netdata

netdata/netdata is an open-source project by netdata: The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.. Indexed here so it can be found — not resold.

It is free. Get it from the upstream repository: https://github.com/netdata/netdata

GPL-3.0 is copyleft: derivative works carry obligations. Read the upstream license before building on it.

From the project's own README (excerpt, reproduced for discovery under its GPL-3.0 license):

X-Ray Vision for your infrastructure! Every Metric, Every Second. No BS.

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> People get addicted to Netdata. > Once you use it on your systems, there's no going back.

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WHO WE ARE

Netdata is an open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring platform. Monitor, detect, and act across your entire infrastructure.

Core Advantages:

Instant Insights – With Netdata you can access per-second metrics and visualizations. Zero Configuration – You can deploy immediately without complex setup. ML-Powered – You can detect anomalies, predict issues, and automate analysis. Efficient – You can monitor with minimal resource usage and maximum scalability. Secure & Distributed – You can keep your data local with no central collection needed.

With Netdata, you get real-time, per-second updates. Clear insights at a glance, no complexity.

All heroes have a great origin story. Click to discover ours.

In 2013, at the company where Costa Tsaousis was COO, a significant percentage of their cloud-based transactions failed silently, severely impacting business performance.

Costa and his team tried every troubleshooting tool available at the time. None could identify the root cause. As Costa later wrote:

“I couldn’t believe that monitoring systems provide so few metrics and with such low resolution, scale so badly, and cost so much to run.”

Frustrated, he decided to build his own monitoring tool, starting from scratch.

That decision led to countless late nights and weekends. It also sparked a fundamental shift in how infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting are approached, both in method and in cost.…