solaris/*bsd support

[jmatis]

Is there any chance you could start looking into supporting other flavour of unixes please ? (what you have done is so amazing i simply want to have it everywhere :)

[ktsaou]

Thanks! There are a few folks that work on BSD #112 #187 . For basic system data collection on non-linux system we could use libstatgrab #481 .

Currently the only blocking library used by netdata is libuuid, but we can easily replace this with something else (netdata uses just 2 calls to parse and generate random UUIDs).

The problem, is that my roadmap is full with new features (health monitoring and alerts, longer data history, new plugins, etc), so I need help to do this...

[kirillDanshin]

hi! is there any news about solaris support?

[h0lzi]

Getting support for Solaris would be nice. At least some simple support via libstatgrab would be awesome. I can provide test infrastructure etc. I lack the skill to code it though.

[ktsaou]

libstatgrab seems nice, although a bit stale...

[h0lzi]

well it's mostly for OS that do not change their API for those kinds of stuff very often.
It's used e.g. in collectd for Solaris and works quite ok with it. I would love to get rid of collectd on Solaris though and have only one tool :)

[williamleuschner]

I'm interested in porting netdata to OpenBSD. Currently, I'm trying to get it to compile—it makes it to log.c before failing.

Once I've gotten it to compile, I'll see what I can do about changing the smattering of #if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__) || … and other associated constructs so that porting to other BSDs is easier.

[ktsaou]

I'm interested in porting netdata to OpenBSD.

Wow! Thank you! This would be great!
I have provides a patch to fix log.c

[williamleuschner]

I've opened a PR (#4192) to track my progress on patching netdata to work on OpenBSD. It's not ready yet, but you all will have more visibility into what I'm doing while I do it.

[prologic]

We're actively working on FreeBSD support and we already support macOS (not really BSD but once upon a time maybe).

• Setup CI for macOS #8120
• No support for install-required-packages.sh for FreeBSD #8130
• NetData fails to build and installon FreeBSD with custom libmosquitto fork #8131

[ilyam8]

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