Netdata Docs

Welcome! You’ve arrived at Netdata's documentation.

Netdata is a monitoring, visualization, and troubleshooting solution for systems, containers, services, and applications. Below, find links to solution- and action-based docs for Netdata's many features and capabilities. Think of it as the table of contents to becoming an expert in monitoring and troubleshooting.

Get started

Install the open-source monitoring agent on physical/virtual systems running most Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and more), container platforms (Kubernetes clusters, Docker), and many other operating systems, with no sudo required.

Learn about Netdata's features

Overview

What is Netdata?

Why use Netdata?

Pricing

How to use Netdata with your existing stack

Data Privacy

Security design

Anonymous statistics

Installation

Linux with one-line installer

Run with Docker

Deploy on Kubernetes

Update

Reinstall

Uninstall

Configuration

Configure the Netdata Agent

Common configuration changes

Start, stop, or restart the Netdata Agent

Secure your nodes

Reverse proxy with Nginx

Reverse proxy with Apache

Dashboard

How the dashboard works

Interact with charts

Chart dimensions, contexts, and families

Visualization date and time controls

Import, export, and print a snapshot

Customize the standard dashboard

Custom dashboards

Data collection

How Netdata's metrics collectors work

Enable or configure a collector

System metrics

Container metrics

Application metrics

Supported collectors list

Alerts and notifications

View active health alarms

Configure health alarms

Enable alert notifications

Metrics storage and management

Distributed data architecture

Change how long Netdata stores metrics

How metrics streaming works

Enable streaming between nodes

Export metrics to external time-series databases

Enable an exporting connector

Contribute to Netdata

To learn more about contributing to an open-source Netdata project, see our contribute doc.