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Introduction

This document is intended for the purpose of onboarding a production web-server to the netdata platform, introducing a new era to metrics and performance monitoring. Netdata is built around 4 main principles:

• Per second data collection for all metrics.
• Collection & Visualisation of metrics from all possible sources
• Meaningful presentation of metrics, optimised for visual anomaly detection
• Preconfigured, fire (install) and forget!

Netdata decentralizes monitoring completely. Each Netdata node is autonomous. It collects metrics locally, it stores them locally, it runs checks against them to trigger alarms locally, and provides an API for the dashboards to visualize them. Horizontal Scale

So what Netdata does?

1. Metrics are auto-detected, so for 99% of the cases data collection works out of the box.
2. Metrics are converted to human readable units, right after data collection, before storing them into the database.
3. Metrics are structured, organized in charts, families and applications, so that they can be browsed.
4. Dashboards are automatically generated, so all metrics are available for exploration immediately after installation.
5. Dashboards are not just visualizing metrics; they are a tool, optimized for visual anomaly detection.