> never really actionable ... only of interest for a short period ... you know where and when the problem is.

I'm not a sysadmin of a large shop (I did that for a short bit, but prior to this existing), so I can only speak as a guy who runs a few big linux servers/virtuals. I've had netdata installed on my home severs for quite some time. And yes, the graphs were really cool, at first, and kinda went into the background.

Here's the thing: when something isn't right with those boxes, that's become the first place I visit. Since I had some franken-boxes with a bunch of storage, it's often related to the array, or btrfs. When I hop in there I'll notice an alert or two, gooble it, alter something and never see it again. It helped me solve some network issues.

I don't know, short of it being a more busy process than I wish it were on my server (only a little and I'm running a few plug-ins on the one that I'm unhappy with), it's been helpful.