docs: add architecture connectivity diagram to welcome page (#22261)
Add a mermaid flowchart diagram to the 'Who we are' section of welcome-to-netdata.md showing how Child Agents, Parents, and Netdata Cloud interconnect. The diagram illustrates streaming, failover, replication, and Cloud connectivity via ACLK. Co-authored-by: nedi-app[bot] <nedi-app[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -14,6 +14,39 @@ The system consists of three components:
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- [**Netdata Parents**](/docs/deployment-guides/deployment-with-centralization-points.md): Optional centralization points for aggregating data from multiple agents (Netdata Parents are the same software component as Netdata Agents, configured as Parents)
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- [**Netdata Cloud**](/docs/netdata-cloud/README.md): A smart control plane for unifying multiple independent Netdata Agents and Parents, providing horizontal scalability, role based access control, access from anywhere, centralized alerts notifications, team collaboration, AI insights, and more.
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+The following diagram shows how Netdata components connect:
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+```mermaid
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+flowchart TB
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+ C1("Child Agent 1")
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+ C2("Child Agent 2")
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+ C3("Child Agent 3")
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+ P1("**Parent 1**")
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+ P2("**Parent 2**")
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+ NC("**Netdata Cloud**<br/>Dashboards, Alerts, AI")
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+ C1 -->|streaming| P1
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+ C2 -->|streaming| P1
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+ C3 -->|streaming| P2
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+ C2 -.->|failover| P2
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+ P1 <-->|replication| P2
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+ P1 <-->|ACLK| NC
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+ P2 <-->|ACLK| NC
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+ classDef child fill: #e8f5e8, stroke: #27ae60, stroke-width: 2px, color: #2c3e50, rx: 10, ry: 10
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+ classDef parent fill: #f3e8ff, stroke: #9b59b6, stroke-width: 2px, color: #2c3e50, rx: 10, ry: 10
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+ classDef cloud fill: #e8f4fd, stroke: #4a90e2, stroke-width: 2px, color: #2c3e50, rx: 10, ry: 10
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+ class C1 child
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+ class C2 child
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+ class C3 child
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+ class P1 parent
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+ class P2 parent
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+ class NC cloud
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+```
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## Performance at a Glance
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| Aspect | Netdata | Industry Standard |