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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2019-10-13 08:37:32 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2019-10-13 08:38:18 +0000 |
commit | ca540a730c0b880922e86074f994a95b8d413bea (patch) | |
tree | 1364a1b82cfcc68f51aabf9b2545e6a06059d6bb /docs/what-is-netdata.md | |
parent | Releasing debian version 1.17.1-1. (diff) | |
download | netdata-ca540a730c0b880922e86074f994a95b8d413bea.tar.xz netdata-ca540a730c0b880922e86074f994a95b8d413bea.zip |
Merging upstream version 1.18.0.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/docs/what-is-netdata.md b/docs/what-is-netdata.md index b134dc2ca..e9b4d1598 100644 --- a/docs/what-is-netdata.md +++ b/docs/what-is-netdata.md @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ We provide docker images for the most common architectures. These are statistics ### Registry -When you install multiple Netdata, they are integrated into **one distributed application**, via a [Netdata registry](../registry/#registry). This is a web browser feature and it allows us to count the number of unique users and unique Netdata servers installed. The following information comes from the global public Netdata registry we run: +When you install multiple Netdata, they are integrated into **one distributed application**, via a [Netdata registry](../registry/). This is a web browser feature and it allows us to count the number of unique users and unique Netdata servers installed. The following information comes from the global public Netdata registry we run: [![User Base](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_entries&dimensions=persons&label=user%20base&units=M&value_color=blue&precision=2÷=1000000&v43)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) [![Monitored Servers](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_entries&dimensions=machines&label=servers%20monitored&units=k÷=1000&value_color=orange&precision=2&v43)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) [![Sessions Served](https://registry.my-netdata.io/api/v1/badge.svg?chart=netdata.registry_sessions&label=sessions%20served&units=M&value_color=yellowgreen&precision=2÷=1000000&v43)](https://registry.my-netdata.io/#menu_netdata_submenu_registry) @@ -91,12 +91,12 @@ This is how it works: |Function|Description|Documentation| |:------:|:----------|:-----------:| -|**Collect**|Multiple independent data collection workers are collecting metrics from their sources using the optimal protocol for each application and push the metrics to the database. Each data collection worker has lockless write access to the metrics it collects.|[`collectors`](../collectors/#data-collection-plugins)| -|**Store**|Metrics are stored in RAM in a round robin database (ring buffer), using a custom made floating point number for minimal footprint.|[`database`](../database/#database)| -|**Check**|A lockless independent watchdog is evaluating **health checks** on the collected metrics, triggers alarms, maintains a health transaction log and dispatches alarm notifications.|[`health`](../health/#health-monitoring)| -|**Stream**|An lockless independent worker is streaming metrics, in full detail and in real-time, to remote Netdata servers, as soon as they are collected.|[`streaming`](../streaming/#streaming-and-replication)| +|**Collect**|Multiple independent data collection workers are collecting metrics from their sources using the optimal protocol for each application and push the metrics to the database. Each data collection worker has lockless write access to the metrics it collects.|[`collectors`](../collectors/)| +|**Store**|Metrics are stored in RAM in a round robin database (ring buffer), using a custom made floating point number for minimal footprint.|[`database`](../database/)| +|**Check**|A lockless independent watchdog is evaluating **health checks** on the collected metrics, triggers alarms, maintains a health transaction log and dispatches alarm notifications.|[`health`](../health/)| +|**Stream**|An lockless independent worker is streaming metrics, in full detail and in real-time, to remote Netdata servers, as soon as they are collected.|[`streaming`](../streaming/)| |**Archive**|A lockless independent worker is down-sampling the metrics and pushes them to **backend** time-series databases.|[`backends`](../backends/)| -|**Query**|Multiple independent workers are attached to the [internal web server](../web/server/#web-server), servicing API requests, including [data queries](../web/api/queries/#database-queries).|[`web/api`](../web/api/#api)| +|**Query**|Multiple independent workers are attached to the [internal web server](../web/server/), servicing API requests, including [data queries](../web/api/queries/README.md).|[`web/api`](../web/api/)| The result is a highly efficient, low latency system, supporting multiple readers and one writer on each metric. |