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@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# netdata [](https://travis-ci.org/firehol/netdata) [](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/firehol-netdata) [](https://hub.docker.com/r/titpetric/netdata/)
-
+# netdata [](https://travis-ci.org/firehol/netdata) [](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/firehol-netdata) [](https://www.codacy.com/app/netdata/netdata?utm_source=github.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=firehol/netdata&utm_campaign=Badge_Grade) [](https://codeclimate.com/github/firehol/netdata)
> *New to netdata? Here is a live demo: [http://my-netdata.io](http://my-netdata.io)*
**netdata** is a system for **distributed real-time performance and health monitoring**.
@@ -11,12 +10,16 @@ _netdata is **fast** and **efficient**, designed to permanently run on all syste
(**physical** & **virtual** servers, **containers**, **IoT** devices), without
disrupting their core function._
+netdata runs on **Linux**, **FreeBSD**, and **MacOS**.
+
+[](https://twitter.com/linuxnetdata)
+
---
## User base
*Since May 16th 2016 (the date the [global public netdata registry](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/mynetdata-menu-item) was released):*
-[](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)
+[](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) [](https://hub.docker.com/r/titpetric/netdata/)
*in the last 24 hours:*
[](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)
@@ -26,16 +29,21 @@ disrupting their core function._
## News
-
+Netdata is featured at GitHub's State Of The Octoverse 2016
+
-`Oct 4th, 2016` - **[netdata v1.4.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)**
+`Mar 20th, 2017` - **[netdata v1.6.0 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)
+ - central netdata is here! headless collectors, proxies, streaming of metrics, etc.
+ - [monitoring ephemeral nodes (auto-scaled VMs)](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/monitoring-ephemeral-nodes)
+ - [monitoring ephemeral containers and VM guests](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/monitoring-ephemeral-containers)
+ - [monitoring web servers](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/The-spectacles-of-a-web-server-log-file)
+ - apps.plugin ported for FreeBSD
+ - [monitoring IPMI](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/monitoring-IPMI)
+ - dozens of new and improved plugins
+ - dozens of new and improved alarms
+ - dozens more improvements and performance optimizations
---
@@ -57,9 +65,10 @@ disrupting their core function._
with just 1% CPU utilization of a single core, a few MB of RAM and no disk I/O at all
- **Sophisticated alarming**
+ hundreds of alarms, **out of the box**!
supports dynamic thresholds, hysteresis, alarm templates,
multiple role-based notification methods (such as email, slack.com,
- pushover.net, pushbullet.com telegram.org, twilio.com)
+ pushover.net, pushbullet.com, telegram.org, twilio.com, messagebird.com)
- **Extensible**
you can monitor anything you can get a metric for,
@@ -86,8 +95,12 @@ disrupting their core function._
- **scales to infinity**
requiring minimal central resources
- - **back-ends supported**
- can archive its metrics on `graphite` or `opentsdb`, in the same or lower detail
+ - **several operating modes**
+ autonomous host monitoring, headless data collector, forwarding proxy, store and forward proxy, central multi-host monitoring, in all possible configurations.
+ Each node may have different metrics retention policy and run with or without health monitoring.
+
+ - **time-series back-ends supported**
+ can archive its metrics on `graphite`, `opentsdb`, `prometheus`, json document DBs, in the same or lower detail
(lower: to prevent it from congesting these servers due to the amount of data collected)
@@ -96,7 +109,7 @@ disrupting their core function._
## What does it monitor?
-netdata monitors several thousands of metrics per device.
+netdata collects several thousands of metrics per device.
All these metrics are collected and visualized in real-time.
> _Almost all metrics are auto-detected, without any configuration._
@@ -104,13 +117,13 @@ All these metrics are collected and visualized in real-time.
This is a list of what it currently monitors:
- **CPU**
- usage, interrupts, softirqs, frequency, total and per core
+ usage, interrupts, softirqs, frequency, total and per core, CPU states
- **Memory**
- RAM, swap and kernel memory usage, including KSM the kernel memory deduper
+ RAM, swap and kernel memory usage, KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging), NUMA
- **Disks**
- per disk: I/O, operations, backlog, utilization, space
+ per disk: I/O, operations, backlog, utilization, space, software RAID (md)
@@ -186,6 +199,9 @@ This is a list of what it currently monitors:
- **Tomcat**
accesses, threads, free memory, volume
+- **web server log files**
+ extracting in real-time, web server performance metrics and applying several health checks
+
- **mySQL databases**
multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, queries/s, handlers, locks, issues,
tmp operations, connections, binlog metrics, threads, innodb metrics, and more
@@ -198,12 +214,21 @@ This is a list of what it currently monitors:
- **Redis databases**
multiple servers, each showing: operations, hit rate, memory, keys, clients, slaves
+- **mongodb**
+ operations, clients, transactions, cursors, connections, asserts, locks, etc
+
- **memcached databases**
multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, connections, items
+- **elasticsearch**
+ search and index performance, latency, timings, cluster statistics, threads statistics, etc
+
- **ISC Bind name servers**
multiple servers, each showing: clients, requests, queries, updates, failures and several per view metrics
+- **NSD name servers**
+ queries, zones, protocols, query types, transfers, etc.
+
- **Postfix email servers**
message queue (entries, size)
@@ -212,14 +237,26 @@ This is a list of what it currently monitors:
- **Dovecot** POP3/IMAP servers
+- **ISC dhcpd**
+ pools utilization, leases, etc.
+
- **IPFS**
bandwidth, peers
- **Squid proxy servers**
multiple servers, each showing: clients bandwidth and requests, servers bandwidth and requests
+- **HAproxy**
+ bandwidth, sessions, backends, etc
+
+- **varnish**
+ threads, sessions, hits, objects, backends, etc
+
+- **OpenVPN**
+ status per tunnel
+
- **Hardware sensors**
- temperature, voltage, fans, power, humidity
+ `lm_sensors` and `IPMI`: temperature, voltage, fans, power, humidity
- **NUT and APC UPSes**
load, charge, battery voltage, temperature, utility metrics, output metrics
@@ -230,6 +267,9 @@ This is a list of what it currently monitors:
- **hddtemp**
disk temperatures
+- **smartd**
+ disk S.M.A.R.T. values
+
- **SNMP devices**
can be monitored too (although you will need to configure these)