The absence of limitations on the agent dashboard was actually a bug
How convenient.
Multi-node dashboards weren’t part of the open-source Netdata; they were only available through our commercial offering, Netdata Cloud. We pushed hard to integrate the closed-source Netdata Cloud dashboard into the agent
Yes you did, to the point where you’re now removing support for the old dashboard, therefore leaving the new closed-source, crippled dashboard as the only option.
Also convenient that these new limitations were not mentioned in the release notes, and that following the upgrade path leads FOSS users into using a completely different product. Classic rug pull is what it is.
Now actively looking for a replacement. Been a user since the days of firehol/netdata, ~10 years was a good run I guess.
I just started noticing this behavior (I haven’t updated netdata in a while)
This is very upsetting. I used to speak highly of netdata.
Switching away will be hard but it seems necessary. I only ever used the cloud option so I could see my logs and top. While I appreciate you are a business and need to pay employees and the like. You are footgunning people to want to switch away from your product.
To be clear, you are not allowed on my hardware. If I wanted to pay to use your hardware, I would.
Got the big surprise today. Can’t say I’m actually surprised. The signs have been there for a while. This is a very, very nasty business practice that we see over and over. Leeching off the opensource community’s free charitable resources to build a product that will eventually get limited and force the community into a cloud version.
Your reputation is destroyed and it will be impossible to recover it. Bye.
root@log:~ # service netdata stop
Stopping netdata.
Waiting for PIDS: 1014.
root@log:~ # pkg delete -y netdata
Has someone forked Netdata yet? I believe that’s the usual course of action when this type of thing happens.