> A “Parent” is a Netdata Agent, like the ones we install on all our systems, but is configured as a central node that receives, stores and processes metrics data from other Netdata “Child” nodes in our infrastructure...
https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/streaming/
Just to mention there is this doc too that also tries to explain various deployment strategies
e.g. stand alone: https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/architecture/deployment-str...
https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/architecture/deployment-str...
and just dont have to claim the nodes to Netdata Cloud if you don't want to.
> A “Parent” is a Netdata Agent, like the ones we install on all our systems, but is configured as a central node that receives, stores and processes metrics data from other Netdata “Child” nodes in our infrastructure...
https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/streaming/