Love the product and might utilize the cloud. That said, I’m building servers for clients and I am providing a Nginx virtual host link to their Netdata dashboard. They are laypeople. They don’t need a cloud anything. Is there a method to disable the initial popup “Learn About Netdata Cloud” and the “Sign In” button and the “Connection to Cloud” statements that are a constant presence?
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Found my answer. Install via
wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh --non-interactive --disable-telemetry --disable-cloud
I can always add the cloud when I am ready but it disables exactly what I needed to 
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As it turns out, the --disable-cloud flag is ignored. The nag screen still occurs upon first opening. Entire statement:
wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh --non-interactive --disable-telemetry --disable-cloud
You are right, for this specific nudge the --disable-cloud isn’t taking any effect. It was a conscious decision to have it like that at the time this was released - this nudge proved and still proves as an effective mean to get more people to know about Netdata Cloud.
We have plans to revisit the approach we have on Agent dashboard, so not sure we will make any changes on this. We will be discussing this internally and will update with some outcome.
In the meantime, knowing it isn’t perfect, you can ask your customers to select “Remember my choice” and to stay on the agent dashboard.
Actually, there are:
- compile without Cloud support (when building from source).
- set the
NETDATA_DISABLE_CLOUDenv var to 1 when creating a docker container (for docker containers). - I believe
--disable-cloudsupposed to work for native/static installs too (soft_disable_cloud responsible for that). If that doesn’t work it is a bug.
TL;DR
Try to
- create the
/var/lib/netdata/cloud.d/cloud.conf(or/opt/netdata//var/lib/netdata/cloud.d/cloud.conf- depends on your install prefix) file with the following content:
[global]
enabled = no
- restart netdata service
@ilyam8 I think last point from @servermatter was on the initial modal popups
I know we did include the disabling of the top “tabs” mimicking Cloud from this bug [Feat]: Disable "Discover the free benefits of Netdata Cloud" · Issue #429 · netdata/dashboard · GitHub but I don’t recall us putting the initial modal popups to have been associated with this --disable-cloud option.
I haven’t personally tested it so can’t confirm for sure
I have nothing Cloud-related on my screenshot (see prev post), I think it is exactly what @servermatter is asking about.
Ok, thanks for confirming I saw the screenshot but not sure it is representing the state right after opening the browser window (that’s when the popup will display).
There is no popup when the cloud is disabled (cloud-enabled is false in /api/v1/info (the local dashboard does /api/v1/info request)).
To clarify, that was the very first opening of the browser
I properly have "cloud-disabled": true but I’m still seeing a “Sign in” button. Any ideas how to disable it?
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The Sign In button should be removed when cloud features are disabled. As mentioned in [Feat]: Disable "Discover the free benefits of Netdata Cloud" · Issue #429 · netdata/dashboard · GitHub, Netdata should fully respect the user’s decision to disable cloud features.
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Agreed. The signin button is evidently an alternative to the popup but still a nag screen and purposely obscured at the bottom of the field of dots. Not good.
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How can disable cloud nags and massage nag about needs a subcription, but I don’t have any money? I don’t use cloud service I want to run locally without connection to cloud.