Server Monitoring on Netdata

10 Best Linux Server Monitoring Tools (2027 Comparison)

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

SolarWinds SAM Alternative: Server & App Monitoring

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata Complete Tutorial by LearnLinux.tv

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LearnLinux.tv’s Jay LaCroix built a complete video course on Netdata. Eight episodes taking you from first install to production best practices.

Hetzner Monitoring With Real-Time Observability

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

Complete monitoring solution for Hetzner infrastructure with 1-second granularity, automated hardware health tracking, and AI-powered troubleshooting. Eliminates native monitoring gaps while reducing costs by 90%.

Infrastructure Monitoring Software With AI & ML

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

Transform infrastructure monitoring with Netdata’s edge-native platform. Get per-second visibility, ML anomaly detection on every metric, and AI-powered troubleshooting - all while keeping your data sovereign and reducing costs by 90%.

Linux Monitoring Software With Per-Second Metrics

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

Netdata delivers complete Linux monitoring with per-second granularity, edge-based ML anomaly detection, and zero-pipeline logs - all with zero configuration and predictable per-node pricing.

Windows Server Monitoring Software At Scale

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

Transform Windows Server monitoring with Netdata’s edge-native platform. Get per-second visibility, automatic discovery, and AI-powered troubleshooting at a fraction of traditional costs.

Server Security - What It Is & Why It Is So Important

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Servers are the workhorses of the modern digital world. They store critical data, run essential applications, host websites, and power the services we rely on every day. But with great power comes great responsibility – specifically, the responsibility of server security. An unsecured server is like leaving your front door wide open, inviting potential threats that can lead to data breaches, service disruptions, and significant financial or reputational damage.

For developers, DevOps engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), understanding and implementing robust server protection is not just an IT task; it’s fundamental to building reliable, trustworthy, and resilient systems. Whether you’re managing a single web server or a complex distributed infrastructure, knowing how to secure a server is paramount. This guide will walk you through what server security entails, why it’s critically important, and the essential server security best practices you need to implement.

What Is Web Server Capacity Planning & How Does It Work?

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine launching a major marketing campaign or experiencing peak holiday traffic, only to have your website slow to a crawl or crash entirely. Users encounter frustrating error messages, abandon their carts, and your business suffers. This scenario often happens when web servers are at capacity, unable to handle the incoming load. The solution? Proactive web server capacity planning.

For DevOps engineers, SREs, and system administrators, capacity planning isn’t just a “nice-to-have”; it’s a fundamental practice for ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of web services. It’s about understanding your current server capacity, anticipating future needs, and ensuring you have the right resources in place before demand overwhelms your infrastructure. This guide explores what web server capacity planning involves, why it’s critical, and the process for implementing it effectively.

Best Of Category Badges Earned In 2024: G2 & Capterra

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata Featured with Multiple “Best Of” Category Badges in 2024

As we are close to the end of this year, we are thrilled to announce that Netdata has been recognized with multiple “Best of” badges from Gartner Digital Markets brands: Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp, leading software recommendation search engines.

This “Best of” badges program is an independent assessment that evaluates user reviews to help buyers identify the highest-rated software companies in specific categories that offer the most popular solutions.

Real-Time Windows Server Monitoring Best Practices

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

If you are looking to monitor your Windows Server Machines, this webinar will guide you through the latest strategies for real-time observability, system and infrastructure optimization. Featuring a hands-on live demo and insights from industry experts, this session will be full of actionable techniques to help you gain deeper visibility into your Windows infrastructure, troubleshoot faster, and improve performance with ease.

Infrastructure Monitoring: Key Benefits, Types & Use Cases

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What Is Infrastructure Monitoring?

Infrastructure monitoring is the practice of continuously tracking the performance, availability, and overall health of IT systems such as servers, databases, networks, cloud services and so many more. To put it simply, it’s about having clear visibility into how all the components of your applications and your entire infrastructure in general, are behaving. This is why we need and use the so-called monitoring / observability tools.

Transforming Server Monitoring across Diverse Hosts

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Mastering Monitoring Complexity

URIOS, operating in the financial services sector, faced a significant challenge in monitoring its diverse Linux server environments. Spread across various infrastructures and hosts, the complexity of managing these servers was growing. The organization required a solution that could centralize and unify its monitoring efforts, offering precise and numerous indicators to stay ahead of potential issues.

The multitude of infrastructures and hosting providers made it difficult for them to maintain a consistent monitoring approach. They soon realized that they needed a tool that could bring everything together in a cohesive manner.

