Community on Netdata

Netdata for Homelabs

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata’s Homelab plan gives you enterprise-grade monitoring at a price that respects your hobby. Per-second metrics, ML anomaly detection, unlimited custom dashboards, and zero configuration — for $90/year.

Open Source

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The world’s most popular open source monitoring platform. Deploy complete infrastructure observability in 60 seconds with zero configuration. Trusted by millions of engineers worldwide.

New Streamlined Plan Structure

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

UPDATE: Netdata is introducing a streamlined plan structure, sunsetting Early Bird plans on 13-03-2024.

As the landscape of real-time monitoring evolves, so does the diversity and complexity of use cases that our community brings to Netdata. Our mission has always been to democratize monitoring by making it accessible, powerful, and scalable for everyone. With the rapid growth of our user base and their expanding needs, it’s become clear that our plan structure must evolve to maintain this mission sustainably.

Upcoming Homelab Plan

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

UPDATE: On the 2024-02-08 A new Netdata Cloud Homelab plan will become available. This is aimed for home users and students.

What you need to know?

New Plan alert: We’re introducing a dedicated plan on Netdata Cloud—the Homelab plan. It’s tailored to meet the needs of home users and students, offering unrestricted access to Netdata features without the limitations seen in the Community plan.
Exclusively for Personal Use: The Homelab plan is designed for personal, non-commercial use only. To qualify, users will need to self-certify as a home user or student during the sign-up process.

Troubleshooting Alerts the Right Way: As a Team

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

At Netdata, we love two things more than anything else:

Troubleshooting and,
Making things easier for you!

Our goal is to make troubleshooting and monitoring as seamless as possible with the open-source Agent. This includes giving you pre-configured alerts so that you get notified immediately when a disruption occurs.

The Netdata Agent comes with over 250 pre-configured and optimized alerts. But we want you to be the master of your infrastructure monitoring by:

Engineering Team Best Practices For Cloud Monitoring

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Panel: Engineering Team Best Practices in Working with Cloud

The Netdata Troubleshooting Show| Season 1: Episode 2 | Thursday, March 3rd at 9 am PST (UTC/GMT -8)

[Join Live]For engineering teams, working in the cloud has never been easier, but also more complex. Enter a new world of remote working with distributed global teams, new tech challenges, new business realities, security, monitoring, and more.

Join our dynamic panel of experts live(watch here)as they talk about engineering team best practices for those working in the cloud in 2022.

Netdata Meetup | Install & Monitor From Scratch | Guide

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Announcing Netdata Meetups: Virtual How-to Live Show – Join us Friday, March 4th

Join us live this Friday! We are launching the brand new Netdata Meetups! Join us to learn more about Netdata. This how-to virtual series will help you go deeper with Netdata and as a bonus we will add in tips and tricks for monitoring and troubleshooting. We can’t wait to see you on Friday, March 4th at 9 am PST (GMT -8).

Meet The Netdata Community: eBPF Hero Thiago

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Our ongoing Meet the community series focuses on global Netdata community members. In this installment, learn about Netdata staff member and Software Engineer Thiago Marques, who is hard at work building an eBPF.plugin.

Introduce yourself, what you do, and your current job role at Netdata.

I am Thiago Marques, a C developer who works with the data collector team. My primary responsibility in the company is to develop eBPF.plugin.

Meet The Netdata Community: Rupok Chowdhury Protik

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In our ongoing Meet the community series, we focus on global Netdata community members. In this installment, learn about Software Engineer and photographer Rupok Chowdhury Protik, including how they use Netdata.

Introduce yourself, what you do, and your current job role.

Hi, I’m Rupok Chowdhury Protik. I’m a PHP Developer with a Master’s degree in Software Engineering. My stack is mainly LAMP/LEMP. I used to work as the Senior Web Application Developer in a multinational company and then later joined Incsub LLC, a WordPress-focused company with people from more than 50 countries. I am currently working in Incsub LLC as a DevOps Support Engineer.

Netdata Cloud Show: The Observability Panel

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

“In 2022, 60% of security incidents will involve third parties.”– Forrester

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kILpPCRlVD0

This Thursday, December 9th at 1 PM EST (UTC-5)Join us live this Thursday for the first-ever Netdata Cloud Show, where our all-star panel will be discussing the latest trends around observability.

This will be broadcast live on Netdata YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Discord.

Observability Panel:

Boris Zaikin, Senior Software and Cloud Architect at Nordcloud. @boriszzn
Samir Behara, Platform Architect at EBSCO Industries, Inc. @samirbehara
Ralph Meijer, VP of Technology at Netdata. @ralphm

Topics Covered Include:

Meet The Netdata Community | Bastien, SysAdmin & Dog Lover

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Tell people about yourself and what you do.

