Netdata Docs

Welcome! You’ve arrived at Netdata's documentation.

Below, you'll find links to solution- and action-based docs for Netdata's many features and capabilities. Think of it as the table of contents to becoming an experting in using Netdata to monitor and troubleshoot systems and infrastructure.

Netdata is a monitoring, visualization, and troubleshooting solution for systems, containers, and applications. The free and open-source monitoring Agent works in collaboration with Netdata Cloud to deliver both single-node and infrastructure monitoring on a single pane of glass.

Collect everything, visualize metrics, troubleshoot complex performance problems, and make Netdata's per-second metrics work with your existing monitoring stack, entirely for free.

Get Netdata

Sign up for Netdata Cloud and install the open-source Agent on your nodes. Claim and connect your nodes to Netdata Cloud for seamless, scalable, and granular infrastructure monitoring.

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Learn Netdata

Overview

Learn about Netdata's core features, how it's different, and how it integrates with your existing monitoring stack.

• What is Netdata?
• Why use Netdata?
• How to use Netdata with your existing stack

Quickstart

Get a quiqck introduction into how you'll visualize metrics and troubleshoot issues using Netdata's tools based how many nodes you need to monitor.

• Monitor a single node
• Monitor an infrastructure

Configure

Learn how to set up the Netdata Agent on one or more nodes to maximize the immediate value you get from monitoring your systems, containers, and applications.

• Configure the Netdata Agent
• Common configuration changes
• Start, stop, or restart the Netdata Agent
• Secure your nodes

Collect

Learn what per-second metrics Netdata can collect using its 300+ built-in collectors, full compatibility with Prometheus endpoints, and zero configuration.

• How Netdata's metrics collectors work
• Enable or configure a collector
• System metrics
• Container metrics
• Application metrics
• Supported collectors list

Visualize

Follow our guides on interacting with Netdata's visualizations and creating new dashboards so you can quickly drill down on anomalies and discover their root cause.

• See an overview of your infrastructure
• Interact with dashboards and charts
• Create new dashboards

Monitor

Leverage Netdata's health watchdog and hundreds of pre-configured alarms to receive notifications on your favorite platforms whenever an anomaly affects the health or performance of your infrastructure.

• View active health alarms
• Configure health alarms
• Enable notifications

Store

Netdata's distributed data architecture simplifies how you store metrics and dramatically reduces the cost compared to centralizing per-second metrics in one place. Configure your nodes to store the metrics you need.

• Distributed data architecture
• Change how long Netdata stores metrics

Export

Send Netdata's metrics to other time-series databases to extend and improve your monitoring stack with per-second metrics. Archive or correlate metrics using other platforms.

• Export metrics to external time-series databases
• Enable an exporting connector

Reference docs

Agent

Comprehensive documentation for the free, open-source Netdata monitoring Agent.

Cloud

Details on Netdata Cloud's features, administrative options, and customizing your Cloud experience.

Contribute to Netdata

To learn more about contributing to an open-source Netdata project, see our contribute doc.