Monitoring, alerting, and trending (MAT) are essential tasks in today’s data centers. However, they are often not the favorite topic among administrators. Netdata aims to change that by offering high-performance monitoring with minimal effort. This open-source tool integrates with over 300 services and devices, providing comprehensive and free visualization of collected data through a cloud service. It can also integrate with other products, such as time series databases.
Netdata emphasizes its ease of installation. The core of the tool is an agent that needs to be installed on the systems to be monitored. It collects monitoring and metric data and is available in ready-made packages for common distributions, as well as a Docker container. Despite its capabilities, the agent is extremely efficient, using less than one percent of the performance of a single CPU core on a current machine. The agent saves the collected data locally and offers its own GUI for viewing system-specific data. However, to fully leverage Netdata’s potential, users are encouraged to create an account on netdata.cloud and connect the agents to the service.
The cloud service provided by Netdata visualizes the data from all monitored systems and applies preconfigured monitoring rules to detect anomalies and raise alarms if necessary. The entire process is quick, especially when compared to the configuration and rule setup required by other MAT products. Netdata can be up and running with its complete feature set within minutes.
Netdata offers a comprehensive solution for monitoring, alerting, and trending in data centers. Its ease of installation, efficiency, and cloud service make it an attractive choice for administrators seeking a user-friendly and powerful tool for managing their systems.
