MichaIng
DietPi-Software | Netdata: Removed from Trixie
- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/netdata
- https://bugs.debian.org/1042533
- https://bugs.debian.org/1045145
Nothing seems to have happened in a year.
Worst case, if this is not fixed until Trixie release, we could switch to Netdata's own repository: https://repo.netdata.cloud/repos/stable/debian/, https://repo.netdata.cloud/netdatabot.gpg.key But it is not ARMv6-compatible most likely.
Raspbian Trixie has netdata compiled, v1.43.2-1 at time of writing:
- http://raspbian.raspberrypi.com/raspbian/dists/trixie/main/binary-armhf/
- http://raspbian.raspberrypi.com/raspbian/pool/main/n/netdata/
Netdata's own repo has no Trixie suite 😅. Need to test whether the Bookworm suite is compatible. EDIT: Now it has.
Removal by Debian was intentional, since Netdata went too far down the proprietary road, switching to a closed source web UI, which looses more and more features to their cloud UI (according to Debian):
- https://bugs.debian.org/1106233
- https://bugs.debian.org/1107082
We could keep support switching to their own repo. But it has no RISC-V support, and most likely not ARMv6 compatible either.
I was an extensive user of netdata and after their dirty tricks I had to spend two weeks to remove their software with grafana+alloy+victoria metrics combo as replacement. I am strongly against working with netdata as they proved they can cut us out completely in future without a warning.
Thanks for the voice on this. I am highly interested to get some opinion, as I am still unsure how we should react to it. I am Netdata is not the only closed source (full or partly) or otherwise commercial software we have install options for. And one can still hope Netdata remains valuable for free users as well. But I am also a FLOSS enthusiast and had no issue to support a clear reaction against the step from open to closed source they did.
I've been using Netdata, since it was in beta, but I've been unhappy with the direction they've been going for a while. One of the big reasons I started using Netdata is that it is very easy to setup. Their remote monitoring makes it easy to provide support to remote computers. I use Netdata to keep an eye on RPi's I helped my brother and sister setup(all running DietPi), who both live 2 hours away. I've looked at other monitoring projects, but have never taken the time to install and play around with any. Two projects I've looked at recently are Beszel and Checkmate. I'm pretty sure Beszel doesn't have all the features that Netdata does, but that's probably alright for monitoring a SBC installed at a home or small business. I wouldn't be opposed at all if you decided to remove Netdata and replace it with some other monitoring software. If I really need to keep using Netdata, I could always run their installer script.
