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-netdata
-=======
+# netdata
-**Real-time performance monitoring, in the greatest possible detail**!
+#### 230.000+ views, 62.000+ visitors, 18.500+ downloads, 9.500+ github stars, 500+ forks, 14 days!
-**netdata** tries to visualize the **truth of now**, in its **greatest detail**, so that you can get insights of what is happening now and what just happened, on your systems and applications.
+And it still runs with 700+ git downloads... per day!
-Read more at the **[netdata wiki](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki)**.
+**[Check what our users say about netdata](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/148)**.
+
+Thank you!
+
+---
+
+**Real-time performance monitoring, done right!**
+
+This is the default dashboard of **netdata**:
+
+ - real-time, per second updates, snappy refreshes!
+ - 300+ charts out of the box, 2000+ metrics monitored!
+ - zero configuration, zero maintenance, zero dependencies!
+
+Live demo: [http://netdata.firehol.org](http://netdata.firehol.org)
+
+![netdata](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14092712/93b039ea-f551-11e5-822c-beadbf2b2a2e.gif)
---
-# Features
+## Features
+
+**netdata** is a highly optimized Linux daemon providing **real-time performance monitoring for Linux systems, Applications, SNMP devices, over the web**!
+
+It tries to visualize the **truth of now**, in its **greatest detail**, so that you can get insights of what is happening now and what just happened, on your systems and applications.
+
+This is what you get:
+
+- **Stunning bootstrap dashboards**, out of the box (themable: dark, light)
+- **Blazingly fast** and **super efficient**, mostly written in C (for default installations, expect just 2% of a single core CPU usage and a few MB of RAM)
+- **Zero configuration** - you just install it and it autodetects everything
+- **Zero dependencies**, it is its own web server for its static web files and its web API
+- **Zero maintenance**, you just run it, it does the rest
+- **Custom dashboards** that can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
+- **Extensible**, you can monitor anything you can get a metric for, using its Plugin API (anything can be a netdata plugin - from BASH to node.js, so you can easily monitor any application, any API)
+- **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
+
+---
+
+## What does it monitor?
+
+This is what it currently monitors (most with zero configuration):
+
+- **CPU usage, interrupts, softirqs and frequency** (total and per core)
+
+- **RAM, swap and kernel memory usage** (including KSM and kernel memory deduper)
+
+- **Disks** (per disk: I/O, operations, backlog, utilization, etc)
+
+ ![sda](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093195/c882bbf4-f554-11e5-8863-1788d643d2c0.gif)
+
+- **Network interfaces** (per interface: bandwidth, packets, errors, drops, etc)
+
+ ![dsl0](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093128/4d566494-f554-11e5-8ee4-5392e0ac51f0.gif)
+
+- **IPv4 networking** (bandwidth, packets, errors, fragments, tcp: connections, packets, errors, handshake, udp: packets, errors, broadcast: bandwidth, packets, multicast: bandwidth, packets)
+
+- **IPv6 networking** (bandwidth, packets, errors, fragments, ECT, udp: packets, errors, udplite: packets, errors, broadcast: bandwidth, multicast: bandwidth, packets, icmp: messages, errors, echos, router, neighbor, MLDv2, group membership, break down by type)
+
+- **netfilter / iptables Linux firewall** (connections, connection tracker events, errors, etc)
+
+- **Linux anti-DDoS protection** (SYNPROXY metrics)
+
+- **Processes** (running, blocked, forks, active, etc)
+
+- **Entropy** (random numbers pool, using in cryptography)
+
+- **NFS file servers**, v2, v3, v4 (I/O, cache, read ahead, RPC calls)
+
+- **Network QoS** (yes, the only tool that visualizes network `tc` classes in realtime)
+
+ ![qos-tc-classes](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093004/68966020-f553-11e5-98fe-ffee2086fafd.gif)
+
+- **Applications**, by grouping the process tree (CPU, memory, disk reads, disk writes, swap, threads, pipes, sockets, etc)
+
+ ![apps](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2662304/14093565/67c4002c-f557-11e5-86bd-0154f5135def.gif)
+
+- **Users and User Groups resource usage**, by summarizing the process tree per user and group (CPU, memory, disk reads, disk writes, swap, threads, pipes, sockets, etc)
+
+- **Apache web server** mod-status (v2.2, v2.4)
+
+- **Nginx web server** stub-status
+
+- **mySQL databases** (multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, queries/s, handlers, locks, issues, tmp operations, connections, binlog metrics, threads, innodb metrics, etc)
+
+- **ISC Bind name server** (multiple servers, each showing: clients, requests, queries, updates, failures and several per view metrics)
+
+- **Postfix email server** message queue (entries, size)
+
+- **Squid proxy server** (clients bandwidth and requests, servers bandwidth and requests)
+
+- **Hardware sensors** (temperature, voltage, fans, power, humidity, etc)
+
+- **NUT UPSes** (load, charge, battery voltage, temperature, utility metrics, output metrics)
+
+- **SNMP devices** can be monitored too (although you will need to configure these)
+
+And you can extend it, by writing plugins that collect data from any source, using any computer language.
+
+---
+
+## Still not convinced?
+
+Read **[Why netdata?](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Why-netdata%3F)**
+
+---
+
+## Installation
+
+Use our **[automatic installer](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Installation)** to build and install it on your system
+
+It should run on **any Linux** system. It has been tested on:
-Check wiki page **[Why netdata?](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Why-netdata%3F)**.
+- Gentoo
+- ArchLinux
+- Ubuntu / Debian
+- CentOS
+- Fedora
+- RedHat Enterprise Linux
+- SUSE
+- Alpine Linux
+- PLD Linux
---
-# Installation
+## Documentation
-Check the **[Installation Wiki Page](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Installation)**.
+Check the **[netdata wiki](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki)**.