Release 2.0: Native Windows Support, Enhanced Process Monitoring, Improved Network Monitoring & more

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Nov 11, 2024

The Netdata Team is very excited to introduce you to Netdata v2.0 and to all the new features and improvements in the new version.

Read the full release notes 🚀
https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Watch a live demo of Netdata:
https://app.netdata.cloud/spaces/netdata-demo/rooms

Visit the website:
https://www.netdata.cloud/

Release HIGHLIGHTS:

Native Windows Support
Netdata now delivers comprehensive monitoring for Windows systems, including metrics, logs, process monitoring, machine learning, alerts, streaming, and more. Key features include:

Installation via Windows Installer
New windows.plugin: Collects extensive system and application metrics, covering:
CPU, memory, and network performance
Physical and logical disk monitoring
Network stack insights and interface metrics
IIS, MSSQL, .NET, and Hyper-V monitoring
Enhanced apps.plugin: Monitors Windows processes
New windows-events.plugin: Offers in-depth visibility into Windows Events.

Read more about the Windows Events Plugin here: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/src/collectors/windows-events.plugin/README.md

Process Monitoring: Simplified and Enhanced
apps.plugin has been significantly reworked to introduce dynamic process grouping:

Automates grouping: automatically categorizes processes, significantly reducing manual configuration efforts.
Eliminates "other" dimension: unmatched processes are now grouped dynamically.

Read more about it in this blog post: https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/accurate-process-monitoring-with-netdata/

Network Monitoring
Enhanced SNMP collector
The SNMP collector has been significantly improved, making it easier to configure and providing better visualizations for your SNMP devices. Further improvements related to network monitoring are coming soon!

Improved Performance
The redesigned network-viewer.plugin and local-listeners now deliver breakthrough performance in high-traffic environments, processing thousands of socket connections with minimal overhead. Experience real-time network insights without compromising system performance!

Enterprise SSO - Enhanced SP Initiated SSO Flow
You can now initiate a login flow directly from the Netdata Sign-In page without initiating the SSO flow from the IDP.

Netdata now supports configuring a DNS TXT record on the IDP and will allow the user to sign in by providing the email address.

Read the Enterprise SSO documentation for more details: https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/netdata-cloud/authentication-&-authorization/enterprise-sso-authentication#from-netdata-sign-up-page

Netdata Referral Program
Every referred user will get a 10% discount when they subscribe to Netdata Business or Homelab - and you will receive 10% of their subscription value (up to a max of 1000$ per space). You can refer an unlimited number of users, so there's no real limit to how much you can earn with the referral program. Start referring: https://www.netdata.cloud/referral/

Alerts Silencing Recurrence
Netdata Cloud UI now supports scheduling recurring silence rules for Alerts at a Space, Room, Node, and Alert level.

Configurable Timeouts on Reachability Notifications
Netdata introduces configurable timeouts for reachability notifications at Space and Room levels.

Comprehensive Unicode Support
Netdata now provides complete UTF-8 compatibility, enabling support of international characters in all metadata—from chart names and dimensions to labels and logs. This enhancement ensures the proper display of non-Latin characters and symbols.

Configuration Updates: Intuitive Unit Specifications
Netdata introduces human-friendly unit notation in configuration files. Use natural expressions like 1d (one day), 1MiB (one megabyte), or 500ms (milliseconds) in netdata.conf and stream.conf.

00:00 Intro

00:17 Native Windows Support

01:11 Process & Network Monitoring Updates

01:41 SSO Mechanism Updates

02:21 Referral Program

02:38 new features on Alerts and Notifications

02:54 QOL Improvements

03:17 Outro

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