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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**.
+**netdata** is a system for **distributed real-time performance and health monitoring**.
 It provides **unparalleled insights, in real-time**, of everything happening on the
-system it runs (including applications such as web and database servers), using
+system it runs (including applications such as web, or database servers), using
 **modern interactive web dashboards**.
 
 _netdata is **fast** and **efficient**, designed to permanently run on all systems
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  - **Stunning interactive bootstrap dashboards**<br/>
-   2 themes are provided: dark, light
+   mouse and touch friendly, in 2 themes: dark, light
    
  - **Blazingly fast**<br/>
    responds to all queries in less than 0.5 ms per metric,
-   even on low-end hardware
+   even on low-end hardware (such as a raspberry pi 1)
    
  - **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
+   with just 1% CPU utilization of a single core, a few MB or RAM and no disk I/O at all
    
  - **Sophisticated alarming**<br/>
    supports dynamic thresholds, hysteresis, alarm templates,
-   multiple notification methods
+   multiple role-based notification methods (such as slack.com, pushover.net, telegram.org, email)
    
  - **Extensible**<br/>
    you can monitor anything you can get a metric for,