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In this second part of a two-part blog series, we cover how to extend the Geth collector. This proof of concept that we share shows how easy it is to collect data from any Prometheus endpoint and visualize them with Netdata dashboards. The key benefits you'll find with Netdata include per-second data collection, automatic deployment and configuration, and excellent monitoring for your systems and applications (all for free!)

In this first part of a two-part blog series, you will learn about Ethereum Nodes, how to monitor a system that runs go-ethereum (Geth) with Netdata in under five minutes, and the "ins and outs" of monitoring go-ethereum. This series was created because we realize that running a node is no small feat as it requires increasingly more and more resources to store the state of the blockchain and quickly process new transactions. Disclaimer: Although we use Netdata, this guide is generic. We talk about metrics that can be surfaced by many other tools, such as Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog.

In this guide you'll learn: introduction to Ethereum Nodes, what is Netdata, how to monitor a system that runs go-ethereum (Geth), how to monitor go-ethereum (Geth)

Get an introduction on eBPF and learn how to monitor disks and filesystems (all for free). In this post, we cover how you can get the most out of the Linux Kernel through monitoring insights based on data directly gathered from the Linux Kernel that's never been seen before. Simply put, we've developed a way for you to understand exactly what is occurring on internal systems, so you know where performance improvements can be made.

We’re simplifying the entire process before by eliminating overhead on configuration and giving you prebuilt visualizations. With Netdata, you can install the monitoring Agent with a single command, connect it to a Space in Cloud and get out-of-the-box eBPF monitoring, avoiding the complexity of finding eBPF tools that require compiling, running, collecting, and storing output plus configuration required for developing visualizations for troubleshooting. We take care of all this complexity for you. Simply, enable the eBPF on your agents and you’re good to go!

If you're looking to learn more about monitoring containers or even just Kubernetes and Docker in general, we've created a blog post that runs through what containers are, the differences between Kubernetes and Docker, and how you can monitor containers and troubleshoot unlimited metrics.

We'll walk you through how to monitor Kubernetes and Docker using Netdata. Netdata's Docker container collector, lets you monitor the health and performance of all your containers in real-time. Netdata's Docker monitoring works via cgroups, enabling you access to interactive charts on your key metrics like CPU, memory, disk, and container networking.

You can also monitor your Kubernetes containers, which alleviates complexities—including cost—while being both simple and powerful. With Netdata's K8s monitoring, you can get all your data on your Kubernetes clusters in real-time. This data is streamed to Netdata Cloud, providing full visibility on the performance of clusters. Netdata's distributed architecture, built for streaming data, lets you scale to meet any size of deployment.

This is all available for free through the opensource monitoring Agent and Netdata Cloud.