# Monitoring many instances

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-many-instances/2502>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-many-instances/2502 "2022-02-01T12:46:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![droidus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@droidus](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/droidus)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-many-instances/2502/1 "2022-02-01T12:46:03Z")

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Is there any way to have netdata server monitor several instances? I would like to self-host this.

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**Author:** ![vlvkobal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/vlvkobal/32/219_2.png) [@vlvkobal](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/vlvkobal)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-many-instances/2502/2 "2022-02-01T14:17:14Z")

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You can set one instance of Netdata as a parent and the other as children. Please look at the [documentation](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/metrics-storage-management/how-streaming-works). Does it help?

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**Author:** ![droidus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@droidus](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/droidus)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-many-instances/2502/3 "2022-02-04T20:48:26Z")

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That does, thanks.  
I am following these instructions: [Enable streaming between nodes | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/metrics-storage-management/enable-streaming). I am on my netdata server. I couldn’t find stream.conf. I tried to edit netdata.conf, but couldn’t find the API\_KEY string as mentioned, though.

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**Author:** ![vlvkobal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/vlvkobal/32/219_2.png) [@vlvkobal](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/vlvkobal)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 7:30am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/monitoring-many-instances/2502/4 "2022-02-07T07:30:21Z")

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> I couldn’t find stream.conf

Have you tried

```auto
cd /etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config stream.conf

```