Release 1.44.0 - Netdata vs Prometheus, Netdata Journal Logs, Netdata's log2journal (Beta) and more!

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Dec 12, 2023

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

Read the full release notes 🚀
https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases/tag/v1.44.0

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

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

Release HIGHLIGHTS:

Netdata beats Prometheus in all aspects
We tested Netdata and Prometheus at scale, both ingesting 2.7 million metrics per second. On the same workload, Netdata vs Prometheus needs: 35% less CPU, 49% less RAM, 12% less bandwidth
75% less disk space, 98% less disk I/O.

To achieve these astonishing results, we made the following changes to Netdata since the previous release: New SLOTS streaming protocol, Streaming compression algorithms, Gorilla compression beta

Our systemd-journal.plugin can now deal with huge logs databases!
Our systemd-journal.plugin was already quite faster (10x) than journalctl, but still it was slow when the journal databases were huge (e.g. at journals' centralization points where hundreds or thousands of nodes push their logs).

In this release, we introduce several changes to allow the plugin to work promptly in such environments. Netdata can now deal with huge systemd-journal databases and is available for the host logs when Netdata runs in a container.

log2journal, a new tool for managing logs
log2journal allows the conversion of log files into structured systemd-journal log entries. It is a utility to extract, convert, transform, and send to systemd-journal any kind of structured logs (including JSON and logfmt logs), similar to what promtail does for Loki.
Netdata now logs to systemd-journal
The logging layer of Netdata has been rewritten, so that Netdata logs now go to the systemd-journal, in a namespace called netdata.
Functions, power up your troubleshooting toolkit!
Several new Functions have been added to help us in our troubleshooting journeys. On top of processes, streaming, and systemd-journal, we are leveraging the wide range of collectors and metrics Netdata has and bringing data in a different visual representation
New Alert Notification Integrations to Netdata Cloud
We've been working on adding more Alert Notification Integrations to Netdata Cloud and recently added new ones! Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Telegram.

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