Netdata vs Prometheus
A side-by-side comparison of Netdata and Prometheus — stars, license, self-host difficulty, deploy options, and what each replaces.
| Tagline | Real-time, high-resolution infrastructure monitoring with per-second metrics | Industry-standard metrics monitoring and alerting toolkit with PromQL |
| Category | Monitoring & Status Pages | Monitoring & Status Pages |
| Replaces | Datadog | Datadog |
| GitHub stars | 79k | 65k |
| Language | C | Go |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 4/5 Involved |
| Deploy options | One-Click Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 5 days ago | 4 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
