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 > *New to netdata? Here is a live demo: [http://my-netdata.io](http://my-netdata.io)*
 
-**netdata** is a system for **real-time performance and health monitoring**!
-It provides **unparalleled insights, in real-time, with interactive web dashboards**, of everything happening on the system it runs, including supported applications.
+**netdata** is an application for **real-time performance and health monitoring**. It provides **unparalleled insights, in real-time**, of everything happening on the system it runs (including key applications such as web and database servers), using **modern interactive web dashboards**.
 
-_netdata is designed to permanently run on all systems (**physical** & **virtual** servers, **containers**, **IoT** devices), without disrupting the applications running on them._
+_netdata is **very fast** and **super efficient**, designed to permanently run on all systems (**physical** & **virtual** servers, **containers**, **IoT** devices), without disrupting their core function._
 
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 ## User base
 
-*Since May 16th 2016 (the time the [global public netdata registry](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/mynetdata-menu-item) was released):*<br/>
+*Since May 16th 2016 (the date the [global public netdata registry](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/mynetdata-menu-item) was released):*<br/>
 [![User Base](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_entries&dimensions=persons&label=user%20base&units=null&value_color=blue&precision=0&v42)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) [![Monitored Servers](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_entries&dimensions=machines&label=servers%20monitored&units=null&value_color=orange&precision=0&v42)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) [![Sessions Served](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_sessions&label=sessions%20served&units=null&value_color=yellowgreen&precision=0&v42)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry)
 
 *in the last 24 hours:*<br/>
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 <a href="https://octoverse.github.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/18795170/ec321f32-81cb-11e6-92a8-d03492f0b00d.png"/></a>
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-> `Oct 4th, 2016` - **[netdata v1.4.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)**
->
-> - the **fastest** netdata ever (with a better look too)!
-> - improved **IoT** and **containers** support!
-> - **alarms** improved in almost every way!
-> - new plugins:  softnet netdev, extended TCP metrics, UDPLite, NFS v2, v3 client (server was there already), NFS v4 server & client, APCUPSd, RetroShare
-> - improved plugins: mysql, cgroups, hddtemp, sensors, phpfm, tc (QoS)
+`Oct 4th, 2016` - **[netdata v1.4.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)**
+
+ - the **fastest** netdata ever (with a better look too)!
+ - improved **IoT** and **containers** support!
+ - **alarms** improved in almost every way!
+ - new plugins:  softnet netdev, extended TCP metrics, UDPLite, NFS v2, v3 client (server was there already), NFS v4 server & client, APCUPSd, RetroShare
+ - improved plugins: mysql, cgroups, hddtemp, sensors, phpfm, tc (QoS)
 
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 <img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/19168687/f6a567be-8c19-11e6-8561-ce8d589e8346.gif"/>
 </p>
 
- - **Stunning interactive bootstrap dashboards**, out of the box (theme-able: dark, light)
- - **Blazingly fast visualization**, it responds to all queries in less than 0.5 ms per metric, even on low-end hardware
- - **Highly efficient data collection**, it collects thousands of metrics per server per second, with just 1% CPU utilization of a single core on modern hardware
- - **Sophisticated alarming**, supporting dynamic thresholds, hysteresis, templating, multiple notification methods
- - **Extensible**, you can monitor anything you can get a metric for, using its Plugin API (anything can be a netdata plugin, BASH, python, perl, node.js, java, Go, etc)
- - **Zero configuration**, it auto-detects everything, out of the box it can detect up to 5000 metrics per server organized
- - **Zero dependencies**, it is even its own web server for its static web files and its web API
- - **Zero maintenance**, you just run it, it does the rest
- - **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs (even IoT) and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
- - **Custom dashboards**, that can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
- - **scales to infinity**, requiring minimal central resources!
+ - **Stunning interactive bootstrap dashboards**<br/>2 themes are provided: dark, light
+ - **Blazingly fast visualization**<br/>responds to all queries in less than 0.5 ms per metric, even on low-end hardware
+ - **Highly efficient data collection**<br/>collects thousands of metrics per server per second, with just 1% CPU utilization of a single core on modern hardware
+ - **Sophisticated alarming**<br/>supports dynamic thresholds, hysteresis, templating, multiple notification methods
+ - **Extensible**<br/>you can monitor anything you can get a metric for, using its Plugin API (anything can be a netdata plugin, BASH, python, perl, node.js, java, Go, etc)
+ - **Zero configuration**<br/>auto-detects everything, out of the box it can collect up to 5000 metrics per server
+ - **Zero dependencies**<br/>it is even its own web server, for its static web files and its web API
+ - **Zero maintenance**<br/>you just run it, it does the rest
+ - **Embeddable**<br/>it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs (even IoT) and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
+ - **Custom dashboards**<br/>that can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
+ - **scales to infinity**<br/>requiring minimal central resources!
 
 ![netdata](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14092712/93b039ea-f551-11e5-822c-beadbf2b2a2e.gif)