Netdada and pfSense

chudak · November 16, 2019, 9:52pm

I found an old YouTube video and wonder if anybody knows the latest info on using netdata https://github.com/netdata with pfSense?

Thx

ssheridan · November 16, 2019, 10:11pm

NetData currently has issues with FreeBSD

cakrit · November 20, 2019, 5:27am

Hi @ssheridan, could you please explain what you mean by issues? The only open bug report I could find related to freeBSD is Uninstaller does not kill the daemon that is running on FreeBSD · Issue #7248 · netdata/netdata · GitHub, but perhaps we’ve missed something important? Could you please mention the specific open issues on the netdata repo, or create a new issue and mention it here? We’ll get right on it! d

ssheridan · November 20, 2019, 1:21pm

I’m an fairly heavy user of FreeBSD, the last time I tried netdata on FreeBSD was v11-something and had terrible issues with system resources being consumed. It was tried on different hardware and multiple fresh installs - all resulting in consuming more resources than the whole system
Gave up in the end as too time consuming for the effort.

I haven’t tried it with FreeBSD 12, but as op is referring to pfSense which is v11 of FreeBSD which is where I hadn’t had much luck.

Must admit, haven’t tried it for a while. Quite happy to re-test on both FreeBSD 11.3 and 12.1, in fact will do, excuse for another video

cakrit · November 20, 2019, 1:39pm

That would be awesome! Netdata should be using minimal resources. If you see anything at all that seems off, please create an issue in GitHub and reference it here as well. As I said before, we’ll treat it with high priority.

ssheridan · November 22, 2019, 12:46pm

So I set up a FreeBSD 12.1 machine and installed netdata (from binary packages) has been running for a couple of days and seems to be fine and stable.

Will try it on an 11.3

chudak · December 5, 2019, 9:52pm

@cakrit any plans to distribute Netdata as pfSense package ?

cakrit · December 5, 2019, 11:47pm

Have you encountered problems with the FreeBSD distributions? We don’t have any plans for a pfSense package, but the community largely drives the project. So, if there is sufficient interest (and someone who can assist with guidance and testing), we could look into it.

chudak · December 6, 2019, 12:08am

You got my voice, I’d like to see it as package !

ssheridan · December 23, 2019, 9:26pm

It works fairly well on FreeBSD after trying it

chudak · December 23, 2019, 9:40pm

How did you set it up ?

PS: I am hesitant to install anything on my router box if it’s not pfSense package