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+title: "Use Netdata standalone or as part of your monitoring stack"
+description: "Netdata can run independently or as part of a larger monitoring stack thanks to its flexibility, interoperable core, and exporting features."
+custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/docs/overview/netdata-monitoring-stack.md
+-->
+
+# Use Netdata standalone or as part of your monitoring stack
+
+Netdata is an extremely powerful monitoring, visualization, and troubleshooting platform. While you can use it as an
+effective standalone tool, we also designed it to be open and interoperable with other tools you might already be using.
+
+Netdata helps you collect everything and scales to infrastructure of any size, but it doesn't lock-in data or force you
+to use specific tools or methodologies. Each feature is extensible and interoperable so they can work in parallel with
+other tools. For example, you can use Netdata to collect metrics, visualize metrics with a second open-source program,
+and centralize your metrics in a cloud-based time-series database solution for long-term storage or further analysis.
+
+You can build a new monitoring stack, including Netdata, or integrate Netdata's metrics with your existing monitoring
+stack. No matter which route you take, Netdata helps you monitor infrastructure of any size.
+
+Here are a few ways to enrich your existing monitoring and troubleshooting stack with Netdata:
+
+## Collect metrics from Prometheus endpoints
+
+Netdata automatically detects 600 popular endpoints and collects per-second metrics from them via the [generic
+Prometheus collector](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/prometheus). This even
+includes support for Windows 10 via [`windows_exporter`](https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter).
+
+This collector is installed and enabled on all Agent installations by default, so you don't need to waste time
+configuring Netdata. Netdata will detect these Prometheus metrics endpoints and collect even more granular metrics than
+your existing solutions. You can now use all of Netdata's meaningfully-visualized charts to diagnose issues and
+troubleshoot anomalies.
+
+## Export metrics to external time-series databases
+
+Netdata can send its per-second metrics to external time-series databases, such as InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite,
+TimescaleDB, ElasticSearch, AWS Kinesis Data Streams, Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service, and many others.
+
+To [export metrics to external time-series databases](/docs/export/external-databases.md), you configure an [exporting
+_connector_](/docs/export/enable-connector.md). These connectors support filtering and resampling for granular control
+over which metrics you export, and at what volume. You can export resampled metrics as collected, as averages, or the
+sum of interpolated values based on your needs and other monitoring tools.
+
+Once you have Netdata's metrics in a secondary time-series database, you can use them however you'd like, such as
+additional visualization/dashboarding tools or aggregation of data from multiple sources.
+
+## Visualize metrics with Grafana
+
+One popular monitoring stack is Netdata, Graphite, and Grafana. Netdata acts as the stack's metrics collection
+powerhouse, Graphite the time-series database, and Grafana the visualization platform. With Netdata at the core, you can
+be confident that your monitoring stack is powered by all possible metrics, from all possible sources, from every node
+in your infrastructure.
+
+Of course, just because you export or visualize metrics elsewhere, it doesn't mean Netdata's equivalent features
+disappear. You can always build new dashboards in Netdata Cloud, drill down into per-second metrics using Netdata's
+charts, or use Netdata's health watchdog to send notifications whenever an anomaly strikes.
+
+## What's next?
+
+Whether you're using Netdata standalone or as part of a larger monitoring stack, the next step is the same: [**Get
+Netdata**](/docs/get/README.md).
+
+[![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%2Foverview%2Fnetdata-monitoring-stacka&_u=MAC~&cid=5792dfd7-8dc4-476b-af31-da2fdb9f93d2&tid=UA-64295674-3)](<>)
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+title: "What is Netdata?"
+description: "Netdata is distributed, real-time performance and health monitoring for systems and applications on a single node or an entire infrastructure."
+custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/docs/overview/what-is-netdata.md
+-->
+
+# What is Netdata?
+
+Netdata helps sysadmins, SREs, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals collect all possible metrics from systems and
+applications, visualize these metrics in real-time, and troubleshoot complex performance problems.
+
+Netdata's solution uses two components, the Netdata Agent and Netdata Cloud, to deliver real-time performance and health
+monitoring for both single nodes and entire infrastructure.
+
+## Netdata Agent
+
+Netdata's distributed monitoring Agent collects thousands of metrics from systems, hardware, and applications with zero
+configuration. It runs permanently on all your physical/virtual servers, containers, cloud deployments, and edge/IoT
+devices.
+
+You can [install](/docs/get/README.md#install-the-netdata-agent) Netdata on most Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian,
+CentOS, and more), container/microservice platforms (Kubernetes clusters, Docker), and many other operating systems
+(FreeBSD, macOS), with no `sudo` required.
+
+![The Netdata
+Agent](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/94492596-72a86b00-019f-11eb-91ab-224e6ac9ea21.png)
+
+## Netdata Cloud
+
+Netdata Cloud is a web application that gives you real-time visibility for your entire infrastructure. With Netdata
+Cloud, you can view key metrics, insightful charts, and active alarms from all your nodes in a single web interface.
+When an anomaly strikes, seamlessly navigate to any node to troubleshoot and discover the root cause with the familiar
+Netdata dashboard.
+
+**[Netdata Cloud is
+free](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/cloud/faq-glossary#how-much-does-netdata-cost-how-and-why-is-it-free)**! You can
+add an entire infrastructure of nodes, invite all your colleagues, and visualize any number of metrics, charts, and
+alarms entirely for free.
+
+While Netdata Cloud offers a centralized method of monitoring your Agents, your metrics data is not stored or
+centralized in any way. Metrics data remains with your nodes and is only streamed to your browser, through Cloud, when
+you're viewing the Netdata Cloud interface.
