Netdata

What is Netdata?

Per-second monitoring agent for servers, containers and apps, with dashboards and alerts.

Who is Netdata best for?

Netdata is best for sysadmins and SRE teams who want per-second server and container metrics with no setup work.

• Homelabs and small fleets

  Community is free for up to 5 connected nodes, and a Homelab plan costs $90 a year for personal, non-commercial use.

• Live troubleshooting

  Metrics arrive every second with dashboards and alerts ready out of the box, and unsupervised machine learning flags anomalies.

• Teams that keep data in-house

  Metrics stay on your own nodes, Parent nodes give central storage, and Enterprise can run Netdata Cloud on-premises.

• Mixed operating systems

  The agent runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Windows, with 800+ integrations it finds on its own.

How much does Netdata cost?

Netdata's agent is free and GPL-licensed, Netdata Cloud is free for up to 5 nodes, and Business costs $8.75 per node a month on monthly billing or $7 billed yearly.

Billed yearly, Business is $7 per node a month, with volume discounts from 51 nodes. APM nodes cost $18.75 a month ($15 yearly), and extra log events or trace spans cost $0.10 per million. A Homelab plan costs $90 a year for personal, non-commercial use. Full pricing on netdata.cloud. We checked these prices on 8 Nov 2026.

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Is Netdata open source?

Yes. Netdata's code is public under the GPL 3.0 or later licence, so you can run it on your own server.

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What are the best Netdata alternatives?

Netdata is an open source alternative to Dash0. Grafana Loki, Grafana, Prometheus and 2 more do the same job and are open source too.

Dash0Freemium

Logs, metrics and traces unified, OpenTelemetry-native.

Grafana LokiOpen Source

Log aggregation system that indexes labels rather than full text, so large log volumes stay cheap.

GrafanaOpen Source

Charts metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, SQL databases and 150+ other data sources.

PrometheusOpen Source

Collects time series metrics from servers and apps, with the PromQL query language and alert rules.

SigNozOpen Source

Observability platform with logs, metrics, traces and alerts in one place, built on OpenTelemetry.

Apache SkyWalkingOpen Source

Monitors distributed systems with request traces, service maps, metrics, logs and alerts.

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