Device42 vs Netdata
Device42
device42.comNetdata
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| Figure | Device42 | Netdata |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $4.50/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Application Dependency Mapping Software | 8.4 (#7) | 9.0 (#3) |
| Deployment | self_hosted | Netdata offers a managed cloud platform and an on-premises deployment, including air-gapped deployment options. |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | The company lists 30+ integrations, including Freshservice, Jira, ServiceNow, Puppet, Splunk, and Zapier, along with REST APIs and webhooks. | Netdata advertises more than 800 collectors and notification integrations, including operating systems, databases, containers, cloud services, OpenMetrics, StatsD and logs. |
| Purpose | Device42 provides agentless discovery, asset management, and dependency mapping for data center, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. | Netdata describes its product as an observability platform for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting across infrastructure. |
| Trial | The site offers a free Device42 trial, but the opened trial page did not state a duration. | The pricing FAQ states that signing up for Netdata Cloud provides a 14-day Business trial for any number of nodes with no limits. |
Plans
Netdata
- CommunityFree
- Business$4.50 a month
- Homelab$90 a year
- Enterprise On-PremisePriced on request
In their own words
Device42
Device42 provides agentless discovery, asset management, and dependency mapping for data center, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. Its scope includes CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM, password management, and application dependency mapping, in a self-hosted deployment. It can discover network devices through SNMP and cloud resources across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and OpenStack.
For data centers, its visual models cover buildings, rooms, racks, cabling, and patch panels, with power and temperature heat maps. Core includes discovery, inventory and asset management, integrations, REST APIs and webhooks, warranty and SSL certificate management, cable and password management, and IPAM. Device42 also tracks software licenses, contracts, and barcodes, and lists more than 30 integrations. Licenses count devices with IP addresses; non-IP assets do not count, and user seats are unlimited. If the device limit is exceeded, the software keeps running but stops collecting additional information until the license is increased. Pricing is available on request, and a free trial is offered.
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.