Hello team, I created my first linux agent a few (2-3 years ago) and added 4 windows nodes and a ping monitor. All local, no cloud. A couple days back I tried upgrading to the latest netdata version located accidental 2 side by side installs. I wanted to go to ubuntu 24.04, so I decided to start from scratch on Friday 24th Jan 2025. Formatted the VM and installed ubuntu 24.04, 4vCpu, 6gb ram and 100 gb thin disk. The kickstart script did the trick and latest agent v2.2.0-23-nightly was online in no time. Then I installed the latest windows exporter on the 4 child nodes and verified that their localhost url exposes metrics at the 9182 port /metrics. I added the 4 nodes in the /etc/netdata/vnodes/vnodes.conf as per the relevant example in “Organize systems, metrics, and alerts | Learn Netdata” and generated new Guid for the 4 servers to monitor using the windows_exporter. Then I added the 4 nodes windows_exporter url as per the “Correct way to set up simple Windows metrics monitoring?” which I had also documented from my past attempts. Finally i noticed that I needed to add a line in “/usr/lib/netdata/conf.d/go.d.conf” to enable the windows plugin, the line was just “windows: yes” . This in the past had been wmi: yes but at some point evolved. The plugin debug command. Unfortunately this did not produce the desired outcome, no nodes shown besides the ubuntu agent. Debugging output of the plugin is not clear to me, pasting in case it helps.
root@netdata:/# sudo su -s /bin/bash netdata
netdata@netdata:/$ ./usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/go.d.plugin -d -m windows
DBG godplugin/main.go:62 plugin: name=go.d, version=v2.2.0-23-nightly component=agent
DBG godplugin/main.go:64 current user: name=netdata, uid=110 component=agent
INF godplugin/main.go:68 env HTTP_PROXY ‘’, HTTPS_PROXY ‘’ component=agent
INF agent/agent.go:156 instance is started component=agent
INF agent/setup.go:23 loading config file component=agent
DBG agent/setup.go:31 looking for ‘go.d.conf’ in [/etc/netdata /usr/lib/netdata/conf.d] component=agent
INF agent/setup.go:38 found '/usr/lib/netdata/conf.d/go.d.conf component=agent
INF agent/setup.go:45 config successfully loaded component=agent
INF agent/agent.go:160 using config: enabled ‘true’, default_run ‘true’, max_procs ‘0’ component=agent
INF agent/setup.go:50 loading modules component=agent
INF agent/setup.go:73 enabled/registered modules: 0/124 component=agent
INF agent/agent.go:173 no modules to run component=agent
Through the forum research I realized all the config files should be edited using the ./edit-config script as it interferes with the netdata user permissions which are crucial to correct operation, so I decided sticking with it.
Anyways, since within the agent dashboard no other nodes are shown as if I did nothing after basic setup of the OS and agent, I understand I am missing something important. The documentation has been replaced due to the much-anticipated windows agent, so it is not easy to find a relevant walkthrough anymore. Is this method supported? If yes, what step am I missing? If not, can I achieve the same result which is to monitor the linux agent and under it the 4 added nodes? Maybe I should ditch the windows_exporter (uninstall?) and go for the latest agent and follow a different path with parents and children nodes? Is there a document to guide me to achieve this offline? Thanks in advance!