Netdata
Netdata is an open-source monitoring platform that shows per-second server metrics and alerts for teams that run their own infrastructure.
What it is good for
- Watching server, container, and application performance in real time
- Spotting unusual metric behavior before it causes outages
- Letting AI apps query live infrastructure metrics through an MCP server
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Not stated
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Other
- Works with
- Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, Slack, PagerDuty, Kubernetes
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 81,248
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Netdata free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (GPL-3.0 license).
- What does Netdata work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, Slack, PagerDuty, and Kubernetes.
- What is Netdata good for?
- Watching server, container, and application performance in real time, spotting unusual metric behavior before it causes outages, and letting AI apps query live infrastructure metrics through an MCP server.
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