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Netdata vs Monit: catalog facts
Netdata	Monit
Freemium The agent is free and open source under the GPL 3.0. Netdata Cloud has a free tier and…	Free Monit is free and open source; the separate M/Monit dashboard is a commercial product.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	macOS, Linux, Command line
Per-second metrics with dashboards that work the moment it is installed Auto-discovers common services and graphs them without configuration	Restarts failed services and acts on resource limits automatically Very small footprint
The sheer number of charts is overwhelming at first Uses more memory and disk than a minimal metrics agent	No Windows support Central management of many hosts needs the paid M/Monit
Self-hosted, Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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