Have way of disabling sign-in/update/netdata cloud links in default dashboard

[saintaardvark]

Feature idea summary

It would be great to have a version of the default dashboard that did not include sign-in/update/netdata cloud links.

Expected behavior

The default dashboard is a great summary of activity on the system, but for my users the sign-in, update and netdata cloud buttons will be confusing or irrelevant. I could imagine a couple mechanisms for achieving this:

• A configuration switch, like the one already in place to turn off Google Analytics, to turn off some or all of these features.

• Another demo page (like the ones already in web/gui) that duplicates the functionality of the index page, but without the sign-in/etc.

A couple questions

• As I understand it, the default page is configured in a different way than custom dashboards. Is there somewhere I can see the charts that are used to build that page?

• Would you be open to a PR to add a demo page that implemented this?

Edit: After playing with the dashboard a bit, I realized that npm run start:node-view is pretty much exactly what I'm after. Is there a way to have that view in a separate page?

[manos-saratsis]

@saintaardvark Thx for sharing your thoughts. We already provide this option, see:
https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/aclk#disable-the-aclk

[saintaardvark]

Hi @manos-saratsis -- thanks very kindly for pointing that out to me...I had completely missed it when going through the Netdata documentation. That configuration option is perfect for not displaying the sign-in buttons.

However, I'm still left wondering:

• Is there a way to disable the "updates available" button?

• Is there a way to have the view shown by npm run start:node-view in a separate page?

• As I understand it, the default page is configured in a different way than custom dashboards. Is there somewhere I can see the charts that are used to build that page?

Many thanks in advance for any help you can give.

[jacekkolasa]

hi @saintaardvark !
Currently we don't have an option to disable "updates available" button. To do it, we would need to add a flag to netdata.conf and expose it via api. I'm not sure how big priority would that be, @dim08 what do you think?

Currently there is also no option to display dashboard from npm run start:node-view task, this was done only for development purposes. There are no installation scripts to support that build. But if that suits you, you can do it manually: replace ...npm run start at the end of this task with ...npm run build, remove REACT_APP_IS_MAIN_DASHBOARD=true from "build": task, and run npm run start:node-view. Then you'll have the app built in /build directory, you just need to host it.

As I understand it, the default page is configured in a different way than custom dashboards. Is there somewhere I can see the charts that are used to build that page?

The default dashboard is built dynamically, based on /dashboard_info.js and output of /api/v1/charts. There is no static html here. If you want to see those charts configuration you can do it by inspecting elements in browser console, for example by doing: $("[data-netdata]")

[manos-saratsis]

@saintaardvark we do not plan to disable the "updates available"

[saintaardvark]

Hey @manos-saratsis and @jacekkolasa - many thanks for the additional info, this helps a lot!

[haldi4803]

@saintaardvark Thx for sharing your thoughts. We already provide this option, see: https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/aclk#disable-the-aclk

works pretty well with editing the cloud.conf file to no.
But is there a docker variable for this?

[MrZammler]

@saintaardvark Thx for sharing your thoughts. We already provide this option, see: https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/aclk#disable-the-aclk

works pretty well with editing the cloud.conf file to no. But is there a docker variable for this?

Hi @haldi4803

Can you try with this #13106 ?

[sijanec]

Hello! I added the following configuration

# /var/lib/netdata/cloud.d/cloud.conf
[global]
    enabled = no

But the Sign in button and the Netdata Cloud advertising bar on the top of the page are still visible. What configuration do I use to remove the advertisements and cloud functionality from the web UI?

From the network log I see netdata's UI is also connecting to some tracking servers. Is it possible to remove analytics and tracking from the dashboard with a configuration option? Netdata's UI connects to Google, Cloudfront, Posthog, Primsic and Amazon, as far as Ublock Origin reports.

[Rush]

@sijanec I have the very same questions. While I appreciate the ability to use Netdata Cloud, I also need an ability to self-host without losing of privacy and without the confusion of different cloud Sign In buttons.