Netdata/Security

Notes

Netdata Wiki

From the Netdata wiki security page: https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/netdata-security

netdata is a monitoring system. It should be protected, the same way you protect all your admin apps. We assume netdata will be installed privately, for your eyes only.

Netdata over VPN

To protect a netdata instance from the internet, we'll set up a VPN, which will create an associated virtual network interface.

We can then bind netdata to that private network interface, so that only peers connecting to the machine via the VPN will be able to see netdata.

To expose netdata to a virtual network interface:

[web]
    bind to = 10.1.1.1:19999 localhost:19999

Can also bind netdata to multiple IP addresses/ports. Hostnames will be resolved. (According to the wiki, Tincd is a good tool for virtual management LANs.)

Digital Ocean guide

Digital Ocean guide to setting up a secure Netdata instance served up via Nginx: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-real-time-performance-monitoring-with-netdata-on-ubuntu-16-04