Netdata custom collector

This skill gets metrics into Netdata from a target it does not yet monitor. The target can be an application you wrote, a third-party service with no stock collector, a CLI tool whose output you want charted, or a device behind a script.

Netdata is a pull-and-local-collection system. A collector runs on the node, gathers values on an interval, and emits charts. This is a different path from the OTLP push path covered by netdata-instrumentation and netdata-otel-setup. If the target is your own code and you are willing to add an OpenTelemetry SDK, prefer those skills. Reach for a collector when you cannot or do not want to instrument the target, or when the data lives in a file, socket, API, or command rather than in your application's call path.

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