I see in the code there are some docs for collectors. If i want to disable all collectors but cgroups do i have to go through and find each one and turn it off in configuration? Is there an easier way? Does anyone have an example?
Is there a way to turn all of them off and then just enable one or two?
I’m surprised this isn’t discussed more. Hitting the server every second to get data that isn’t needed is pretty wasteful.
Hey, @data-smith. You can disable data collection plugins in netdata.conf. Look for the [plugins] section.
Ok Thanks. I used this list in the source code to identify plugins that i wanted to be disabled: