Infrastructure on Netdata

Fleet Observability: Linux Edge Device Monitoring

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It feels less like managing devices and more like remote babysitting. You check the dashboard, everything is green, and then a customer in the field tells you a device has been down for two days. At a handful of servers, the rare failure is an event. Across thousands of distributed Linux endpoints — robots in warehouses, EV chargers across a city, kiosks in retail, IoT gateways in the field — the rare failure becomes a daily occurrence, and the tools built for a datacenter quietly stop telling you the truth.

High Cardinality Metrics At Scale: A Better Playbook

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The “high cardinality is expensive” sentence has become observability’s version of “in this economy”: said so often that nobody questions whether it’s true. Every vendor pricing page invokes it. Every glossary article repeats it. Every architecture diagram shows aggregation buffers placed before the storage layer.

“High cardinality is expensive” is not a fact about the universe; it’s a fact about one architectural choice: centralizing time-series storage and querying it through an index that scales with unique series. Once you accept that choice, everything follows. You pay per metric, you drop labels you wish you’d kept, you pre-aggregate before storage, and you discover that the bug you were debugging only existed at the full resolution you already threw away.

Azure Local Migration: Monitor Both Sides In One View

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

More organizations are moving workloads from Azure public cloud to Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) than most people realize. The reasons vary: data sovereignty requirements, latency-sensitive workloads that need to be closer to the edge, cost optimization for predictable workloads where reserved cloud capacity doesn’t make financial sense, or regulatory constraints that require data to stay on-premises.

Geo Maps: See Where Your Infrastructure Lives

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When your infrastructure is spread across regions, data centers, branch offices, or edge locations, knowing where a node is physically located matters more than people usually admit. During an incident, “the node in the Singapore POP” communicates faster than a hostname. When you’re planning capacity, seeing geographic clustering tells you something that a flat list of nodes doesn’t. When a subset of your fleet starts misbehaving, the first question is often “is this regional?”

Azure Monitor Collector: Monitor Azure Infrastructure

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re running infrastructure on Azure, you’ve probably dealt with the split between your Azure-native monitoring and the rest of your stack. Your VMs, databases, and Kubernetes clusters generate platform metrics through Azure Monitor, but those metrics live in a separate world from the OS-level, application, and on-prem metrics you’re already watching in Netdata. You end up checking two (or more) places during incidents, building mental bridges between dashboards that don’t talk to each other.

TV Mode: Put Your Dashboards on the Big Screen

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most common requests we’ve gotten since launching custom dashboards is deceptively simple: “How do I put this on a TV?” Teams want their dashboards on wall-mounted screens in NOCs, war rooms, and open office spaces. The dashboard is already built. The data is already there. They just need a way to display it on a screen that nobody is logged into, without exposing the full Netdata Cloud interface.

New Custom Dashboards: Metrics, Logs & Live Commands

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Custom dashboards in Netdata have always let you pull charts together on-the-fly into a single view. That’s useful, but it’s also limited. In practice, when you’re running an incident or reviewing a service, you don’t just want charts. You want to see the output of top alongside your CPU metrics. You want slow query logs next to your database latency charts. You want an infrastructure summary card that tells you how many nodes in a room are healthy without having to click through to find out.

Node Groups: Organize Infrastructure Into Views

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When you’re managing a handful of nodes, the flat list in the nodes tab works fine. When you’re managing hundreds or thousands, it becomes a wall of hostnames. You end up applying the same filters repeatedly: all the production database servers, all the nodes in eu-west, all the Kubernetes workers in the staging cluster. The filters work, but they don’t persist, and there’s no way to share them with the rest of your team.

Howard Conference & Expo 2026: Smarter Observability

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Netdata team will be at the Howard Conference and Expo “Game On” event, February 24-26, 2026 at the Grand Hotel Marriott Resort in Fairhope, Alabama. We’re looking forward to meeting IT leaders and practitioners to talk about real-time observability—what it actually looks like in practice, and where traditional monitoring falls short.

What We’ll Be Showing

Stop by our booth to see Netdata in action and chat with our team about what you’re dealing with in your own environment.

Data Center Monitoring Software With Real-Time Metrics