Grafana on Netdata

Grafana vs Datadog: The honest comparison in 2026

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata vs Grafana | Monitoring Tools Comparison

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

Comprehensive comparison of Netdata and Grafana monitoring platforms, highlighting real-time performance, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity.

Dynatrace vs Datadog vs Instana vs Grafana vs Netdata!

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this post, we delve into the comparative analysis of the commercial offerings of five leading monitoring solutions—Dynatrace, Datadog, Instana, Grafana, and Netdata. Our objective is to unravel the intrinsic value each of these services offers when applied to a real-world scenario. To accomplish this, we employed trial subscriptions of these services to monitor a set of Ubuntu servers and VMs, each hosting a pair of widely-used applications: NGINX and PostgreSQL, along with a couple of Docker and LXC containers. Additionally, we extended our monitoring to physical servers to evaluate the efficacy of these tools in capturing hardware and sensor data along with VMs monitored from the host.

Netdata, Prometheus, Grafana Stack

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog, we will walk you through the basics of getting Netdata, Prometheus and Grafana all working together and monitoring your application servers. This article will be using docker on your local workstation. We will be working with docker in an ad-hoc way, launching containers that run /bin/bash and attaching a TTY to them. We use docker here in a purely academic fashion and do not condone running Netdata in a container. We pick this method so individuals without cloud accounts or access to VMs can try this out and for it’s speed of deployment.

Introducing the Netdata Source Plugin for Grafana

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The open-source community is about to benefit greatly from Netdata’s new Grafana data source plugin, which makes use of a powerful data collection engine.

This new plugin maximizes the troubleshooting capabilities of Netdata in Grafana, making them more widely available. Some of the key capabilities provided to you with this plugin include the following:

Real-time monitoring with single-second granularity.
Installation and out-of-the-box integrations available in seconds from one line of code.
2,000+ metrics from across your whole Infrastructure, with insightful metadata associated with them.
Access to our fresh ML metrics (anomaly rates) - exposing our ML capabilities at the edge!

Why did we decide to do it?

We are huge fans of Open-Source culture. Open-source is deeply rooted in Netdata’s DNA. Because of this, at Netdata, we don’t really buy into the “single pane of glass” or “observability platform” buzzwords. The reality is that things are just more complicated than that in real life.