The only agent that thinks for itself

Autonomous Monitoring with self-learning AI built-in, operating independently across your entire stack.

Unlimited Metrics & Logs
Machine learning & MCP
5% CPU, 150MB RAM
3GB disk, >1 year retention
800+ integrations, zero config
Dashboards, alerts out of the box
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Centralized metrics streaming and storage

Aggregate metrics from multiple agents into centralized Parent nodes for unified monitoring across your infrastructure.

Stream from unlimited agents
Long-term data retention
High availability clustering
Data replication & backup
Scalable architecture
Enterprise-grade security
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Fully managed cloud platform

Access your monitoring data from anywhere with our SaaS platform. No infrastructure to manage, automatic updates, and global availability.

Zero infrastructure management
99.9% uptime SLA
Global data centers
Automatic updates & patches
Enterprise SSO & RBAC
SOC2 & ISO certified
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Deploy Netdata Cloud in your infrastructure

Run the full Netdata Cloud platform on-premises for complete data sovereignty and compliance with your security policies.

Complete data sovereignty
Air-gapped deployment
Custom compliance controls
Private network integration
Dedicated support team
Kubernetes & Docker support
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Powerful, intuitive monitoring interface

Modern, responsive UI built for real-time troubleshooting with customizable dashboards and advanced visualization capabilities.

Real-time chart updates
Customizable dashboards
Dark & light themes
Advanced filtering & search
Responsive on all devices
Collaboration features
> Explore Netdata UI
Monitor on the go

Native iOS and Android apps bring full monitoring capabilities to your mobile device with real-time alerts and notifications.

iOS & Android apps
Push notifications
Touch-optimized interface
Offline data access
Biometric authentication
Widget support
> Download apps

Best energy efficiency

True real-time per-second

100% automated zero config

Centralized observability

Multi-year retention

High availability built-in

Zero maintenance

Always up-to-date

Enterprise security

Complete data control

Air-gap ready

Compliance certified

Millisecond responsiveness

Infinite zoom & pan

Works on any device

Native performance

Instant alerts

Monitor anywhere

80% Faster Incident Resolution
AI-powered troubleshooting from detection, to root cause and blast radius identification, to reporting.
True Real-Time and Simple, even at Scale
Linearly and infinitely scalable full-stack observability, that can be deployed even mid-crisis.
90% Cost Reduction, Full Fidelity
Instead of centralizing the data, Netdata distributes the code, eliminating pipelines and complexity.
Control Without Surrender
SOC 2 Type 2 certified with every metric kept on your infrastructure.
Integrations

800+ collectors and notification channels, auto-discovered and ready out of the box.

800+ data collectors
Auto-discovery & zero config
Cloud, infra, app protocols
Notifications out of the box
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Real Results
46% Cost Reduction

Reduced monitoring costs by 46% while cutting staff overhead by 67%.

— Leonardo Antunez, Codyas

Zero Pipeline

No data shipping. No central storage costs. Query at the edge.

From Our Users
"Out-of-the-Box"

So many out-of-the-box features! I mostly don't have to develop anything.

— Simon Beginn, LANCOM Systems

No Query Language

Point-and-click troubleshooting. No PromQL, no LogQL, no learning curve.

Enterprise Ready
67% Less Staff, 46% Cost Cut

Enterprise efficiency without enterprise complexity—real ROI from day one.

— Leonardo Antunez, Codyas

SOC 2 Type 2 Certified

Zero data egress. Only metadata reaches the cloud. Your metrics stay on your infrastructure.

Full Coverage
800+ Collectors

Auto-discovered and configured. No manual setup required.

Any Notification Channel

Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, email, webhooks—all built-in.

Built for the People Who Get Paged
Because 3am alerts deserve instant answers, not hour-long hunts.
Every Industry Has Rules. We Master Them.
See how healthcare, finance, and government teams cut monitoring costs 90% while staying audit-ready.
Monitor Any Technology. Configure Nothing.
Install the agent. It already knows your stack.
From Our Users
"A Rare Unicorn"

Netdata gives more than you invest in it. A rare unicorn that obeys the Pareto rule.

