Google Cloud Monitoring vs Netdata
Google Cloud Monitoring
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| Figure | Google Cloud Monitoring | Netdata |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.06/mo | $4.50/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 4 |
| Spec score · Cloud Monitoring | 8.3 (#8) | 8.9 (#6) |
| Spec score · Metrics Monitoring Tools | 8.3 (#10) | 8.9 (#6) |
| Spec score · Infrastructure Monitoring | 8.3 (#10) | 9.0 (#4) |
| Spec score · Kubernetes Monitoring | 8.2 (#20) | 9.0 (#6) |
| API | Cloud Monitoring API v3 provides programmatic access to features including alerting policies, custom dashboards, and metrics scopes. | An Agent REST API exposes metrics, alerts and configuration, while a Cloud REST API covers spaces, rooms and nodes. |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | Monitoring alerts can be sent through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, SMS, webhooks, and the Cloud Mobile App. | Netdata advertises more than 800 collectors and notification integrations, including operating systems, databases, containers, cloud services, OpenMetrics, StatsD and logs. |
| Purpose | Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure. | Netdata describes its product as an observability platform for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting across infrastructure. |
Plans
Google Cloud Monitoring
- Managed Service for Prometheus metrics$0.06 a month
- Pay-as-you-go Cloud Monitoring$0.26 a month
- Uptime check executions$0.30 a month
- Monitoring API read calls$0.50 a month
- Synthetic monitor executions$1.20 a month
Netdata
- CommunityFree
- Business$4.50 a month
- Homelab$90 a year
- Enterprise On-PremisePriced on request
In their own words
Google Cloud Monitoring
Google Cloud Monitoring provides visibility into the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure. It automatically collects metrics for Google Cloud services and also supports hybrid and multicloud environments. The service brings together metrics, uptime checks, dashboards, and alerts; users can build custom dashboards and multi-condition alert policies. Service-level objectives can be inferred automatically or defined by users, with alerts for violations. Script-based synthetic monitors test web applications and APIs. For Kubernetes, Managed Service for Prometheus handles managed or self-deployed metric collection. On supported Linux and Windows virtual machines, the Ops Agent collects logs and metrics and includes third-party application integrations. Alerts can be sent through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Pub/Sub, SMS, webhooks, or the Cloud Mobile App. Cloud Monitoring API v3 offers programmatic access to metrics scopes, dashboards, and alerting policies. It runs in the cloud and lists API, Linux, web, and Windows platforms. Pricing is usage-based, with free monthly allotments on several meters; charges can depend on ingested data, time series returned, and check executions.
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.