Netdata vs Observatorium
Netdata
netdata.cloudObservatorium
observatorium.ioSide by side
| Figure | Netdata | Observatorium |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4.50/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 0 |
| Spec score · Kubernetes Monitoring | 9.0 (#6) | 6.9 (#46) |
| Deployment | Netdata offers a managed cloud platform and an on-premises deployment, including air-gapped deployment options. | The project provides Jsonnet configuration and a Kubernetes Operator deployment option. |
| Integrations | Netdata advertises more than 800 collectors and notification integrations, including operating systems, databases, containers, cloud services, OpenMetrics, StatsD and logs. | The documentation describes combining Thanos, Loki, Tempo/Jaeger, and Open Policy Agent in the Observatorium system. |
| Intended users | The site lists platform engineers, DevOps teams, SREs, developers, system administrators, CISOs, DBAs, network engineers, and MSPs among its audiences. | The getting-started guide describes the system for people operating observability in their own environments and notes that the Operator is used in production by larger users. |
| License | The Netdata Agent repository is marked GPL-3.0, while the Netdata UI is distributed under the NCUL1 license. | The homepage describes Observatorium as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. |
| Purpose | Netdata describes its product as an observability platform for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting across infrastructure. | Observatorium is an open-source system for ingesting, storing, and using observability signals in a multi-tenant Kubernetes environment. |
| Support | The site lists documentation and community support, with premium support available. | The project repository directs users to its Slack channel or GitHub issues for questions or missing features. |
Plans
Netdata
- CommunityFree
- Business$4.50 a month
- Homelab$90 a year
- Enterprise On-PremisePriced on request
In their own words
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.
Observatorium
Observatorium has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.