From 8d4f58e49b9dc7d3545651023a36729de773ad86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 03:22:31 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.12.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- docs/why-netdata/README.md | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/why-netdata/README.md (limited to 'docs/why-netdata/README.md') diff --git a/docs/why-netdata/README.md b/docs/why-netdata/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df8c0d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/why-netdata/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# Why Netdata + +> Any performance monitoring solution that does not go down to per second +> collection and visualization of the data, is useless. +> It will make you happy to have it, but it will not help you more than that. + +Netdata is built around 4 principles: + +1. **[Per second data collection for all metrics.](1s-granularity.md)** + + *It is impossible to monitor a 2 second SLA, with 10 second metrics.* + +2. **[Collect and visualize all the metrics from all possible sources.](unlimited-metrics.md)** + + *To troubleshoot slowdowns, we need all the available metrics. The console should not provide more metrics.* + +3. **[Meaningful presentation, optimized for visual anomaly detection.](meaningful-presentation.md)** + + *Metrics are a lot more than name-value pairs over time. The monitoring tool should know all the metrics. Users should not!* + +4. **[Immediate results, just install and use.](immediate-results.md)** + + *Most of our infrastructure is standardized. There is no point to configure everything metric by metric.* + +Unlike other monitoring solutions that focus on metrics visualization, +Netdata's helps us troubleshoot slowdowns without touching the console. + +So, everything is a bit different. + +[![analytics](https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&aip=1&t=pageview&_s=1&ds=github&dr=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fnetdata%2Fnetdata&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-netdata.io%2Fgithub%2Fdocs%2FWhy-Netdata&_u=MAC~&cid=5792dfd7-8dc4-476b-af31-da2fdb9f93d2&tid=UA-64295674-3)]() -- cgit v1.2.3