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About Us

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

Meet the team behind Netdata - engineers who transformed observability by distributing intelligence to the edge, making infrastructure transparent for teams worldwide.

Join Us

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Build infrastructure observability at massive scale with Netdata. Remote-first culture, open source core, 76K+ GitHub stars. Own the full stack, ship code used by millions, work with world-class engineers.

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.

Our Values and Promises

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

Discover the 12 principles that guide every decision at Netdata. From radical transparency to edge-native intelligence, learn how we invest engineering effort to eliminate complexity and align our success with your operational needs.

Costa Tsaousis Interview: Homelab Show Insights

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Costa Tsaousis, founder and chief visionary of Netdata, recently shared his expertise on real-time monitoring’s pivotal role in modern IT landscapes during an episode of ‘The Homelab Show’ on YouTube. If you missed the live stream, here’s an essential summary of the discussion’s key points.

The Necessity of Real-Time Monitoring

Nowadays, data flows incessantly and operational demands are continuous, the importance of real-time monitoring cannot be overstated.

SafetyDetectives: An Interview-With-Costa-Tsaousis

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In a recent conversation with SafetyDetectives, Costa Tsaousis, CEO and founder of Netdata, shares insights into the inception and evolution of Netdata, a game-changing monitoring solution. With a background in fintech and a passion for real-time data processing, Tsaousis was driven to create Netdata in response to the significant gaps he identified in traditional monitoring tools. Emphasizing the importance of real-time data, comprehensive metrics collection, and the innovative use of machine learning, Tsaousis discusses how Netdata is setting new standards in the monitoring industry. His vision for Netdata not only challenges the status quo but also introduces a novel approach to cybersecurity, making it an essential tool for organizations worldwide.

Hidden Costs Of Monitoring: Uncovering Expenses & Solutions

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

When it comes to monitoring IT infrastructure, the costs you see on the price tag of the tool are often just the tip of the iceberg. Below the waterline, a mass of hidden costs can lurk, which can significantly affect the total cost of ownership.

In this blogpost we will cover the analysis of two traditional monitoring domains, Open Source observability and Commercial Centralized observability solutions, focusing the direct and indirect impacts when implementing these solution. In summary:

The Netdata Way of Troubleshooting

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Together with you, our fabulous community, Netdata is changing the way the world thinks of high fidelity monitoring - and we are gaining momentum.

Our chief troublemaker and CEO, Costa Tsaousis, is the pioneer and architect of this revolution that’s brewing in the monitoring and troubleshooting space.

Watch him explain the Netdata way of troubleshooting:

Why did the world need a new infrastructure monitoring tool? (00:18)

Every great hero needs an origin story. In this section, Costa explains the frustrating conditions in the infrastructure and monitoring space that lead to the conception, development, and subsequent success of the Netdata open-source Agent and Netdata Cloud.

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.

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.

The Netdata Community Powered by NodeBB

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We recently adopted NodeBB as our software of choice for building the Netdata Community. We have many good reasons for why we wanted to provide our community with a proper home online, but I wanted to cover some of the technical reasons for choosing NodeBB for our platform, and the many parallels between the NodeBB and Netdata projects, which was certainly a driving force behind this decision.

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.

Redefining monitoring with Netdata (and how it came to be)

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

How Netdata was born

In 2013, I worked for a company that relied on financial transactions. We had a very simple SLA: complete all financial transactions within 3 seconds.

We were migrating the infrastructure from colocated (physical servers) to the cloud (VMs). The transition was not smooth. We had a lot of issues on the cloud side, which we couldn’t even detect. Business metrics were randomly reporting significant loss of volume and a very bad SLA, but at the operational level we saw no issues—everything seemed to be working perfectly. Traces were showing a large delay in several transactions, but there were no failures.

Agile Team Safety Harness With cmocka & FOSS

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata is made up from agile teams who are deeply committed to improving the usability of our product. We want to respond to our users and introduce in-demand features. Working directly with our community is the best way to make Netdata better.

But we face the same the dilemma as all agile teams: How do we do this safely?

Safety means that we can move quickly without compromising the quality of our code. Because we want to move quickly, engage with our users’ desires, and keep quality high, we’re becoming very serious about adopting unit testing in our work.

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.

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