Table of Contents

• Netdata Growth
• Summary
• Highlights
• Acknowledgments
• Contributions
  • Collectors
  • Packaging/Installation
  • Documentation
  • Other Notable Changes
• Deprecation notice
• Netdata Release Meetup
• Support options

Netdata Growth

• 1.5 million downloads per day
• 68.7k GitHub stars!
• 636M Docker Hub pulls!

Netdata is being downloaded more than 1.5 million times per day, as reported by Cloudflare, which distributes our binary packages, and Docker Hub, which distributes our docker containers!

Thanks to your love ❤️, Netdata is leading the observability category in CNCF, having significantly more stars than Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus and all other observability solutions listed in the CNCF landscape.

We are committed to providing the most advanced and innovative observability solution, to help us minimize monitoring costs while providing AI-powered high-fidelity monitoring!

Do you like Netdata? Give Netdata a ⭐ too, on GitHub!

Release Summary

Another 3 months have passed, we're already mid-way through 2024, and it's time for another Netdata release! The Netdata team has been super busy cooking up some great new features we're sure you will enjoy. Users can now dynamically configure collectors and alerts from the UI, the long-awaited Native Windows agent is almost here, AWS billing integration and so many more cool features.

In a crowded observability market, Netdata stands out with real-time monitoring and a truly unique decentralized architecture which ensures the data, always stays on-prem!

Release Highlights

Dynamic Configuration out of beta

Manage Netdata from the Dashboard:

• Alert Management: create and adjust alerts directly from any chart or the dedicated Alerts tab.
• Collectors Setup (go.d only): configure collectors for the data you need right from the Integrations section.
• Multi-Node Management: deploy configurations to multiple nodes with a single click

After fine-tuning of our Dynamic Configuration feature (DynCfg) based on extensive feedback, we have now made a GA release available to our Business and Homelab plans.

Netdata subscriptions on AWS Marketplace

Subscribe to Netdata from the AWS Marketplace AWS Customers can now manage their payments and subscriptions directly from AWS - no need for extra budget approvals or billing complexities!

• Annual Contract Listing
• Pay As You Go Subscription

Native Windows Support

Netdata's current code base can now be compiled on Windows and runs smoothly on all versions of the Windows operating system.

Currently, this feature is in the internal testing phase. We are working on packaging it and adding Windows-specific collectors. In the next Netdata release, we will provide binary packages for Microsoft Windows.

Okta and OpenID SSO Authentication

Effortlessly manage your teams’ access with SSO through Okta or OpenID integrations. This feature ensures streamlined access and heightened security across your systems. We are now looking into building the next step to allow you to manage your users' Roles and Permissions!

Time Based Retention

Netdata now offers a more granular approach to data retention, allowing you to manage storage based on both time and disk space. This update provides greater control and helps you optimize storage usage for your specific needs.

With these defaults, Netdata requires approximately 4 GiB of storage space (including metadata).

Retention Settings

You can fine-tune retention for each tier by setting either the time limit or size limit to zero. This enables various retention strategies as shown in the table below:

Monitoring Retention Utilization

A new chart has been added to the Netdata Monitoring section of your dashboard. This chart displays the utilization percentage for both time and space limits across all tiers, providing a clear overview of your storage usage.

Database Compression

Netdata now utilizes ZSTD compression within its database engine (dbengine), significantly reducing the storage space required for your monitoring data. This translates to a mere 0.5 bytes per sample on disk for the high-resolution tier!

Netdata's impressive compression capabilities are the result of a powerful combination of features:

• Fixed-step database design.
• Gorilla compression (introduced in v1.45.0).
• ZSTD compression (new in v1.46.0).

ClickHouse Collector

Netdata now ships with a native ClickHouse collector, which collects performance data from ClickHouse for connections, queries, resources, replication, IO, and data operations (inserts, selects, merges) using HTTP requests and ClickHouse system tables.

OpenTelemetry Compatibility

All the units on our charts and metrics are now compatible with the Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM). This alignment ensures precision, consistency, and ease of integration across diverse systems, paving the way for more seamless observability and monitoring experiences. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to enhance our platform!

More Notification Integrations

And as always we keep adding more integrations for notifications. You can now send your Netdata alerts from Netdata Cloud to Splunk, VictorOps, MS Teams, and more!

Acknowledgments

• @zallaevan for fixing the grammar in the Perf collector metadata.
• @sepek for fixing typos in the Health reference documentation.
• @mohd-akram for adding Valkey to apps_groups.conf.
• @luckman212 for fixing typos in the Ping collector metadata.
• @louis-lau for fixing indentation in the MongoDB collector configuration.
• @glebius for fixing the issue with reading socket file descriptors in the apps plugin on FreeBSD.
• @eyusupov for adding the power consumption metric to the Linux Power Supply collector.
• @dgibbs64 for adding Ubuntu AArch64 to the "Binary Distribution Packages" list.
• @PaulSzymanski for fixing conditional for Amazon Linux 2023 in repoconfig spec file.
• @Metric-Void for fixing parsing of Physical Drives information in the python hpssa collector.
• @powerman for various documentation improvements.
• @killme2008 for adding GreptimeDB to prometheus exporting destinations.
• @k0ste for adjusting Netdata startup on systemd systems.

Contributions

Collectors

Packaging/Installation

Documentation

Other Notable Changes

Deprecation notice

Changed in this release: Database disk space usage

Default disk space limits have been increased to better accommodate the growing data collection needs of typical Netdata deployments. In this release, the default disk space limit is increased to 1 Gigabyte (GB) for each tier, resulting in a total of 3 GB.

Old vs. New Disk Space Limits

You can manually adjust the disk space limits to your preferences in the netdata.conf configuration file.

Netdata now offers time-based retention alongside the existing disk-based retention.

Changed in this release: Rewritten/Changed collectors

Rewritten Collectors: we have rewritten a number of collectors from Python (python.d.plugin) to Go (go.d.plugin).

Reorganized Charts: charts for specific collectors have been reorganized to provide a more intuitive user experience:

Important Note: While most users won't experience any disruption, there's one key point to consider if you're using Netdata solely as a metric collector and exporting data to an external Time-Series Database (TSDB). Due to the rewrite, some metric names have been changed. If you were previously relying on these specific metric names to create charts or alerts within your TSDB, you may need to update your configurations to reflect the new names.

To view a complete list of all metrics collected by a specific collector, refer to its documentation.

Netdata Release Meetup

Join the Netdata team on the 27th of June at 16:30 UTC for the Netdata Release Meetup.

Together we’ll cover:

• Release Highlights.
• Acknowledgments.
• Q&A with the community.

RSVP now - we look forward to meeting you.

Support options

As we grow, we stay committed to providing the best support ever seen from an open-source solution. Should you encounter an issue with any of the changes made in this release or any feature in the Netdata Agent, feel free to contact us through one of the following channels:

• Netdata Learn: Find documentation, guides, and reference material for monitoring and troubleshooting your systems with Netdata.
• GitHub Issues: Make use of the Netdata repository to report bugs or open a new feature request.
• GitHub Discussions: Join the conversation around the Netdata development process and be a part of it.
• Community Forums: Visit the Community Forums and contribute to the collaborative knowledge base.
• Discord Server: Jump into the Netdata Discord and hang out with like-minded sysadmins, DevOps, SREs, and other troubleshooters. More than 2000 engineers are already using it!