suddenly - Local dashboard is limited to 5 nodes

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We run about 12 nodes streaming to a central one, no Cloud.

All of a sudden, when I access the Web UI on 19999 on the central node, I see all the node names, but no graphs. If I hover over one of the hostnames I get “Locked! Local dashboard is limited to 5 nodes”. 1 of the nodes DOES show up, and I can navigate to it, etc. But only 1, not 5.

This was working yesterday, 2025-01-14. I see from my yum logs that an update arrived on 2025-01-08, but this was working yesterday.

Is this the correct behavior all of a sudden?

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just add /v3 at the end of the url

3

Not the same problem I’m having, but it appears to be the solution. Thanks!

4

@EdSchernau it will stop working soon. While it was originally intended to work with Netdata v2.0 (as announced in August), a bug prevented its functionality. The issue has been resolved as of yesterday.

5

Thanks, so what is the right solution? I’m not using any cloud features, this is a purely local instance.

6

Individual node dashboards are accessible for viewing. When directly accessing a Parent node’s dashboard, its Child nodes appear locked, but this should be changed - users should be able to click any Child node to view its single node view (but this is my personal opinion, can’t say it will be changed for sure). The limit should be applied for aggregation in the Metrics tab.

Thanks, so what is the right solution?

If you don’t want to subscribe to a paid plan - to stay on Netdata v2.1.1 (Parent) and use /v3 endpoint.

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To minimize system resource usage, all of my child nodes are configured with:

[web]
    mode = none

[health]
    enabled = no   # Health monitoring/alerting performed on parent
 
[db]
    mode = ram
    retention = 1800  # keep 30 minutes of data in memory in case of disconnect from parent
 
[logs]
    health = none
    daemon = none
    collector = none
    debug = none
    access = none

so “Individual node dashboards are accessible for viewing” is not applicable.

Also, does this mean that now there is no health monitoring/alerting except for the 5 nodes I select?!

How do I downgrade to a version that will restore the previous functionality and disable auto-updates?