MetricFire vs Netdata
MetricFire
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| Figure | MetricFire | Netdata |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $16/mo | $4.50/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Cloud Monitoring | 7.8 (#12) | 8.9 (#6) |
| Alerting | Graphite alerting is built in, with Slack, PagerDuty, and email integrations. | The agent includes hundreds of preconfigured alerts and notifications for channels such as email, Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty and Microsoft Teams. |
| Founded | 2012 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | The site lists integrations including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, Telegraf, Prometheus, Redis, and PostgreSQL. | Netdata advertises more than 800 collectors and notification integrations, including operating systems, databases, containers, cloud services, OpenMetrics, StatsD and logs. |
| Intended users | The pricing page describes Intro for individuals, Basic for small teams and startups, and Core for growing teams with scaling metrics. | The site lists platform engineers, DevOps teams, SREs, developers, system administrators, CISOs, DBAs, network engineers, and MSPs among its audiences. |
| Security | MetricFire says credentials are encrypted at rest and in transit, and access uses least-privilege policies and two-factor authentication. | The site states that Netdata Cloud is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and lists SSO and role-based access control among Business features. |
| Support | All plans include email and live chat support from experienced engineers, and customers can arrange technical support meetings. | The site lists documentation and community support, with premium support available. |
Plans
MetricFire
- Intro$16 a month
- Basic$84 a month
- Core$429 a month
- Design Your Perfect PlanPriced on request
Netdata
- CommunityFree
- Business$4.50 a month
- Homelab$90 a year
- Enterprise On-PremisePriced on request
In their own words
MetricFire
MetricFire is a web and API service that runs Graphite and Grafana for monitoring metrics, dashboards, and alerting. Custom application metrics can arrive over TCP, UDP, HTTP POST, or StatsD without an agent or SDK. Built-in Graphite alerting connects with Slack, PagerDuty, and email. Listed integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, Telegraf, Prometheus, Redis, and PostgreSQL, alongside Kubernetes, serverless, and synthetic monitoring. Intro costs $16 a month billed annually and includes 500 metrics, six-month retention, 30-second resolution, two team users, 10 alerts, and unlimited dashboards. Basic is $84 a month billed annually with 1,000 metrics and two-year retention; Core is $429 a month billed annually with 5,000 metrics and the same listed allowances. A custom plan is available by contacting MetricFire. There is no free plan, but a 14-day 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.