# Enabled more collectors on MacOS, but not shown after restart

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/enabled-more-collectors-on-macos-but-not-shown-after-restart/3593>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** agent, collectors\
**Created:** [December 5, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/enabled-more-collectors-on-macos-but-not-shown-after-restart/3593 "2022-12-05T15:42:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![thomasmerz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/thomasmerz/32/1449_2.png) [@thomasmerz](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/thomasmerz)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/enabled-more-collectors-on-macos-but-not-shown-after-restart/3593/1 "2022-12-05T15:42:34Z")

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Hi there,

I tried to enable more collectors on my Netdata on MacOS 13 Ventura as described on [Enable or configure a collector | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/collect/enable-configure)  
My netdata config dir is `/usr/local/etc/netdata`, so I copied some files from my Netdata on Linux/Docker, but after restart no new collectors were shown:

```auto
go.d/
go.d/dns_query.conf
health.d/
health.d/dns_query.conf
health.d/go.d.plugin.conf

```

This is how it looks after restarting:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/8/8c68a0993d9ae427a9be95666f3705396e7050d2.png)

And this is how it should/could look like (taken from some of my other netdata):

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/7/7d0b7664a724c859b14a3fa23078bd41bd04ae3e.png)

My Environment/Browser/Agent’s version etc:  
MacOS 13 Ventura, Netdata stable 1.37.0 from brew

Please advice what’s different on MacOS or what I haven’t understand from the docu. Thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![thomasmerz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/thomasmerz/32/1449_2.png) [@thomasmerz](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/thomasmerz)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/enabled-more-collectors-on-macos-but-not-shown-after-restart/3593/2 "2022-12-05T15:46:05Z")

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My `go.d/dns_query.conf`

> **Summary**
>
> ```auto
> jobs:
> - name: int_dns
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 172.23.104.73
> - 172.23.104.74
> - name: ext_cloudflare
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 1.0.0.1
> - 1.1.1.1
> - name: ext_google
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 8.8.4.4
> - 8.8.8.8
> - name: ext_nextdns
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 45.90.28.39
> - 45.90.30.39
> - name: ext_vodafone
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 192.168.0.1
> - 80.69.96.12
> - name: ext_dnswatch
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 84.200.69.80
> - 84.200.70.40
> - name: ext_quad9
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 9.9.9.11
> - 149.112.112.11
> - name: ext_opendns
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 208.67.220.220
> - 208.67.222.222
> - name: freifunk_mue
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 5.1.66.255
> - 185.150.99.255
> - name: dismail.de
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 80.241.218.68
> - 159.69.114.157
> - name: dnsforge.de
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 176.9.93.198
> - 176.9.1.117
> - name: adguard_with_filter
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 94.140.14.14
> - 94.140.15.15
> - name: adguard_without_filter
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 94.140.14.140
> - 94.140.14.141
> - name: njalla
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 95.215.19.53
> - name: digitalcourage
> update_every: 10
> domains:
> - web.de
> servers:
> - 46.182.19.48
> 
> ```

My `health.d/dns_query.conf`

> **Summary**
>
> ```auto
> query failure
> template: dns_query_time_query_time
> on: dns_query_time.query_time
> class: Latency
> type: DNS
> component: DNS
> lookup: average -10s unaligned foreach *
> units: ms
> #every: 10s
> every: 30s
> #warn: $this == nan
> delay: up 20s down 5m multiplier 1.5 max 1h
> #info: average DNS query round trip time over the last 10 seconds
> info: average DNS query round trip time over the last 30 seconds
> to: sysadmin
> 
> ```

My `health.d/go.d.plugin.conf`

> **Summary**
>
> ```auto
> template: go.d_job_last_collected_secs
> on: netdata.go_plugin_execution_time
> class: Error
> type: Netdata
> component: go.d.plugin
> module: *
> calc: $now - $last_collected_t
> units: seconds ago
> ###every: 10s
> ### due to many "Warning, go.d_job_last_collected_secs = 58 seconds ago, on other instance"
> every: 60s
> ###warn: $this > (($status >= $WARNING) ? ($update_every) : ( 5 * $update_every))
> warn: $this > (($status >= $WARNING) ? ($update_every) : (10 * $update_every))
> crit: $this > (($status == $CRITICAL) ? ($update_every) : (60 * $update_every))
> delay: down 5m multiplier 1.5 max 1h
> info: number of seconds since the last successful data collection
> ### "Warning, go.d_job_last_collected_secs = 61 seconds ago, on 216485c8b61c"
> ###to: webmaster
> to: silent
> 
> ```

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**Author:** ![Christopher\_Akritid1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/christopher_akritid1/32/419_2.png) [@Christopher\_Akritid1](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Christopher_Akritid1)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/enabled-more-collectors-on-macos-but-not-shown-after-restart/3593/3 "2022-12-05T16:26:24Z")

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I’d first check the `[plugins]` section in `netdata.conf`, in case you have differences between the two nodes there. Then check charts.d.conf, for enabled/disabled collectors.

Sensors doesn’t work the same on every machine, so we have two different collectors to try and cover most case. Start [here](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/python.d.plugin/sensors), it has the link to the other collector too.

DNS should definitely be working on Mac if the plugin and the collector are enabled. I would [run it in debug mode](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin#troubleshooting), to see what it complains about.