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+title: "Use the Agent with Netdata Cloud"
+date: 2020-05-04
+custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/docs/agent-cloud.md
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+
+# Use the Agent with Netdata Cloud
+
+While the Netdata Agent is an enormously powerful _distributed_ health monitoring and performance troubleshooting tool,
+many of its users need to monitor dozens or hundreds of systems at the same time. That's why we built Netdata Cloud, a
+hosted web interface that gives you real-time visibility into your entire infrastructure.
+
+There are two main ways to use your Agent(s) with Netdata Cloud. You can use both these methods simultaneously, or just
+one, based on your needs:
+
+- Use Netdata Cloud's web interface for monitoring an entire infrastructure, with any number of Agents, in one
+ centralized dashboard.
+- Use **Visited nodes** to quickly navigate between the dashboards of nodes you've recently visited.
+
+## Monitor an infrastructure with Netdata Cloud
+
+We designed Netdata Cloud to help you see health and performance metrics, plus active alarms, in a single interface.
+Here's what a small infrastructure might look like:
+
+![Animated GIF of Netdata
+Cloud](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/80828986-1ebb3b00-8b9b-11ea-957f-2c8d0d009e44.gif)
+
+[Read more about Netdata Cloud](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/cloud/) to better understand how it gives you real-time
+visibility into your entire infrastructure, and why you might consider using it.
+
+Next, [get started in 5 minutes](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/cloud/get-started/), or read our [claiming
+reference](/claim/README.md) for a complete investigation of Cloud's security and encryption features, plus instructions
+for Docker containers.
+
+## Navigate between dashboards with Visited nodes
+
+If you don't want to use Netdata Cloud's web interface, you can still connect multiple nodes through the **Visited
+nodes** menu, which appears on the left-hand side of the dashboard.
+
+You can use the Visited nodes menu to navigate between the dashboards of many different Agent-monitored systems quickly.
+
+To add nodes to your Visited nodes menu, you first need to navigate to that node's dashboard, then click the **Sign in**
+button at the top of the dashboard. On the screen that appears, which states your node is requesting access to your
+Netdata Cloud account, sign in with your preferred method.
+
+Cloud redirects you back to your node's dashboard, which is now connected to your Netdata Cloud account. You can now see
+the Visited nodes menu, which is populated by a single node.
+
+![An Agent's dashboard with the Visited nodes
+menu](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/80830383-b6ba2400-8b9d-11ea-9eb2-379c7eccd22f.png)
+
+If you previously went through the Cloud onboarding process to create a Space and War Room, you will also see these in
+the Visited Nodes menu. You can click on your Space or any of your War Rooms to navigate to Netdata Cloud and continue
+monitoring your infrastructure from there.
+
+![A Agent's dashboard with the Visited nodes menu, plus Spaces and War
+Rooms](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/80830382-b6218d80-8b9d-11ea-869c-1170b95eeb4a.png)
+
+To add more Agents to your Visited nodes menu, visit them and sign in again. This process connects that node to your
+Cloud account and further populates the menu.
+
+Once you've added more than one node, you can use the menu to switch between various dashboards without remembering IP
+addresses or hostnames or saving bookmarks for every node you want to monitor.
+
+![Switching between dashboards with Visited
+nodes](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/80831018-e158ac80-8b9e-11ea-882e-1d82cdc028cd.gif)
+
+## What's next?
+
+The Agent-Cloud integration is highly adaptable to the needs of any infrastructure or user. If you want to learn more
+about how you might want to use or configure Cloud, we recommend the following:
+
+- Get an overview of Cloud's features by reading [Cloud documentation](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/cloud/).
+- Follow the 5-minute [get started with Cloud](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/cloud/get-started/) guide to finish
+ onboarding and claim your first nodes.
+- Better understand how agents connect securely to the Cloud with [claiming](/claim/README.md) and [Agent-Cloud
+ link](/aclk/README.md) documentation.
+
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