Enum Instruction

pub enum Instruction {
    CHART,
    DIMENSION,
    BEGIN,
    SET,
    END,
    FLUSH,
    DISABLE,
    VARIABLE,
}

Command literals used for plugin communication.

Netdata parses stdout output of plugins looking for lines starting with this instruction codes.

See also https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/plugins.d#external-plugins-api

Variants

CHART

Create or update a Chart.

DIMENSION

Add or update a Dimension associated to a chart.

BEGIN

signify Begin of a data collection sequence.

SET

Set the value of a dimension for the initialized chart.

END

Complete data collection for the initialized chart.

FLUSH

Ignore the last collected values.

DISABLE

Disable this plugin. This will prevent Netdata from restarting the plugin.

You can also exit with the value 1 to have the same effect.

VARIABLE

define Variables.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for Instruction

fn clone(&self) -> Instruction

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for Instruction

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Display for Instruction

Support simple serialization .to_string().

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.