[mtmsr]

I have played around with netdata just yesterday on my home server. Great tool, but the defaults are overkill for my needs. After spending an hour trying to simplify (=disable most of the "collectors") using the documentation, I finally gave up.

Settled on neofetch [1] instead: pure bash, wrote my own custom inputs including color coding for incident reporting in less time than it took me to strip down netdata. Highly recommended if you want to spend your time on other things than (setting up) server monitoring.

[1] https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

[gregwebs]

Thanks for the link: neofetch seems a good tool when you just want to manually see what is going on. Netdata is also designed to alert, forward data to other locations, monitor at 1 second granularity, and to store historical data efficiently if you want to see what went on in the recent past.