netdata docker on FWGold

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Scott G

March 05, 2021 01:22

Hi there!

New user of FWG, and loving it so far. I immediately started tinkering with docker to run a few things that my old pfSense box had, and the one I really miss is its netdata dashboard. I've got the netdata docker running, but can't seem to access it unless I set it to use host mode networking, but then there's no network data in the dashboard, only CPU. Is that a limitation of FWG, or am I missing a docker config or what?

Thanks!

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Scott G

March 05, 2021 02:01
Never mind, got it working in host mode. Once I claimed it on netdata.cloud all the other stats popped in. Not sure if that did it or I just needed to be patient.
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Jim S

March 21, 2021 21:02
@scott, can you share the specific steps you used to get this up and running? Thanks.
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Sukumar Patel

March 22, 2021 14:23

I tried it out and here it is

/home/pi/.firewalla/run/docker/netdata/docker-compose.yaml

version: '3.4'
services:
  netdata:
    image: netdata/netdata
    container_name: netdata
    hostname: ThePatelsFWG
    ports:
      - 19999:19999
    restart: unless-stopped
    cap_add:
      - SYS_PTRACE
    security_opt:
      - apparmor:unconfined
    volumes:
      - ./netdataconfig/netdata:/etc/netdata:ro
      - netdatalib:/var/lib/netdata
      - netdatacache:/var/cache/netdata
      - /etc/passwd:/host/etc/passwd:ro
      - /etc/group:/host/etc/group:ro
      - /proc:/host/proc:ro
      - /sys:/host/sys:ro
      - /etc/os-release:/host/etc/os-release:ro
    network_mode: host
volumes:
  netdatalib:
  netdatacache:

The commands to try the docker image and add the token to the cloud instance (The command is fetched from the portal)

sudo docker-compose up
sudo docker exec -it netdata netdata-claim.sh -token=xxxx -rooms=yyyy -url=https://app.netdata.cloud

Once verified that its working, persist it as below

Stop the image by hitting ctrl+c

Run the below command

sudo docker-compose up --no-start
sudo systemctl start docker-compose@netdata

Verify that its working with

sudo systemctl status docker-compose@netdata
sudo docker ps

Persist it by creating the below file /home/pi/.firewalla/config/post_main.d/02StartNextData.sh

sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl start docker-compose@netdata

sudo systemctl start docker-compose@netdata

Scott G

March 22, 2021 15:11

I generally followed the steps for setting up the Homebridge docker here: https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360053184374-Guide-Install-HomeBridge-on-Firewalla-Gold-Beta- but used "netdata" instead of "homebridge" for the directory names. The section on setting up mdns isn't relevant, so I skipped that.

Here's my docker-compose.yaml

version: '3'
services:
  netdata:
    image: netdata/netdata
    container_name: netdata
    hostname: fire.walla # set to fqdn of host
    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - 19999:19999
    restart: unless-stopped
    cap_add:
      - SYS_PTRACE
    security_opt:
      - apparmor:unconfined
    volumes:
      - netdataconfig:/etc/netdata
      - netdatalib:/var/lib/netdata
      - netdatacache:/var/cache/netdata
      - /etc/passwd:/host/etc/passwd:ro
      - /etc/group:/host/etc/group:ro
      - /proc:/host/proc:ro
      - /sys:/host/sys:ro
      - /etc/os-release:/host/etc/os-release:ro

volumes:
  netdataconfig:
  netdatalib:
  netdatacache:

Scott G

March 22, 2021 15:14
There's a further step to claim the node on netdata.cloud by copy and pasting in a docker exec command with a token from your netdata.cloud account. Mine looked like this:
```
docker exec -it netdata netdata-claim.sh -token=<LONG TOKEN STRING GOES HERE> -rooms=<ROOM ID # GOES HERE> -url=https://app.netdata.cloud
```
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Jim S

March 24, 2021 22:04
@Scott this works great.
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Bjørn Arne Restad

May 23, 2022 10:32
I just installed it on the metal as Linux Device

Works great.

More info at: https://app.netdata.cloud
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