Netdata Reviews & Product Details

Netdata allows for complete monitoring of the Linux host on which it is installed. The installation size is minimal and has almost no impact on the performance and hardware resources of the host, so it can also be installed in older environments and/or with limited physical or virtual hardware resources remaining. It allows for the monitoring of services, values, and loads through a fully responsive and customizable interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The update times of certain values cannot be selected from the dashboard unless by modifying the source code, therefore it becomes complicated to perform real-time monitoring on values considered important to verify the updated status of a service or resource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NetData is a powerful, lightweight, and easy-to-install tool that allows the visualization on fully responsive web dashboards and HTML5 of graphs, histograms, and pie charts related to system performance, latencies, speeds, load, average load, and many other pieces of information related to the status of services running on the hosts where it is installed. Netdata is really easy to configure and allows total control of the situation without the need to execute complex SSH commands and various filters to access the data of interest. The real-time alerting functionalities and problem highlighting on the live dashboard make it the perfect tool for proactive and active monitoring of resources and systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only drawback of netdata is that in a Windows environment, unless through specific forks and derivations of this open-source tool, it is almost impossible to monitor all the parameters inherent in the netdata dashboard. Therefore, any virtualization systems of VMs based on Microsoft Hyper V will not be monitorable through this tool, and it is thus necessary to resort to expensive proprietary tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Netdata allows in a clear and aesthetically (as well as graphically) very pleasing way to identify and monitor various aspects and values of hardware resources, service status, load percentages, usage, errors, and averages of operating systems (mainly Linux) and the services that revolve around them. In my company, it finds application in multiple fields: 24/7 monitoring for 365 days a year of business-critical client assets, monitoring of networking devices, bandwidth controls, and unified monitoring of multiple physical hosts (used for example for the virtualization of VMs). It is open source and allows for modification and adaptation according to one's needs and requirements. I love its simplicity and the fact that it uses well-documented configuration files rather than languages with mandatory and confusing indentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is little possibility, except through the additional fping module, to monitor additional Linux nodes or services from a netdata node. In many use cases, it would simply be enough to monitor the status of some ports and display it on the netdata graph of the main node, but unfortunately, this is not possible because the fping module does not allow port tests but only the ICMP protocol. It would be useful to integrate Zenmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Netdata is simply perfect, I say simply because besides being installed with a simple command from the CLI, it is very lightweight, fast, and does not impact system resources at all despite the remarkable features it contains. Most importantly, it allows for the complete configuration of an active, proactive monitoring system with just a few clicks. Even more importantly, it is graphical and GUI-based for every system parameter with truly astonishing granularity and depth for a free and open-source tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The support for third-party applications and monitoring systems (or monitoring APIs) is poor, and often the parsing of external JSON parameters and various indices is complicated or so costly to obtain that one is forced to use proprietary monitoring systems rather than integrate into netdata. In any case, it is not necessarily a negative point; it is simply not yet mature enough to perform this type of action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Netdata convinced me from the first use as it presents itself with an easy-to-use and configurable graphical interface, fully responsive with a minimal and material design. The vast amount of data it can read on the host system once installed is immense, allowing for both basic superficial monitoring (e.g., CPU %, RAM %, downstream and upstream bandwidth) and granular monitoring of parameters inherent in the operating system in use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like everything about netdata, a graphical customization menu for the web GUI would help many companies and industry specialists create personalized views and dashboards instead of the usual grey-themed dashboards that do not adapt well to large arrays of videowalls in dedicated monitoring rooms due to the dark color. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have used and continue to use netdata for all our virtual machines containing business and business-critical client services that need to be proactively monitored 24/7 for 365 days. I like netdata for its extensibility and the fact that it is completely free and without limitations, as well as being easily installable and really lightweight to install even on machines that already have intensive CPU usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like everything about netdata, it would just need to improve the multi-user mode and alerting via SMTP to the interested users included in a group in case of reaching alarming thresholds on a graph. Additionally, I have already proposed on GitHub as a solution a blink or an auto-focus of the parameters that go above a certain threshold to draw the operator's attention to the concerned value without them having to continuously scroll and search for everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Netdata is the ultimate free and open-source tool for monitoring Linux systems of all kinds, their hardware specifications, and almost all the services running on them. It allows multiple users (multi-user mode) the ability to create fully customized dashboards and views, enabling the division of monitoring by areas, teams, or applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The APIs are a bit outdated and poorly documented in the official documentation, however, in my scenario they are of little use as access to the monitoring dashboard is sufficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NetData allows, in a completely graphical manner and with an installation on Linux of only two commands, to monitor every single detail and value of one or more host systems or one or more guest systems to have at a glance and under continuous monitoring, in an orderly manner and divided into fully customizable sections, the intake of very important data related to workloads, active services, load of active services, networking statistics, cybersecurity statistics and averages, and hundreds of customizable tests through integrated and/or integrable plugins like fping and iperf that allow you to start and automatically display on the dashboard the results of advanced pings and bilateral connection tests and the related measurement of available and used bandwidth. It therefore allows anyone (in my company we have assigned some interns who are experts in monitoring but not in software related to this activity) to view, on hourly shifts, the data on the dashboard by examining the triggers, alarms, and creating and configuring the alerts and verification actions necessary to resolve or report the problem to the appropriate person, a very useful tool for those who host systems of various kinds with relatively strict SLAs imposed by clients or other entities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not easy to integrate the monitoring of external systems such as Wi-Fi SDN statistics, gateways, IoT devices with standard protocols and so on, despite the availability of official APIs open to everyone in multiple formats. Additionally, a basic documentation should be created regarding the use and creation of tasks, triggers, and alarms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

netdata is very simple to install, especially as a container. netdata is just as simple to use, in fact it will be enough to say its url in the browser. it allows you to monitor all the vital parameters of a server and set alarms on them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

of netdata I do not like the fact that it is not possible to monitor many servers that make up a cluster, for example, from a single interface. would have been useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Netdata is very easy to install, especially as a container. Netdata is just as easy to use; in fact, you just need to enter its URL in the browser. It allows you to monitor all the vital parameters of a server and set alarms on them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In Netdata, I don't like the fact that it's not possible to monitor many servers that make up a cluster from a single interface. It would have been useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.