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Prometheus Node ExporterNetdata
Free

Free and open source, maintained by the Prometheus project.

 Freemium

The agent is free and open source under the GPL 3.0. Netdata Cloud has a free tier and…

Linux, Command line Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
  • Standard source of host metrics for Prometheus setups
  • Collectors can be enabled or disabled individually
  • Per-second metrics with dashboards that work the moment it is installed
  • Auto-discovers common services and graphs them without configuration
  • Needs a Prometheus server to store and query the data
  • No dashboards or alerting on its own
  • The sheer number of charts is overwhelming at first
  • Uses more memory and disk than a minimal metrics agent
Downloadable app Self-hosted, Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: Apache-2.0 License: GPL-3.0
No account needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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