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What Is Edge Monitoring? Edge Observability Explained

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Edge monitoring means running the full observability pipeline - collection, storage, anomaly detection, alerting, and dashboards - on or near the monitored device itself, instead of shipping all raw telemetry to a central system first. Each node in the fleet collects and processes its own metrics locally, and only forwards what is needed upstream. This model is essential for distributed fleets of thousands of devices where centralizing all telemetry is economically and technically impractical.

Dashboard Playlists: Cycle Through Dashboards in TV Mode

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When we shipped TV mode, we heard almost immediately: “Great, but I have five dashboards and one screen.” A single dashboard on a wall display covers one view of your infrastructure. If you want to rotate between your network overview, database health, application metrics, and infrastructure summary, someone has to walk over and click, or you’re buying more screens.

Dashboard playlists solve this. You can now select a sequence of dashboards to cycle through in TV mode, with a configurable rotation interval. Set it up once, open the TV mode URL on your display, and the screen rotates through your chosen dashboards on its own.

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?”

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.

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.

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.

Expanded Chart View: Investigate Without Leaving the Chart

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Charts in Netdata have always been interactive. You can zoom, pan, select time ranges, and see per-second granularity across thousands of metrics. But when you spotted something interesting, the next steps usually meant leaving the chart: opening another tab to check a related metric, navigating to the correlation tool, or pulling up a different time range for comparison. The investigation workflow lived outside the chart, even though the chart was where the investigation started.

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.

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.

Introducing the Netdata Cloud MCP Server

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Netdata Cloud MCP Server is now available — giving AI agents and assistants direct access to your Netdata through a single endpoint at app.netdata.cloud/api/v1/mcp.

AI Is Changing How We Monitor Infrastructure

If you’re an engineer in 2026, chances are AI is already part of your daily workflow, whether that’s a general-purpose assistant like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini that you bounce questions off, or a coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Windsurf that writes and debugs code alongside you. These tools are incredibly powerful, but until now, they’ve been blind to what’s actually happening on your infrastructure.

Introducing Real-Time Conversations with Netdata AI

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Over the past few months, we’ve seen incredible adoption of our AI Investigations and Insights reports. Teams are using them to automate the deep, thoughtful analysis required for complex post-mortems, capacity planning, and performance optimization. These comprehensive reports are fantastic when you need a well-researched, shareable document.

But what about the moments during an investigation? What about the rapid-fire “what if” questions and the quick exploration of hypotheses that happen in the heat of the moment? For that, you need speed and interactivity. You need a partner you can have a real-time dialogue with.

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