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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)](<>) -- cgit v1.2.3