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Netdata vs Pulse: catalog facts
Netdata	Pulse
Freemium The agent is free and open source under the GPL 3.0. Netdata Cloud has a free tier and…	Free Free to download and run on your own server.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Per-second metrics with dashboards that work the moment it is installed Auto-discovers common services and graphs them without configuration	One dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere Built-in alerting for infrastructure problems
The sheer number of charts is overwhelming at first Uses more memory and disk than a minimal metrics agent	AI features may not suit people who want a plain metrics dashboard Needs a server to run on
Self-hosted, Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License: GPL-3.0	License not stated
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 23, 2026

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