Netdata
partially open-source system monitor software
Netdata is a real-time observability platform for monitoring infrastructure and applications. The project started in 2016 as an open-source system monitoring tool that collected and visualized metrics such as CPU, memory, disk, and network usage through an automatic web-based dashboard. Today, Netdata provides over 800 integrations for metrics collection, log management, machine learning-based anomaly detection, and AI-assisted troubleshooting. The company behind Netdata also offers Netdata Cloud, a commercial hosted service for centralized monitoring across multiple nodes.
History
Netdata was created by Costa Tsaousis, who began building the tool after becoming dissatisfied with existing monitoring solutions. The project was released publicly as open-source software in March 2016. According to TechCrunch, Tsaousis said the project gained approximately 10,000 GitHub stars within a week after being shared on Reddit.
In September 2019, Netdata announced a $17 million Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. In September 2020, the company extended its Series A with an additional $14.2 million led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $31 million. In February 2023, the company introduced paid subscription tiers alongside its free community plan.
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