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Netdata vs Prometheus: catalog facts
Netdata	Prometheus
Freemium The agent is free and open source under the GPL 3.0. Netdata Cloud has a free tier and…	Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
Per-second metrics with dashboards that work the moment it is installed Auto-discovers common services and graphs them without configuration	Label-based data model and PromQL make ad-hoc questions easy to answer Pull model needs no agent configuration beyond exposing a metrics endpoint
The sheer number of charts is overwhelming at first Uses more memory and disk than a minimal metrics agent	Local storage is not clustered; long retention needs Thanos, Mimir or similar Pull model does not suit short-lived jobs without a push gateway
Self-hosted, Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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