# netdata
+> Aug 28th, 2016
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+> [netdata v1.3.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)
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+> - netdata has **[health monitoring / alarms](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/health-monitoring)**!
+> - netdata **[generates badges](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Generating-Badges)** that can be embeded anywhere!
+> - netdata plugins are now written in python!
+> - new plugins: redis, memcached, nginx_log, ipfs, apache_cache
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> May 16th, 2016
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> [netdata v1.2.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)
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-May 1st, 2016
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-##### 320.000+ views, 92.000+ visitors, 28.500+ downloads, 11.000+ github stars, 700+ forks, 1 month!
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-And it still runs with 600+ git downloads... per day!
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-**[Check what our users say about netdata](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/148)**.
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**Real-time performance monitoring, done right!**
This is the default dashboard of **netdata**:
- 300+ charts out of the box, 2000+ metrics monitored!
- zero configuration, zero maintenance, zero dependencies!
-Live demo: [http://netdata.firehol.org](http://netdata.firehol.org)
+Live demo: [http://my-netdata.io](http://my-netdata.io)
![netdata](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14092712/93b039ea-f551-11e5-822c-beadbf2b2a2e.gif)
- **Zero maintenance**, you just run it, it does the rest
- **Custom dashboards** that can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
- **Extensible**, you can monitor anything you can get a metric for, using its Plugin API (anything can be a netdata plugin - from BASH to node.js, so you can easily monitor any application, any API)
-- **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
+- **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs (even IoT) and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
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- **Users and User Groups resource usage**, by summarizing the process tree per user and group (CPU, memory, disk reads, disk writes, swap, threads, pipes, sockets, etc)
-- **Apache web server** mod-status (v2.2, v2.4)
+- **Apache web server** mod-status (v2.2, v2.4) and cache log statistics (multiple servers)
-- **Nginx web server** stub-status
+- **Nginx web server** stub-status (multiple servers)
- **mySQL databases** (multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, queries/s, handlers, locks, issues, tmp operations, connections, binlog metrics, threads, innodb metrics, etc)
+- **Redis databases** (multiple servers, each showing: operations, hit rate, memory, keys, clients, slaves)
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+- **memcached databases** (multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, connections, items, etc)
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- **ISC Bind name server** (multiple servers, each showing: clients, requests, queries, updates, failures and several per view metrics)
- **Postfix email server** message queue (entries, size)
-- **Squid proxy server** (clients bandwidth and requests, servers bandwidth and requests)
+- **exim email server** message queue (emails queued)
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+- **IPFS** (Bandwidth, Peers)
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+- **Squid proxy server** (multiple servers, each showing: clients bandwidth and requests, servers bandwidth and requests)
- **Hardware sensors** (temperature, voltage, fans, power, humidity, etc)
- **PHP-FPM** (multiple instances, each reporting connections, requests, performance)
+- **hddtemp** (disk temperatures)
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- **SNMP devices** can be monitored too (although you will need to configure these)
And you can extend it, by writing plugins that collect data from any source, using any computer language.
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-## Still not convinced?
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-Read **[Why netdata?](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Why-netdata%3F)**
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## Installation
Use our **[automatic installer](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Installation)** to build and install it on your system
## Documentation
Check the **[netdata wiki](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki)**.
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