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authorCosta Tsaousis (ktsaou) <costa@tsaousis.gr>2016-03-29 01:24:47 +0300
committerCosta Tsaousis (ktsaou) <costa@tsaousis.gr>2016-03-29 01:24:47 +0300
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![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14090945/e9aea428-f545-11e5-8942-9f9cf03fc592.png)
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## Features
**netdata** is a highly optimized Linux daemon providing **real-time performance monitoring for Linux systems, Applications, SNMP devices, over the web**!
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4. **Extensible**, you can monitor anything you can get a metric for, using its Plugin API (anything can be a netdata plugin - from BASH to node.js)
7. **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs
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+## What is monitors?
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This is what it currently monitors (most with zero configuration):
1. **CPU usage, interrupts, softirqs and frequency** (total and per core)
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18. **Hardware sensors** (temperature, voltage, fans, power, humidity, etc)
19. **NUT UPSes** (load, charge, battery voltage, temperature, utility metrics, output metrics)
-You can also monitor any number of **SNMP devices**, although you will need to configure these.
+Any number of **SNMP devices** can be monitored, although you will need to configure these.
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+And you can extend it, by writing plugins that collect data from any source, using any computer language.
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