Real-time infrastructure monitoring agent with per-second metrics and a built-in web dashboard.
Netdata is an open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring agent. It collects thousands of metrics per second from the local system with minimal configuration, stores them locally and visualizes them in a built-in web dashboard. On Windows it installs as a service and can optionally be connected to Netdata Cloud for centralized, multi-node monitoring.
NOTICE
The v2.12.0 build of the Netdata Agent has been discovered to have serious stability issues that cause it to crash randomly on startup due to an upstream bug in some of the tooling we depend on. As such, we have removed the installer for it from the release page. A fix is expected in v2.12.1, but until that release, users are encouraged to use the latest known working version (v2.11.1), which can be downloaded here.
Table of Contents
- Summary
- Highlights
- OpenTelemetry Traces, in Early Access
- Redfish: Out-of-Band Server Hardware Monitoring
- SNMP Topology: Diagnostics, Offline Triage and Replay
- New Collectors: S3 Object Storage and SMBIOS Memory
- Ceph, Reworked as a Prometheus Complement
- Windows: Hyper-V, RDP and Broader Coverage
- Secrets and Privilege Hardening in go.d
- Query Engine: Correctness and Faster Weights
- Agent Stability: dbengine, SQLite, ACLK and ML
- Netdata Cloud: Infrastructure Knowledge, Node Decommissioning and AI Conversations
- Platform Support Changes
- Acknowledgments
- Contributions
- Collectors
- Packaging/Installation
- Documentation
- Other Notable Changes
- Deprecation notice
- Support options
Release Summary
v2.11.0 brought network topology and made logs a first-class signal next to metrics. v2.12.0 adds OpenTelemetry
traces, out-of-band hardware monitoring through Redfish, and a diagnostics layer that makes SNMP topology debuggable,
alongside a large round of collector, query and stability fixes.
The third observability signal arrives. Netdata already ingested OpenTelemetry metrics and logs. This release adds
traces: OTLP trace records are received, normalized and stored by the agent under their own retention policy, with a
purpose-built columnar store — trace-aware indexes, bloom filters and rollups — and an otel-traces query Function that
searches traces, aggregates them over a window and drives an overview heatmap. You explore them in a new Traces tab
of the dashboard, available today as an Early Access feature.
Hardware monitoring goes out-of-band. The new Redfish collector talks to the BMC — iDRAC, iLO and any
DMTF Redfish implementation — rather than to the operating system, so as long as the BMC stays powered and reachable it
keeps reporting fans, temperatures, power supplies, drives and controllers when the host itself is unhealthy, rebooting or
powered down. It ships with sensor and hardware …
| Publisher | Netdata Inc. |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.12.0 |
| Release date | 2026-09-30 |
| License | GPL-3.0 |
| Installer type | wix |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Package ID | Netdata.Netdata |
| Install scope | All users |
winget install --id=Netdata.Netdata -ewinget upgrade --id=Netdata.Netdata -ewinget uninstall --id=Netdata.Netdata -emsiexec /i "netdata-v2.12.0-x64.msi" /quiet /norestartmsiexec /x {83002543-7FD0-40FD-836B-CC326C3ACF38} /quietTable of Contents
- Summary
- Highlights
- Network Monitor Dashboard (Technical Preview)
- Network Flows: NetFlow, IPFIX and sFlow (Technical Preview)
- Network Topology and Application Dependencies (Technical Preview)
- SNMP Trap Listener
- Expanded SNMP Device Coverage
- Logs: OpenTelemetry Ingestion and a Unified Log Engine
- AWS CloudWatch Collector
- New Collectors
- Endpoint Monitoring: macOS, Windows, FreeBSD and Linux
- Prometheus Collector Overhaul
- Query Engine and API
- Netdata Cloud: AI Troubleshooting and MCP
- Netdata Cloud: Alerts and Notifications
- Netdata Cloud: Fleet Management and Scale
- Netdata Cloud: Dashboards and Charts
- Security Hardening
- End of Full Support for RHEL 7.x, CentOS 7.x, and Amazon Linux 2
- Acknowledgments
- Contributions
- Collectors
- Packaging/Installation
- Documentation
- Other Notable Changes
- Deprecation notice
- Support options
Release Summary
Netdata has always been exceptionally good at one particular thing: telling you, per second and with no configuration,
what is happening inside a machine. v2.11.0 is the release where that stops being the boundary.
Two things happen here, and together they change what Netdata is.
First, Netdata learns the network. A new Network Monitor dashboard brings device inventory, metrics, topology,
flows, traps and alerts into one place. Behind it, Network Flows receives NetFlow, IPFIX and sFlow from your routers, …
Yes. Netdata is free and open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license.
The latest version is 2.12.0, released on Sep 30, 2026.
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with c18ad320afbd695d7814214d0ef5fa13b1e423af95d88a3a45c00f48dfb52cbc.
Netdata runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.
Run the offline installer with msiexec /i "netdata-v2.12.0-x64.msi" /quiet /norestart, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=Netdata.Netdata -e --silent.
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Netdata and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=Netdata.Netdata -e.
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