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| author | Costa Tsaousis (ktsaou) <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2016-03-29 01:22:23 +0300 |
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| committer | Costa Tsaousis (ktsaou) <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2016-03-29 01:22:23 +0300 |
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@@ -1,20 +1,72 @@ -netdata -======= +# netdata -**Real-time performance monitoring, in the greatest possible detail**! +**Real-time performance monitoring, done right!** -**netdata** tries to visualize the **truth of now**, in its **greatest detail**, so that you can get insights of what is happening now and what just happened, on your systems and applications. + -Read more at the **[netdata wiki](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki)**. +## Features + +**netdata** is a highly optimized Linux daemon providing **real-time performance monitoring for Linux systems, Applications, SNMP devices, over the web**! + +It tries to visualize the **truth of now**, in its **greatest detail**, so that you can get insights of what is happening now and what just happened, on your systems and applications. + +This is what you get: + +1. **Beautiful out of the box** with bootstrap dashboards +2. You can build your **custom dashboards**, with simple HTML (no javascript necessary) +3. **Blazingly fast** and **super efficient**, just 2% of a single core and a few MB of RAM +3. **Zero configuration** - you just install it and it autodetects everything +4. **Zero dependencies**, it is its own web server for its static web files and its web API +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 + +This is what it currently monitors (most with zero configuration): + +1. **CPU usage, interrupts, softirqs and frequency** (total and per core) +2. **RAM, swap and kernel memory usage** (including KSM and kernel memory deduper) +3. **Disk I/O** (per disk: bandwidth, operations, backlog, utilization, etc) +4. **Network interfaces** (per interface: bandwidth, packets, errors, drops, etc) +5. **IPv4 networking** (packets, errors, fragments, tcp: connections, packets, errors, handshake, udp: packets, errors, broadcast: bandwidth, packets, multicast: bandwidth, packets) +6. **netfilter / iptables** Linux firewall (connections, connection tracker events, errors, etc) +7. **Processes** (running, blocked, forks, active, etc) +8. **Entropy** +9. **NFS file servers**, v2, v3, v4 (I/O, cache, read ahead, RPC calls) +10. **Network QoS** (yes, the only tool that visualizes network `tc` classes in realtime) +11. **Applications**, by grouping the process tree (CPU, memory, disk reads, disk writes, swap, threads, pipes, sockets, etc) +12. **Apache web server** mod-status (v2.2, v2.4) +13. **Nginx web server** stub-status +14. **mySQL databases** (more than one DBs, each showing: bandwidth, queries/s, handlers, locks, issues, tmp operations, connections, binlog metrics, threads, innodb metrics, etc) +15. **ISC Bind / Named** (clients, requests, queries, updates, failures and several per view metrics) +16. **Postfix** message queue (entries, size) +17. **Squid proxy** (clients bandwidth and requests, servers bandwidth and requests) +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. --- -# Features +## Still not convinced? -Check wiki page **[Why netdata?](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Why-netdata%3F)**. +Read **[Why netdata?](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Why-netdata%3F)** --- -# Installation +## Installation + +Use our **[automatic installer](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Installation)** to build and install it on your system + +It should run on any Linux system. We have tested it on: + +- Gentoo +- ArchLinux +- Ubuntu / Debian +- CentOS +- Fedora + +--- + +## Documentation + +Check the **[netdata wiki](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki)**. -Check the **[Installation Wiki Page](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Installation)**. |