SEC.01

The playbook

The run starts read-only: the recon probes decide what happens next. The steps that follow are adapted to the distribution and state found — a real machine is rarely clean.

1. 01recondistro (apt or dnf) and architecture (amd64/arm64)
2. 02reconNetdata already installed? service active?
3. 03reconexisting config directory (native or static /opt)
4. 04reconport 19999 free? otherwise who holds it
5. 05reconat least 512 MB of RAM and 1 GB of free disk
6. 06actInstall Netdata (official kickstart, stable channel)verify
7. 07actRestrict the dashboard to 127.0.0.1verify
8. 08actResponds on 127.0.0.1:19999verify

SEC.02

What it verifies

Each step ships its own check. The run only moves on when the check passes, so what the recipe reports as done is what is actually on the server.

1. 01verifyInstall Netdata (official kickstart, stable channel)Verified bysystemctl is-active netdata
2. 02verifyRestrict the dashboard to 127.0.0.1Verified byss -tlnH "sport = :19999" | grep -vc 127.0.0.1
3. 03verifyResponds on 127.0.0.1:19999Verified bycurl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:19999/api/v1/info

SEC.03

Guardrails

Non-negotiable instructions the run must respect, whatever it finds on the server.

SEC.04

How a recipe runs in Servor

Servor is zero-knowledge: the platform cannot execute anything on its own. When you launch this recipe, a run reads the reconnaissance, plans the steps and asks for your approval. Each approved command is signed by your browser — with a key the server never sees — then relayed verbatim to the agent, which verifies the signature locally before executing.

SEC.05

Deploy on Servor button

Maintain Netdata or a project that needs it? Put this button in your README or on your site: one click and your users install it on their own server.

SEC.06

More observability recipes

1. 01node_exporterPrometheus system metrics exporter, as a systemd service.
2. 02PrometheusPrometheus (metrics collection), as a local systemd service on :9090.
3. 03GrafanaGrafana OSS (official repo), local on :3000, admin with a random password.
4. 04Grafana LokiLoki 3.7 log aggregation via Docker, local on :3100.
5. 05Grafana + Prometheus stackGrafana + Prometheus + node_exporter via Docker Compose, datasource preconfigured, all local.