— Eduard Porquet Mateu, TMB Barcelona

99% Downtime Reduction

Reduced website downtime by 99% and cloud bill by 30% using Netdata alerts.

— Falkland Islands Government

Real Savings
30% Cloud Cost Reduction

Optimized resource allocation based on Netdata alerts cut cloud spending by 30%.

— Falkland Islands Government

46% Cost Cut

Reduced monitoring staff by 67% while cutting operational costs by 46%.

— Codyas

Real Coverage
"Plugin for Everything"

Netdata has agent capacity or a plugin for everything, including Windows and Kubernetes.

— Eduard Porquet Mateu, TMB Barcelona

"Out-of-the-Box"

So many out-of-the-box features! I mostly don't have to develop anything.

— Simon Beginn, LANCOM Systems

Real Speed
Troubleshooting in 30 Seconds

From 2-3 minutes to 30 seconds—instant visibility into any node issue.

— Matthew Artist, Nodecraft

20% Downtime Reduction

20% less downtime and 40% budget optimization from out-of-the-box monitoring.

— Simon Beginn, LANCOM Systems

Pay per Node. Unlimited Everything Else.

One price per node. Unlimited metrics, logs, users, and retention. No per-GB surprises.

Free tier—forever
No metric limits or caps
Retention you control
Cancel anytime
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What's Your Monitoring Really Costing You?

Most teams overpay by 40-60%. Let's find out why.

Expose hidden metric charges
Calculate tool consolidation
Customers report 30-67% savings
Results in under 60 seconds
> See what you're really paying
Your Infrastructure Is Unique. Let's Talk.

Because monitoring 10 nodes is different from monitoring 10,000.

On-prem & air-gapped deployment
Volume pricing & agreements
Architecture review for your scale
Compliance & security support
> Start a conversation
Monitoring That Sells Itself

Deploy in minutes. Impress clients in hours. Earn recurring revenue for years.

30-second live demos close deals
Zero config = zero support burden
Competitive margins & deal protection
Response in 48 hours
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Per-Second Metrics at Homelab Prices

Same engine, same dashboards, same ML. Just priced for tinkerers.

Community: Free forever · 5 nodes · non-commercial
Homelab: $90/yr · unlimited nodes · fair usage
> Start monitoring your lab—free
$1,000 Per Referral. Unlimited Referrals.

Your colleagues get 10% off. You get 10% commission. Everyone wins.

10% of subscriptions, up to $1,000 each
Track earnings inside Netdata Cloud
PayPal/Venmo payouts in 3-4 weeks
No caps, no complexity
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Cost Proof
40% Budget Optimization

"Netdata's significant positive impact" — LANCOM Systems

Calculate Your Savings

Compare vs Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace

Savings Proof
46% Cost Reduction

"Cut costs by 46%, staff by 67%" — Codyas

30% Cloud Bill Savings

"Reduced cloud bill by 30%" — Falkland Islands Gov

Enterprise Proof
"Better Than Combined Alternatives"

"Better observability with Netdata than combining other tools." — TMB Barcelona

Real Engineers, <24h Response

DPA, SLAs, on-prem, volume pricing

Why Partners Win
Demo Live Infrastructure

One command, 30 seconds, real data—no sandbox needed

Zero Tickets, High Margins

Auto-config + per-node pricing = predictable profit

Homelab Ready
"Absolutely Incredible"

"We tested every monitoring system under the sun." — Benjamin Gabler, CEO Rocket.Net

76k+ GitHub Stars

3rd most starred monitoring project

Worth Recommending
Product That Delivers

Customers report 40-67% cost cuts, 99% downtime reduction

Zero Risk to Your Rep

Free tier lets them try before they buy

Never Fight Fires Alone

Docs, community, and expert help—pick your path to resolution.

