# netdata [](https://travis-ci.org/firehol/netdata) [](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/firehol-netdata) [](https://hub.docker.com/r/titpetric/netdata/)
-> New to netdata? 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 highly optimized Linux daemon providing **real-time performance and health monitoring for Linux systems, applications and SNMP devices, over the web**! It has been designed to permanently run on all systems, without disrupting the applications running on them.
+**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 designed to permanently run on all systems (**physical** & **virtual** servers, **containers**, **IoT** devices), without disrupting the applications running on them._
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-**netdata** user and installation base, as reported by the [global public netdata registry](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/mynetdata-menu-item):
+## 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/>
[](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) [](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) [](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry)
+*in the last 24 hours:*<br/>
[](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) [](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) [](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry)
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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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-## At a glance
+## Features
<p align="center">
<img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/19168687/f6a567be-8c19-11e6-8561-ce8d589e8346.gif"/>
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-**netdata** visualizes the **truth of now** in its **greatest detail**, so that you can get insights of what is happening now and what just happened, on your systems and applications:
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- - real-time, per second updates, snappy refreshes!
- - 300+ charts out of the box, 2000+ metrics monitored!
- - zero configuration, zero maintenance, zero dependencies!
- - dozens of health monitoring alarms, out of the box!
+ - **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!
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-## Features
-
-This is what you get:
-
-- **Stunning bootstrap dashboards**, out of the box (theme-able: dark, light)
-- **Blazingly fast** and **super efficient**, mostly written in C (for default installations, expect just 2% of a single core CPU usage and a few MB of RAM)
-- **Zero configuration** - you just install it and it auto-detects everything
-- **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
-- **Custom dashboards** that can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
-- **Extensible**, you can monitor anything you can get a metric for, using its Plugin API (anything can be a netdata plugin - from BASH to python and node.js, so you can easily monitor any application, any API)
-- **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs (even IoT) and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
-- **Powerful alarms and notifications**, it can send alarms as email, slack.com messages, pushover.net mobile push notifications, telegram.org messages, and more.
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## What does it monitor?
This is what it currently monitors (most with zero configuration):
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