Install Netdata

Overview

Clustercode 1.1 has a netdata plugin which gets the percentage, fps and bitrate of the current conversion progress. This plugin works only with ffmpeg-based nodes!

netdata

Installation

  1. Install netdata according to their instructions.

  2. Install nodejs. If you package manager complains about legacy node, try installing nodejs.

  3. On your netdata server, execute:

    wget https://github.com/ccremer/netdata/raw/clustercode/node.d/clustercode.node.js -O /usr/libexec/netdata/node.d/clustercode.node.js

  4. Open your editor (nano, vim, gedit, etc) and create /etc/netdata/node.d/clustercode.conf. In your Distro it might not be /etc/netdata+, but search for node.d in netdata’s config

  5. Paste and modify hostname and job name. Make sure the API is reachable on the configured port.

    {
    "enable_autodetect": false,
    "update_every": 2,
    "nodes": [
        {
            "name": "node-1",
            "hostname": "node-1.ip.or.dns:8080",
            "update_every": 2,
            "progress_api": "/api/v1/progress/ffmpeg"
        }
    ]
}

  6. [Optional] Modify /usr/share/netdata/web/dashboard_info.js with your editor and append the following section before the last closing tag }; at the end of the file:

        ,
    'clustercode.progress.percentage': {
        valueRange: "[0, 100]"
    }

  7. Restart netdata service with service netdata restart