ACPro Case Study: Effortless Manufacturing Monitoring

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Unifying Monitoring Across Diverse Environments

ACPro faced the challenge of overseeing a wide array of in-house applications scattered across numerous servers, all without a monitoring solution in place. This lack of visibility made it difficult to maintain the high uptime and availability standards that are critical in the manufacturing industry. The search for a monitoring tool that was both comprehensive and user-friendly led ACPro to Netdata, which stood out for its intuitive interface and extensive, yet easily digestible, metrics.

Codyas: Global Server Management with Netdata

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Overcoming Server Management Hurdles

Codyas faces the intricate challenge of managing a vast array of servers, equipped with different technologies for various clients around the globe. The primary obstacle has been the allocation of limited time and personnel towards monitoring tasks, which detracted from the organization’s core focus on development and customer service.

“Netdata’s ease of installation and configuration has been a game-changer for us, allowing quick setup and efficient monitoring across our diverse server landscape,”

Transforming Container and Server Health Insights

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Revolutionizing Infrastructure Monitoring

Nodecraft faced significant challenges in monitoring its ever-expanding fleet of dedicated servers and containers. The complexity of tracking system health and hardware performance became a bottleneck, impacting its ability to deliver the seamless gaming experiences Nodecraft is known for. With a small development team, the creation and maintenance of a custom solution were out of the question. Nodecraft’s journey towards finding a solution led it to Netdata, which has been transformative.

Revolutionizing Server Monitoring at Tilkal

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Tackling Server Monitoring Complexity

At Tilkal SAS, the challenge of aggregating infrastructure information from numerous standalone Linux servers into a singular platform was significant. The complexity was further compounded by the need to incorporate custom metrics emitted by proprietary services, alongside standard system statistics. This requirement for a holistic view of both standard and custom data sources necessitated a versatile and powerful monitoring tool.

“The data we wanted to collect was not only standard monitoring stats but also custom stats emitted by our own services. Netdata’s ease of deployment and its cloud app’s capability to consolidate server stats in one place were exactly what we needed.”

Enhancing Digital Media Excellence with Netdata

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Navigating Network Complexity

SHED encountered a critical pain point in swiftly and accurately identifying bandwidth hogs within their network. This was a significant issue, as monitoring these elements was essential to pinpoint devices, applications, or users causing excessive bandwidth consumption. The lack of real-time visibility and comprehensive insights into data transfer rates and traffic patterns was a major hurdle in their ability to proactively manage and optimize network resources. This limitation directly impacted their network performance, leading to potential slowdowns or bottlenecks, affecting the efficiency of their operations. Moreover, this challenge posed risks in resource allocation and maintaining a smooth user experience. Additionally, this issue had implications for security, as unidentified bandwidth hogs could indicate security threats or unauthorized activities. Thus, SHED Montreal’s foremost challenge was the effective monitoring of file server and switch activities to swiftly identify and mitigate bandwidth hogs, crucial for ensuring optimal network performance, resource allocation, and maintaining a secure infrastructure.

Server Uptime Monitoring: Core Benefits For High Performance

Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Server uptime monitoring tracks the availability and reliability of servers within your infrastructure.

What Is Server Uptime Monitoring?

Server uptime monitoring is the process of continuously tracking the operational status of your servers to ensure optimal performance and availability for users.

With Netdata, you gain access to real-time, high-resolution monitoring that goes beyond basic checks, providing a detailed overview of your entire infrastructure.

Remote UNIX System Monitoring Using Net-SNMP

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Need to monitor a UNIX-like system, but can’t install Netdata on it? With our SNMP collector and Net-SNMP, you can get basic system information with just a bit of relatively quick and easy configuration.

What is SNMP?

The Simple Network Management Protocol, commonly known as SNMP, is a relatively lightweight protocol designed for monitoring and configuration management for network appliances like switches, routers or gateways. However, it can also be used for those purposes on almost any UNIX-like system thanks to the Net-SNMP project.

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.

How to find out which application is causing server load

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We often hear the term load used to describe the state of a server or a device, but we’re here to tell you what it means, precisely, and how to monitor it.

What is server load?

We often hear the term “load” used to describe the state of a server or a device. But what does it really mean?

System load is a measure of the amount of computational work that a system performs. An overloaded system, by definition, isn’t able to complete all its tasks per schedule - this affects the performance and productivity of the system. And while “load” often gets conflated with CPU usage there’s a lot more to it.

Alamos FE2 server Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alamos FE2 server Monitoring

What Is Alamos FE2 server?

The Alamos FE2 server is a comprehensive platform that demands diligent monitoring to ensure optimal performance and health. This server acts as a vital component in various infrastructures requiring consistent oversight and data collection for efficient operations.

