netdata (1.5.0) - 2016-01-22 * yet another release that makes netdata the fastest netdata ever! * netdata runs on FreeBSD, FreeNAS and MacOS ! Vladimir Kobal (@vlvkobal) has done a magnificent work porting netdata to FreeBSD and MacOS. Everyhing works: cpu, memory, disks performance, disks space, network interfaces, interrupts, IPv4 metrics, IPv6 metrics processes, context switches, softnet, IPC queues, IPC semaphores, IPC shared memory, uptime, etc. Wow! * netdata supports data archiving to backend databases: - Graphite - OpenTSDB - Prometheus and of course all the compatible ones (KairosDB, InfluxDB, Blueflood, etc) * new plugins: Ilya Mashchenko (@l2isbad) has created most of the python data collection plugins in this release ! - Systemd Services (using cgroups!) - FPing (yes, network latency in netdata!) - postgres databases @facetoe, @moumoul - Vanish disk cache (v3 and v4) @l2isbad - ElasticSearch @l2isbad - HAproxy @l2isbad - FreeRadius @l2isbad, @lgz - mdstat (RAID) @l2isbad - ISC bind (via rndc) @l2isbad - ISC dhcpd @l2isbad, @lgz - Fail2Ban @l2isbad - OpenVPN status log @l2isbad, @lgz - NUMA memory @tycho - CPU Idle @tycho - gunicorn log @deltaskelta - ECC memory hardware errors - IPC semaphores - uptime plugin (with a nice badge too) * improved plugins: - netfilter conntrack - mysql (replication) @l2isbad - ipfs @pjz - cpufreq @tycho - hddtemp @l2isbad - sensors @l2isbad - nginx @leolovenet - nginx_log @paulfantom - phpfpm @leolovenet - redis @leolovenet - dovecot @justohall - cgroups - disk space - apps.plugin - /proc/interrupts @rlefevre - /proc/softirqs @rlefevre - /proc/vmstat (system memory charts) - /proc/net/snmp6 (IPv6 charts) - /proc/self/meminfo (system memory charts) - /proc/net/dev (network interfaces) - tc (linux QoS) * new/improved alarms: - MySQL / MariaDB alarms (incl. replication) - IPFS alarms - HAproxy alarms - UDP buffer alarms - TCP AttemptFails - ECC memory alarms - netfilter connections alarms - SNMP * new alarm notifications: - messagebird.com @tech-no-logical - pagerduty.com @jimcooley - pushbullet.com @tperalta82 - twilio.com @shadycuz - HipChat - kafka * shell integration - shell scripts can now query netdata easily! * dashboard improvements: - dashboard is now faster on firefox, safari, opera, edge (edge is still the slowest) - dashboard now has a little bigger fonts - SHIFT + mouse wheel to zoom charts, works on all browsers - perfect-scrollbar on the dashboard - dashboard 4K resolution fixes - dashboard compatibility fixes for embedding charts in third party web sites - charts on custom dashboards can have common min/max even if they come from different netdata servers - alarm log is now saved and loaded back so that the alarm history is available at the dashboard * other improvements: - python.d.plugin has received way to many improvements from many contributors! - charts.d.plugin can now be forked to support multiple independent instances - registry has been re-factored to lower its memory requirements (required for the public registry) - simple patterns in cgroups, disks and alarms - netdata-installer.sh can now correctly install netdata in containers - supplied logrotate script compatibility fixes - spec cleanup @breed808 - clocks and timers reworked @rlefevre netdata has received a lot more improvements from many more contributors! Thank you all guys! netdata (1.4.0) - 2016-10-04 At a glance: - 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) In detail: * improved alarms Many new alarms have been added to detect common kernel configuration errors and old alarms have been re-worked to avoid notification floods. Alarms now support notification hysteresis (both static and dynamic), notification self-cancellation, dynamic thresholds based on current alarm status * improved alarm notifications netdata now supports: - email notifications - slack.com notifications on slack channels - pushover.net notifications (mobile push notifications) - telegram.org notifications For all the above methods, netdata supports role-based notifications, with multiple recipients for each role and severity filtering per recipient! Also, netdata support HTML5 notifications, while the dashboard is open in a browser window (no need to be the active one). All notifications are now clickable to get to the chart that raised the alarm. * improved IoT support! netdata builds and runs with musl libc and runs on systems based on busybox. * improved containers support! netdata runs on alpine linux (a low profile linux distribution used in containers). * Dozens of other improvements and bugfixes netdata (1.3.0) - 2016-08-28 At a glance: - netdata has health monitoring / alarms! - netdata has badges that can be embeded anywhere! - netdata plugins are now written in Python! - new plugins: redis, memcached, nginx_log, ipfs, apache_cache IMPORTANT: Since netdata now uses Python plugins, new packages are required to be installed on a system to allow it work. For more information, please check the installation page: https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Installation In detail: * netdata has alarms! Based on the POLL we made on github (https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/436), health monitoring was the winner. So here it is! netdata now has a poweful health monitoring system embedded. Please check the wiki page: