Architecture on Netdata

Eliminate Log Pipelines: Native Log Query At Scale

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

Netdata’s Zero Pipeline Logs architecture eliminates traditional log aggregation pipelines by leveraging native system formats. Query logs directly where they live - no shipping, parsing, or indexing required - achieving 90% cost reduction and sub-2-second latency at any scale.

Monitor Everything is an Anti-Pattern!

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Bullshit and nonsense.

But let’s take it from the beginning.

The industry’s story goes something like this:

“Monitor everything is universally recognized as an anti-pattern.”
“You’ll drown in metrics, burn out your engineers, and blow your budget.”
“Just focus on 3–10 signals — the Four Golden Signals, RED, USE — and ignore everything else.”
“Trust us, you don’t want that much telemetry.”

(true, read the whole story here)

Then, in the same breath:

Decentralized Monitoring Explained

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction to Distributed Observability

Users often find themselves puzzled by the concepts of decentralized or distributed monitoring. This confusion is likely due to many monitoring systems claiming distributed capabilities, making it challenging to discern how Netdata stands out.

To grasp the distinction, we must delve into the evolution of monitoring systems.

When the first monitoring systems were created, about 20-25 years ago, they were built as SNMP collectors. The monitoring application was installed on a server, configured to discover network devices via SNMP, pulling data once every minute, per device. Simultaneously, the monitoring system was exposing a daemon to collect SNMP traps (key events generated by the network devices, pushed to the monitoring system).

Netdata Cloud’s New Architecture

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In version v1.32 of Netdata, we announced a remarkable new update that we are extremely proud of; Netdata Cloud now runs on the most reliable and stable backend that we’ve ever built.

Migration to the new Netdata Cloud architecture

To give you the best experience of Netdata Cloud, we started migrating nodes running on the old architecture to the new one. Most users don’t have to take any action on their part. If you need to take action, you will see the pop-up window above in Netdata Cloud.