# Netdata Contributors of the Month ⭐️

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** announcement\
**Created:** [September 9, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116 "2020-09-09T14:15:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Briston](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/jennifer_briston/32/548_2.png) [@Jennifer\_Briston](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Jennifer_Briston)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116/1 "2020-09-09T14:15:48Z")

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The Netdata community is at the core of our mission to create a remarkable infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting solution. The time and expertise that contributors volunteer is essential to our success.

Each month, we nominate users who’ve helped us grow. Whether you’ve stepped up to answer each other’s questions, solved a complex problem, or improved documentation, we want to show you our thanks.

These users will receive a token of our appreciation. When you’re nominated, we’ll ask you to email rewards@netdata.cloud with the following information to ensure you receive your gift.

- GitHub Username
- First Name
- Last Name
- Email
- Phone
- Full Shipping Address (including city, state, zip, & country)

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**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Briston](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/jennifer_briston/32/548_2.png) [@Jennifer\_Briston](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Jennifer_Briston)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116/2 "2020-09-09T14:17:02Z")

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**Netdata Contributors of the Month: August** 🙌

@vince-lessbits @Ancairon @michmach @pando85 @devinrsmith @florianmagnin @lassebm

Thank you for your contributions this past month! We appreciate all the help you’ve provided to Netdata and we’d like to thank you.

Please email us at rewards@netdata.cloud with the following information to ensure you receive your Netdata swag 🕶

- GitHub Username
- First Name
- Last Name
- Email
- Phone
- Full Shipping Address (including city, state, zip, & country)

Thank you again for your contributions!

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**Author:** ![OdysLam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/odyslam/32/98_2.png) [@OdysLam](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/OdysLam)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116/3 "2020-12-08T14:01:33Z")

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As every month, we couldn’t come back here to this venerable GitHub issue and celebrate the Contributors of the Month for November.

So, we thank (humbly might I add) the following contributors:

- [@ctrlaltdel](https://github.com/ctrlaltdel) for contributing a **new collector** (Jitsi videobridge): [#10294](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/10294)
- [@voriol](https://github.com/voriol) for helping us improve our docs: [#10294](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/10294)
- [@ski2per](https://github.com/ski2per) for making 4 contributions to netdata/go.d.plugin and introducing a new plugin (Nginxvts): [netdata/go.d.plugin#515](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/pull/515)
- [@vincentkersten](https://github.com/vincentkersten) for improving our docs [#10214](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/10214)
- [@abrbon](https://github.com/abrbon) fixed a **bug** in auto-updater for **FreeBSD** [#10204](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/10204)
- [@wash2](https://github.com/wash2) fixed a bug in our `libreswan` plugin : [#10190](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/10190)

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**Author:** ![OdysLam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/odyslam/32/98_2.png) [@OdysLam](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/OdysLam)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:12am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116/4 "2020-12-09T11:12:53Z")

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**Author:** ![OdysLam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/odyslam/32/98_2.png) [@OdysLam](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/OdysLam)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116/6 "2021-02-12T17:38:23Z")

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Hello everyone and happy new year, 2020 was rough.

As always, we thank the contributors who make sure that Netdata Agent is becoming increasingly better, for everyone, for free. These people are not the only ones who contributed, but they are the first-time contributors and as custom goes, we welcome them with a public shout and some swag 🙇‍♂️

- [@ernestojpg](https://github.com/ernestojpg), for improving our Varnish collector
- [@ashish1099](https://github.com/ashish1099), for improving our documentation
- [@stevenans9859], for improving our default alarms configuration
- [@tickez](https://github.com/tickez) for actually going ahead and fixing a bug in our updater with [#10349](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/10349) (💪 ). Thank you!
- [@BT-dschleich](https://github.com/BT-dschleich) for improving our go.d filecheck collector
- [@Simonmicro](https://github.com/Simonmicro) for improving our documentation
- [@kdvlr](https://github.com/kdvlr) for improving our documentation
- [@trent-thorkildsen](https://github.com/trent-thorkildsen) for improving our documentation
- [@skibbipl](https://github.com/skibbipl) for actually improving our updater with [#10424](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/10424), huge thank you as well! ✌
- [@jsoref](https://github.com/jsoref) for improving our documentation and our GitHub Acctions
- [@slavox](https://github.com/slavox) for improving our HDDTemp collector
- [@autoalan](https://github.com/autoalan) for improving our documentation
- [@ysamouhos](https://github.com/ysamouhos) for improving our documentation

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**Author:** ![OdysLam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/odyslam/32/98_2.png) [@OdysLam](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/OdysLam)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116/7 "2021-02-12T17:39:37Z")

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January is a slow month, with everyone catching up with work. **It’s OK.**

Here are the handful of people who made their first PR in January. As always, we are humbled by investing time and energy in making Netdata better for everyone, for free.

- [@KrisShannon](https://github.com/KrisShannon) - Thanks for improving our health\_alarm\_log\_read and fixing the segfault!
- [@g3offrey](https://github.com/g3offrey) - Thanks for adding the traefik metrics endpoint to prometheus.conf
- [@jilleJr](https://github.com/jilleJr) - Thanks for improving our nginx docs
- [@tinyhammers](https://github.com/tinyhammers) - Thanks for improving our OPSgenie alarm for EU users

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**Author:** ![Tasos\_Katsoulas](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/tasos_katsoulas/32/1344_2.png) [@Tasos\_Katsoulas](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Tasos_Katsoulas)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-contributors-of-the-month/116/8 "2022-02-25T19:47:21Z")

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