Cartography vs Netdata
Cartography
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| Figure | Cartography | Netdata |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $4.50/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Application Dependency Mapping Software | 8.1 (#9) | 9.0 (#3) |
| Deployment | The install guide supports Docker Compose or native installation and requires a reachable Neo4j database. | Netdata offers a managed cloud platform and an on-premises deployment, including air-gapped deployment options. |
| Integrations | The project documentation lists integrations including AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Okta, Entra ID, CrowdStrike, and more than 30 other platforms. | Netdata advertises more than 800 collectors and notification integrations, including operating systems, databases, containers, cloud services, OpenMetrics, StatsD and logs. |
| License | The project repository states that Cartography is licensed under Apache 2.0. | The Netdata Agent repository is marked GPL-3.0, while the Netdata UI is distributed under the NCUL1 license. |
| Purpose | Cartography is an open-source tool for mapping infrastructure assets and their relationships in a Neo4j graph database. | Netdata describes its product as an observability platform for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting across infrastructure. |
Plans
Netdata
- CommunityFree
- Business$4.50 a month
- Homelab$90 a year
- Enterprise On-PremisePriced on request
In their own words
Cartography
Cartography has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Netdata
Netdata is an observability platform for real-time infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting. Its agent gathers metrics and logs and provides per-second monitoring, machine-learning anomaly detection, dashboards, and alerts. Netdata lists more than 800 collectors and notification channels, including Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, email, and webhooks. The agent can ingest Prometheus, OpenMetrics, StatsD, and OpenTelemetry data and export to Prometheus Remote Write, InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, and TimescaleDB. Organizations can use the managed cloud platform or deploy on premises, including in air-gapped environments. Netdata says metrics remain on the user's infrastructure while only metadata reaches the cloud. Native Android and iOS apps provide alerts and notifications. The Community plan is free, with up to five active connected nodes and one active custom dashboard per room. Signing up for Netdata Cloud includes a 14-day Business trial for any number of nodes with no limits. Business costs $4.50 per month billed annually, with a stated total of $540.00/year.