# Netdata

> Netdata makes infrastructure monitoring software that collects and analyzes per-second metrics close to the machines producing them. Its open-source Agent gives operators automatic dashboards and alerts; paid Cloud and on-premise plans add fleet-wide access, collaboration and AI-assisted investigations.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Costa Tsaousis (Founder and CEO)
- **Products:** Netdata Agent, Netdata Cloud, Netdata Cloud On-Prem, Netdata AI
- **Notable:** Founder reports 10,000 GitHub stars within weeks of the March 2016 public release., Netdata reports more than 76,000 GitHub stars and 615 contributors., Netdata says it processes more than 4.5 billion metrics per second globally.

## Products & services

- **Netdata Agent** — GPLv3+ software for local metrics collection, storage, anomaly detection, alerting and dashboards.
- **Netdata Cloud** — Hosted fleet view, access controls, alerts, dashboards and paid AI investigations; metric and log values remain on customer infrastructure.
- **Netdata Cloud On-Prem** — Self-hosted commercial control plane for organizations requiring on-premises deployment.
- **Netdata AI** — AI investigations, reports and conversations grounded in collected telemetry, with optional external tool context via MCP.

## Achievements

- Founder reports 10,000 GitHub stars within weeks of the March 2016 public release.
- Netdata reports more than 76,000 GitHub stars and 615 contributors.
- Netdata says it processes more than 4.5 billion metrics per second globally.
- Malmö stad reports cutting one mission-critical troubleshooting episode from a full workday to under 30 minutes with Netdata AI.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Introduced Infrastructure Knowledge, allowing teams to supply service ownership and operational context to Netdata AI.
- **2026-08** — Introduced chart annotations and MCP Connections to read context from GitHub, PagerDuty and Atlassian tools.
- **2026-02** — Launched a Cloud MCP Server for fleet-wide queries from compatible AI clients.
- **2025-05** — Introduced Netdata Insights as an AI reporting research preview.

## Links

- Website: https://www.netdata.cloud/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/netdata-cloud/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/netdatahq
- GitHub: https://github.com/netdata/netdata
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Netdata
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/linuxnetdata/

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Last updated: 2026-09-28