Get started with Netdata

Netdata is a free and open-source (FOSS) monitoring agent that collects thousands of hardware and software metrics from any physical or virtual system (we call them nodes) and organizes them in an easy-to-use and -navigate interface.

Together with Netdata Cloud, you can monitor your entire infrastructure in real time and troubleshoot problems that threaten the health of your nodes before they occur.

Netdata runs permanently on all your physical/virtual servers, containers, cloud deployments, and edge/IoT devices. It runs on Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and more), container/microservice platforms (Kubernetes clusters, Docker), and many other operating systems (FreeBSD, macOS), with no sudo required.

General Linux with one-line installer (recommended)

Run with Docker

Deploy on Kubernetes

Install on macOS

Linux with .deb/.rpm packages

Linux with static 64-bit binary

Linux from Git

Linux from source

Linux for offline nodes

Install on Linux with one-line installer (recommended)

The recommended way to install Netdata on a Linux node (physical, virtual, container, IoT) is our one-line kickstart script. This script automatically installs dependencies and builds Netdata from its source code.

Copy the script, paste it into your node's terminal, and hit Enter to begin the installation process.

bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh)

Do you want automatic updates? default: enabled

Do you want nightly or stable releases? default: nightly

Do you want to contribute anonymous statistics? default: enabled

Jump down to what's next to learn how to view your new dashboard and take your next steps monitoring and troubleshooting with Netdata.

Run Netdata with Docker

You can also try out Netdata's capabilities in a Docker container. Copy the following docker run command into your node and hit Enter to download and run the container.

docker run -d --name=netdata \

-p 19999:19999 \

-v netdataconfig:/etc/netdata \

-v netdatalib:/var/lib/netdata \

-v netdatacache:/var/cache/netdata \

-v /etc/passwd:/host/etc/passwd:ro \

-v /etc/group:/host/etc/group:ro \

-v /proc:/host/proc:ro \

-v /sys:/host/sys:ro \

-v /etc/os-release:/host/etc/os-release:ro \

--restart unless-stopped \

--cap-add SYS_PTRACE \

--security-opt apparmor=unconfined \

netdata/netdata

What's next?

To start using Netdata, open a browser and navigate to http://NODE:19999, replacing NODE with either localhost or the hostname/IP address of a remote node.

Where you go from here is based on your use case, immediate needs, and experience with monitoring and troubleshooting.

Dashboard

Learn more about how the dashboard works, or dive directly into the many ways to interact with charts.

Configuration

Discover the recommended way to configure Netdata's settings or behavior using our built-in edit-config script, then apply that knowledge to mission-critical tweaks, such as changing how long Netdata stores metrics.

Data collection

If Netdata didn't autodetect all the hardware, containers, services, or applications running on your node, you should learn more about how data collectors work. If there's a supported collector for metrics you need, configure the collector or read about its requirements to configure your endpoint to publish metrics in the correct format and endpoint.

Alarms & notifications

Netdata comes with hundreds of preconfigured alarms, designed by our monitoring gurus in parallel with our open-source community, but you may want to edit alarms or enable notifications to customize your Netdata experience.

Need to monitor multiple nodes in one place?

For robust multi-node monitoring from a single interface, consider Netdata Cloud, which streams, aggregates, and visualizes metrics from any number of nodes. It's all the same out-of-the-box, zero-configuration functionality of the open-source monitoring agent, but for any number of distributed nodes, entirely for free.

There is an alternative for those who aren't interested in using Netdata Cloud, albeit with some required configuration. Each node can stream its metrics to any other node, and the default registry is configurable to create a private "network" of Netdata dashboards.