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-# netdata [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/firehol/netdata.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/firehol/netdata) [![Coverity Scan Build Status](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/9140/badge.svg)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/firehol-netdata) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/titpetric/netdata.svg)](https://hub.docker.com/r/titpetric/netdata/)
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+# netdata [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/firehol/netdata.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/firehol/netdata) [![Coverity Scan Build Status](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/9140/badge.svg)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/firehol-netdata) [![Codacy Badge](https://api.codacy.com/project/badge/Grade/a994873f30d045b9b4b83606c3eb3498)](https://www.codacy.com/app/netdata/netdata?utm_source=github.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=firehol/netdata&utm_campaign=Badge_Grade) [![Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/firehol/netdata/badges/gpa.svg)](https://codeclimate.com/github/firehol/netdata) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/titpetric/netdata.svg)](https://hub.docker.com/r/titpetric/netdata/) [![Twitter Follow](https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/linuxnetdata.svg?style=social&label=netdata%20on%20twitter)](https://twitter.com/linuxnetdata)

 > *New to netdata? Here is a live demo: [http://my-netdata.io](http://my-netdata.io)*
 
 > *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 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
+**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 **fast** and **efficient**, designed to permanently run on all systems
+(**physical** & **virtual** servers, **containers**, **IoT** devices), without
+disrupting their core function._

 
 ---
 
 
 ---
 

-

 ## User base
 
 ## 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/>
 [![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/>


@@ -23,16 +25,20 @@ _netdata is designed to permanently run on all systems (**physical** & **virtual
 ## News
 
 <p align="center">
 ## News
 
 <p align="center">

-<a href="https://octoverse.github.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/18795170/ec321f32-81cb-11e6-92a8-d03492f0b00d.png"/></a>
+Netdata is featured at <b><a href="https://octoverse.github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub's State Of The Octoverse 2016</a></b><br/>
+<a href="https://octoverse.github.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/21743260/23ebe62c-d507-11e6-80c0-76b95f53e464.png"/></a>

 </p>
 
 </p>
 

-> `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)
+`Jan 22nd, 2017` - **[netdata v1.5.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)**
+
+ - netdata now runs on **FreeBSD** and **MacOS**
+ - netdata now supports **Graphite**, **OpenTSDB**, **Prometheus** and compatible backends
+ - netdata now monitors **systemd Services**
+ - new plugins: fping, postgres, varnish, elasticsearch, haproxy, freeradius, mdstat, ISC dhcpd, fail2ban, openvpn, NUMA memory, CPU Idle States, gunicorn, ECC memory errors, IPC semaphores, uptime
+ - improved plugins: netfilter conntrack, mysql/mariadb, ipfs, cpufreq, hddtemp, sensors, nginx, nginx_log, phpfpm, redis, dovecot, containers and cgroups, disk space, apps.plugin, tc (QoS) and almost all internal plugins (memory, IPv4 and IPv6, network interfaces, QoS, etc)
+ - dozens of new and improved alarms (including performance monitoring alarms for mysql)
+ - new alarm notifications: messagebird.com, pagerduty.com, pushbullet.com, twilio.com, hipchat, kafka
+ - dozens more improvements and performance optimizations

 
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@@ -42,17 +48,50 @@ _netdata is designed to permanently run on all systems (**physical** & **virtual
 <img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/19168687/f6a567be-8c19-11e6-8561-ce8d589e8346.gif"/>
 </p>
 
 <img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/19168687/f6a567be-8c19-11e6-8561-ce8d589e8346.gif"/>
 </p>
 

- - **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 detect 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!
+ - **Stunning interactive bootstrap dashboards**<br/>
+   mouse and touch friendly, in 2 themes: dark, light
+   
+ - **Amazingly fast**<br/>
+   responds to all queries in less than 0.5 ms per metric,
+   even on low-end hardware
+   
+ - **Highly efficient**<br/>
+   collects thousands of metrics per server per second,
+   with just 1% CPU utilization of a single core, a few MB of RAM and no disk I/O at all
+   
+ - **Sophisticated alarming**<br/>
+   supports dynamic thresholds, hysteresis, alarm templates,
+   multiple role-based notification methods (such as email, slack.com,
+   pushover.net, pushbullet.com, telegram.org, twilio.com, messagebird.com)
+   
+ - **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, ruby, etc)
+   
+ - **Embeddable**<br/>
+   it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs (even IoT)
+   and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
+   
+ - **Customizable**<br/>
+   custom dashboards can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
+   
+ - **Zero configuration**<br/>
+   auto-detects everything, it can collect up to 5000 metrics
+   per server out of the box
+   
+ - **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
+   
+ - **scales to infinity**<br/>
+   requiring minimal central resources
+   
+ - **back-ends supported**<br/>
+   can archive its metrics on `graphite` or `opentsdb`, in the same or lower detail
+   (lower: to prevent it from congesting these servers due to the amount of data collected)

