Netdata is a real-time performance and health monitoring tool for systems and applications. It provides per-second metrics with minimal resource overhead, making it ideal for immediate troubleshooting and performance analysis.
- Current stable: 2.9.0 (February 2026)
- Real-time monitoring: Per-second metric collection
- Low overhead: Minimal CPU and memory usage
- Auto-discovery: Automatic detection of services and applications
- Beautiful dashboards: Pre-configured, interactive visualizations
- Alerting: Configurable notifications with multiple channels
- Distributed monitoring: Netdata Cloud for centralized management
- System performance troubleshooting
- Application performance monitoring
- Infrastructure health checks
- Real-time capacity planning
- Core: C
- Web UI: JavaScript, D3.js
- Collectors: C, Python, Go
- Open-source and self-hosted
- Netdata Cloud available for centralized management
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