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Netdata: Single pane of glass for organizing our node's infrastructure-view & monitoring K8 metrics
What do you like best about the product?
Netdata offers enhanced visualization of K8 resource utilization clusters that are deployed in our hybrid cloud infrastructure. It provides accurate metric aggregates from various nodes/pods/containers which depend on the grouping that we choose. All contextual data & real-time metrics obtained from our resource can be overviewed effectively from its Modal window panel. The metric correlation feature is also helpful to search specific metrics & charts for a particular anomaly which can be drilled down to find the root cause of the issue.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its single-node dashboard only allows us to monitor one server at a time which is hindsight when we require to monitor several servers at the same time. We can define active alerts which effectively capture our dynamic thresholds from our Netdata collector and then integrate them with Amazon SNS to obtain status notifications & server anomalies in real-time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We include our nodes under the War Rooms utility offered by Netdata to organize them as per our customer requirements. Its single-node dashboard offers all details from a granular level which makes it convenient to perform effective RCA. We can also create dynamic alarms through its dimension templates as it follows many-to-one mapping, suitable for incorporating various alarm entities with dimensions that are dynamic in nature. While provisioning horizontal scaling, all drained K8 nodes will be tagged as unreachable just to ensure that these nodes don't align with our current infrastructure view which is useful for us.
easy to start with - fundamental good feeling to stay with
What do you like best about the product?
The feeling, that a truly professional invented that thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Really? Nothing, that would matter to write here. If at all: It´s a bit annoying, I have to tls-tunnel the tcp forwarding with another tool. On the other hand, I would do that anyway.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Metrics. Just metrics. The easier you get them, the earlier you start with them. It was never a must have before, but is a must have now.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just try it. If you are not convinced within an hour, you already made your decision before and should go for that.
NetData Review
What do you like best about the product?
NetData is a powerful, lightweight and easy-to-install tool that provides a fully responsive HTML5 display of graphs, histograms and pie graphs on system performance, latencies, speeds, load, average load and many more other information related to the status of services running on the host where it is installed.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only flaw of netdata is that in the Windows environment, if not through special forks and derivations of this open source tool, it is impossible or almost impossible to monitor all the parameters inherent in the netdata dashboard, therefore, any virtualization systems of Microsoft-based VMs Hyper V will not be monitored through this tool and it is therefore necessary to resort to expensive proprietary tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Netdata is really easy to configure and guarantee total control of the situation without the need to perform complex SSH checks and various filters to access the data of interest, the real-time alert functions and the highlighting of the problem on the live dashboard the tool the perfect tool for proactive and active monitoring of resources and systems.
Adequate tool for monitoring network, hardware, and the security of a host or a guest
What do you like best about the product?
There are many tools, much more stable and well-known, but what favors netdata in EVERY way is the speed of installation, the responsiveness of the dashboard, and the ease with which it is easy to monitor numerous parameters at extreme levels of depth and detail, with the added possibility of being able to "play" around with widgets, customized dashboards, and various alerting systems all within a truly "plug and play" tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not contain utilities or a system capable of keeping the software constantly updated, so it is necessary to frequently visit the developer's website, download, and manually install updates. Furthermore, security is not its strong point as the login occurs without any dialog requesting a password or credentials of any kind.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implementing netdata within my monitoring team has helped both senior and junior colleagues to relax and not keep their eyes glued to the horrible dashboards of the old tools we used. Thanks to netdata, it was possible to configure visual, animated alerts and via Telegram in less than half a working day, allowing resources to dedicate their time to more interesting activities rather than watching a monitor for all 8 working hours.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Configure, in production and non-production environments, a bash or python script to obtain automatic updates through daily checks of the versions released on GitHub.
A lightweight and updated package for full monitoring of hosts and Virtual Machine guests
What do you like best about the product?
Netdata allows for complete monitoring of the Linux host on which it is installed. The installation size is minimal and has almost no impact on the performance and hardware resources of the host, so it can also be installed in older environments and/or with limited physical or virtual hardware resources remaining. It allows for the monitoring of services, values, and loads through a fully responsive and customizable interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
The update times of certain values cannot be selected from the dashboard unless by modifying the source code, therefore it becomes complicated to perform real-time monitoring on values considered important to verify the updated status of a service or resource.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitor on a tile of monitors multiple hosts simultaneously to keep important values and parameters related to critical functionalities and services under control, such as network-distributed file systems and networking status.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Remember to keep it updated through cronjobs or similar scheduling as bugs in the Beta phase of Nodes are often fixed and new interesting features are released, available only with manual updates.
The ultimate tool for real-time monitoring of performance, speed, and latencies
What do you like best about the product?
NetData is a powerful, lightweight, and easy-to-install tool that allows the visualization on fully responsive web dashboards and HTML5 of graphs, histograms, and pie charts related to system performance, latencies, speeds, load, average load, and many other pieces of information related to the status of services running on the hosts where it is installed. Netdata is really easy to configure and allows total control of the situation without the need to execute complex SSH commands and various filters to access the data of interest. The real-time alerting functionalities and problem highlighting on the live dashboard make it the perfect tool for proactive and active monitoring of resources and systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only drawback of netdata is that in a Windows environment, unless through specific forks and derivations of this open-source tool, it is almost impossible to monitor all the parameters inherent in the netdata dashboard. Therefore, any virtualization systems of VMs based on Microsoft Hyper V will not be monitorable through this tool, and it is thus necessary to resort to expensive proprietary tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We produce IoT devices for smart buildings that use proprietary servers and VMs self-hosted at our data center. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the status of these host systems to highlight or become aware of and proactively and promptly resolve any issues that may arise on these host systems, making critical functionalities of the IoT devices installed in the buildings unavailable, such as the timed closing of glass doors or the dimming via cloud command from an Android app of the blinds integrated into the glass of each room.
