Release notes on Netdata

Native macOS Monitoring: Logs, Sensors, GPU & Hardware Health

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve overhauled macOS monitoring in the latest Netdata release. Netdata already collects system metrics on Macs at per-second resolution; this release completes the picture with logs and hardware telemetry, areas that previously required users to run CLI tools like log show and powermetrics. The new collectors read this data through Apple’s own frameworks, allowing users to trace application and OS errors and catch hardware issues early.

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?”

Native Windows Agent: Real-Time Windows Monitoring

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce a significant advancement in system monitoring: the launch of Netdata’s first-ever Native Windows Agent. This release represents a major step forward in our mission to provide comprehensive and efficient monitoring solutions across all platforms. With the introduction of the native Windows agent, we are extending our robust monitoring capabilities to Windows environments, enabling seamless and unified monitoring across diverse infrastructures. This development is a direct response to the needs of our user community, who have expressed a strong demand for a powerful and intuitive Windows monitoring solution.

Discover The New Netdata!

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Missed the last Netdata updates? Here is what is new:

Explore your systemd-journal logs with Netdata

Netdata got a systemd-journal logs explorer to analyze your systemd-journal logs, directly on their sources. By just installing Netdata on any systemd based system, Netdata automatically finds all the journal sources and presents a powerful dashboard to explore, search, filter and analyze your logs. It works on both individual servers and journal centralization servers.

Release 1.41: Brand-New UI For Agents & Parents

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata Agents and Parents now have a new UI!

Checkout the release meetup video or read on to learn more about the new UI and other features in this release.

Netdata Growth
Release Highlights
Acknowledgements
Contributions
Collectors
Documentation
Packaging/Installation
Health
Exporting
Other Notable Changes
Deprecation notice
- Deprecated in this release
Netdata Release Meetup
Support options

Steady to our schedule, this is another great Netdata release!

Release 1.40: Summary Tiles, Silencing & ML Tweaks

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Another release of the Netdata Monitoring solution is here!

Netdata Growth
Release Highlights
- Dashboard Sections’ Summary Tiles
  Added summary tiles to most sections of the fully-automated dashboards, to provide an instant view of the most important metrics for each section.
- Silencing of Cloud Alert Notifications
  Maintenance window coming up? Active issue being checked? Use the Alert notification silencing engine to mute your notifications.
- Machine Learning - Extended Training to 24 Hours
  Netdata now trains multiple models per metric, to learn the behavior of each metric for the last 24 hours. Trained models are persisted on disk and are loaded back on Netdata restart.
- Rewritten SSL Support for the Agent
  Netdata Agent now features a new SSL layer that allows it to reliably use SSL on all its features, including the API and Streaming.
Alerts and Notifications
Visualizations / Charts and Dashboards
Preliminary steps to split native packages
Acknowledgements
Contributions
Deprecation notice
Cloud recommended version
Release meetup
Support options
Running survey

Netdata Growth

🚀 Our community growth is increasing steadily. ❤️ Thank you! Your love and acceptance give us the energy and passion to work harder to simplify and make monitoring easier, more effective and more fun to use.

Release 1.39.0: A new era for monitoring charts.

Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Another release of the Netdata Monitoring solution is here!

Netdata open-source growth
Release highlights
- Netdata Charts v3.0 A new era for monitoring charts. Powerful, fast, easy to use. Instantly understand the dataset behind any chart. Slice, dice, filter and pivot the data in any way possible!
- Windows support Windows hosts are now first-class citizens. You can now enjoy out-of-the-box monitoring of over 200 metrics from your Windows systems and the services that run on them.
- Virtual nodes and custom labels You now have access to more monitoring superpowers for managing medium to large infrastructures. With custom labels and virtual hosts, you can easily organize your infrastructure and ensure that troubleshooting is more efficient.
- Major upcoming changes Separate packages for data collection plugins, mandatory zlib, no upgrades of existing installs from versions prior to v1.11.
- Bar charts for functions
- Opsgenie notifications for Business Plan users Business plan users can now seamlessly integrate Netdata with their Atlassian Opsgenie alerting and on call management system.
Data Collection
Alerts and Notifications
- Notifications
- Enhanced Real-Time Alert Synchronization on Netdata Cloud
Visualizations / Charts and Dashboards
- Events Feed
Machine Learning
Installation and Packaging
- Improved Linux compatibility
Administration
- New way to retrieve netdata.conf
Documentation and Demos
Deprecation notice
- Deprecated in this release
Netdata Agent Release Meetup
Support options
Running survey
Acknowledgements

Netdata open-source growth

Over 62,000 GitHub Stars
Over 1.5 million online nodes
Almost 92 million sessions served
Over 600 thousand total nodes in Netdata Cloud

Release highlights

Netdata Charts v3.0

We are excited to announce Netdata Charts v3.0 and the NIDL framework. These are currently available at Netdata Cloud. At the next Netdata release, the agent dashboard will be replaced to also use the same charts.

