https://www.netdata.cloud/categories/monitoring/Recent content in Monitoring on NetdataHugoen-usThu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-edge-monitoring/Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-edge-monitoring/<p>Edge monitoring means running the full observability pipeline - collection, storage, anomaly detection, alerting, and dashboards - on or near the monitored device itself, instead of shipping all raw telemetry to a central system first. Each node in the fleet collects and processes its own metrics locally, and only forwards what is needed upstream. This model is essential for distributed fleets of thousands of devices where centralizing all telemetry is economically and technically impractical.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/snmp-monitoring-guide/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/snmp-monitoring-guide/<p>To monitor SNMP devices you enable an SNMP agent on the device, open UDP/161 from the monitoring host, point your monitoring tool at the device with the correct credentials, and poll interface and health counters on a fixed interval. SNMP works by having a central manager query an agent that exposes numeric objects (OIDs) defined in MIBs, with optional push notifications (traps) for event-driven signals. The bulk of day-to-day network monitoring (interface utilization, errors, port state, CPU, memory) comes from periodic polling of those OIDs.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/snmp-traps-vs-polling/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/snmp-traps-vs-polling/<p>SNMP polling is a pull model where a monitoring server periodically queries a device over UDP port 161 to read metrics and state. SNMP traps are a push model where the device itself sends an unsolicited notification over UDP port 162 the instant an event occurs. The two are not competing choices: mature network monitoring uses polling for continuous metrics and traps for immediate event alerts.</p> <h2 id="what-is-snmp-polling">What is SNMP polling?</h2> <p>Polling is the classic request-response model at the heart of SNMP-based monitoring. A central manager (your monitoring system) sends a GET, GETNEXT, or GETBULK request to an SNMP agent running on a router, switch, UPS, or other networked device. The agent responds with the requested values.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/catchpoint/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/catchpoint/Netdata delivers real-time infrastructure visibility with per-second metrics, ML-based anomaly detection, and AI-powered troubleshooting - the essential internal monitoring layer that external testing platforms cannot provide.https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/coroot/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/coroot/Netdata vs Coroot comparison: production-ready observability platform vs emerging Kubernetes tool. Learn why Netdata provides superior maturity, universal coverage, and operational simplicity for real-world infrastructure.https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/dash0/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/dash0/Netdata vs Dash0: Real-time edge intelligence with predictable pricing versus OpenTelemetry-native centralized monitoring. Compare features, costs, and capabilities to choose the right observability platform.https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/edgedelta/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/edgedelta/Complete edge-native observability vs telemetry pipelines. See how Netdata provides real-time monitoring, ML-powered insights, and automated dashboards without the complexity of data routing infrastructure.https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/victoriametrics/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/victoriametrics/Comprehensive comparison of Netdata vs VictoriaMetrics covering real-time monitoring, ML anomaly detection, visualization, scalability, and total cost of ownership.https://www.netdata.cloud/open-source/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/open-source/The world&rsquo;s most popular open source monitoring platform. Deploy complete infrastructure observability in 60 seconds with zero configuration. Trusted by millions of engineers worldwide.https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/prometheus-alert-manager/Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/prometheus-alert-manager/<p>It’s 3 AM, and a torrent of PagerDuty notifications floods your phone. A single network partition has triggered a cascade, making every service instance that can&rsquo;t reach the database fire its own individual alert. You&rsquo;re drowning in hundreds of notifications, all pointing to the same root cause. This is alert fatigue, a critical problem for any SRE or on-call engineer. When you&rsquo;re constantly bombarded with low-signal noise, you risk becoming desensitized, potentially overlooking the one critical alert that signals a major incident.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/apache-kafka-consumer-lags/Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/apache-kafka-consumer-lags/<p>You&rsquo;ve built a powerful, real-time data pipeline with Apache Kafka, but suddenly, things grind to a halt. The dreaded consumer lag is exploding, alerts are firing, and your downstream applications are starved for data. This scenario is all too common for teams running Kafka at scale. Often, the culprit is a subtle interplay between consumer group rebalancing, partition assignment, and suboptimal consumer configurations. Understanding these mechanics is not just about fixing a problem; it&rsquo;s about building resilient, high-throughput streaming systems from the ground up.