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MAT: Monitor your infrastructure with Netdata
Under Observation
Monitoring, alerting, and trending (MAT) are rarely at the top of the list of important topics for admins, but they simply cannot be avoided in everyday life. Experienced admins in particular will be familiar with the problem of Nagios and its numerous forks and offshoots, which used to be obvious choices for the prevailing IT landscape, being difficult to transfer later to containerized microservice architectures.
In the meantime, much has happened in the monitoring world. Increasing numbers of solutions are capable of automatically identifying targets and adding them to their configurations. Instead of legacy event monitoring, trending is seeing more frequent use, to the extent that event monitoring is becoming a kind of byproduct. However, those who have ever worked with Prometheus and had to develop a strategy for the long-term storage of metrics data will not relish the prospect.
Netdata promises to do things better. In this article, I take a closer look at how Netdata works to discover exactly what the solution offers.
Netdata
With a remarkably simple architecture, Netdata (Figure 1) lets you monitor your infrastructure without too much overhead. To do this, you just need to install the Netdata agent on the devices in your infrastructure and set up a connection to Netdata Cloud to create a complete monitoring system quickly with a colorful graphical user interface (GUI), functional display, and meaningful alerting.
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