[stats.d] Purging individual private charts | Netdata | Page 1

onyx spire Dec 12, 2022, 1:20 AM

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Heya,
I was trying out the statsd integration for future use and in my infinite wisdom, I netcat'd some stuff to netdata after initial setup.
I obviously used very inappropriate metric names as always, and now I'm stuck with lovely charts like foo.cock_gauge and bar.penis_counter.....
(do not question my choice, I'm doing it myself already)

is there a way to purge specific charts/metrics without nuking all of the data? I would imagine needing that functionality in the future when beginning to implement actual metrics for my apps as well.

granite rose Dec 12, 2022, 9:44 AM

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Hey @onyx spire ! We don't judge 🙂 A question, I'm assuming you still see those charts on the cloud, right? Or is it on the local dashboard?

onyx spire Dec 12, 2022, 9:50 AM

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granite rose Hey <@398097635086696449> ! We don't judge 🙂 A question, I'm assuming you still...

good morning!
the charts propagated to cloud as well

granite rose Dec 12, 2022, 10:00 AM

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Ok, it should "delete" it after a while of not having any data for it. If you are ok handling an sqlite database, there is likely an update you can do in a table to mark it as deleted and speed up this deletion on the cloud as well

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Basically under /var/cache/netdata there is a context-meta.db. In there there is a table called context. There should be a line for the charts there and you could set the deleted to 1 for it. On my tests after a while and a couple of agent restarts the chart was removed from the cloud

onyx spire Dec 12, 2022, 10:22 AM

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alright, going to give this a whirl

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local dashboard picked it up immediately, cloud appears to be a bit more reluctant to change

granite rose Dec 12, 2022, 10:33 AM

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indeed, yes

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give it a bit of time....

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and maybe a couple of agent restarts or cloud refreshes....

onyx spire Dec 12, 2022, 10:37 AM

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ah! nevermind

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it got itself together

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lovely

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cheers 🙂

#[stats.d] Purging individual private charts