested ways to install Netdata are the ones in this page. We are currently working to provide our binary packages for all Linux distros. Stay tuned...

  1. Automatic one line installation, easy installation from source, this is the default
  2. Install pre-built static binary on any 64bit Linux
  3. Run Netdata in a docker container
  4. Manual installation, step by step
  5. Install on FreeBSD
  6. Install on pfSense
  7. Enable on FreeNAS Corral
  8. Install on macOS (OS X)
  9. Install on a Kubernetes cluster

See also the list of Netdata package maintainers for ASUSTOR NAS, OpenWRT, ReadyNAS, etc.

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One line installation

This method is fully automatic on all Linux distributions. FreeBSD and MacOS systems need some preparations before installing Netdata for the first time. Check the FreeBSD and the MacOS sections for more information.

To install Netdata from source and keep it up to date automatically, run the following:

bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh)

(do not sudo this command, it will do it by itself as needed)

Click here for more information and advanced use of this command.

 
Verify the integrity of the script with this:

[ "8a2b054081a108dff915994ce77f2f2d" = "$(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" ] && echo "OK, VALID" || echo "FAILED, INVALID"

It should print OK, VALID if the script is the one we ship.

The kickstart.sh script:

  • detects the Linux distro and installs the required system packages for building Netdata (will ask for confirmation)
  • downloads the latest Netdata source tree to /usr/src/netdata.git.
  • installs Netdata by running ./netdata-installer.sh from the source tree.
  • installs netdata-updater.sh to cron.daily, so your Netdata installation will be updated daily (you will get a message from cron only if the update fails).
  • For QA purposes, this installation method lets us know if it succeed or failed.

The kickstart.sh script passes all its parameters to netdata-installer.sh, so you can add more parameters to change the installation directory, enable/disable plugins, etc (check below).

For automated installs, append a space + --dont-wait to the command line. You can also append --dont-start-it to prevent the installer from starting Netdata. You can also append --stable-channel to fetch and install only the official releases from GitHub, instead of the nightly builds.

Example:

  bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh) --dont-wait --dont-start-it --stable-channel

If you don't want to receive automatic updates, add --no-updates when executing kickstart.sh script.

 

Once Netdata is installed, see Getting Started.

Linux 64bit pre-built static binary

You can install a pre-compiled static binary of Netdata on any Intel/AMD 64bit Linux system (even those that don't have a package manager, like CoreOS, CirrOS, busybox systems, etc). You can also use these packages on systems with broken or unsupported package managers.

To install Netdata with a binary package on any Linux distro, any kernel version - for Intel/AMD 64bit hosts, run the following:

  bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh)

(do not sudo this command, it will do it by itself as needed; if the target system does not have bash installed, see below for instructions to run it without bash)

The static builds install Netdata at /opt/netdata

Click here for more information and advanced use of this command.

 
Verify the integrity of the script with this:

[ "8779d8717ccaa8dac18d599502eef591" = "$(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" ] && echo "OK, VALID" || echo "FAILED, INVALID"

It should print OK, VALID if the script is the one we ship.

For automated installs, append a space + --dont-wait to the command line. You can also append --dont-start-it to prevent the installer from starting Netdata. You can also append --stable-channel to fetch and install only the official releases from GitHub, instead of the nightly builds.

Example:

  bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh) --dont-wait --dont-start-it --stable-channel

If your shell fails to handle the above one liner, do this:

# download the script with curl
curl https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh >/tmp/kickstart-static64.sh

# or, download the script with wget
wget -O /tmp/kickstart-static64.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh

# run the downloaded script (any sh is fine, no need for bash)
sh /tmp/kickstart-static64.sh
  • The static binary files are kept in repo binary-packages. You can download any of the .run files, and run it. These files are self-extracting shell scripts built with makeself.
  • The target system does not need to have bash installed.
  • The same files can be used for updates too.
  • For QA purposes, this installation method lets us know if it succeed or failed.
 

Once Netdata is installed, see Getting Started.

Run Netdata in a Docker container

You can Install Netdata with Docker.

Install Netdata on Linux manually

To install the latest git version of Netdata, please follow these 2 steps:

  1. Prepare your system

    Install the required packages on your system.

  2. Install Netdata

    Download and install Netdata. You can also update it the same way.

