Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs
Netdata

Netdata

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Grafana Labs delivers the leading AI-powered observability platform, built around Grafana—the world’s most widely adopted open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms (3x) and furthest in Completeness of Vision (2025, 2026), Grafana Labs supports more than 25 million users and thousands of organizations, from startups to the Fortune 500. Grafana Cloud is the open observability cloud, built on open source, open standards, and open ecosystems. Powered by the LGTM stack—Grafana (visualization), Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs) & Tempo (traces)—it unifies telemetry in one platform for full-stack visibility across applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences. With the AI-powered Grafana Assistant and Adaptive Telemetry suite, teams detect and resolve issues faster, reduce wasteful telemetry spend, and gain real-time insights to ensure reliability. Native OTel support and 100s of integrations mean you can plug in existing tools & data sources.

About

The open-source observability platform everyone needs! Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications. It scales nicely from just a single server to thousands of servers, even in complex multi/mixed/hybrid cloud environments, and given enough disk space it can keep your metrics for years. KEY FEATURES: 💥 Collects metrics from 800+ integrations 💪 Real-Time, Low-Latency, High-Resolution 😶‍🌫️ Unsupervised Anomaly Detection 🔥 Powerful Visualization 🔔 Out of box Alerts 📖 systemd Journal Logs Explorer 😎 Low Maintenance ⭐ Open and Extensible Try Netdata today and feel the pulse of your infrastructure, with high-resolution metrics, journal logs and real-time visualizations.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Engineering teams, SREs, developers, and platform architects who need scalable, AI-powered observability across modern applications, infrastructure, and cloud-native environments.

Audience

IT Professionals

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0
Forever Free Tier: All Grafana Cloud services, up to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, traces & profiles; 14-day retention; 3 active users

Pro: from $19/month + usage

Enterprise: from $25K/year
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

Free
Everything in Community
7 days of alert history and auditing events
Limited user role based access
Enable webhook alert notification integration
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.9 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 4.9 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Netdata provides real-time stats on my server as well as historical data, helping me pinpoint why my server was running slowly. Initially, I had no clue what was causing the problem, but installing Netdata took only a few minutes, and it quickly guided me toward identifying and resolving the infrastructure issues.
  • - ease of install - complete solution for our needs - easy to automate the install through ansible - no maintenance needed
  • Useful: i can tell when the scientists are running jobs with wrong parameters cuz the disks are trashed.
  • The easy way to deploy the agent, the minimal footprint it has the agent, the easiness to build dashboards with the metrics that we need.
  • Netdata shines with its real-time, in-depth monitoring capabilities, offering an unparalleled view into system performance with minimal configuration effort. Its automated service discovery and scalability are standout features, enabling easy expansion as infrastructure grows without increasing maintenance complexity. The user-friendly dashboards provide instant insights, while the customizable alerting system ensures proactive issue management. This combination of features dramatically improves operational efficiency, making Netdata an essential tool for anyone looking to streamline their monitoring processes and focus on business growth.

Cons

  • Didn't really find anything that I do not like yet.
  • Nothing. This product is perfect for our needs. We just installed and it runs
  • When used by non-technical people, it needs an introduction.
  • I only see one con, the lack of configure custom logs for monitoring.
  • One area where Netdata has room for improvement is in its documentation and integration guides, which can sometimes be less intuitive for users with varying technical backgrounds. Additionally, while Netdata offers broad compatibility, there are occasional challenges with detecting certain services or configurations, such as with specific web servers on customized setups. These minor drawbacks highlight the need for more comprehensive support materials and enhanced compatibility features to ensure a seamless experience for all users, regardless of their infrastructure complexity.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Grafana Labs
Founded: 2014
United States
grafana.com

Company Information

Netdata, Inc.
Founded: 2018
Delaware
www.netdata.cloud/

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Categories

Categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features

Baseline Manager
Diagnostic Tools
Full Transaction Diagnostics
Performance Control
Resource Management
Root-Cause Diagnosis
Server Performance
Trace Individual Transactions

Dashboard Features

Annotations
Data Source Integrations
Functions / Calculations
Interactive
KPIs
OLAP
Private Dashboards
Public Dashboards
Scorecards
Themes
Visual Analytics
Widgets

Data Visualization Features

Analytics
Content Management
Dashboard Creation
Filtered Views
OLAP
Relational Display
Simulation Models
Visual Discovery

Database Monitoring Features

Anomaly Detection
Autodiscovery
Capacity Planning
Dashboard
Dependency Tracking
Historical Trend Analysis
Multitenancy
Notifications / Alerts
Performance Monitoring
Permissions / Access Controls
Predictive Analytics
Prioritization
Query Analysis
Resource Optimization
Troubleshooting

IT Alerting Features

Alert Noise Reduction
Alert Routing
Dynamic Notifications
Enriched Incident Context
Escalation Policies
Incident History Audit
Multi-User Alerting
Multiple Alert Types
On-Call Management
Rich HTML Email Notifications

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Features

Alerts / Notifications
Application Monitoring
Bandwidth Monitoring
Capacity Planning
Configuration Change Management
Data Movement Monitoring
Health Monitoring
Multi-Platform Support
Performance Monitoring
Point-in-Time Visibility
Reporting / Analytics
Virtual Machine Monitoring

Incident Management Features

Audit Trail
Corrective Actions (CAPA)
Disaster Recovery
Incident Reporting
IT Incident Management
OSHA Compliance
Root-Cause Diagnosis
Safety Management
Task Management
Ticket Management

Reporting Features

Customizable Dashboard
Data Source Connectors
Drag & Drop
Drill Down
Email Reports
Financial Reports
Forecasting
Marketing Reports
OLAP
Report Export
Sales Reports
Scheduled / Automated Reports

System Monitoring Features

Alerts / Notifications
Antivirus Management
Data Backup / Recovery
Device Monitoring
Inventory Management
Patch Management
Policy-based Automation
Remote Monitoring
Reporting / Analytics
Risk Analysis
Server Monitoring
Service Configuration Management

Integrations

InfluxDB
Signal9
Zulip
AWS CloudFormation
AlertOps
Arch Linux
Azure Managed Grafana
Cassandra
Cortex
DataCore Swarm
Exim
Hopp
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus
MetricFire
NGINX
Netdata
Startdeliver
VPVision
Worldr
macOS Monterey

Integrations

InfluxDB
Signal9
Zulip
AWS CloudFormation
AlertOps
Arch Linux
Azure Managed Grafana
Cassandra
Cortex
DataCore Swarm
Exim
Hopp
ManageEngine OpManager Nexus
MetricFire
NGINX
Netdata
Startdeliver
VPVision
Worldr
macOS Monterey
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