SafetyDetectives: An Interview-With-Costa-Tsaousis

In a recent conversation with SafetyDetectives, Costa Tsaousis, CEO and founder of Netdata, shares insights into the inception and evolution of Netdata, a game-changing monitoring solution. With a background in fintech and a passion for real-time data processing, Tsaousis was driven to create Netdata in response to the significant gaps…

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Portainer and Docker 26

On the 20th of March 2024, version 26.0.0 of Docker was released. There are a number of changes in this release to be aware of, with one in particular causing issues with older versions of Portainer. Version 2.20.3 of Portainer, now available, includes fixes for the known incompatibilities with Docker 26, and we plan to add full support for Docker 26 in our next LTS release (2.21), due in a few months time.

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The Great VMware Exodus

Learn about the challenges of migrating from VMware to another hypervisor and explore an alternative solution: migrating VMs into containers

With the seemingly endless announcements coming out of VMware / Broadcom regarding license and product changes, it’s no wonder VMware customers are worried about the future.

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Dynatrace vs Datadog vs Instana vs Grafana vs Netdata!

In this post, we delve into the comparative analysis of the commercial offerings of five leading monitoring solutions—Dynatrace, Datadog, Instana, Grafana, and Netdata. Our objective is to unravel the intrinsic value each of these services offers when applied to a real-world scenario. To accomplish this, we employed trial subscriptions of…

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New Streamlined Plan Structure

UPDATE: Netdata is introducing a streamlined plan structure, sunsetting Early Bird plans on 13-03-2024. As the landscape of real-time monitoring evolves, so does the diversity and complexity of use cases that our community brings to Netdata. Our mission has always been to democratize monitoring by making it accessible, powerful, and…

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How to Restore a Portainer instance running on Kubernetes using the API

If you want to understand the ease and speed of restoring a Portainer instance on a Kubernetes cluster using the Portainer API, then this post is for you. This post will demonstrate via a simple script called portainer_hb.sh and the Portainer API to restore a Portainer Instance: A Simple, Fast, and Efficient Process.

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Upcoming Homelab plan!

UPDATE: On the 2024-02-08 A new Netdata Cloud Homelab plan will become available. This is aimed for home users and students. What you need to know? New Plan alert: We’re introducing a dedicated plan on Netdata Cloud—the Homelab plan. It’s tailored to meet the needs of home users and students,…

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