But the default configurations don't cover a lot of apps people might run on them, for instance Plex Media Server, PlexPy, uTorrent, etc. These all get lumped into the "other" category, so trying to figure out what processes are taking up the CPU can be hard to do.
If you are running WinSCP on a PC, you can easily edit the configuration files to get some of these "other" apps broken out to discreet entries and it makes things a bit easier to see the congestion caused by them. The configuration files can be found here: /volume1/.@plugins/AppCentral/netdata/etc/netdata/apps_groups.conf and if you double-click in WinSCP it opens an editing window.
This is a text file, that basically contains possible names for applications that could be running. These are the ones I have found so far:
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ffmpg: ffmpeg
Plex: "Plex Media Serv"
uTorrent: *utserver
DLC: *dlc-daemon
Sonarr: *NzbDrone
HX-Engine: *hx-engine*
SABnzb: *SABnzbd*
PlexRequests: *meteor*
PlexPy: *PlexPy.py*
Calibre: *calibre*
#EDIT 5/2/16
PlexTranscode: "*Plex New Transcoder*"
#EDIT 6/30/16
PlexScanner: "*Plex Media Scanner*"
#EDIT 8/25/16
PHTheater: "*plexhometheater*"
PlexRequests: "*PlexRequests.exe*"
#edit 9/27/16
Extract: "*7z*"
CouchPotato: "*CouchPotato.py*"
MediaPlayer: "*plexmediaplayer*"
#edit 11/21/16
Headphones: "*Headphones.py*"
#edit 6/26/17
PlexRequests: "*Ombi.exe*"
As others play with this reporting app, it might be nice to include their pet app stings for NetData in this thread, so we all can use it.
FWIW, I just tested Plex Media Server using NetData to test the reporting for me. Direct Playing an SD TV show from my library and I used under 5% of one kernel of the 4 available on the i3 in the 7004T. The most used was handshaking the media to the player at just under 22% prior to actually starting the playback. During playback I had just under 1% for the whole viewing of the show. Memory usage for this open TV show was under 150MB.
So then I opened an HD movie while the SD TV show was playing, to see how this impacted memory and CPU. Unfortunately, this caused the CPU to overheat, and I wasn't able to test it. Seems there is a problem with the latest beat of the ADM, which wasn't there in the previous version...
Edited this to include the Plex New Transcoder entry on 5/2/16. (Many thanks to the dev of the original app for sorting this out for us!)
Edited: To include further applications to see what's eating up "kernel" time.