Common Netdata Tasks

Update Netdata Renaming a Node You can change the node name in the Netdata web interface. Instead you can change hostname of the node directly on the node. Sometimes the node name doesn’t use the entire hostname, to override the hostname you can edit the /etc/netdata/netdata.conf and uncomment the hostname section and provide the correct … Read more

ZSH Sorting Associative Arrays

As I dive into ZSH more and more and start to put more hours into zshbop, I’m finding it harder to locate good ZSH documentation. I got stuck with an associative array being unsorted, why? I started to document all of the scripts and commands I’ve created and used the following format. This makes it … Read more

Sending email from Synology via CLI/SSH on DSM 6

Doing a quick Google search for sending emails from Synology via CLI/SSH talks about the sendmail command. However, this doesn’t work on DSM6 unless you install a package that provides the command. You can install one of the following packages to get the sendmail command Synology Mail Server Synology MailPlus Server Both allow you to … Read more

NetData Installation or Upgrade – Permission Denied Temp Directory not Executable

You might have run into the following issue at some point when trying to install or upgrade Netdata. It’s usually related to your /tmp folder is mounted without execution permission and doesn’t allow execution of programs from this location. A simple work around is to set the $TMPDIR location in your shell to a place … Read more