Learn.netdata.cloud docs
Discord, Forums, GitHub
Premium support available
> Get answers now
60 Seconds to First Dashboard

One command to install. Zero config. 850+ integrations documented.

Linux, Windows, K8s, Docker
Auto-discovers your stack
> Read our documentation
See Netdata in Action

Watch real-time monitoring in action—demos, tutorials, and engineering deep dives.

Product demos and walkthroughs
Real infrastructure, not staged
> Start with the 3-minute tour
Level Up Your Monitoring
Real problems. Real solutions. 112+ guides from basic monitoring to AI observability.
76,000+ Engineers Strong
615+ contributors. 1.5M daily downloads. One mission: simplify observability.
Per-Second. 90% Cheaper. Data Stays Home.
Side-by-side comparisons: costs, real-time granularity, and data sovereignty for every major tool.

See why teams switch from Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and more.

> Browse all comparisons
Edge-Native Observability, Born Open Source
Per-second visibility, ML on every metric, and data that never leaves your infrastructure.
Founded in 2016
615+ contributors worldwide
Remote-first, engineering-driven
Open source first
> Read our story
Promises We Publish—and Prove
12 principles backed by open code, independent validation, and measurable outcomes.
Open source, peer-reviewed
Zero config, instant value
Data sovereignty by design
Aligned pricing, no surprises
> See all 12 principles
Edge-Native, AI-Ready, 100% Open
76k+ stars. Full ML, AI, and automation—GPLv3+, not premium add-ons.
76,000+ GitHub stars
GPLv3+ licensed forever
ML on every metric, included
Zero vendor lock-in
> Explore our open source
Build Real-Time Observability for the World
Remote-first team shipping per-second monitoring with ML on every metric.
Remote-first, fully distributed
Open source (76k+ stars)
Challenging technical problems
Your code on millions of systems
> See open roles
Talk to a Netdata Human in <24 Hours
Sales, partnerships, press, or professional services—real engineers, fast answers.
Discuss your observability needs
Pricing and volume discounts
Partnership opportunities
Media and press inquiries
> Book a conversation
Your Data. Your Rules.
On-prem data, cloud control plane, transparent terms.
Trust & Scale
76,000+ GitHub Stars

One of the most popular open-source monitoring projects

SOC 2 Type 2 Certified

Enterprise-grade security and compliance

Data Sovereignty

Your metrics stay on your infrastructure

Validated
University of Amsterdam

"Most energy-efficient monitoring solution" — ICSOC 2023, peer-reviewed

ADASTEC (Autonomous Driving)

"Doesn't miss alerts—mission-critical trust for safety software"

Community Stats
615+ Contributors

Global community improving monitoring for everyone

1.5M+ Downloads/Day

Trusted by teams worldwide

GPLv3+ Licensed

Free forever, fully open source agent

Why Join?
Remote-First

Work from anywhere, async-friendly culture

Impact at Scale

Your work helps millions of systems

Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2

Audited security controls

GDPR Ready

Data stays on your infrastructure

Blog

Getting Started with Netdata: A Comprehensive Guide to Real-Time Monitoring

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing Netdata's Monitoring Capabilities
by Netdata Team · December 19, 2024

Now you can start monitoring thousands of metrics in real-time, detecting anomalies throughout your infra, and troubleshooting issues even mid-crisis! Watch this 1-minute video for a quick intro! Get ready to be blown away!

To fully utilize Netdata for monitoring your infrastructure, do these:

① Deploy Netdata

Install Netdata to your systems.

Netdata runs on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and MacOS and can be installed on bare-metal servers, cloud VMs, Kubernetes, even weak IoT devices. We have carefully optimized it to be the fastest and most advanced monitoring you will ever need, and at the same time be extremely friendly, polite and respectful to your production systems and applications.

② Monitor Everything

Make sure Netdata monitors all you need.

