# netdata
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-> Aug 21st, 2016: Netdata got **[health monitoring](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/health-monitoring)** - alarms
+> Aug 28th, 2016
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+> [netdata v1.3.0 released!](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases)
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+> - netdata has **[health monitoring / alarms](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/health-monitoring)**!
+> - netdata **[generates badges](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Generating-Badges)** that can be embeded anywhere!
+> - netdata plugins are now written in python!
+> - new plugins: redis, memcached, nginx_log, ipfs, apache_cache
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-May 1st, 2016
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-##### 320.000+ views, 92.000+ visitors, 28.500+ downloads, 11.000+ github stars, 700+ forks, 1 month!
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-And it still runs with 600+ git downloads... per day!
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-**[Check what our users say about netdata](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/148)**.
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**Real-time performance monitoring, done right!**
This is the default dashboard of **netdata**:
- 300+ charts out of the box, 2000+ metrics monitored!
- zero configuration, zero maintenance, zero dependencies!
-Live demo: [http://netdata.firehol.org](http://netdata.firehol.org)
+Live demo: [http://my-netdata.io](http://my-netdata.io)
![netdata](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14092712/93b039ea-f551-11e5-822c-beadbf2b2a2e.gif)
- **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 node.js, so you can easily monitor any application, any API)
-- **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
+- **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs (even IoT) and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
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-## Still not convinced?
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-Read **[Why netdata?](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Why-netdata%3F)**
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## Installation
Use our **[automatic installer](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Installation)** to build and install it on your system