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Netdata vs Prometheus Node Exporter: catalog facts
Netdata	Prometheus Node Exporter
Freemium The agent is free and open source under the GPL 3.0. Netdata Cloud has a free tier and…	Free Free and open source, maintained by the Prometheus project.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Linux, Command line
Per-second metrics with dashboards that work the moment it is installed Auto-discovers common services and graphs them without configuration	Standard source of host metrics for Prometheus setups Collectors can be enabled or disabled individually
The sheer number of charts is overwhelming at first Uses more memory and disk than a minimal metrics agent	Needs a Prometheus server to store and query the data No dashboards or alerting on its own
Self-hosted, Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account 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 23, 2026

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