Infrastructure monitoring was difficult enough when entire businesses ran off a few bare metal servers in a dusty, forgotten closet. Other IT infrastructure monitoring tools fell short, unable to provide complete and granular-enough metrics in real time, even when we...
As part of a modern software development team, you’re asked to do a lot. You’re supposed to build faster, release more frequently, crush bugs, and integrate testing suites along the way. You’re supposed to implement and practice a strong DevOps culture, read entire...
StatsD is an industry-standard technology stack for monitoring applications and instrumenting any piece of software to deliver custom metrics. The StatsD architecture is based on delivering the metrics via UDP packets from any application to a central statsD server....
Think about any sport or competitive activity, whether that’s football or a spelling bee. They always feature at least one person who acts as a moderator, referee, or judge. With their domain expertise, this person watches everyone’s behavior and constantly compares...
If you’re a veteran in this space, you probably understand the many incident response metrics and concepts, along with the many (at times exasperating) acronyms. For those new to the space, or even those with years of experience, the terminology is often...
Let’s take a look back at some of the milestones as Netdata has continued to grow through this extraordinary and challenging year.
Netdata is architected on every level, across both the open-source Netdata Agent and Netdata Cloud, to help you own every layer of your monitoring experience. With this design, all metrics data collected by the Netdata Agent stays distributed on your node, but you...
The Netdata community is now completely redesigned, with robust forums, clear contributing guidelines, bug trackers, documentation, and more.
With Netdata and StackPulse working in parallel, anyone can troubleshoot new issues with per-second metrics, then standardize remediation.
Although it happened a long time ago, I remember it like it was yesterday. That probably has to do with the particular circumstance I found myself in at the time. I had my then one-year-old daughter with me; it was semi-late in the evening on a Saturday night; and I...