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+
+Netdata-TSRelay
+===============
+
+What's this?
+------------
+
+This program is designed to accept JSON streams from
+[Netdata](http://netdata.io) clients, and write metrics to a PostgreSQL table -
+specifically, [Timescale](http://timescale.com) backed tables (though
+that's not technically a requirement.)
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+You'll need a working [Nim](http://nim-lang.org) build environment to
+create the binary.
+
+Simply run `make release` to produce the binary. Put it wherever you
+please.
+
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+There are a few assumptions that should be satisfied before running
+this.
+
+### Database setup
+
+You'll need to create the destination table.
+
+```sql
+CREATE TABLE netdata (
+ time timestamptz default now() not null,
+ host text not null,
+ metrics jsonb default '{}'::jsonb not null
+);
+```
+
+Index it however you please based on how you intend to query the data,
+including JSON functional indexing, etc. See PostgreSQL documentation
+for details.
+
+Strongly encouraged: Promote this table to a Timescale "hypertable".
+See Timescale docs for that.
+
+
+
+### Netdata
+
+You'll likely want to pare down what netdata is sending. Here's an
+example configuration for `netdata.conf`:
+
+```
+[backend]
+ hostname = your-hostname
+ enabled = yes
+ type = json
+ data source = average
+ destination = machine-where-netdata-tsrelay-lives:14866
+ prefix = n
+ update every = 10
+ buffer on failures = 6
+ send charts matching = !cpu.cpu* !ipv6* nfs.rpc net.* net_drops.* net_packets.* !system.interrupts* system.* disk.* disk_space.* disk_ops.* mem.* users.*
+```
+
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## and start serving incoming netdata streams.
let db = open( "", "", "", conf.dbopts )
echo "Successfully connected to the backend database."
- #SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + 982384720 * INTERVAL '1 second';'
- #db.close
var server = newSocket()
echo "Listening for incoming connections on port ", conf.listen_port, "..."