Netdata Cloud On-Prem Installation

System Requirements

Component	Details
Kubernetes	- Version 1.23 or newer - Metrics server installed (for autoscaling) - Default storage class configured (SSD-based preferred)
TLS certificate	- Single certificate for all endpoints, or separate certificates for frontend, API, and MQTT - Must be trusted by all connecting entities.
Netdata Cloud Services	- 4 CPU cores - 15GiB memory - Note: Cloud services are ephemeral
Third-Party Services	- 8 CPU cores - 14GiB memory - 160GiB SSD storage for PVCs

Note:

These requirements were tested with 1,000 directly connected nodes. Resource needs may vary based on your workload. The initial sync of directly connected Agents is the most compute-intensive operation. For example, a Postgres instance with 2 vCPU, 8GiB memory, and 1k IOPS can handle 1,000 nodes in a steady environment when adding nodes in batches of 10–30.

Required Components

Third-Party Services

All components below are included in the netdata-cloud-dependency package:

Component	Version	Purpose
PostgreSQL	13.7	Main metadata database
EMQX	5.11	MQTT Broker for Agent communication
Apache Pulsar	2.10+	Inter-container message broker
Traefik	2.7.x	Internal API Gateway
Elasticsearch	8.8.x	Events feed storage
Redis	6.2	Caching layer
Ingress Controller	-	HTTPS support
imagePullSecret	-	Secured ECR repository access

Important:

The provided dependency versions require additional configuration for production use. Customers should configure these applications according to their production requirements and policies.

Installation Tools

• AWS CLI
• Helm (version 3.12+ with OCI Configuration)
• Kubectl

Installation

1. AWS CLI Configuration

   Configure AWS credentials using either environment variables:

   export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your_secret_id>
   export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your_secret_key>

   Or through interactive setup:

   aws configure

2. Configure Helm for ECR Access

   Generate token for ECR access:

   aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | helm registry login --username AWS --password-stdin 362923047827.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

3. Pull Required Helm Charts

   helm pull oci://362923047827.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/netdata-cloud-dependency --untar  # Optional
   helm pull oci://362923047827.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/netdata-cloud-onprem --untar

   The charts will be extracted to your current working directory.

4. Install Dependencies

   The netdata-cloud-dependency chart installs all required third-party applications. While we provide this for easy setup, production environments should use their own configured versions of these components:

   • Configure the installation by editing values.yaml in your netdata-cloud-dependency chart directory.
   • Install the dependencies:

     cd [your helm chart location]
     helm upgrade --wait --install netdata-cloud-dependency -n netdata-cloud --create-namespace -f values.yaml .

5. Install Netdata Cloud On-Prem

   • Configure the installation by editing values.yaml in your netdata-cloud-onprem chart directory.
   • Install the application:

     cd [your helm chart location]
     helm upgrade --wait --install netdata-cloud-onprem -n netdata-cloud --create-namespace -f values.yaml .

   Important:

   Installation includes resource provisioning with migration services.

   During the first installation, a netdata-cloud-common secret is created containing critical encryption data. This secret persists through reinstalls and should never be deleted, as this will result in data loss.

Architecture Components

View detailed microservices description

Microservice	Description
cloud-accounts-service	Handles user registration & authentication
cloud-agent-data-ctrl-service	Forwards request from the OCP to the relevant Agents. The requests include fetching Chart metadata, Chart data and Function data from the Agents.
cloud-agent-mqtt-input-service	Forwards MQTT messages emitted by the Agent to the internal Pulsar broker. They are related to the Agent entities and include Agent connection state updates.
cloud-agent-mqtt-output-service	Forwards Pulsar messages emitted on the OCP to the MQTT broker. They are related to the Agent entities. From there, the messages reach the relevant Agent.
cloud-alarm-config-mqtt-input-service	Forwards MQTT messages emitted by the Agent to the internal Pulsar broker. They related to the alarm-config entities like data for the alarm configuration as seen by the Agent.
cloud-alarm-log-mqtt-input-service	Forwards MQTT messages emitted by the Agent to the internal Pulsar broker. They are related to the alarm-log entities containing data about the alarm transitions that occurred in an Agent.
cloud-alarm-mqtt-output-service	Forwards Pulsar messages emitted in the Cloud to the MQTT broker. They are related to the alarm entities and from there, the messages reach the relevant Agent.
cloud-alarm-processor-service	Persists latest Alert status received from the Agent in the OCP Aggregates Alert statuses from relevant node instances Exposes API endpoints to fetch Alert data for visualization on the Cloud Determines if notifications need to be sent when Alert statuses change and emits relevant messages to Pulsar Exposes API endpoints to store and return notification-silencing data
cloud-alarm-streaming-service	Responsible for starting the Alert stream between the Agent and the OCP Ensures that messages are processed in the correct order, and starts a reconciliation process between the Cloud and the Agent if out-of-order processing occurs
cloud-charts-mqtt-input-service	Forwards MQTT messages emitted by the Agent related to the chart entities to the internal Pulsar broker. These include the chart metadata that is used to display relevant charts on the Cloud.
cloud-charts-mqtt-output-service	Forwards Pulsar messages emitted in the Cloud related to the charts entities to the MQTT broker. From there, the messages reach the relevant Agent.
cloud-charts-service	Exposes API endpoints to fetch the chart metadata Forwards data requests via the cloud-agent-data-ctrl-service to the relevant Agents to fetch chart data points Exposes API endpoints to call various other endpoints on the Agent, for instance, functions
cloud-custom-dashboard-service	Exposes API endpoints to fetch and store custom dashboard data
cloud-environment-service	Serves as the first contact point between the Agent and the OCP Returns authentication and MQTT endpoints to connecting Agents
cloud-feed-service	Processes incoming feed events and stores them in Elasticsearch Exposes API endpoints to fetch feed events from Elasticsearch
cloud-frontend	Contains the OCP website. Serves static content.
cloud-iam-user-service	Acts as a middleware for authentication on most of the API endpoints Validates incoming token headers, injects the relevant ones, and forwards the requests
cloud-metrics-exporter	Exports various metrics from an OCP installation Uses the Prometheus metric exposition format
cloud-netdata-assistant	Exposes API endpoints to fetch a human-friendly explanation of various Netdata configuration options, namely the Alerts.
cloud-node-mqtt-input-service	Forwards MQTT messages emitted by the Agent related to the node entities to the internal Pulsar broker These include the node metadata as well as their connectivity state, either direct or via Parents
cloud-node-mqtt-output-service	Forwards Pulsar messages emitted in the OCP related to the charts entities to the MQTT broker From there, the messages reach the relevant Agent
cloud-notifications-dispatcher-service	Exposes API endpoints to handle integrations Handles incoming notification messages and uses the relevant channels(email, slack...) to notify relevant users
cloud-spaceroom-service	Exposes API endpoints to fetch and store relations between Agents, nodes, spaces, users, and rooms Acts as a provider of authorization for other Cloud endpoints Exposes API endpoints to authenticate Agents connecting to the Cloud