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/elasticsearch-vs-opensearch/Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/elasticsearch-vs-opensearch/<p>If you&rsquo;re building a system for log analytics, application search, or security monitoring, you&rsquo;ve almost certainly faced a critical decision: OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch. For years, Elasticsearch was the undisputed king, but since 2021, its open-source fork, OpenSearch, has emerged as a powerful and popular alternative. What began as a dispute over licensing has evolved into two distinct projects with different philosophies, features, and performance characteristics.</p> <p>Choosing between them is no longer a simple matter. It&rsquo;s a strategic decision that impacts everything from your budget and licensing compliance to your system&rsquo;s performance and future scalability. As we move through 2025, the paths of these two search engines have diverged enough that making an informed choice is more important than ever. This guide breaks down the key differences to help you decide which platform is right for your needs.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/agentless-network-monitoring/Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/agentless-network-monitoring/<p>As your infrastructure grows, so does the complexity of monitoring it. The traditional approach often involves deploying a software &ldquo;agent&rdquo; on every server, virtual machine, and container. While effective, this can quickly become a management nightmare. You have to install, configure, update, and secure hundreds or even thousands of agents, each <a href="https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/how-to-fix-cpu-overload/">consuming precious CPU</a> and memory on the hosts you&rsquo;re trying to monitor. What if there was a less intrusive way?</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/remote-infrastructure-management/Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/remote-infrastructure-management/<p>The days of managing servers neatly racked in a single on-premise data center are over for most businesses. Today’s IT landscape is a sprawling mix of public cloud instances, private cloud infrastructure, edge devices, and SaaS applications. This distribution is powerful, but it creates a significant management challenge: How do you maintain control, ensure uptime, and secure an infrastructure that’s physically everywhere and nowhere at once?</p> <p>This is the problem that <code>Remote Infrastructure Management</code> (RIM) solves. It’s a strategic approach that moves IT operations from a hands-on, on-site model to a centralized, remote-first paradigm. For DevOps and SRE teams, understanding RIM is no longer optional; it&rsquo;s fundamental to building and maintaining resilient, scalable, and efficient systems in the modern era.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/application-monitoring-2025/Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/application-monitoring-2025/<p>In today&rsquo;s digitally driven world, application performance is not just a technical concern; it&rsquo;s a critical business imperative. Users expect applications to be fast, reliable, and seamlessly available. Any deviation can lead to frustrated users, lost revenue, and damaged reputation. This makes application monitoring a cornerstone of successful software development and operations. It&rsquo;s the continuous process of collecting, analyzing, and acting on data to ensure your applications meet performance, availability, and user experience expectations.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/event-correlation/Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/event-correlation/<p>In today&rsquo;s complex and dynamic IT environments, organizations are inundated with a massive volume of events generated by countless sources – applications, servers, network devices, security systems, and more. This flood of data, while rich in potential insights, can easily become overwhelming. The core challenge lies in sifting through this &ldquo;sea of data&rdquo; to identify events that truly matter and understand their relationships. This is precisely where event correlation becomes indispensable. It&rsquo;s the process of sensing and analyzing relationships between disparate events to uncover meaningful patterns, diagnose root causes, and enable proactive responses.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/synthetic-monitoring/Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/synthetic-monitoring/<p>In today&rsquo;s digital-first world, the performance and availability of web applications are paramount to business success. Users expect seamless, fast, and reliable interactions, and any hiccup can lead to frustration, lost revenue, and a tarnished brand reputation. This is where synthetic transaction monitoring (STM) emerges as a critical proactive strategy. Unlike monitoring that relies on actual user traffic, STM uses simulated user journeys to continuously test and validate application functionality, performance, and availability, even before real users encounter issues.