Monitoring the current state and performance of applications is critical for IT Ops and DevOps teams alike. Understanding the health of an application is one of the most effective ways of anticipating potential bottlenecks or slowdowns, yet it’s one of the largest...
Four key metrics for responding to IT incidents and failures
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...
What is DevOps?
In software development, it’s important to have a team dedicated to ensuring all systems and applications maintain maximum performance and uptime. Establishing processes that limit system and application slowdowns and outages while expediting the product release...
The reality of Netdata’s long-term metrics storage database
The perception that Netdata is only capable of short-term metrics storage is a myth. It's a pervasive myth we still see in blog posts and through community engagement, despite it being false for more than a year. However, like all myths, this one on metrics storage...
How to monitor Windows systems with Netdata
Whether you’re a site reliability engineer (SRE), DevOps engineer, or any other role that plays a part in maintaining uptime for your company’s infrastructure, it’s critical to have visibility into all of your systems, regardless of their operating system. This...
Software Extensibility Is Key To Adoption
As with most commercial products, software today is mass produced for reasons of simple economics. But making the same software work for as many people as possible while also meeting the unique requirements different people and organizations have is a challenging...
Introducing our first Netdata Cloud Insights feature: Metric Correlations for faster root cause analysis
Today, we are excited to launch our first Netdata Cloud Insights feature, Metric Correlations, developed for discovering underlying issues more quickly and identifying the root cause more efficiently. Read on to learn more about our approach to developing this new...
The Netdata Community Powered by NodeBB
We recently adopted NodeBB as our software of choice for building the Netdata Community. We have many good reasons for why we wanted to provide our community with a proper home online, but I wanted to cover some of the technical reasons for choosing NodeBB for our...
Why Netdata picked VerneMQ
In 2019, the Netdata team already knew that a Netdata Cloud solution in the form of an online platform would greatly complement Netdata's distributed monitoring by making it much easier to organize large infrastructures and by enabling new ways for teams to...
What is Infrastructure Monitoring?
IT is advancing blazingly fast. To keep up with architectural changes and hybrid environments, it’s more important than ever to maintain efficient infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting. Adding to the complexity is the increase of distributed systems, comprised...