Hi there, I’m the founder of Netdata.
I’m glad to see how passionate you are about Netdata! This is great!
Netdata is undergoing significant development and transformation. We’re building a platform to streamline and simplify operations while maintaining - and even improving - its core strengths: real-time, low latency, cost efficiency, advanced machine learning, automation, and much more.
Multi-node dashboards weren’t part of the open-source Netdata; they were only available through our commercial offering, Netdata Cloud. We pushed hard to integrate the closed-source Netdata Cloud dashboard into the agent and make features like: highly scalable parent nodes, machine learning with unsupervised anomaly detection, and the ‘Top’ functions, available in the open-source version.
Before this update, those features were exclusive to the commercial product.
The absence of limitations on the agent dashboard was actually a bug. The limits intended for the Netdata Cloud Community tier were mistakenly not applied to it. It took us some time to identify and fix this issue.
That said, I want to remind you that the new dashboard (even with these limits) is far superior to the previous version. NIDL framework for slicing and dicing the data without learning query languages, anomaly detection everywhere, multi-instance charts and many more. This dashboard is also under active development and many more free features are coming to it.
So, despite these hiccups, we are happy that you now have access to this enhanced dashboard as part of the open-source Netdata experience.
So, as far as we can tell, all these was about giving more to the community, for free, not to take anything back.