My name is Bastien. I’m 28, a System and Network Admin, currently SRE in a team of two for my company. We’re working with AWS and Kubernetes to host our web apps.

How are you using Netdata and what do you like so far?

I’m currently in the process of moving to Netdata to monitor our nine Kubernetes clusters and some standalone VMs. What I particularly love about Netdata is the simplicity of installation and configuration and the number of perfect default metrics and graphs.

How to monitor the Geth node in under 5 minutes

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This piece is a blog post version of a workshop I gave at EthCC about monitoring an Ethereum Node using Netdata.

Disclaimer: Although we use Netdata, this guide is generic. We talk about metrics that can be surfaced by many other tools, such as Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog.

The contents are as follows:

Introduction to Ethereum Nodes
What is Netdata
How to monitor a system that runs go-ethereum (Geth)
How to monitor go-ethereum (Geth)

Ethereum Nodes

Running a node is no small feat, as it requires increasingly more and more resources to store the state of the blockchain and quickly process new transactions.

Netdata Year in Review 2020

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Looking back at the unprecedented challenges we faced together in 2020, we’d like to extend our thanks to the community of people who have continued to work towards Netdata’s mission of simplifying monitoring and troubleshooting for everyone. Let’s review some of this year’s highlights.

Community	More than 400 contributors have helped us grow.
Nearly 50,000 GitHub stargazers follow our progress.	Our community on GitHub and our forums has grown to 4,000 strong.

Netdata Cloud	Launched in May, now with more than 25,000 users registered.
Continuous delivery of new features included custom dashboards, Metric Correlations, overview page, and centralized alarm notifications.

Netdata Agent	9 dot releases, with support for eBPF, Prometheus metrics, & k8s service discovery.
More than 300 bug fixes, nearly 1,500 closed issues, and almost 3,200 commits.	Nearly 400 new features or improvements.

Company	Raised $14.2M, extending the total raised to $31M.
Recognized in Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020, 2020 Stratus Awards as Cloud Disruptor.

Community Update: Discourse, Community Efforts

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Open source and community have always been in the DNA of Netdata, with the Agent starting as a very popular open-source project. Since then, a lot has changed, with Netdata maturing into a company, and the Netdata Agent finding its place as an open-source project in a wider offering that redesigns the monitoring experience from the ground up.

While we had a very active GitHub repository, with the majority of the Netdata Agent’s original team actively moderating the discussions and talking with users, we started a more concentrated initiative to manage our community in spring 2020. We launched our first forum using NodeBB, a great open-source project, and the community grew substantially, outgrowing the forum software. At the same time, we were able to identify areas of friction in the community journey. Removing that friction became a centerpiece of our strategy during Q3 2020.

Community Repository: Consul, Ansible & ML Recipes

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

On our journey to democratize monitoring, we are proud to have open source at the core of both our products and our company values. What started as a project out of frustration for lack of existing alternatives (see anger-driven development), quickly became one of the most starred open-source projects on all of GitHub.

Fast-forward a couple of years later, and the Netdata Agent, our open-source monitoring agent, is maturing as the best single-node monitoring experience, offering unparalleled efficiency and thousands of metrics, per-second. At the same time, we have gathered a considerable community on our GitHub repository and new forums.

Software Extensibility Is Key To Adoption

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

As with most commercial products, software today is mass produced for reasons of simple economics. But making the same software work for as many people as possible while also meeting the unique requirements different people and organizations have is a challenging task.

The strategies used today to provide extensibility at cost and at the level required by various enterprises are very similar to the ones used in the 80s and 90s, when PCs first took off and captured an enormous amount of the home computing market, and when open source software started gaining popularity.

Investing in Netdata: a growth story

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I’m excited to announce an extension to Netdata’s series A funding in the amount of $14.2M, bringing the total amount of funding to $31M. We’re thrilled to share the news; the additional funding will help us continue building the future of health monitoring and performance troubleshooting. In case you missed it, our mission is to redefine infrastructure monitoring. Our unique approach to building the right solution with and for the community is no easy task.