Windows Server Monitoring Improvements

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Monitor your Windows server and applications running on it with Netdata - simple, powerful and free.

Hey Netdata community,

We have some exciting news for you: we’re launching our new and updated Windows collectors with the goal of making the Windows monitoring experience as seamless as possible 🎉

We know that Windows monitoring has been a long time ask from many of you, and we’ve been working hard to make it easier than ever to monitor your Windows metrics with Netdata.

Release 1.38: Dramatic Performance & Stability Gains

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Another release of the Netdata Monitoring solution is here!

Release Highlights
- DBENGINE v2 The new open-source database engine for Netdata Agents, offering huge performance, scalability and stability improvements, with a fraction of memory footprint!
- FUNCTION: Processes Netdata beyond metrics! We added the ability for runtime functions, that can be implemented by any data collection plugin, to offer unlimited visibility to anything, even not-metrics, that can be valuable while troubleshooting.

Release 1.37.1: Patch Release For Security Issues

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata v1.37.1 is a patch release to address issues discovered since v1.37.0. Refer to the v.1.37.0 release notes for the full scope of that release.

Release v1.37.1

Netdata v1.37.1 is a patch release to address issues discovered since v1.37.0. Refer to the v.1.37.0 release notes for the full scope of that release.

The v1.37.1 patch release fixes the following issues:

Parent agent crash when many children instances (re)connect at the same time, causing simultaneous SSL re-initialization (PR #14076).
Agent crash during dbengine database file rotation while a page is being read while being deleted (PR #14081).
Agent crash on metrics page alignment when metrics were stopped being collected for a long time and then started again (PR #14086).
Broken Fedora native packages (PR #14082).
Fix dbengine backfilling statistics (PR #14074).

In addition, the release contains the following optimizations and improvements:

Release 1.37: Infinite Scalability & Database Tiering

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Another release of the Netdata Monitoring solution is here!

We focused on these key areas:

Infinite scalability of the Netdata Ecosystem

Default Database Tiering, offering months of data retention for typical Netdata Agent installations with default settings and years of data retention for dedicated Netdata Parents.

Overview Dashboards at Netdata Cloud got a ton of improvements to allow slicing and dicing of data directly on the UI and overcome the limitations of the web technology when thousands of charts are presented on one page.

Netdata v1.31.0

Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Give a warm welcome to Netdata v1.31.0, which features:

Re-packaged and redesigned dashboard: A more informational and feature-rich “frame” for your monitoring and troubleshooting sessions.
eBPF expands into the directory cache: Monitor whether your services or applications are properly using Linux’s memory management for the best performance and minimal disk I/O.
Machine learning-powered collectors: Detect anomalies using only your own data and minimal resource utilization on your monitored nodes.
An improved Netdata learning experience: A timeline of new content, refreshed visuals, and a newly-open sourced repository.

Re-packaged and redesigned dashboard

We re-packaged and redesigned portions of the dashboard to improve the overall experience. Part of this effort is better handling of dashboard code during installation—anyone using third-party packages (such as the Netdata Homebrew formula) will start seeing new features and the new designs starting today.

For those who aren’t using third-party packages (thank you!), your installation process will still get a little bit faster.

Netdata 1.30.0

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

We’re excited to introduce Netdata 1.30.0, which features:

ACLK-NG: A new custom library for streaming metrics data on demand, written entirely in-house, that’s 4x faster than libmosquitto/libwebsockets.
Opt-in product telemetry with PostHog: Goodbye, Google Analytics. Hello, self-hosted instance of PostHog.
Deeper Linux kernel monitoring with eBPF: Expanding our reach into the Linux kernel with page cache and synchronization syscall monitoring.
Smarter preconfigured alarms: Better (and less noisy) defaults, better information.
Developer environment: Contribute to Netdata via a Docker image and VSCode integration.
Documentation improvements & tutorials: Better standards for editing files and restarting Netdata, plus brand-new tutorials.

ACLK-NG

The ACLK-NG is a new, faster method of securely connecting a node running Netdata to Netdata Cloud. In our internal testing, it’s 4x faster than our previous implementation, which uses libmosquitto and libwebsockets.

ACLK-NG		ACLK Legacy
	time (s)	MB/s	time (s)	MB/s
Run 1	1.30	76.92	5.30	18.87
Run 2	1.31	76.34	5.29	18.90
Run 3	1.38	72.46	5.27	18.98
Run 4	1.27	78.74	5.40	18.52
Run 5	1.24	80.65	5.46	18.32
	1.30	77.02	5.34	18.72

With ACLK-NG enabled, you’ll get a snappier experience in Netdata Cloud, as there will be far less latency between requests for metrics and the subsequent response from individual nodes.

