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Free and open source under the MIT licence.

 Freemium

The agent is free and open source under the GPL 3.0. Netdata Cloud has a free tier and…

macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
  • Reports changes instead of live graphs
  • Verifies that backups actually restore
  • Per-second metrics with dashboards that work the moment it is installed
  • Auto-discovers common services and graphs them without configuration
  • Aimed at small homelabs rather than large fleets
  • Young project with a small user base
  • The sheer number of charts is overwhelming at first
  • Uses more memory and disk than a minimal metrics agent
Downloadable app Self-hosted, Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: GPL-3.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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