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Pulse vs Netdata: catalog facts
Pulse	Netdata
Free Free to download and run on your own server.	Freemium The agent is free and open source under the GPL 3.0. Netdata Cloud has a free tier and…
Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
One dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere Built-in alerting for infrastructure problems	Per-second metrics with dashboards that work the moment it is installed Auto-discovers common services and graphs them without configuration
AI features may not suit people who want a plain metrics dashboard Needs a server to run on	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
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	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 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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