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+# Netdata Deployment Strategies
+
+Netdata can be used to monitor all kinds of infrastructure, from stand-alone tiny IoT devices to complex hybrid setups 
+combining on-premise and cloud infrastructure, mixing bare-metal servers, virtual machines and containers.
+
+There are 3 components to structure your Netdata ecosystem:
+
+1. **Netdata Agents**
+   To monitor the physical or virtual nodes of your infrastructure, including all applications and containers running on them.
+   
+   Netdata Agents are Open-Source, licensed under GPL v3+.
+
+2. **Netdata Parents**
+   To create data centralization points within your infrastructure, to offload Netdata Agents functions from your production 
+   systems, to provide high-availability of your data, increased data retention and isolation of your nodes. 
+   
+   Netdata Parents are implemented using the Netdata Agent software. Any Netdata Agent can be an Agent for a node and a Parent 
+   for other Agents, at the same time.
+
+   It is recommended to set up multiple Netdata Parents. They will all seamlessly be integrated by Netdata Cloud into one monitoring solution.
+
+
+3. **Netdata Cloud**
+   Our SaaS, combining all your infrastructure, all your Netdata Agents and Parents, into one uniform, distributed, infinitely 
+   scalable, monitoring database, offering advanced data slicing and dicing capabilities, custom dashboards, advanced troubleshooting 
+   tools, user management, centralized management of alerts, and more.
+
+
+The Netdata Agent is a highly modular software piece, providing data collection via numerous plugins, an in-house crafted time-series 
+database, a query engine, health monitoring and alerts, machine learning and anomaly detection, metrics exporting to third party systems.
+
+
+To help our users have a complete experience of Netdata when they install it for the first time, a Netdata Agent with default configuration 
+is a complete monitoring solution out of the box, having all these features enabled and available.
+
+We suggest to do the following configuration changes for production deployments:
+
+1. [Downsize Netdata Agents running on weak IoT devices](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/docs/guides/configure/performance.md)
+   To save valuable system resources.
+
+2. Offload Netdata Agents running on production systems, using Netdata Parents to take over most of their functions
+   To free system resources for the production applications running on them and to isolate production systems from the rest 
+   of the world, while at the same time providing increased data retention, data high availability and security.
+   See [streaming and replication](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/streaming/README.md)
+
+3. Use Netdata Cloud to access the dashboards
+   For increased security, user management and access to our latest tools for advanced dashboarding and troubleshooting.