+
+![Netdata Cloud](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/94492597-73410180-019f-11eb-9a9e-032420baa489.png)
+
+## What you can do with Netdata
+
+Netdata is designed to be both simple to use and flexible for every monitoring, visualization, and troubleshooting use
+case:
+
+- **Collect**: Netdata collects all available metrics from your system and applications with 300+ collectors,
+ Kubernetes service discovery, and in-depth container monitoring, all while using only 1% CPU and a few MB of RAM. It
+ even collects metrics from Windows machines.
+- **Visualize**: The dashboard meaningfully presents charts to help you understand the relationships between your
+ hardware, operating system, running apps/services, and the rest of your infrastructure. Add nodes to Netdata Cloud
+ for a complete view of your infrastructure from a single pane of glass.
+- **Monitor**: Netdata's health watchdog uses hundreds of preconfigured alarms to notify you via Slack, email,
+ PagerDuty and more when an anomaly strikes. Customize with dynamic thresholds, hysteresis, alarm templates, and
+ role-based notifications.
+- **Troubleshoot**: 1s granularity helps you detect analyze anomalies other monitoring platforms might have missed.
+ Interactive visualizations reduce your reliance on the console, and historical metrics help you trace issues back to
+ their root cause.
+- **Store**: Netdata's efficient database engine efficiently stores per-second metrics for days, weeks, or even
+ months. Every distributed node stores metrics locally, simplifying deployment, slashing costs, and enriching
+ Netdata's interactive dashboards.
+- **Export**: Integrate per-second metrics with other time-series databases like Graphite, Prometheus, InfluxDB,
+ TimescaleDB, and more with Netdata's interoperable and extensible core.
+- **Stream**: Aggregate metrics from any number of distributed nodes in one place for in-depth analysis, including
+ ephemeral nodes in a Kubernetes cluster.
+
+## What's next?
+
+Learn more about [why you should use Netdata](/docs/overview/why-netdata.md), or [how Netdata works with your existing
+monitoring stack](/docs/overview/netdata-monitoring-stack.md).
+
+[![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%2Foverview%2Fwhat-is-netdata&_u=MAC~&cid=5792dfd7-8dc4-476b-af31-da2fdb9f93d2&tid=UA-64295674-3)](<>)
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+title: "Why use Netdata?"
+description: "Netdata is simple to deploy, scalable, and optimized for troubleshooting. Cut the complexity and expense out of your monitoring stack."
+custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/docs/overview/why-netdata.md
+-->
+
+# Why use Netdata?
+
+Netdata takes a different approach to helping people build extraordinary infrastructure. It was built out of frustration
+with existing monitoring tools that are too complex, too expensive, and don't help their users actually troubleshoot
+complex performance and health issues.
+
+Netdata is:
+
+## Simple to deploy
+
+- **One-line deployment** for Linux distributions, plus support for Kubernetes/Docker infrastructures.
+- **Zero configuration and maintenance** required to collect thousands of metrics, every second, from the underlying
+ OS and running applications.
+- **Prebuilt charts and alarms** alert you to common anomalies and performance issues without manual configuration.
+- **Distributed storage** to simplify the cost and complexity of storing metrics data from any number of nodes.
+
+## Powerful and scalable
+
+- **1% CPU utilization, a few MB of RAM, and minimal disk I/O** to run the monitoring Agent on bare metal, virtual
+ machines, containers, and even IoT devices.
+- **Per-second granularity** for an unlimited number of metrics based on the hardware and applications you're running
+ on your nodes.
+- **Interoperable exporters** let you connect Netdata's per-second metrics with an existing monitoring stack and other
+ time-series databases.
+
+## Optimized for troubleshooting
+
+- **Visual anomaly detection** with a UI/UX that emphasizes the relationships between charts.
+- **Customizable dashboards** to pinpoint correlated metrics, respond to incidents, and help you streamline your
+ workflows.
+- **Distributed metrics in a centralized interface** to assist users or teams trace complex issues between distributed
+ nodes.
+
+## Comparison with other monitoring solutions
+
+Netdata offers many benefits over the existing monitoring landscape, whether they're expensive SaaS products or other
+open-source tools.
+
+| Netdata | Others (open-source and commercial) |
+| :-------------------------------------------------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **High resolution metrics** (1s granularity) | Low resolution metrics (10s granularity at best) |
+| Collects **thousands of metrics per node** | Collects just a few metrics |
+| Fast UI optimized for **anomaly detection** | UI is good for just an abstract view |
+| **Long-term, autonomous storage** at one-second granularity | Centralized metrics in an expensive data lake at 10s granularity |
+| **Meaningful presentation**, to help you understand the metrics | You have to know the metrics before you start |
+| Install and get results **immediately** | Long sales process and complex installation process |
+| Use it for **troubleshooting** performance problems | Only gathers _statistics of past performance_ |
+| **Kills the console** for tracing performance issues | The console is always required for troubleshooting |
+| Requires **zero dedicated resources** | Require large dedicated resources |
+
+## What's next?
+
+Whether you already have a monitoring stack you want to integrate Netdata into, or are building something from the
+ground-up, you should read more on how Netdata can work either [standalone or as an interoperable part of a monitoring
+stack](/docs/overview/netdata-monitoring-stack.md).
+
+[![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%2Foverview%2Fwhy-netdata&_u=MAC~&cid=5792dfd7-8dc4-476b-af31-da2fdb9f93d2&tid=UA-64295674-3)](<>)