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/database-performance/Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/database-performance/<p>Sluggish database performance can be a silent killer for applications, leading to frustrated users, missed opportunities, and a direct hit to your bottom line. In today&rsquo;s data-intensive environments, ensuring your database operates at peak efficiency isn&rsquo;t just a technical task- it&rsquo;s a critical business imperative. If you&rsquo;re grappling with slow queries, high resource consumption, or concerns about <code>data scalability</code>, this guide will walk you through essential <code>database optimization</code> strategies.</p> <h2 id="tldr-summary">TL;DR Summary</h2> <ul> <li>Database performance issues usually come down to a few repeat offenders: slow or poorly designed queries, CPU pressure, disk I/O bottlenecks, weak indexing, and locking or concurrency contention.</li> <li>To manage and improve performance, track core metrics like response time, throughput, scalability, and resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk I/O), then optimize iteratively rather than treating tuning as a one-time fix.</li> <li>The biggest wins typically come from query tuning (EXPLAIN/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, rewriting queries, caching) and smart indexing (right index types, best-practice column selection, and regular maintenance).</li> <li>For growth and resilience, use techniques like partitioning, sharding, connection pooling, read replicas, HA setups, and archiving via history tables, backed by continuous monitoring (for example, real-time per-second visibility and alerts) to catch issues before users feel them.</li> </ul> <h2 id="understanding-the-roots-of-database-performance-issues">Understanding The Roots Of Database Performance Issues</h2> <p>Before diving into solutions, it&rsquo;s crucial to understand what <code>database performance</code> truly means and what typically causes it to degrade. Performance refers to the speed and efficiency with which your database handles queries, transactions, and data retrieval. When performance suffers, it’s often due to one or more common culprits.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/industrial-remote-monitoring/Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/industrial-remote-monitoring/<p>Imagine needing to know the exact operating temperature of a critical pump in a remote processing plant, or wanting to predict if a crucial piece of machinery on your factory floor is about to fail – all without sending a technician on-site. This is the power of <strong>industrial remote monitoring</strong>. In today&rsquo;s competitive landscape, industries from manufacturing to energy to logistics are under constant pressure to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure safety. <strong>Remote machine monitoring</strong> provides the critical visibility and data needed to achieve these goals.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/infrastructure-monitoring-vs-application-monitoring/Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/infrastructure-monitoring-vs-application-monitoring/<p>Navigating the divide between infrastructure monitoring vs application monitoring requires a strategic approach. Infrastructure monitoring assesses system health, such as network bandwidth adequacy. <em>Is your network performing optimally?</em> On the other hand, application monitoring focuses on software performance issues. <em>What causes slow response times?</em></p> <p><em>How can your organization merge these monitoring capabilities to proactively identify and address potential issues?</em></p> <p>Let’s find out.</p> <h2 id="what-is-infrastructure-performance-monitoring-ipm">What Is Infrastructure Performance Monitoring (IPM)?</h2> <p><strong>Infrastructure Performance Monitoring</strong> (IPM) is a critical facet of IT operations. It focuses on the continuous oversight of essential system components such as hardware, cloud networks, and overall system performance. <a href="https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-infrastructure-monitoring-and-why-you-need-it/">IPM involves real-time data analysis</a> to ensure system health and efficiency, with a focus on identifying and pinpointing issues that can affect system performance and stability.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/real-time-monitoring-benefits/Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/real-time-monitoring-benefits/<p><strong>Real-time monitoring</strong> is an essential tool for any business aiming to safeguard its digital operations and boost network performance. If your goal is to maintain smooth operations and robust security, you shouldn’t overlook <strong>real-time data monitoring</strong>, as it is crucial for detecting and addressing issues instantly, keeping your systems efficient and protected.</p> <p>In this article, we will explore how real-time monitoring works and its key benefits. Understanding these elements can significantly enhance your approach to network management and operational efficiency.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-are-windows-event-logs/Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-are-windows-event-logs/<p>What could the dream of every IT professional be? Systems running flawlessly, no question about that. In reality, though, crashes, errors, and performance issues are inevitable. When problems arise, <strong>Windows event logs</strong> provide you with a detailed record of what happened, helping you diagnose and resolve issues efficiently.