+netdata (1.6.0) - 2017-03-20
+
+ * birthday release: 1 year netdata
+
+ netdata was first published on March 30th, 2016.
+ It has been a crazy year since then:
+
+ 225.000 unique netdata users
+ currently, at 1.000 new unique users per day
+
+ 80.000 unique netdata installations
+ currently, at 500 new installation per day
+
+ 610.000 docker pulls on docker hub
+
+ 4.000.000 netdata sessions served
+ currently, at 15.000 sessions served per day
+
+ 20.000 github stars
+
+ Thank you!
+ You are awesome!
+
+ * central netdata is here
+
+ This is the first release that supports real-time streaming of
+ metrics between netdata servers.
+
+ netdata can now be:
+
+ - autonomous host monitoring
+ (like it always has been)
+
+ - headless data collector
+ (collect and stream metrics in real-time to another netdata)
+
+ - headless proxy
+ (collect metrics from multiple netdata and stream them to another netdata)
+
+ - store and forward proxy
+ (like headless proxy, but with a local database)
+
+ - central database
+ (metrics from multiple hosts are aggregated)
+
+ metrics databases can be configured on all nodes and each node maintaining
+ a database may have a different retention policy and possibly run
+ (even different) alarms on them.
+
+ * monitoring ephemeral nodes
+
+ netdata now supports monitoring autoscaled ephemeral nodes,
+ that are started and stopped on demand (their IP is not known).
+
+ When the ephemeral nodes start streaming metrics to the central
+ netdata, the central netdata will show register them at "my-netdata"
+ menu on the dashboard.
+
+ For more information check:
+ https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/monitoring-ephemeral-nodes
+
+ * monitoring ephemeral containers and VM guests
+
+ netdata now cleans up container, guest VM, network interfaces and mounted
+ disk metrics, disabling automatically their alarms too.
+
+ For more information check:
+ https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/monitoring-ephemeral-containers
+
+ * apps.plugin ported for FreeBSD
+
+ @vlvkobal has ported "apps.plugin" to FreeBSD. netdata can now provide
+ "Applications", "Users" and "User Groups" on FreeBSD.
+
+ * web_log plugin
+
+ @l2isbad has done a wonderful job creating a unified web log parsing plugin
+ for all kinds of web server logs. With it, netdata provides real-time
+ performance information and health monitoring alarms for web applications
+ and web sites!
+
+ For more information check:
+ https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/The-spectacles-of-a-web-server-log-file
+
+ * backends
+
+ netdata can now archive metrics to `JSON` backends
+ (both push, by @lfdominguez, and pull modes).
+
+ * IPMI monitoring
+
+ netdata now has an IPMI plugin (based on freeipmi)
+ for monitoring server hardware.
+
+ The plugin creates (up to) 8 charts:
+
+ 1. number of sensors by state
+ 2. number of events in SEL
+ 3. Temperatures CELCIUS
+ 4. Temperatures FAHRENHEIT
+ 5. Voltages
+ 6. Currents
+ 7. Power
+ 8. Fans
+
+ It also supports alarms (including the number of sensors in critical state).
+
+ For more information, check:
+ https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/monitoring-IPMI
+
+ * new plugins
+
+ @l2isbad builds python data collection plugins for netdata at an wonderfull
+ rate! He rocks!
+
+ - **web_log** for monitoring in real-time all kinds of web server log files @l2isbad
+ - **freeipmi** for monitoring IPMI (server hardware)
+ - **nsd** (the [name server daemon](https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/)) @383c57
+ - **mongodb** @l2isbad
+ - **smartd_log** (monitoring disk S.M.A.R.T. values) @l2isbad
+
+ * improved plugins
+
+ - **nfacct** reworked and now collects connection tracker information using netlink.
+ - **ElasticSearch** re-worked @l2isbad
+ - **mysql** re-worked to allow faster development of custom mysql based plugins (MySQLService) @l2isbad
+ - **SNMP**
+ - **tomcat** @NMcCloud
+ - **ap** (monitoring hostapd access points)
+ - **php_fpm** @l2isbad
+ - **postgres** @l2isbad
+ - **isc_dhcpd** @l2isbad
+ - **bind_rndc** @l2isbad
+ - **numa**
+ - **apps.plugin** improvements and freebsd support @vlvkobal
+ - **fail2ban** @l2isbad
+ - **freeradius** @l2isbad
+ - **nut** (monitoring UPSes)
+ - **tc** (Linux QoS) now works on qdiscs instead of classes for the same result (a lot faster) @t-h-e
+ - **varnish** @l2isbad
+
+ * new and improved alarms
+ - **web_log**, many alarms to detect common web site/API issues
+ - **fping**, alarms to detect packet loss, disconnects and unusually high latency
+ - **cpu**, cpu utilization alarm now ignores `nice`
+
+ * new and improved alarm notification methods
+ - **HipChat** to allow hosted HipChat @frei-style
+ - **discordapp** @lowfive
+
+ * dashboard improvements
+ - dashboard now works on HiDPi screens
+ - dashboard now shows version of netdata
+ - dashboard now resets charts properly
+ - dashboard updated to use latest gauge.js release
+
+ * other improvements
+ - thanks to @rlefevre netdata now uses a lot of different high resolution system clocks.
+
+ netdata has received a lot more improvements from many more contributors!
+
+ Thank you all!
+
+
netdata (1.5.0) - 2017-01-22
* yet another release that makes netdata the fastest
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