To enable ACLK-NG right now, update your nodes with the –aclk-ng option:

Netdata Agent v1.25 & Cloud Enhancements

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The v1.25.0 release of the Netdata Agent delivers on our commitment to make our metrics collection, visualization, and troubleshooting platform more stable and usable. We enhanced our recently-added Prometheus collector with user-configurable filtering and grouping, made dramatic improvements to the reliability of the Agent-Cloud link that streams metrics on-demand to your browser when you use Netdata Cloud, and more.

Let’s jump in and look at each improvement.

Release 1.24: Prometheus Collector & Multi-Host DB

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The v1.24.0 release of the Netdata Agent brings enhancements to the breadth of metrics we collect with a new Prometheus/OpenMetrics collector and enhanced storage and querying with a new multi-host database mode. Let’s take a look at each of these enhancements.

Instantly access thousands of metrics with the new Prometheus/OpenMetrics collector

This release broadens our commitment to open standards, interoperability, and extensibility with a new generic Prometheus collector that works seamlessly with any application that makes its metrics available in the Prometheus/OpenMetrics exposition format, including support for Windows 10 via windows_exporter. Netdata will autodetect over 600 Prometheus endpoints and instantly generate charts with all the exposed metrics, meaningfully visualized.

You can also quickly and easily configure the collector with the names and URLs of additional Prometheus endpoints to instantly view automatically generated charts with all the exposed metrics, meaningfully visualized within Netdata at the same high-granularity, per-second frequency you expect, all in real time. To learn more about how to configure, check out our documentation.

Release 1.23: Kubernetes & eBPF Observability

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

As adoption of container infrastructure grows in popularity, we’re continuing to focus on the most effective ways users can quickly and easily deploy container monitoring to instantly get access to deep, real-time insights. Agent release 1.23 introduces service discovery for Kubernetes clusters, monitoring for individual nodes, and eBPF monitoring per application on an event frequency for quickly identifying the root cause. Quickly shed light on your infrastructure performance with these new features!

Release 1.21: New Collectors & Faster Exporters

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We’re in the middle of a scary, uncertain time, and we hope those of you reading are staying safe and healthy.

Despite the current challenges, the 40+ members of the remote-first Netdata team have been hard at work on the next version of the Netdata Agent: v1.21.0.

This release is foundational: While we do have fantastic new collectors and three new ways to export your metrics for long-term storage, many of the most significant changes aren’t even those you’ll notice. While they may be beneath the hood, they’re going to power some amazing new features, UX improvements, and design overhauls.

Release 1.20: Kernel Monitoring & Infra-Wide Labels

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In Netdata’s first major release of 2020, we’re introducing two new features on the opposite ends of the monitoring spectrum.

On one hand, we’re releasing an eBPF collector, which lets you collect, monitor, and visualize incredibly precise metrics straight from the Linux kernel. On the other, we added the ability to label agents to help you organize entire infrastructures and see every important piece of information about streaming nodes in one place.

Release 1.19: Web Log Parsing & Unit Testing

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Network monitoring is complex, which is why we’re developing a monitoring tool that will drastically increase DevOps productivity. This release is all about improving Netdata’s day-in, day-out performance. We’re working hard to make deploy enhancements that help engineers make faster, smarter decisions about their systems.

v1.19 of Netdata delivers a vastly improved way to collect, parse, and understand the health and performance of any service or application that runs through an Apache or Nginx web server.

Release 1.18: What’s new with the database engine?

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

As your infrastructure grows more complex, storing long-term metrics becomes difficult and costly to retain. Your team stars to limit the amount of historical data they archive, causing gaps in coverage. Anomalies start to slip through the cracks.

Version 1.18 of Netdata aims to solve the monitoring metrics storage problem once and for all.

Aside from 5 new collectors, 16 bug fixes, 27 improvements, and 20 documentation updates, here’s what you need to know.

Release 1.17: Collection frequency gets flexible

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The next version of Netdata has arrived! Aside from dozens of quality-of-life and papercut fixes, we’ve launched some new features we know you’ll be excited to use straight away.

Let’s dive in.

What’s new?

Release v1.17.0 contains 38 bug fixes, 33 improvements, and 20 documentation updates.

You can, of course, view the full list at the v1.17.0 release notes on GitHub. But, let’s talk details on a few of the improvements and changes most requested by the Netdata community.

Release 1.16.0: Smarter binaries and built-in TLS

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

We’re excited to launch release v1.16.0 of the open-source Netdata monitoring agent, which delivers real-time health monitoring and performance troubleshooting to nearly any system or application.

This release also contains 40 bug fixes, 31 improvements, and 20 documentation updates—if you’d like to see the full list, check out the full release notes.

Details aside, I know people are going to be most curious about the big changes we’ve just delivered to Netdata—let’s dive in.