</p> <p><a href="https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide" target="_blank">Windows powers about 71.9% of desktops worldwide</a>, making it the most widely used operating system. Moreover, Windows servers generate a massive amount of event logs. Some can log up to <a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Windows-Event-log-volume-is-extremely-high-on-one-server-where/m-p/135541" target="_blank">500 events per second</a>. With this kind of data flow, <strong>managing and analyzing logs efficiently</strong> is crucial to keeping your systems running smoothly and securely.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-application-performance-monitoring-apm/Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-application-performance-monitoring-apm/<p>Ensuring that applications are functioning as expected is essential in the software-driven world of today. One sub-standard performance and your app can fail to win people over, ultimately drive them away or be the reason for debilitating first impressions. This is where Application Performance Monitoring (APM) comes in and helps developers, DevOps teams, and especially an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) to monitor their application running live on systems, allowing them to identify the issues faster before they impact users.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-uptime-monitoring/Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-uptime-monitoring/<h2 id="uptime-monitoring-explained">Uptime Monitoring Explained</h2> <p>Keeping an eye on how well and how often servers, apps, services, and all the parts of your system are up and running is what <a href="https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/server-uptime-monitoring-why-do-we-need-it/">uptime monitoring</a> is all about. For people in <a href="https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/sre-vs-devops-what-are-the-main-differences-between-them/">Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams</a>, making sure everything works almost all the time is super important. Keeping your services up and running means users run into less trouble and enjoy a more seamless connection without outages. This cuts down on the chance of expensive interruptions in business.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/synthetic-checks-definition-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know/Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/synthetic-checks-definition-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know/<h2 id="what-are-synthetic-checks">What Are Synthetic Checks?</h2> <p>Synthetic checks are proactive tests that simulate user interactions or network requests to monitor the availability and performance of services. Rather than waiting for an issue to be reported by a user, <a href="https://www.netdata.cloud/integrations/data-collection/synthetic-checks/">synthetic checks</a> continuously run automated checks to detect problems before they affect real users. This makes them an essential tool for DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) who aim to maintain a reliable and responsive infrastructure.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-infrastructure-monitoring-and-why-you-need-it/Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-infrastructure-monitoring-and-why-you-need-it/<h2 id="what-is-infrastructure-monitoring">What Is Infrastructure Monitoring?</h2> <p><strong>Infrastructure monitoring</strong> is the practice of continuously tracking the performance, availability, and overall health of IT systems such as servers, databases, networks, cloud services and so many more. To put it simply, it&rsquo;s about having clear visibility into how all the components of your applications and your entire infrastructure in general, are behaving. This is why we need and use the so-called monitoring / observability tools.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-continuous-profiling-why-it-is-important-for-monitoring/Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/academy/what-is-continuous-profiling-why-it-is-important-for-monitoring/<h2 id="introduction-to-profiling-a-key-tool-for-developers">Introduction to Profiling: A Key Tool for Developers</h2> <p>Profiling is like a health checkup for your software. Just as doctors use various tests to understand how your body is performing, developers use profiling to understand how their applications are running. This process helps to find out which parts of the application are working well and which parts need improvement.</p> <h2 id="what-is-profiling">What Is Profiling?</h2> <p>Profiling, in simple terms, is the process of measuring how your program uses resources like CPU time and memory. Think of it as a way to see inside your application and understand what&rsquo;s going on.</p>https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/chronosphere/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/comparisons/chronosphere/Netdata provides edge-native observability with per-second granularity, automatic ML anomaly detection, and transparent pricing—eliminating PromQL learning curves and SaaS-only limitations that challenge Chronosphere users.