# Nvidia-smi for a newbie

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/nvidia-smi-for-a-newbie/3310>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** configuration, agent, collectors\
**Created:** [September 21, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/nvidia-smi-for-a-newbie/3310 "2022-09-21T11:25:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Stephane\_Caria](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/stephane_caria/32/2198_2.png) [@Stephane\_Caria](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Stephane_Caria)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/nvidia-smi-for-a-newbie/3310/1 "2022-09-21T11:25:36Z")

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Hello  
first of all i’m a real newbie !  
so i have a netdata container running perfectly nut i’m trying to monitor my nvidia cards and following the [Nvidia GPU monitoring with Netdata | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/python.d.plugin/nvidia_smi)  
i’m still experiencing problems : it seems that the conainer have no acces to nvidia-smi (and it’s installed and running )  
i’m sure the problem comes from me but if anyone can help me  
thank you

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**Author:** ![ilyam8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ilyam8/32/134_2.png) [@ilyam8](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ilyam8)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/nvidia-smi-for-a-newbie/3310/2 "2022-09-21T12:10:42Z")

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Hi, @Stephane_Caria. It is not possible to use `nvisia-smi` collector using the official Docker image.

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There is [GitHub - D34DC3N73R/netdata-glibc: netdata with glibc package for use with nvidia-docker2](https://github.com/d34dc3n73r/netdata-glibc) (supported by a GitHub user) which is supposed to add the support, but I can’t say if it works or not.

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**Author:** ![ilyam8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ilyam8/32/134_2.png) [@ilyam8](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ilyam8)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/nvidia-smi-for-a-newbie/3310/3 "2022-09-21T14:58:55Z")

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Added a note in [docs: nvidia-smi in a container limitation note by ilyam8 · Pull Request #13695 · netdata/netdata · GitHub](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/13695)