Alerts on Netdata

SNMP Trap Monitoring

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Native SNMP trap receiver with MIB-resolved decoding, storm controls, health alerts, and SIEM forwarding — built into Netdata.

Misconfigured Alert Detection: Tuning Made Easy

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata ships with hundreds of stock alerts. They cover a wide range of infrastructure conditions and they’re designed with sensible defaults. But “sensible defaults” and “correct for your environment” are not the same thing. A CPU threshold that’s perfectly reasonable for a build server might generate constant noise on a machine running batch jobs. An alert that’s critical for production might be irrelevant in staging, where it fires daily and everyone ignores it.

Smarter Alerts: Test, Review & Preview Schedules

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Alert fatigue usually isn’t caused by one thing. It’s the accumulation of thresholds that are slightly too sensitive, alerts that fire during known maintenance windows, and historical patterns that nobody has the tools to review easily. Fixing it requires better visibility into how alerts actually behave over time, and a way to test changes before they hit production.

We’ve shipped three improvements to alerting in Netdata that address different parts of this problem: the ability to evaluate alert definitions against historical data before deploying them, a timeline view of alert transitions, and a schedule preview for recurring silencing rules.

Alert Acknowledgement: Mark It as Seen, Keep Working

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you’ve ever opened the alerts tab during a busy period, you know the problem. There are alerts you’ve already looked at, alerts someone on your team is handling, and alerts that fired on a known issue that’s being worked on. They all sit together in the same list alongside the new ones you haven’t seen yet. There’s no way to say “I’ve seen this, move on” without silencing or disabling the alert entirely, which is a much heavier action than the situation calls for.

Conversations: Ask Netdata About Anything You're Looking At

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata AI can already troubleshoot your alerts and generate Insights reports. What it couldn’t do, until now, was have a back-and-forth conversation. You could get a one-shot analysis, but you couldn’t ask follow-up questions, pull in additional context, or go from a quick question to a full investigation without starting over.

We’ve added a conversational layer to Netdata AI. You’ll notice a new blue chat icon throughout Netdata Cloud, on charts, in the alerts table, on Insights reports, and in the reports list. Click it, and you’re in a conversation where the thing you clicked on is already the context. No copy-pasting metric names, no explaining what you’re looking at.

Multi-Tenant Observability Access Without Data Egress

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Edge-intelligent alerting that delivers component-level precision through 400+ pre-configured templates, zero-configuration deployment, and sub-2-second evaluation latency - all while maintaining visibility during network partitions.

ServiceNow Integration: Streamline Incident Response

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

When a critical alert fires at 2 AM, the last thing your on-call engineer should be doing is manual administrative work. Yet, for many teams, that’s exactly what happens. You see the alert in your monitoring tool, then you have to switch contexts, open a new browser tab, log into your ITSM platform, and manually create an incident—all while your systems are failing.

This “swivel-chairing” between tools is slow, error-prone, and a significant drag on your Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).

Getting Started With Netdata: Real-Time Monitoring

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Now you can start monitoring thousands of metrics in real-time, detecting anomalies throughout your infra, and troubleshooting issues even mid-crisis! Watch this 1-minute video for a quick intro! Get ready to be blown away!

To fully utilize Netdata for monitoring your infrastructure, do these:

① Deploy Netdata

Install Netdata to your systems.

Netdata runs on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and MacOS and can be installed on bare-metal servers, cloud VMs, Kubernetes, even weak IoT devices. We have carefully optimized it to be the fastest and most advanced monitoring you will ever need, and at the same time be extremely friendly, polite and respectful to your production systems and applications.

Introducing Netdata's Dynamic Configuration Manager

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to unveil the latest addition to the Netdata platform: the Dynamic Configuration Manager. This powerful new feature revolutionizes how you manage your monitoring and alerting configurations, making it easier and more efficient than ever before.

Key Features of the Dynamic Configuration Manager

Create and Modify Alerts from Every Chart
- You can now create and modify alerts directly from any chart on your dashboard or from the dedicated Alerts tab. This streamlined process allows for quick adjustments and ensures your monitoring is always aligned with your current needs.
Configure Collectors from the Integrations Section on the Dashboard
- Currently available for go.d collectors, this feature lets you configure collectors straight from the Integrations section. This means you can quickly identify what Netdata can monitor and set up your configurations in one go, without having to dig through multiple settings pages.
Submit Configurations to Multiple Nodes with One Click
- Managing configurations across a large infrastructure can be time-consuming. With the Dynamic Configuration Manager, you can now submit configurations to multiple nodes simultaneously, saving you valuable time and effort.
Construct and Copy Configurations for IaC Solutions
- For those using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, this feature allows you to construct and copy configurations easily, integrating them into your IaC workflows. This ensures your configurations are consistent and reproducible across different environments.

How to Use the Dynamic Configuration Manager

To help you get started with the Dynamic Configuration Manager, we’ve put together a quick guide using the Netdata demo environment.

Netdata Best Practices

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Effective system monitoring is non-negotiable in today’s complex IT environments. Netdata offers real-time performance and health monitoring with precision and granularity. But the key to harnessing its full potential lies in the optimization of your setup. Let’s ensure you are not just collecting data, but doing it in the most optimal way while gaining actionable insights from it.

The starting point for optimization is a robust setup. Netdata is engineered for minimal footprint and can run on a wide range of hardware—from IoT devices to powerful servers. Time for a deep dive into each of these key areas and what the best practices you should follow, if you are serious about monitoring and optimizing your Netdata monitoring setup:

Netdata Assistant: Your AI-Powered Troubleshooting Sidekick

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hey there! We’re excited to share a new troubleshooting feature we have added to Netdata, the Netdata Assistant. We’ve built this tool to help you troubleshoot more effectively and with less stress. Let’s dive in.

What’s the Netdata Assistant?

The Netdata Assistant is an AI tool that uses large language models and our community’s knowledge to guide you during troubleshooting.

Here’s a scenario. It’s 3 am and you get an alert. Instead of scrambling to Google what’s going on, you can just click on the assistant button. The Netdata Assistant will give you the lowdown on the alert, why it’s happening, and why you should care. It’ll also guide you on how to troubleshoot it and even offer some handy web links for more info, if you’re interested.

How To Mute Alerts During Maintenance Windows

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The health management APIs in Netdata allows teams to eliminate unnecessary alerting during scheduled maintenance, testing, auto scaling events, and instance reboots.

For all SREs, it is absolutely crucial to filter out expected events during maintenance windows and quickly pinpoint critical issues in your infrastructure. Every minute is crucial while dealing with troubleshooting issues and any distractions that may hijack the troubleshooting process should be subdued. The health management APIs in Netdata allows teams to eliminate unnecessary alerting during scheduled maintenance, testing, auto scaling events, and instance reboots.

Troubleshooting Alerts the Right Way: As a Team

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

At Netdata, we love two things more than anything else:

Troubleshooting and,
Making things easier for you!

Our goal is to make troubleshooting and monitoring as seamless as possible with the open-source Agent. This includes giving you pre-configured alerts so that you get notified immediately when a disruption occurs.

The Netdata Agent comes with over 250 pre-configured and optimized alerts. But we want you to be the master of your infrastructure monitoring by:

Centralize Infrastructure With Alarm Notifications

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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 also leverage Netdata Cloud’s dashboards and multi-node visualizations to view the health and performance of an entire infrastructure from a single application.