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#### 180.000+ views, 50.000+ visitors, 15.000+ downloads, 8.000+ github stars, 400+ forks, 7 days!
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-And we still run with 1.000+ downloads... per day!
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+And it still runs with 1.000+ git downloads... per day!
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+**[check what our users say about netdata](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/148)**.
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Thank you!
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This is what you get:
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-1. **Beautiful out of the box** bootstrap dashboards
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-2. **Custom dashboards** that can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
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-3. **Blazingly fast** and **super efficient**, written in C (for default installations, expect just 2% of a single core CPU usage and a few MB of RAM)
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+1. **Stunning bootstrap dashboards**, out of the box
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+2. **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)
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3. **Zero configuration** - you just install it and it autodetects everything
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4. **Zero dependencies**, it is its own web server for its static web files and its web API
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-4. **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)
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-7. **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs
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+5. **Zero maintenance**, you just run it, it does the rest
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+5. **Custom dashboards** that can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
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+6. **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)
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+7. **Embeddable**, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs and its charts can be embedded on your web pages too
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This is what it currently monitors (most with zero configuration):
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-1. **CPU usage, interrupts, softirqs and frequency** (total and per core)
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-2. **RAM, swap and kernel memory usage** (including KSM and kernel memory deduper)
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-3. **Disk I/O** (per disk: bandwidth, operations, backlog, utilization, etc)
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+- **RAM, swap and kernel memory usage** (including KSM and kernel memory deduper)
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+- **Disks** (per disk: I/O, operations, backlog, utilization, etc)
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-5. **IPv4 networking** (bandwidth, packets, errors, fragments, tcp: connections, packets, errors, handshake, udp: packets, errors, broadcast: bandwidth, packets, multicast: bandwidth, packets)
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-6. **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)
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-7. **netfilter / iptables Linux firewall** (connections, connection tracker events, errors, etc)
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-8. **Processes** (running, blocked, forks, active, etc)
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-9. **Entropy**
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-10. **NFS file servers**, v2, v3, v4 (I/O, cache, read ahead, RPC calls)
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-11. **Network QoS** (yes, the only tool that visualizes network `tc` classes in realtime)
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+- **netfilter / iptables Linux firewall** (connections, connection tracker events, errors, etc)
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+- **Linux anti-DDoS protection** (SYNPROXY metrics)
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+- **Processes** (running, blocked, forks, active, etc)
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+- **Entropy** (random numbers pool, using in cryptography)
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-12. **Applications**, by grouping the process tree (CPU, memory, disk reads, disk writes, swap, threads, pipes, sockets, etc)
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-13. **Apache web server** mod-status (v2.2, v2.4)
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-15. **mySQL databases** (multiple servers, each showing: bandwidth, queries/s, handlers, locks, issues, tmp operations, connections, binlog metrics, threads, innodb metrics, etc)
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-16. **ISC Bind name server** (multiple servers, each showing: clients, requests, queries, updates, failures and several per view metrics)
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-17. **Postfix email server** message queue (entries, size)
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-18. **Squid proxy server** (clients bandwidth and requests, servers bandwidth and requests)
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-19. **Hardware sensors** (temperature, voltage, fans, power, humidity, etc)
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-20. **NUT UPSes** (load, charge, battery voltage, temperature, utility metrics, output metrics)
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+- **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)
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Read **[Why netdata?](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/Why-netdata%3F)**
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-Or **[check what our users say about netdata](https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues/148)**.
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## Installation