Netdata named to the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been named to the Forbes 2020 Cloud 100 Rising Stars. This is a list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The 20 Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies who are poised to join the Cloud 100 ranks. We are extremely honored to be recognized amongst our most-promising peers. This is a testament to our momentum we’ve built in partnership with our passionate community of users and contributors worldwide, as well as a validation of our community-first, open-source approach to democratizing infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting. The major milestones we’ve hit along the way this year include more than 5,000 new users added each day, more than 3 million users total worldwide, and nearly 50,000 GitHub stars, making Netdata the fourth most starred project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation landscape. We’ve also launched our monitoring service, Netdata Cloud, which has seen very strong growth since its introduction in May, with more than 15,000 users registered so far. We couldn’t have done it without you! The Forbes 2020 Cloud 100 and 20 Rising Stars lists will also appear in the September 2020 issue of Forbes magazine.

Sysadmin Day 2020: IT Heroes and Homelabs

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Sysadmin Day 2020 is right around the corner and we’d like to show our appreciation for all the sysadmins out there who keep IT humming along and come to the rescue to resolve critical issues day in and day out. This year, we’re celebrating all week long by hosting an IT Heroes and Homelabs contest. Join the celebration by retweeting our post with the hashtag #SysadminDay #NetdataWin, and we’ll enter you in a drawing to win some Netdata swag!

The Netdata Community

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata users and contributors comprise a large, global, but somewhat fragmented community – or a set of communities. You can find us on IRC (#netdata on freenode), on Reddit, on social media, and, of course, on GitHub, where the main open-source Netdata project repo lives. And yes, you can find us on other platforms as well.

GitHub is a great way to get in touch with the Netdata team and project contributors to tell them about bugs or to discuss new features. But we realized that bug reports are not a conversation that works for everyone. A more informal and easier-to-access communication channel would provide a better way for the community to congregate and engage, and would also provide an easier way for everybody to talk to the team. We wanted to provide the community a home.

Contribute to Netdata’s machine learning efforts!

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata contributors have greatly influenced the growth of our company and are essential to our success. The time and expertise that contributors volunteer are fundamental to our goal of helping you build extraordinary infrastructures. We highly value end-user feedback during product development, which is why we’re looking to involve you in progressing our machine learning (ML) efforts! As we are continually looking for ways to improve and enhance Netdata, we are starting to explore how we can leverage machine learning to introduce new product features. Our main focus at the moment is around automated anomaly detection. This is a really interesting and challenging problem (high volume, high dimensional data, lack of ground truth labels, and so on), but we should be able to use some of the metrics monitored by Netdata to deliver new, awesome product features and user experiences (AI is the new electricity, after all 😃). However, developing ML-driven product features is quite different than traditional software development (see steps 1 to 7 in the picture above). Mainly, this is because you never really know what specific data transformations, problem formulation, and sets of algorithms will work best in advance. (Here is a good article explaining things, and if you really want to go down a rabbit hole, check out this Stack Overflow question and this Quora thread). Ideally, you first need to prototype your solution “in the lab” on some data you have already collected and do a few iterations of data → problem formulation → prototype. This process gives you a level of confidence in what you are doing (and some data to back it up) to move on to the even-more-complicated step of going from prototype to production. At Netdata, we are currently trying to get to step 4, where we can first prototype some solutions on real-world data and come up with ways to measure progress.

Open Source Contributions: Supporting The Community

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata must be doing something right when it comes to inspiring contributions. Our open-source, distributed monitoring agent has on GitHub and has seen contributions from hundreds of people: . We’ve even hired a handful of our contributors to work full-time on making the Netdata ecosystem even more powerful.

The community is passionate about what we’re building, and they’re actively interested in making it work better for their particular needs.

Community on Netdata

Netdata for Homelabs

Open Source

New Streamlined Plan Structure

Upcoming Homelab Plan

What you need to know?

Troubleshooting Alerts the Right Way: As a Team

Engineering Team Best Practices For Cloud Monitoring

Panel: Engineering Team Best Practices in Working with Cloud

Netdata Meetup | Install & Monitor From Scratch | Guide

Meet The Netdata Community: eBPF Hero Thiago

Introduce yourself, what you do, and your current job role at Netdata.

Meet The Netdata Community: Rupok Chowdhury Protik

Netdata Cloud Show: The Observability Panel

“In 2022, 60% of security incidents will involve third parties.”– Forrester

Meet The Netdata Community | Bastien, SysAdmin & Dog Lover

How to monitor the Geth node in under 5 minutes

Ethereum Nodes

Netdata Year in Review 2020

Community

Netdata Cloud

Netdata Agent

Company

Community Update: Discourse, Community Efforts

Community Repository: Consul, Ansible & ML Recipes

Software Extensibility Is Key To Adoption

Investing in Netdata: a growth story

Netdata named to the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars

Sysadmin Day 2020: IT Heroes and Homelabs

The Netdata Community

Contribute to Netdata’s machine learning efforts!

Open Source Contributions: Supporting The Community