Monitoring Alamos FE2 server With Netdata

Monitoring the Alamos FE2 server is streamlined with Netdata, which employs an openmetrics (Prometheus) exporter. Netdata is capable of ingesting data from any Prometheus exporter, a significant advantage over traditional setups requiring a dedicated Prometheus server or Grafana for visualization. By leveraging Netdata, users obtain automated dashboards, intelligent alerts, and real-time insights designed to keep the Alamos FE2 server running smoothly.

Energi Core Wallet Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

What is Energi Core Wallet?

Energi is a cryptocurrency that is built on the Ethereum blockchain. It is designed to be a self-funding and self-governing cryptocurrency that uses a hybrid Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus model to improve scalability and security. The Energi Core Wallet is the official wallet software for Energi. It is a software application that allows users to securely store, send and receive Energi coins. The wallet also includes advanced features such as staking, Masternode setup, and coin control.

FreeBSD Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why FreeBSD?

FreeBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). FreeBSD is the most widely used open source BSD distribution. It is used by companies such as Netflix, Baidu, the United States Department of Defense, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

FreeBSD is a high-quality, stable, and secure operating system used in a wide variety of applications. FreeBSD is developed by a large and passionate community of volunteers and is an excellent choice if you are looking for a high-quality, stable, and secure operating system.

IBM AIX Systems Njmon Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

IBM AIX Systems Njmon Monitoring

What Is IBM AIX Systems Njmon?

IBM AIX systems Njmon is a state-of-the-art tool designed for performance monitoring and management of IBM AIX operating environments. It effectively provides insights into system health and performance metrics, ensuring smooth IT infrastructure operation. With Njmon, you can seamlessly monitor data collection in real time without impacting system performance.

Monitoring IBM AIX Systems Njmon With Netdata

To monitor IBM AIX Systems Njmon efficiently, Netdata provides a robust solution utilizing an openmetrics (Prometheus) exporter. This integration allows users to ingest data directly from any Prometheus endpoint without needing a dedicated Prometheus server or Grafana setup. With Netdata, you gain access to automated dashboards, alerts, and insights, drastically simplifying the process of monitoring complex systems like IBM AIX.

Linode Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Linode Monitoring

What Is Linode?

Linode is a cloud hosting service that provides virtual servers to deploy applications, manage web hosting, and scale infrastructure as demands grow. Known for its simplicity and cost-effectiveness, Linode empowers developers, DevOps teams, and IT Administrators to manage cloud-based services with flexibility and efficiency.

Monitoring Linode With Netdata

Monitoring Linode is crucial to ensure optimal performance, cost management, and resource allocation. Netdata serves as an effective Linode monitoring tool, leveraging an openmetrics (Prometheus) exporter to collect real-time data without the need for standalone Prometheus or Grafana servers. This integration provides you with automated dashboards, alerts, and comprehensive insights into your Linode instances.

Minecraft Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Minecraft Monitoring

What Is Minecraft?

Minecraft is a sandbox video game that gained worldwide popularity due to its open-ended nature. It allows players to explore and create in a block-based world, using tools to build structures, gather resources, and craft items. With hundreds of millions of copies sold, Minecraft’s appeal spans across all age groups and makes it not just a game but a platform for creativity and learning.

Monitoring Minecraft With Netdata

Monitoring your Minecraft server is essential to ensure smooth gameplay and optimal performance. Netdata provides a robust solution for monitoring Minecraft using the Minecraft Exporter. By leveraging openmetrics, Netdata integrates seamlessly with any Prometheus exporter. This means you get automated dashboards, customizable alerts, and advanced analytics without needing to set up a separate Prometheus server or Grafana. This streamlined approach simplifies the monitoring process, allowing you to focus on what matters most—keeping your players happy.

Monit Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Monit Monitoring

What Is Monit?

Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. It conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can engage in stage-based escalation if there are problems.

Monitoring Monit With Netdata

Integrating the Monit monitoring tool with Netdata provides real-time, comprehensive monitoring of system services. With Netdata, you can visualize all the data that Monit collects, helping you monitor Monit and optimize your infrastructure more effectively. To see it in action, check out our live demo.

Webinar: Real-Time Windows Server Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Windows Monitoring

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Note: Learn more about Netdata’s Native Windows Agent here.

Effective Windows Server Monitoring

If you are a Windows System Administrator or developer you know how important it is to monitor your Windows Servers and make sure they’re up and running, smoothly.

And you also know that sometimes things go south and your servers go kaput leaving you in the dark as to what really went wrong.

Was it that rogue process that ate up all the CPU cycles?
Did your server hit a memory bottleneck and start swapping like mad?
Or maybe there was a disk error or a network glitch that you missed?

Effective Windows server monitoring requires the following: