Infrastructure Summary
The Infrastructure Summary report synthesizes the last hours, days, or weeks of your infrastructure into a concise, shareable narrative. It combines critical timelines, anomaly context, alert analysis, and actionable recommendations so your team can quickly align on what happened and what to do next.
When to use it
- Monday morning recap of weekend incidents and health trends
- Post-incident executive summary for leadership and stakeholders
- Weekly team handoff and situational awareness
- Baseline health before planned infrastructure changes
How to generate
- Open Netdata Cloud and go to the
Insights
tab - Select
Infrastructure Summary
- Choose the time range (last 24h, 48h, 7d, or custom)
- Scope the analysis to all nodes or a subset (rooms/spaces)
- Click
Generate
Reports typically complete in 2–3 minutes. You’ll see them in Insights and receive an email when ready.
What’s included in the report
- Executive summary of the period with key findings
- Incident timeline with affected services and impact
- Alerts overview: frequency, severity, and patterns
- Detected anomalies with confidence and correlations
- Cross-node correlations and dependency highlights
- Notable configuration changes and deploy events (when available)
- Top recommendations with expected impact and rationale
Example: Weekend incident recovery
Generate a 7‑day summary Monday morning to reconstruct what happened while the team was off: which alerts fired, which services were impacted, and where to focus remediation. Use the recommendations section to triage follow-ups.
Tips for best results
- Scope to the most relevant rooms/services when investigating a targeted issue
- Pair with a dedicated
Anomaly Analysis
report for deep dives - Save summaries as PDFs for sharing with management or compliance
Availability and usage
- Available in Netdata Cloud for Business and Free Trial
- Each generated report consumes 1 AI credit (10 free per month on eligible plans)
- Data privacy: metrics are summarized into structured context; your data is not used to train foundation models
See also
- Performance Optimization
- Capacity Planning
- Anomaly Analysis
- Scheduled Reports
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