I want to ignore mdstat in some machines completely

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I have some virtual machines where mdstat information makes no sense and want to remove it completely.

Itried

curl "http://localhost:19999/api/v1/manage/health?cmd=DISABLE mdstat" -H "X-Auth-Token: XXXXXXX"

But the data shows up in the cloud.

How can this be done ?

Thanks a lot

Norbert

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@nklamann, that’s AWESOME!

if you have any other question, just fire away :slight_smile:

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@OdysLam Thanks a lot . That solved the problem

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What you are disabling are the alerts for mdstat, and not the collector itself.

In order to do that, you need to edit the configuration file of netdata agent sudo /etc/netdata/edit-config netdata.conf and find the configuration for [plugin:proc]. Inside that field, you will find all the data sources of the /proc collector. Go to the line that references mdstat, change yes to no, and finally remove the comment #. The comment is used to show the default values of these configuration options. Thus when we remove the hashtag, we create a new configuration option that is used over the default one.

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