Prepare your system

Try our experimental automatic requirements installer (no need to be root). This will try to find the packages that should be installed on your system to build and run Netdata. It supports most major Linux distributions released after 2010:

  • Alpine Linux and its derivatives (you have to install bash yourself, before using the installer)
  • Arch Linux and its derivatives
  • Gentoo Linux and its derivatives
  • Debian Linux and its derivatives (including Ubuntu, Mint)
  • Fedora and its derivatives (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Amazon Machine Image)
  • SuSe Linux and its derivatives (including openSuSe)
  • SLE12 Must have your system registered with Suse Customer Center or have the DVD. See #1162

Install the packages for having a basic Netdata installation (system monitoring and many applications, without mysql / mariadb, postgres, named, hardware sensors and SNMP):

curl -Ss 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata-demo-site/master/install-required-packages.sh' >/tmp/kickstart.sh && bash /tmp/kickstart.sh -i netdata

Install all the required packages for monitoring everything Netdata can monitor:

curl -Ss 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata-demo-site/master/install-required-packages.sh' >/tmp/kickstart.sh && bash /tmp/kickstart.sh -i netdata-all

If the above do not work for you, please open a github issue with a copy of the message you get on screen. We are trying to make it work everywhere (this is also why the script reports back success or failure for all its runs).

This is how to do it by hand:

# Debian / Ubuntu
apt-get install zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libuv1-dev liblz4-dev libjudy-dev libssl-dev libmnl-dev gcc make git autoconf autoconf-archive autogen automake pkg-config curl

# Fedora
dnf install zlib-devel libuuid-devel libuv-devel lz4-devel Judy-devel openssl-devel libmnl-devel gcc make git autoconf autoconf-archive autogen automake pkgconfig curl findutils

# CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
yum install autoconf automake curl gcc git libmnl-devel libuuid-devel openssl-devel libuv-devel lz4-devel Judy-devel lm_sensors make MySQL-python nc pkgconfig python python-psycopg2 PyYAML zlib-devel

# openSUSE
zypper install zlib-devel libuuid-devel libuv-devel liblz4-devel judy-devel openssl-devel libmnl-devel gcc make git autoconf autoconf-archive autogen automake pkgconfig curl findutils

Please note that for RHEL/CentOS you might need EPEL.

Once Netdata is compiled, to run it the following packages are required (already installed using the above commands):

package description
libuuid part of util-linux for GUIDs management
zlib gzip compression for the internal Netdata web server

Netdata will fail to start without the above.

Netdata plugins and various aspects of Netdata can be enabled or benefit when these are installed (they are optional):

package description
bash for shell plugins and alarm notifications
curl for shell plugins and alarm notifications
iproute or iproute2 for monitoring Linux traffic QoS
use iproute2 if iproute reports as not available or obsolete
python for most of the external plugins
python-yaml used for monitoring beanstalkd
python-beanstalkc used for monitoring beanstalkd
python-dnspython used for monitoring DNS query time
python-ipaddress used for monitoring DHCPd
this package is required only if the system has python v2. python v3 has this functionality embedded
python-mysqldb
or
python-pymysql		 used for monitoring mysql or mariadb databases
python-mysqldb is a lot faster and thus preferred
python-psycopg2 used for monitoring postgresql databases
python-pymongo used for monitoring mongodb databases
nodejs used for node.js plugins for monitoring named and SNMP devices
lm-sensors for monitoring hardware sensors
libmnl for collecting netfilter metrics
netcat for shell plugins to collect metrics from remote systems

Netdata will greatly benefit if you have the above packages installed, but it will still work without them.

Netdata DB engine can be enabled when these are installed (they are optional):

package description
libuv multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O
liblz4 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
Judy General purpose dynamic array
openssl Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

Netdata will greatly benefit if you have the above packages installed, but it will still work without them.

Install Netdata

Do this to install and run Netdata:

# download it - the directory 'netdata' will be created
git clone https://github.com/netdata/netdata.git --depth=100
cd netdata

# run script with root privileges to build, install, start Netdata
./netdata-installer.sh

  • If you don't want to run it straight-away, add --dont-start-it option.

  • You can also append --stable-channel to fetch and install only the official releases from GitHub, instead of the nightly builds.

  • If you don't want to install it on the default directories, you can run the installer like this: ./netdata-installer.sh --install /opt. This one will install Netdata in /opt/netdata.

  • If your server does not have access to the internet and you have manually put the installation directory on your server, you will need to pass the option --disable-go to the installer. The option will prevent the installer from attempting to download and install go.d.plugin.

Once the installer completes, the file /etc/netdata/netdata.conf will be created (if you changed the installation directory, the configuration will appear in that directory too).

You can edit this file to set options. One common option to tweak is history, which controls the size of the memory database Netdata will use. By default is 3600 seconds (an hour of data at the charts) which makes Netdata use about 10-15MB of RAM (depending on the number of charts detected on your system). Check [[Memory Requirements]].

To apply the changes you made, you have to restart Netdata.

Other Systems

FreeBSD

You can install Netdata from ports or packages collection.

This is how to install the latest Netdata version from sources on FreeBSD:

# install required packages
pkg install bash e2fsprogs-libuuid git curl autoconf automake pkgconf pidof

# download Netdata
git clone https://github.com/netdata/netdata.git --depth=100

# install Netdata in /opt/netdata
cd netdata
./netdata-installer.sh --install /opt
pfSense

To install Netdata on pfSense run the following commands (within a shell or under Diagnostics/Command Prompt within the pfSense web interface).