Simple, immediate monitoring that is easy to understand even for beginners
What do you like best about the product?
NetData allows, in a completely graphical manner and with an installation on Linux of only two commands, to monitor every single detail and value of one or more host systems or one or more guest systems to have at a glance and under continuous monitoring, in an orderly manner and divided into fully customizable sections, the intake of very important data related to workloads, active services, load of active services, networking statistics, cybersecurity statistics and averages, and hundreds of customizable tests through integrated and/or integrable plugins like fping and iperf that allow you to start and automatically display on the dashboard the results of advanced pings and bilateral connection tests and the related measurement of available and used bandwidth. It therefore allows anyone (in my company we have assigned some interns who are experts in monitoring but not in software related to this activity) to view, on hourly shifts, the data on the dashboard by examining the triggers, alarms, and creating and configuring the alerts and verification actions necessary to resolve or report the problem to the appropriate person, a very useful tool for those who host systems of various kinds with relatively strict SLAs imposed by clients or other entities.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not easy to integrate the monitoring of external systems such as Wi-Fi SDN statistics, gateways, IoT devices with standard protocols and so on, despite the availability of official APIs open to everyone in multiple formats. Additionally, a basic documentation should be created regarding the use and creation of tasks, triggers, and alarms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have employed interns with little experience in monitoring critical and complex systems without the need for specific training, except for basic actions on security measures to be taken in case of alarms and triggers beyond a certain threshold. In this way, our company has been able to train inexperienced students in proactive monitoring systems, also saving human resources and hours per individual resource in monitoring such assets. Thanks to netdata, we manage to meet client KPIs and SLAs, avoiding dissatisfaction and proactively resolving potentially harmful situations before they can impact one or more nodes of our clusters.
Excellent tool for continuous graphical monitoring of the status of resources and services
What do you like best about the product?
Netdata allows in a clear and aesthetically (as well as graphically) very pleasing way to identify and monitor various aspects and values of hardware resources, service status, load percentages, usage, errors, and averages of operating systems (mainly Linux) and the services that revolve around them. In my company, it finds application in multiple fields: 24/7 monitoring for 365 days a year of business-critical client assets, monitoring of networking devices, bandwidth controls, and unified monitoring of multiple physical hosts (used for example for the virtualization of VMs). It is open source and allows for modification and adaptation according to one's needs and requirements. I love its simplicity and the fact that it uses well-documented configuration files rather than languages with mandatory and confusing indentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is little possibility, except through the additional fping module, to monitor additional Linux nodes or services from a netdata node. In many use cases, it would simply be enough to monitor the status of some ports and display it on the netdata graph of the main node, but unfortunately, this is not possible because the fping module does not allow port tests but only the ICMP protocol. It would be useful to integrate Zenmap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Thanks to netdata, I was able to create, almost at no cost, for the support ops team of my company, a screen that was then placed on a high-resolution videowall for continuous monitoring of the company's IT and networking infrastructure. This includes customer services with strict SLAs that are continuously monitored, as well as security appliances, backup, disaster recovery, and administration that require proactive alerting in case of issues or values outside the recommended threshold.
Ad-hoc tool, perhaps the best, for proactive graphical monitoring of important assets
What do you like best about the product?
Netdata is simply perfect, I say simply because besides being installed with a simple command from the CLI, it is very lightweight, fast, and does not impact system resources at all despite the remarkable features it contains. Most importantly, it allows for the complete configuration of an active, proactive monitoring system with just a few clicks. Even more importantly, it is graphical and GUI-based for every system parameter with truly astonishing granularity and depth for a free and open-source tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
The support for third-party applications and monitoring systems (or monitoring APIs) is poor, and often the parsing of external JSON parameters and various indices is complicated or so costly to obtain that one is forced to use proprietary monitoring systems rather than integrate into netdata. In any case, it is not necessarily a negative point; it is simply not yet mature enough to perform this type of action.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Create a dashboard active 24/7 with real-time updates and alerting for a security operation center and a corporate network operation center to keep, for a team of about 6 people, every single network parameter, CPU, load, RAM, and additional values under control, which, if abnormal, could suggest issues with cybersecurity or networking, an excellent graphical alternative to Zabbix as well as beautiful, indeed stunning, to see on a wall-mounted videowall.
Best monitoring tool ever for dashboards and proactive monitoring of nodes and hosts
What do you like best about the product?
Netdata convinced me from the first use as it presents itself with an easy-to-use and configurable graphical interface, fully responsive with a minimal and material design. The vast amount of data it can read on the host system once installed is immense, allowing for both basic superficial monitoring (e.g., CPU %, RAM %, downstream and upstream bandwidth) and granular monitoring of parameters inherent in the operating system in use.
What do you dislike about the product?
I like everything about netdata, a graphical customization menu for the web GUI would help many companies and industry specialists create personalized views and dashboards instead of the usual grey-themed dashboards that do not adapt well to large arrays of videowalls in dedicated monitoring rooms due to the dark color.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Proactively monitor through a team that works 24/7 to view such data in real-time, the health status and activity status of certain hosts and their running services considered business critical for our operations and those of our clients. I never expected that such a lightweight and free tool could solve such a large and widespread problem, it amazed me!
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