https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/health-monitoring * netdata has badges! netdata can generate badges with live information from the collected metrics. Please check the wiki page: https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Generating-Badges * netdata plugins are now written in Python! Thanks to the great work of Paweł Krupa (@paulfantom), most BASH plugins have been ported to Python. The new python.d.plugin supports both python2 and python3 and data collection from multiple sources for all modules. The following pre-existing modules have been ported to Python: - apache - cpufreq - example - exim - hddtemp - mysql - nginx - phpfm - postfix - sensors - squid - tomcat The following new modules have been added: - apache_cache - dovecot - ipfs - memcached - nginx_log - redis * other data collectors: - Thanks to @simonnagl netdata now reports disk space usage. * dashboards now transfer a certain settings from server to server when changing servers via the my-netdata menu. The settings transferred are the dashboard theme, the online help status and current pan and zoom timeframe of the dashboard. * API improvements: - reduction functions now support 'min', 'sum' and 'incremental-sum'. - netdata now offers a multi-threaded and a single threaded web server (single threaded is better for IoT). * apps.plugin improvements: - can now run with command line argument 'without-files' to prevent it from enumating all the open files/sockets/pipes of all running processes. - apps.plugin now scales the collected values to match the the total system usage. - apps.plugin can now report guest CPU usage per process. - repeating errors are now logged once per process. * netdata now runs with IDLE process priority (lower than nice 19) * netdata now instructs the kernel to kill it first when it starves for memory. * netdata listens for signals: - SIGHUP to netdata instructs it to re-open its log files (new logrotate files added too). - SIGUSR1 to netdata saves the database - SIGUSR2 to netdata reloads health / alarms configuration * netdata can now bind to multiple IPs and ports. * netdata now has new systemd service file (it starts as user netdata and does not fork). * Dozens of other improvements and bugfixes netdata (1.2.0) - 2016-05-16 At a glance: - netdata is now 30% faster - netdata now has a registry (my-netdata dashboard menu) - netdata now monitors Linux Containers (docker, lxc, etc) IMPORTANT: This version requires libuuid. The package you need is: - uuid-dev (debian/ubuntu), or - libuuid-devel (centos/fedora/redhat) In detail: * netdata is now 30% faster ! - Patches submitted by @fredericopissarra improved overall netdata performance by 10%. - A new improved search function in the internal indexes made all searches faster by 50%, resulting in about 20% better performance for the core of netdata. - More efficient threads locking in key components contributed to the overal efficiency. * netdata now has a CENTRAL REGISTRY ! The central registry tracks all your netdata servers and bookmarks them for you at the 'my-netdata' menu on all dashboards. Every netdata can act as a registry, but there is also a global registry provided for free for all netdata users! * netdata now monitors CONTAINERS ! docker, lxc, or anything else. For each container it monitors CPU, RAM, DISK I/O (network interfaces were already monitored) * apps.plugin: now uses linux capabilities by default without setuid to root * netdata has now an improved signal handler thanks to @simonnagl * API: new improved CORS support * SNMP: counter64 support fixed * MYSQL: more charts, about QCache, MyISAM key cache, InnoDB buffer pools, open files * DISK charts now show mount point when available * Dashboard: improved support for older web browsers and mobile web browsers (thanks to @simonnagl) * Multi-server dashboards now allow de-coupled refreshes for each chart, so that if one netdata has a network latency the other charts are not affected * Several other minor improvements and bugfixes netdata (1.1.0) - 2016-04-20 Dozens of commits that improve netdata in several ways: - Data collection: added IPv6 monitoring - Data collection: added SYNPROXY DDoS protection monitoring - Data collection: apps.plugin: added charts for users and user groups - Data collection: apps.plugin: grouping of processes now support patterns - Data collection: apps.plugin: now it is faster, after the new features added - Data collection: better auto-detection of partitions for disk monitoring - Data collection: better fireqos intergation for QoS monitoring - Data collection: squid monitoring now uses squidclient - Data collection: SNMP monitoring now supports 64bit counters - API: fixed issues in CSV output generation - API: netdata can now be restricted to listen on a specific IP - Core and apps.plugin: error log flood protection - Dashboard: better error handling when the netdata server is unreachable - Dashboard: each chart now has a toolbox - Dashboard: on-line help support - Dashboard: check for netdata updates button - Dashboard: added example /tv.html dashboard - Packaging: now compiles with musl libc (alpine linux) - Packaging: added debian packaging - Packaging: support non-root installations - Packaging: the installer generates uninstall script netdata (1.0.0) - 2016-03-22 - first public release netdata (1.0.0-rc.1) - 2015-11-28 - initial packaging