Change platform (i386/amd64, etc) and FreeBSD versions (10/11, etc) according to your environment and change Netdata version (1.10.0 in example) according to latest version present within the FreeSBD repository:-

Note first three packages are downloaded from the pfSense repository for maintaining compatibility with pfSense, Netdata is downloaded from the FreeBSD repository.

pkg install pkgconf
pkg install bash
pkg install e2fsprogs-libuuid
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/latest/All/python36-3.6.8_2.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/latest/All/netdata-1.13.0.txz

To start Netdata manually run service netdata onestart

To start Netdata automatically at each boot add service netdata onestart as a Shellcmd within the pfSense web interface (under Services/Shellcmd, which you need to install beforehand under System/Package Manager/Available Packages). Shellcmd Type should be set to Shellcmd. Alternatively more information can be found in https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_FreeBSD_Packages, for achieving the same via the command line and scripts.

If you experience an issue with /usr/bin/install absense on pfSense 2.3 or earlier, update pfSense or use workaround from https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6643

Note: In pfSense, the Netdata configuration files are located under /usr/local/etc/netdata

FreeNAS

On FreeNAS-Corral-RELEASE (>=10.0.3), Netdata is pre-installed.

To use Netdata, the service will need to be enabled and started from the FreeNAS CLI.

To enable the Netdata service:

service netdata config set enable=true

To start the netdata service:

service netdata start
macOS

Netdata on macOS still has limited charts, but external plugins do work.

You can either install Netdata with Homebrew

brew install netdata

or from source:

# install Xcode Command Line Tools
xcode-select --install

click Install in the software update popup window, then

# install HomeBrew package manager
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

# install required packages
brew install ossp-uuid autoconf automake pkg-config

# download Netdata
git clone https://github.com/netdata/netdata.git --depth=100

# install Netdata in /usr/local/netdata
cd netdata
sudo ./netdata-installer.sh --install /usr/local

The installer will also install a startup plist to start Netdata when your Mac boots.

Alpine 3.x

Execute these commands to install Netdata in Alpine Linux 3.x:

# install required packages
apk add alpine-sdk bash curl zlib-dev util-linux-dev libmnl-dev gcc make git autoconf automake pkgconfig python logrotate

# if you plan to run node.js Netdata plugins
apk add nodejs

# download Netdata - the directory 'netdata' will be created
git clone https://github.com/netdata/netdata.git --depth=100
cd netdata


# build it, install it, start it
./netdata-installer.sh


# make Netdata start at boot
echo -e "#!/usr/bin/env bash\n/usr/sbin/netdata" >/etc/local.d/netdata.start
chmod 755 /etc/local.d/netdata.start

# make Netdata stop at shutdown
echo -e "#!/usr/bin/env bash\nkillall netdata" >/etc/local.d/netdata.stop
chmod 755 /etc/local.d/netdata.stop

# enable the local service to start automatically
rc-update add local
Synology

The documentation previously recommended installing the Debian Chroot package from the Synology community package sources and then running Netdata from within the chroot. This does not work, as the chroot environment does not have access to /proc, and therefore exposes very few metrics to Netdata. Additionally, this issue, still open as of 2018/06/24, indicates that the Debian Chroot package is not suitable for DSM versions greater than version 5 and may corrupt system libraries and render the NAS unable to boot.

The good news is that the 64-bit static installer works fine if your NAS is one that uses the amd64 architecture. It will install the content into /opt/netdata, making future removal safe and simple.

When Netdata is first installed, it will run as root. This may or may not be acceptable for you, and since other installations run it as the netdata user, you might wish to do the same. This requires some extra work:

  1. Creat a group netdata via the Synology group interface. Give it no access to anything.
  2. Create a user netdata via the Synology user interface. Give it no access to anything and a random password. Assign the user to the netdata group. Netdata will chuid to this user when running.
  3. Change ownership of the following directories, as defined in Netdata Security:
$ chown -R root:netdata /opt/netdata/usr/share/netdata
$ chown -R netdata:netdata /opt/netdata/var/lib/netdata /opt/netdata/var/cache/netdata
$ chown -R netdata:root /opt/netdata/var/log/netdata

Additionally, as of 2018/06/24, the Netdata installer doesn't recognize DSM as an operating system, so no init script is installed. You'll have to do this manually:

  1. Add this file as /etc/rc.netdata. Make it executable with chmod 0755 /etc/rc.netdata.
  2. Edit /etc/rc.local and add a line calling /etc/rc.netdata to have it start on boot:
# Netdata startup
[ -x /etc/rc.netdata ] && /etc/rc.netdata start

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