https://www.netdata.cloud/tags/netdata-parents/Recent content in Netdata-Parents on NetdataHugoen-usThu, 20 Aug 2026 18:50:41 +0300https://www.netdata.cloud/product/netdata-parents/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/product/netdata-parents/Streaming aggregators that centralize data from thousands of nodes while keeping intelligence distributed at the edge. Handle million metrics per second with minimal resources, active-active clustering for high availability, and ML-powered insights without centralized bottlenecks.https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/netdata-parents-streaming-replication/Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/netdata-parents-streaming-replication/<h2 id="what-are-they-and-why-do-we-need-them">What are they and why do we need them?</h2> <p>A “Parent” is a Netdata Agent, like the ones we install on all our systems, but is configured as a central node that receives, stores and processes metrics data from other Netdata “Child” nodes in our infrastructure.</p> <p>Netdata Parents are flexible. You can have one big active-active cluster of Netdata Parents, or you can spread a lot of independent Parents across the infrastructure.</p>