Unified Visibility Across Every Environment

Netdata distributes the code, instead of centralizing the data. Each Agent processes, stores, and analyzes metrics locally - eliminating bandwidth costs, reducing latency, and ensuring data sovereignty. Parents aggregate streams for centralized dashboards while maintaining edge processing benefits. This architecture scales linearly from 1 to 100,000+ nodes without performance degradation, unlike centralized platforms that create bottlenecks and exponential costs.

Netdata delivers per-second data collection with 1-second visualization latency - achieving sub-2-second total latency from event to insight. This is 10-60× faster than traditional platforms operating at 10-60 second intervals. Per-second granularity captures transient issues and microbursts that minute-level monitoring completely misses. Engineers see the immediate impact of changes during troubleshooting, dramatically accelerating incident resolution.

Netdata trains 18 unsupervised k-means models per metric directly on each Agent using different time windows. Anomalies are flagged only when ALL models agree - achieving 99% false positive reduction in anomaly detection. Models retrain every 3 hours automatically, adapting to changing baselines. Anomaly bits are stored with every sample, enabling historical analysis. No cloud connectivity required for ML functionality.

Yes. Netdata queries systemd-journal (Linux), Windows Event Logs and macOS unified logs directly without ingestion pipelines, and Logs Management stores logs from any other source at about 1/4 of raw size with no logging cluster to run. Every field is automatically indexed. This eliminates Elasticsearch/Splunk infrastructure and storage multiplication, and Logs Monitoring (querying logs in place) is not billed - achieving 90% cost reduction. Netdata analyzes 1M log entries before sampling versus 5K for traditional tools, providing 200× more accurate insights. systemd-journal Forward Secure Sealing provides journal tamper detection for compliance.

Netdata offers predictable per-node pricing with P90 billing that excludes spikes and top 3 days monthly. No charges for metrics volume, Logs Monitoring (querying logs in place), users, data retention or containers. Traditional platforms charge per-node PLUS volume-based fees for metrics, logs, and users - creating unpredictable bills that often exceed infrastructure costs. Organizations achieve 90% TCO reduction with Netdata while gaining superior visibility. View detailed pricing.

Netdata’s native Helm chart deploys lightweight DaemonSet collectors (<5% CPU, 150-200 MB RAM per node) validated by University of Amsterdam as most energy-efficient. Auto-discovers pods, containers, services, and deployments within 1 second. Per-second metrics for CPU, memory, I/O, and network per container. Parent-Child architecture persists data after pod deletion, enabling historical troubleshooting of ephemeral workloads without starving production resources.

Metrics, logs and traces stay on your infrastructure - only metadata (node names, chart titles) travels to Cloud for unified dashboards. SOC 2 Type 2 certified with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS alignment. Forward Secure Sealing for journal logs provides tamper detection. Enterprise On-Premise option enables complete air-gapped deployment. TLS encryption everywhere with certificate-based authentication. RBAC with SSO via OIDC, Okta, and SCIM 2.0 group mapping.

Netdata deploys in 60 seconds from installation to operational dashboard. 800+ integrations auto-discover across on-premises, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes without manual configuration. No query languages to learn, no dashboards to build, no specialized skills required. Organizations achieve full production deployment in days versus weeks/months for traditional platforms. Zero-configuration approach eliminates the setup burden that delays traditional monitoring projects.

Netdata scales linearly from 1 to 100,000+ nodes without architectural changes. Each Agent operates independently - adding nodes doesn’t degrade existing performance. Parent clustering provides high availability with automatic failover. Proven at 4.5+ billion metrics/second globally. Netdata benchmark shows 36% less CPU, 88% less RAM, 97% less disk I/O than Prometheus at 4.6M metrics/second. Industry-leading 0.6 bytes per sample storage enables years of retention in gigabytes versus days in terabytes.

Yes. Netdata consolidates metrics, logs, traces, events, and console tools into single platform. Replaces Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and similar tools (and, for OpenTelemetry-instrumented services, a separate tracing backend), plus 11+ CLI tools (top, iostat, netstat, journalctl, etc.). Metrics work the same on standalone Agents, Parents, and Cloud; logs and traces are explored with a Netdata Cloud sign-in. Organizations report eliminating 3-10 separate monitoring tools while achieving superior visibility. Open source agent and standard protocols prevent vendor lock-in. Explore integrations.

AI Chat via Model Context Protocol provides conversational troubleshooting in dashboard and CLI. AI Insights generates automated reports: Infrastructure Summary, Anomaly Analysis, Capacity Planning, Performance Optimization. One-click alert explanations with recommended actions. Anomaly Advisor correlates thousands of metrics in real-time, surfacing root cause in top 30-50 results. Supports Claude, GPT, Gemini, plus BYOLLM for complete flexibility. AI assistants are significantly more effective with Netdata’s real-time ML anomaly data and high-resolution metrics. Learn about AI features.

Yes. Netdata ingests OpenTelemetry traces over OTLP on the same agent that collects your metrics and logs, whether that agent runs on-premises or in AWS, Azure, or GCP. Spans are stored and indexed on your own infrastructure, and the Traces tab in Netdata Cloud gives you a duration heatmap, filters by service, span name and duration, a full waterfall for every trace, and every span attribute your instrumentation recorded. For code-level profiling, pair Netdata with a dedicated APM tool. Learn about distributed tracing.

Netdata provides identical operation across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises infrastructure. Cloud metrics collected via native integrations and Prometheus exporters. OpenTelemetry ingestion (metrics, logs and traces over OTLP) supports cloud telemetry. Same Agent software works everywhere - no cloud-specific agents required. Parents can aggregate streams from multiple cloud providers for unified visibility. Global filters apply across entire hybrid infrastructure instantly. Data sovereignty maintained - metrics stay in respective environments.

Community support via GitHub, Discord, and forums for open source users. Business plan includes email/ticket support during business hours with SLA. Enterprise support offers 24/7 availability with dedicated teams and phone support. Professional services include architecture design, deployment assistance, migration support, and custom integrations. Training programs available for administrators and users. Contact sales for enterprise requirements.

Start with the 14-day Business trial (no limit on nodes) or the open-source Agent; the free Community plan is for personal, non-commercial use, up to 5 active connected nodes. One-line installation: wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://get.netdata.cloud/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh. Access local dashboard at http://localhost:19999 or claim to Cloud for unified visibility. Auto-discovery begins immediately - operational dashboard in 60 seconds. Start free trial or view live demo.