 
 ![netdata](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14092712/93b039ea-f551-11e5-822c-beadbf2b2a2e.gif)
 
 
 ![netdata](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14092712/93b039ea-f551-11e5-822c-beadbf2b2a2e.gif)
 


@@ -60,77 +99,142 @@ _netdata is designed to permanently run on all systems (**physical** & **virtual
 
 ## What does it monitor?
 
 
 ## What does it monitor?
 

-This is what it currently monitors (most with zero configuration):
+netdata monitors several thousands of metrics per device.
+All these metrics are collected and visualized in real-time.

 
 

-- **CPU usage, interrupts, softirqs and frequency** (total and per core)
+> _Almost all metrics are auto-detected, without any configuration._

 
 

-- **RAM, swap and kernel memory usage** (including KSM and kernel memory deduper)
+This is a list of what it currently monitors:

 
 

-- **Disks** (per disk: I/O, operations, backlog, utilization, space, etc)
+- **CPU**<br/>
+  usage, interrupts, softirqs, frequency, total and per core
+
+- **Memory**<br/>
+  RAM, swap and kernel memory usage, KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging), NUMA
+
+- **Disks**<br/>
+  per disk: I/O, operations, backlog, utilization, space

 
    ![sda](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093195/c882bbf4-f554-11e5-8863-1788d643d2c0.gif)
 
 
    ![sda](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093195/c882bbf4-f554-11e5-8863-1788d643d2c0.gif)
 

-- **Network interfaces** (per interface: bandwidth, packets, errors, drops, etc)
+- **Network interfaces**<br/>
+  per interface: bandwidth, packets, errors, drops

 
    ![dsl0](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093128/4d566494-f554-11e5-8ee4-5392e0ac51f0.gif)
 
 
    ![dsl0](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093128/4d566494-f554-11e5-8ee4-5392e0ac51f0.gif)
 

-- **IPv4 networking** (bandwidth, packets, errors, fragments, tcp: connections, packets, errors, handshake, udp: packets, errors, broadcast: bandwidth, packets, multicast: bandwidth, packets)
+- **IPv4 networking**<br/>
+  bandwidth, packets, errors, fragments,
+  tcp: connections, packets, errors, handshake,
+  udp: packets, errors,
+  broadcast: bandwidth, packets,
+  multicast: bandwidth, packets
+
+- **IPv6 networking**<br/>
+  bandwidth, packets, errors, fragments, ECT,
+  udp: packets, errors,
+  udplite: packets, errors,
+  broadcast: bandwidth,
+  multicast: bandwidth, packets,
+  icmp: messages, errors, echos, router, neighbor, MLDv2, group membership,
+  break down by type

 
 

-- **IPv6 networking** (bandwidth, packets, errors, fragments, ECT, udp: packets, errors, udplite: packets, errors, broadcast: bandwidth, multicast: bandwidth, packets, icmp: messages, errors, echos, router, neighbor, MLDv2, group membership, break down by type)
+- **Interprocess Communication - IPC**<br/>
+  such as semaphores and semaphores arrays

 
 

-- **netfilter / iptables Linux firewall** (connections, connection tracker events, errors, etc)
+- **netfilter / iptables Linux firewall**<br/>
+  connections, connection tracker events, errors

 
 

-- **Linux DDoS protection** (SYNPROXY metrics)
+- **Linux DDoS protection**<br/>
+  SYNPROXY metrics

 
 

-- **Processes** (running, blocked, forks, active, etc)
+- **fping** latencies</br>
+  for any number of hosts, showing latency, packets and packet loss

 
 

-- **Entropy** (random numbers pool, using in cryptography)
+   ![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/20464811/9517d2b4-af57-11e6-8361-f6cc57541cd7.png)

 
 

-- **NFS file servers and clients**, v2, v3, v4 (I/O, cache, read ahead, RPC calls)

 
 

-- **Network QoS** (yes, the only tool that visualizes network `tc` classes in realtime)
+- **Processes**<br/>
+  running, blocked, forks, active
+
+- **Entropy**<br/>
+  random numbers pool, using in cryptography
+
+- **NFS file servers and clients**<br/>
+  NFS v2, v3, v4: I/O, cache, read ahead, RPC calls
+
+- **Network QoS**<br/>
+  the only tool that visualizes network `tc` classes in realtime

 
    ![qos-tc-classes](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093004/68966020-f553-11e5-98fe-ffee2086fafd.gif)
 
 
    ![qos-tc-classes](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093004/68966020-f553-11e5-98fe-ffee2086fafd.gif)
 

