Netdata
Netdata is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Monitoring & Status Pages category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to Datadog, Pingdom and Grafana Cloud and ships a Docker image. It has 81,134 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 81,134
- Forks
- 6,696
- Open issues
- 209
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,739
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.12.2Oct 23, 2026
- Created
- Jun 17, 2013
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 2,739 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 2,739 |
| Latest release | v2.12.2 (Oct 23, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 142 |
| Open issues | 209 |
| Open pull requests | 254 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jun 17, 2013 |
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About Netdata
Real-time infrastructure monitoring with per-second metrics and zero-config dashboards.
Description written by appsgit. Source code: github.com/netdata/netdata.
Topics
- monitoring
- docker
- kubernetes
- cncf
- prometheus
- netdata
- devops
- observability
- alerting
- influxdb
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Is Netdata free and open source?
Yes. Netdata is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Netdata with Docker?
Yes. Netdata provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Netdata?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Netdata include Uptime Kuma, Grafana and Prometheus. Netdata itself is a self-hosted alternative to Datadog, Pingdom and Grafana Cloud.
Is Netdata actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Netdata was on Oct 26, 2026 with 2,739 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.12.2, published Oct 23, 2026. It had 209 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.