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

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