Netdata has more than 800 integrations, to monitor everything you have, including operating system resources, hardware components, database and application servers, logs, even network devices. It auto-detects most of them and starts monitoring them automatically. But for a few, it may need your help.

③ Review the Alerts

Review and tune Netdata alerts.

Netdata is shipped with hundreds of pre-configured and battle-tested alerts, which will automatically start checking the health and performance of your infrastructure.

Netdata can be your watchdog, and alert you when something is critical. So, check the alerts carefully and add or tune them to your taste.

④ Organize your Teams

Invite your colleagues and create rooms.

Netdata allows you to invite your colleagues and organize your infrastructure into rooms. Rooms allow different teams to have a different view of your world, each focusing on specific parts of the infrastructure. At the same time, teams can have their own alerts, on the same infrastructure.

Add your nodes today!

Did you notice some steps are missing?

- No need to manually build charts and dashboards!

Netdata builds powerful dashboards automatically for everything monitored. You will never worry if there are things that are not visualized because everything is visualized.

- No need to learn a query language!

All Netdata charts allow you to slice and dice the data any way you see fit. We invented the NIDL framework (Nodes, Instances, Dimensions, Labels), an innovative way to explore observability data, without the need to learn any query languages!

- No need to manually configure all alerts!

Netdata alerts are built like templates that are automatically attached to the instances of components and applications. You create an alert for a redis instance, and all redis instances will get it. Similarly for disks, network interfaces, pods, and containers, and many more. Netdata is shipped with hundreds of them, ready to be attached to your system components and applications.

- No need to manually configure Machine Learning!

Netdata learns as it runs, training machine learning models continuously for all your data. By training machine learning at the edge, Netdata offers fully automated anomaly detection trained on your own data, customized for your workloads and your usage patterns!


Did you Know?

Automated Root Cause Analysis

90% faster mean time to resolution. Our powerful anomaly advisor is capable of instantly correlating events across your infrastructure, significantly reducing mean time to resolution.

Processes Analysis

Netdata watches the entire process tree on all your systems, collecting insights for all applications running, even the ones that do not provide any observability APIs.

Netdata uses advanced correlation algorithms that provide meaningful aggregations even for shell scripts, cron jobs, CI/CD jobs, and build toolchains, breaking down overall system resource consumption into meaningful entities.

Network Analysis

Real-time TCP and UDP sockets monitoring. Netdata monitors all network activity, classifies all communications, and provides complete analysis on network activity, correlating traffic with system processes and applications. Key qualitative insights are included, including Round Trip Time and Retransmits for TCP sockets.

Kubernetes Analysis

Netdata monitors Kubernetes clusters, pods, and containers natively, exposing in real-time resource consumption, usage, and status. It also auto-discovers running services to provide detailed performance and usage insights for critical Kubernetes components and your custom applications running in Kubernetes pods.

Netdata provides access to all your system and application logs, providing instant correlations of performance metrics with events, exceptions, and logs.

Netdata offers the most cost-efficient logs management platform, capable of exploring both systemd journals and Windows events (Windows Events Log and Events Tracing for Windows), even at scale.

Real-Time Insights

All your applications, monitored in real-time Database servers, message brokers, web servers, custom applications, network devices, system resources, and components. Netdata will keep your observability data at your premises, for as long as you need them, even years!

Synthetic Checks

Test services and components for health and availability. Netdata allows you to define synthetic checks for anything. HTTP/S APIs, network nodes, certificates expiration, TCP/UDP endpoints, or anything you can create a script for, can be tested and alerts will automatically be triggered to alert you on failures.


And the list does not stop here: System Services analysis, Enterprise Hardware monitoring, GPUs performance and utilization, Users and Groups monitoring, VMs monitoring, SNMP monitoring, Custom Dashboards, Open Standards compatibility, and a vibrant Open-Source Community are available to help you be in control of your systems and services.

And the most important: they are all included in a single price. No hidden charges.


Join the 5th generation of observability platforms!