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X-Ray Vision for your infrastructure!
Every Metric, Every Second. No BS.

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> [!WARNING]
> People get addicted to Netdata.
> Once you use it on your systems, *there's no going back.*

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WHO WE ARE

Netdata is an open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring platform. Monitor, detect, and act across your entire infrastructure.

Core Advantages:

• Instant Insights – With Netdata you can access per-second metrics and visualizations.
• Zero Configuration – You can deploy immediately without complex setup.
• ML-Powered – You can detect anomalies, predict issues, and automate analysis.
• Efficient – You can monitor with minimal resource usage and maximum scalability.
• Secure & Distributed – You can keep your data local with no central collection needed.

With Netdata, you get real-time, per-second updates. Clear insights at a glance, no complexity.

All heroes have a great origin story. Click to discover ours.

In 2013, at the company where Costa Tsaousis was COO, a significant percentage of their cloud-based transactions failed silently, severely impacting business performance.

Costa and his team tried every troubleshooting tool available at the time. None could identify the root cause. As Costa later wrote:

“*I couldn’t believe that monitoring systems provide so few metrics and with such low resolution, scale so badly, and cost so much to run.*”

Frustrated, he decided to build his own monitoring tool, starting from scratch.

That decision led to countless late nights and weekends. It also sparked a fundamental shift in how infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting are approached, both in method and in cost.

Most Energy-Efficient Monitoring Tool

According to the University of Amsterdam study, Netdata is the most energy-efficient tool for monitoring Docker-based systems. The study also shows Netdata excels in CPU usage, RAM usage, and execution time compared to other monitoring solutions.

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Key Features

| Feature | Description | What Makes It Unique |
|----------------------------|-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| Real-Time | Per-second data collection and processing | Works in a beat – click and see results instantly |
| Zero-Configuration | Automatic detection and discovery | Auto-discovers everything on the nodes it runs |
| ML-Powered | Unsupervised anomaly detection | Trains multiple ML models per metric at the edge |
| Long-Term Retention | High-performance storage | ~0.5 bytes per sample with tiered storage for archiving |
| Advanced Visualization | Rich, interactive dashboards | Slice and dice data without query language |
| Extreme Scalability | Native horizontal scaling | Parent-Child centralization with multi-million samples/s |
| Complete Visibility | From infrastructure to applications | Simplifies operations and eliminates silos |
| Edge-Based | Processing at your premises | Distributes code instead of centralizing data |

> [!NOTE]
> Want to put Netdata to the test against Prometheus?
> Explore the full comparison.

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Netdata Ecosystem

This three-part architecture enables you to scale from single nodes to complex multi-cloud environments:

| Component | Description | License |
|-------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
| Netdata Agent | • Core monitoring engine• Handles collection, storage, ML, alerts, exports• Runs on servers, cloud, K8s, IoT• Zero production impact | GPL v3+ |
| Netdata Cloud | • Enterprise features• User management, RBAC, horizontal scaling• Centralized alerts• Free community tier• No metric storage centralization | |
| Netdata UI | • Dashboards and visualizations• Free to use• Included in standard packages• Latest version via CDN | NCUL1 |

What You Can Monitor

With Netdata you can monitor all these components across platforms:

| Component | Linux | FreeBSD | macOS | Windows |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:--------------------------------:|:-------:|:-----:|:-------------------------------------------------:|
| System ResourcesCPU, Memory and system shared resources | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| StorageDisks, Mount points, Filesystems, RAID arrays | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NetworkNetwork Interfaces, Protocols, Firewall, etc | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hardware & SensorsFans, Temperatures, Controllers, GPUs, etc | Full | Some | Some | Some |
| O/S ServicesResources, Performance and Status | Yessystemd | - | - | - |
| ProcessesResources, Performance, OOM, and more | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| System and Application Logs | Yessystemd-journal | - | - | YesWindows Event Log, ETW |
| Network ConnectionsLive TCP and UDP sockets per PID | Yes | - | - | - |
| ContainersDocker/containerd, LXC/LXD, Kubernetes, etc | Yes | - | - | - |
| VMs (from the host)KVM, qemu, libvirt, Proxmox, etc | Yescgroups | - | - | YesHyper-V |
| Synthetic ChecksTest APIs, TCP ports, Ping, Certificates, etc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Packaged Applicationsnginx, apache, postgres, redis, mongodb,and hundreds more | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Provider InfrastructureAWS, GCP, Azure, and more | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom ApplicationsOpenMetrics, StatsD and soon OpenTelemetry | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |

On Linux, you can continuously monitor all kernel features and hardware sensors for errors, including Intel/AMD/Nvidia GPUs, PCI AER, RAM EDAC, IPMI, S.M.A.R.T, Intel RAPL, NVMe, fans, power supplies, and voltage readings.

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Getting Started

You can install Netdata on all major operating systems. To begin:

1. Install Netdata

Choose your platform and follow the installation guide:

• Linux Installation
• macOS
• FreeBSD
• Windows
• [Docker Guide](/packaging/docker/README.md)
• Kubernetes Setup

> [!NOTE] > You can access the Netdata UI at http://localhost:19999 (or http://NODE:19999 if remote).

2. Configure Collectors

Netdata auto-discovers most metrics, but you can manually configure some collectors:

• All collectors
• SNMP monitoring

3. Configure Alerts

You can use hundreds of built-in alerts and integrate with:

email, Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and more.

> [!NOTE]
> Email alerts work by default if there's a configured MTA.

4. Configure Parents

You can centralize dashboards, alerts, and storage with Netdata Parents:

• Streaming Reference

> [!NOTE] > You can use Netdata Parents for central dashboards, longer retention, and alert configuration.

5. Connect to Netdata Cloud

Sign in to Netdata Cloud and connect your nodes for:

• Access from anywhere
• Horizontal scalability and multi-node dashboards
• UI configuration for alerts and data collection
• Role-based access control
• Free tier available

> [!NOTE] > Netdata Cloud is optional. Your data stays in your infrastructure.

Live Demo Sites

See Netdata in action
FRANKFURT |
NEWYORK |
ATLANTA |
SANFRANCISCO |
TORONTO |
SINGAPORE |
BANGALORE

These demo clusters run with default configuration and show real monitoring data.

Choose the instance closest to you for the best performance.

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How It Works

With Netdata you can run a modular pipeline for metrics collection, processing, and visualization.

```mermaid
flowchart TB
A[Netdata Agent]:::mainNode
A1(Collect):::green --> A
A2(Store):::green --> A
A3(Learn):::green --> A
A4(Detect):::green --> A
A5(Check):::green --> A
A6(Stream):::green --> A
A7(Archive):::green --> A
A8(Query):::green --> A
A9(Score):::green --> A

classDef green fill:#bbf3bb,stroke:#333,stroke-width:1px,color:#00

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