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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the NETDATA file format, see <a href="NETDATA" title="NETDATA">NETDATA</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Netdata</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">24 October 2013<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2013-10-24</span>)</span> <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">2.2.0

/ 24 January 2025<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2025-01-24</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">

</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Repository_(version_control)" title="Repository (version control)">Repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://github.com/netdata/netdata">https://github.com/netdata/netdata</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a> version 3, Default (v2) Dashboard: NCUL1 <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.netdata.cloud/">https://www.netdata.cloud/</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Netdata</b> is a partially<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Open_source" title="Open source">open source</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> tool designed to collect real-time metrics, such as CPU usage, disk activity, bandwidth usage, website visits, etc., and then display them in live, easy-to-interpret charts.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2></div>

<p><i>Netdata</i> consists of a <a href="Daemon_(computing)" title="Daemon (computing)">daemon</a> that, when executed, is responsible for collecting and displaying information in real-time.

</p><p>It is mostly written in <a href="C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>, <a href="Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a> and <a href="JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a>, and aims to use minimal system resources.

</p><p>It can be run on any Linux system to monitor any system or application, and is capable of running on PCs, servers, and embedded Linux devices.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2></div>

<p><i>Netdata</i> is designed to be installed on a system without interrupting any of the applications running on it. It operates according to the memory requirements specified by the user, using only idle CPU cycles. Once the application begins, it will not perform disk I/O beyond logging. The tool saves to disk at the end of its execution and reloads at startup.

</p><p>By default it contains certain plugins that collect key system metrics, but its behavior is extensible by using its plugin API.

</p><p>Graphics generated by <i>Netdata</i> can be embedded into web pages. It has an interface with customizable themes and can be manually configured by the user with HTML.

</p><p>There are no dependencies, as it operates as its own <a href="Web_server" title="Web server">web server</a>, with static web files.

</p><p>Netdata is also known for its distributed design.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead of funneling all data into a few central databases like most traditional monitoring solutions, Netdata processes data at the edge, keeping it close to the source.

The lightweight open-source Netdata Agent acts as a <a href="Distributed_database" title="Distributed database">distributed database</a>, enabling the construction of complex observability pipelines with modular, Lego-like simplicity.

</p><p>Netdata provides A.I. insights for all monitored data, training machine learning models directly at the edge.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This allows for fully automated and unsupervised <a href="Anomaly_detection" title="Anomaly detection">anomaly detection</a>, and with its intuitive APIs and UIs, users can quickly perform root cause analysis and troubleshoot issues, identifying correlations and gaining deeper insights into their infrastructure.

</p><p>Starting with v1.12, <i>Netdata</i> collects anonymous usage information by default and sends it to <a href="Google_Analytics" title="Google Analytics">Google Analytics</a>, a feature which can be disabled via manual configuration.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operation">Operation</h2></div>

<p>When executing the daemon on Linux using the netdata command, threads are generated that collect information from each resource, using internal and/or external plugins. In turn, it keeps a record of the values collected in memory (without doing any Disk I/O).

</p><p>It operates as a stand-alone web server for its own static files, necessary for the representation of its dashboards.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It provides a <a href="Representational_state_transfer" class="mw-redirect" title="Representational state transfer">REST API</a> so that the browser can access the information.

</p><p>Each installation of the application works autonomously. Although different running instances of the application can be saved to one dashboard, every <i>Netdata</i> instance is independent. Only the browser can connect all installations of different systems, unifying graphics from different sources as if they came from the same server.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2></div>

<p><i>Netdata</i> is currently maintained by nearly 400 contributors,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> all helping (at various levels) to serve the thousands of individual users and businesses<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who utilize this tool.

</p><p>The user with the most contributions is currently Costa Tsaousis, the CEO and Founder of <i>Netdata</i>, with over 600,000 additions to the code.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second most-active user is Ilya Mashchenko.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The all-time most popular addition to <i>Netdata</i> appears to be adding support for data collection from <a href="VnStat" title="VnStat">Vnstat</a>, a pull request by Noah Troy with nearly 200 individual comments (more than any other pull request).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The all-time most popular feature request appears to be adding support for running multiple freeipmi jobs from the same <i>Netdata</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems" title="Comparison of network monitoring systems">Comparison of network monitoring systems</a></li></ul>

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