Netdata Guides
Thoughtful guides to help you learn more about collecting metrics, monitoring your infrastructure, and troubleshooting with Netdata's powerful visualizations.
Collect & monitor
Extract and visualize metrics from essential services or applications on your infrastructure.
Monitor and visualize anomalies (part 2)
Using unsupervised anomaly detection, trigger alarms seconds after your mission-critical metrics behave strangely, then visualize everything in parallel to find the root cause.
Detect anomalies in systems and applications (part 1)
Detect anomalies in any system, container, or application in your infrastructure with machine learning and the open-source Netdata Agent.
Monitor any process in real-time with Netdata
Tap into Netdata's powerful collectors, with per-second utilization metrics for every process, to troubleshoot faster and make data-informed decisions.
Monitor a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster with Netdata
Use Netdata's helmchart, service discovery plugin, and Kubelet/kube-proxy collectors for real-time visibility into your Kubernetes cluster.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and debug applications with eBPF metrics
Using this guide, you'll learn the fundamentals of setting up Netdata to give you kernel-level metrics from your application so that you can monitor, troubleshoot, and debug to your heart's content.
Monitor Pi-hole (and a Raspberry Pi) with Netdata
Netdata helps you monitor and troubleshoot all kinds of devices and the applications they run, including IoT devices like the Raspberry Pi and applications like Pi-hole.
Monitor Nginx or Apache web server log files with Netdata
This guide will walk you through using the new Go-based web log collector to turn the logs these web servers constantly write to into real-time insights into your infrastructure.
Monitor Unbound DNS servers with Netdata
This guide will show you how to collect dozens of essential metrics from your Unbound servers with minimal configuration.
Configure
Advanced configuration options for those who want to elevate their Netdata Agent-monitored nodes.
How to optimize the Netdata Agent's performance
While the Netdata Agent is designed to monitor a system with only 1% CPU, you can optimize its performance for low-resource systems.
Deploy
Strategies and playbooks for bootstrapping an infrastructure monitoring solution with Netdata and infrastructure as code tools.
Export
Explore Netdata's interoperability with other monitoring and visualization platforms.
Step-by-step
Learn about Netdata's many features and capabilities in a guided experienced designed for those new to monitoring and troubleshooting.
The step-by-step Netdata guide
Learn about Netdata's many features and capabilities in a guided experienced designed for those new to monitoring and troubleshooting.
Step 2. Get to know Netdata's dashboard
Visit Netdata's dashboard to explore, manipulate charts, and check out alarms. Get your first taste of visual anomaly detection.
Step 3. Monitor more than one system with Netdata
While the dashboard lets you quickly move from one agent to another, Netdata Cloud is our SaaS solution for monitoring the health of many systems. We'll cover its features and the benefits of using Netdata Cloud on top of the dashboard.
Step 4. The basics of configuring Netdata
While Netdata can monitor thousands of metrics in real-time without any configuration, you may want to tweak some settings based on your system's resources.
Step 5. Health monitoring alarms and notifications
Learn how to tune, silence, and write custom alarms. Then enable notifications so you never miss a change in health status or performance anomaly.
Step 6. Collect metrics from more services and apps
Learn how to enable/disable collection plugins and configure a collection plugin job to add more charts to your Netdata dashboard and begin monitoring more apps and services, like MySQL, Nginx, MongoDB, and hundreds more.
Step 7. Netdata's dashboard in depth
Now that you configured your Netdata monitoring agent to your exact needs, you'll dive back into metrics snapshots, updates, and the dashboard's settings.
Step 8. Building your first custom dashboard
Using simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, we'll build a custom dashboard that displays essential information in any format you choose. You can even monitor many systems from a single HTML file.