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+title: "Netdata for IoT"
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+sidebar_label: "Netdata for IoT"
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+
+# Netdata for IoT
+
+![image1](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14252446/11ae13c4-fa90-11e5-9d03-d93a3eb3317a.gif)
+
+> New to Netdata? Check its demo: **<https://my-netdata.io/>**
+>
+>[![User
+> Base](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_entries&dimensions=persons&label=user%20base&units=null&value_color=blue&precision=0&v41)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#netdata_registry)
+> [![Monitored
+> Servers](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_entries&dimensions=machines&label=servers%20monitored&units=null&value_color=orange&precision=0&v41)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#netdata_registry)
+> [![Sessions
+> Served](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_sessions&label=sessions%20served&units=null&value_color=yellowgreen&precision=0&v41)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#netdata_registry)
+>
+>[![New Users
+> Today](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_entries&dimensions=persons&after=-86400&options=unaligned&group=incremental-sum&label=new%20users%20today&units=null&value_color=blue&precision=0&v40)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#netdata_registry)
+> [![New Machines
+> Today](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_entries&dimensions=machines&group=incremental-sum&after=-86400&options=unaligned&label=servers%20added%20today&units=null&value_color=orange&precision=0&v40)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#netdata_registry)
+> [![Sessions
+> Today](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_sessions&after=-86400&group=incremental-sum&options=unaligned&label=sessions%20served%20today&units=null&value_color=yellowgreen&precision=0&v40)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#netdata_registry)
+
+---
+
+Netdata is a [very efficient](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/guides/configure/performance.md)
+server performance monitoring solution. When running in server hardware, it can collect
+thousands of system and application metrics **per second** with just 1% CPU utilization of a single core. Its web server
+responds to most data requests in about **half a millisecond** making its web dashboards spontaneous, amazingly fast!
+
+Netdata can also be a very efficient real-time monitoring solution for **IoT devices** (RPIs, routers, media players,
+wifi access points, industrial controllers and sensors of all kinds). Netdata will generally run everywhere a Linux
+kernel runs (and it is glibc and [musl-libc](https://www.musl-libc.org/) friendly).
+
+You can use it as both a data collection agent (where you pull data using its API), for embedding its charts on other
+web pages / consoles, but also for accessing it directly with your browser to view its dashboard.
+
+The Netdata web API already provides **reduce** functions allowing it to report **average** and **max** for any
+timeframe. It can also respond in many formats including JSON, JSONP, CSV, HTML. Its API is also a **google charts**
+provider so it can directly be used by google sheets, google charts, google widgets.
+
+![sensors](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/15339745/8be84540-1c8e-11e6-9e9a-106dea7539b6.gif)
+
+Although Netdata has been significantly optimized to lower the CPU and RAM resources it consumes, the plethora of data
+collection plugins may be inappropriate for weak IoT devices. Please follow
+the [Netdata Agent performance guide](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/guides/configure/performance.md)
+
+## Monitoring RPi temperature
+
+The python version of the sensors plugin uses `lm-sensors`. Unfortunately the temperature reading of RPi are not
+supported by `lm-sensors`.
+
+Netdata also has a bash version of the sensors plugin that can read RPi temperatures. It is disabled by default to avoid
+the conflicts with the python version.
+
+To enable it, run:
+
+```bash
+cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory
+sudo ./edit-config charts.d.conf
+```
+
+and uncomment this line:
+
+```sh
+sensors=force
+```
+
+Then restart Netdata. You will get this:
+
+![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2662304/29658868-23aa65ae-88c5-11e7-9dad-c159600db5cc.png)
+
+