-- **Linux Control Groups** (containers), systemd, lxc, docker, etc
+- **Linux Control Groups**<br/>
+  containers: systemd, lxc, docker

 
 

-- **Applications**, by grouping the process tree (CPU, memory, disk reads, disk writes, swap, threads, pipes, sockets, etc)
+- **Applications**<br/>
+  by grouping the process tree and reporting CPU, memory, disk reads,
+  disk writes, swap, threads, pipes, sockets - per group

 
    ![apps](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093565/67c4002c-f557-11e5-86bd-0154f5135def.gif)
 
 
    ![apps](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093565/67c4002c-f557-11e5-86bd-0154f5135def.gif)
 

-- **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)
+- **Users and User Groups resource usage**<br/>
+  by summarizing the process tree per user and group,
+  reporting: CPU, memory, disk reads, disk writes, swap, threads, pipes, sockets
+
+- **Apache and lighttpd web servers**<br/>
+   `mod-status` (v2.2, v2.4) and cache log statistics, for multiple servers
+
+- **Nginx web servers**<br/>
+  `stub-status`, for multiple servers

 
 

-- **Apache web servers** mod-status (v2.2, v2.4) and cache log statistics (multiple servers - compatible with lighttpd too)
+- **Tomcat**<br/>
+  accesses, threads, free memory, volume

 
 

-- **Nginx web servers** stub-status (multiple servers)
+- **mySQL databases**<br/>
+  multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, queries/s, handlers, locks, issues,
+  tmp operations, connections, binlog metrics, threads, innodb metrics, and more

 
 

-- **mySQL databases** (multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, queries/s, handlers, locks, issues, tmp operations, connections, binlog metrics, threads, innodb metrics, etc)
+- **Postgres databases**<br/>
+  multiple servers, each showing: per database statistics (connections, tuples
+  read - written - returned, transactions, locks), backend processes, indexes,
+  tables, write ahead, background writer and more

 
 

-- **Redis databases** (multiple servers, each showing: operations, hit rate, memory, keys, clients, slaves)
+- **Redis databases**<br/>
+  multiple servers, each showing: operations, hit rate, memory, keys, clients, slaves

 
 

-- **memcached databases** (multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, connections, items, etc)
+- **memcached databases**<br/>
+  multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, connections, items

 
 

-- **ISC Bind name servers** (multiple servers, each showing: clients, requests, queries, updates, failures and several per view metrics)
+- **ISC Bind name servers**<br/>
+  multiple servers, each showing: clients, requests, queries, updates, failures and several per view metrics

 
 

-- **Postfix email servers** message queue (entries, size)
+- **Postfix email servers**<br/>
+  message queue (entries, size)

 
 

-- **exim email servers** message queue (emails queued)
+- **exim email servers**<br/>
+  message queue (emails queued)

 
 

-- **IPFS** (Bandwidth, Peers)
+- **Dovecot** POP3/IMAP servers<br/>

 
 

-- **Squid proxy servers** (multiple servers, each showing: clients bandwidth and requests, servers bandwidth and requests)
+- **IPFS**<br/>
+  bandwidth, peers

 
 

-- **Hardware sensors** (temperature, voltage, fans, power, humidity, etc)
+- **Squid proxy servers**<br/>
+  multiple servers, each showing: clients bandwidth and requests, servers bandwidth and requests

 
 

-- **NUT and APC UPSes** (load, charge, battery voltage, temperature, utility metrics, output metrics)
+- **Hardware sensors**<br/>
+  temperature, voltage, fans, power, humidity

 
 

-- **Tomcat** (accesses, threads, free memory, volume)
+- **NUT and APC UPSes**<br/>
+  load, charge, battery voltage, temperature, utility metrics, output metrics

 
 

-- **PHP-FPM** (multiple instances, each reporting connections, requests, performance)
+- **PHP-FPM**<br/>
+  multiple instances, each reporting connections, requests, performance

 
 

-- **hddtemp** (disk temperatures)
+- **hddtemp**<br/>
+  disk temperatures

 
 

-- **SNMP devices** can be monitored too (although you will need to configure these)
+- **SNMP devices**<br/>
+  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.
 
 
 And you can extend it, by writing plugins that collect data from any source, using any computer language.
 


@@ -148,7 +252,7 @@ It should run on **any Linux** system (including IoT). It has been tested on:
 - Debian
 - Fedora
 - Gentoo
 - Debian
 - Fedora
 - Gentoo

-- OpenSuse
+- openSUSE

 - PLD Linux
 - RedHat Enterprise Linux
 - SUSE
 - PLD Linux
 - RedHat Enterprise Linux
 - SUSE