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 [!WARNING]
 People get addicted to Netdata.
 Once you use it on your systems, there's no going back.



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 WHO WE ARE

Netdata is an open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring platform. Monitor, detect, and act across your entire infrastructure.

Core Advantages:

 Instant Insights – With Netdata you can access per-second metrics and visualizations.
 Zero Configuration – You can deploy immediately without complex setup.
 ML-Powered – You can detect anomalies, predict issues, and automate analysis.
 Efficient – You can monitor with minimal resource usage and maximum scalability.
 Secure & Distributed – You can keep your data local with no central collection needed.

With Netdata, you get real-time, per-second updates. Clear insights at a glance, no complexity.


  All heroes have a great origin story. Click to discover ours.
  

In 2013, at the company where Costa Tsaousis was COO, a significant percentage of their cloud-based transactions failed silently, severely impacting business performance.

Costa and his team tried every troubleshooting tool available at the time. None could identify the root cause. As Costa later wrote:

“I couldn’t believe that monitoring systems provide so few metrics and with such low resolution, scale so badly, and cost so much to run.”

Frustrated, he decided to build his own monitoring tool, starting from scratch.

That decision led to countless late nights and weekends. It also sparked a fundamental shift in how infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting are approached, both in method and in cost.


 Most Energy-Efficient Monitoring Tool



  


  



According to the University of Amsterdam study, Netdata is the most energy-efficient tool for monitoring Docker-based systems. The study also shows Netdata excels in CPU usage, RAM usage, and execution time compared to other monitoring solutions.

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 Key Features

| Feature                    | Description                               | What Makes It Unique                                     |
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| Real-Time              | Per-second data collection and processing | Works in a beat – click and see results instantly        |
| Zero-Configuration     | Automatic detection and discovery         | Auto-discovers everything on the nodes it runs           |
| ML-Powered             | Unsupervised anomaly detection            | Trains multiple ML models per metric at the edge         |
| Long-Term Retention    | High-performance storage                  | ~0.5 bytes per sample with tiered storage for archiving  |
| Advanced Visualization | Rich, interactive dashboards    

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Netdata v2.12.3 is a patch release to address issues discovered since v2.12.2.

This release makes the Agent detect a dead Netdata Cloud connection even while traffic keeps flowing, fixes use-after-free crashes when a stale node is removed while a child or plugin is still using it, stops children configured with parent using h2o from crashing on every connection, makes a negated IP in an access list take precedence over hostname matching, rejects malformed percent escapes in URLs, bounds MCP batch requests, removes global SQLite stalls, fixes crashes when obsolete charts are