Streaming on Netdata

Netdata Parents For Intelligent Observability

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

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.

Netdata Parents (Streaming and Replication)

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

What are they and why do we need them?

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.

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.

Why is data replication important?

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

High availability. This is what every monitoring tool needs to ensure that you never compromise on IT infrastructure visibility. On top of high availability, do you really want to enable all available features on your production system? It is important for the monitoring tool to have a low footprint on your CPU consumption and memory usage. Let’s dive deeper into the recommended way of configuring Netdata to ensure high availability and a low resource footprint through data replication.